Chapter 129 - Growing feelings [1]
Warning! Some mature content.
"Is this your way of trying to cheer me up?" Cassian asked, watching as Lilith’s fingers worked at the buttons of his shirt.
"No, it is a reward and a celebration. I am very happy at this moment, and who better to share that happiness with than my husband?" Lilith asked, leaning forward to press a soft kiss to his lips. "If you want me to stop because I am unwell, say so now."
"I knew you weren’t going to let go of what I said."
"You deserve it for making me drink that bitter medicine. It is strange how you look particularly dashing today," Lilith said, pausing to study him for a moment. "Is it the shirt or the light in the chamber?"
"Was I not dashing before?" Cassian asked.
"You were, but there is something different about you today. I like it," Lilith said, moving forward to kiss him again.
This time, Cassian’s hand pressed against her back, drawing her closer and keeping her there. He kissed her back with a hunger that didn’t quite match the short time since they had last been close. It felt as though some part of him had been waiting far longer than that.
Where Lilith touched him because sensitive, and the need he felt for her grew.
They had been intimate during the days she was confined to the chamber, but he had held himself back, careful of her health.
Now Lilith was better, so there was nothing left to hold back.
Cassian shifted his weight and moved her gently with him, so that she lay beneath him rather than above. The warmth of her body was right against his.
He felt her smile against his lips. She was either entirely at ease or already plotting something, and in that moment, he found he didn’t especially care which.
His right hand slid beneath her dress and came to rest against her thigh. Her skin was warm, softer than anything he deserved to have in his hands.
Lilith wrapped her arms around his neck and held him close.
As the kiss deepened, her hands moved across his body, tracing what she already knew by heart. Every line of muscle and every scar she had quietly memorised. She curled her fingers into the short hair at the back of his head and tugged, drawing a low sound from him.
Cassian answered by pulling his lips from hers, leaving a trail of kisses along her cheek and down the curve of her neck to bite her there.
Rather than cry out, Lilith smiled.
"That isn’t going to get a reaction from me, or are you simply trying to mark me so you can show off?" Lilith asked, certain it was the latter. "Haven’t we settled that I am not going to hide when you mark my body? It only shows that we have a very loving marriage."
"I do wonder," Lilith said, placing her right hand against his cheek and easing him back so she could look at him properly. "How would you react," she continued, her hand moving to his neck, one fingernail pressing gently into his skin, "if I were to leave marks on you? You do have to train the men soon."
She wanted to mark him. She wanted others to see it to know that she could do this to him. That he allowed it.
"I would wear it with pride, so go ahead," Cassian said, entirely open to the idea. "I hope you are ready for what I intend to do in return. You are the queen, so every man in this kingdom is going to look at you, but I will make certain they all know that you are mine."
"That is the possessiveness speaking," Lilith said, though her expression gave her away entirely. She liked it. Every bit of it. "Are you going to undress me, or are we only going to talk about what you plan to do? You know how quickly I can lose interest."
Lilith drew her fingers lightly across his face was a gesture that she hadn’t quite meant to let show.
She was in the mood to be close to him today. Not just to be intimate, but to simply be near him, with no space between them and nothing to interrupt it.
"I know," Cassian said, having faced this game once before. "You have enticed me before and then turned over and gone to sleep."
Lilith laughed, still not ashamed of her actions. "That was deliberate, and it was cruel of me. Let me make it up to you now," she said, reaching down to untie her dress.
In one smooth motion, Cassian caught her hands and brought them up above her head, holding them there.
Lilith smiled, content to wait and see what he was going to do.
"I will undress you," Cassian said, his voice quiet in a way that left no room for argument.
Lilith tried to press her thighs together against the warmth building between them, but Cassian was already settled there.
His arousal brushed against her inner thigh as he shifted closer.
Lilith bit her lip without thinking.
The small innocent action made her look more beautiful to him.
Her hair lay spread across the pillow, her hands still resting where he had placed them, and the smile on her lips hadn’t faltered once. Cassian could stare at this view for hours.
Cassian released her hands, and she left them exactly where they were.
He undressed her, taking his time to both upset Lilith and to enjoy himself. He undressed her as thought as was a gift to be unwrapped rather than rushed, and she was, in every way that mattered to him. Each piece of clothing found the floor until there was nothing left between them.
Cassian shifted to settle more fully between her thighs, lacing his fingers through hers and pressing her hands softly into the pillow beside her head. He lowered his lips to hers in an unhurried kiss, and as he did, his manhood entered her.