New Species 04 Justice (19 page)

“Don’t ever die on me, Jessie. Ever.” His hand brushed her face in a gentle caress. “I

can’t wait. I have to have you. I need to be inside you.”

Stunned a little at the raw emotion she saw in his eyes and heard in his voice, she

nodded. No man had ever wanted or needed her so strongly before. Justice lowered his

mouth, brushing his lips over hers, and she opened her mouth for the kiss. He purred

deeply, his chest vibrated powerfully and there was no tenderness or playfulness in the

kiss. Justice came at her like a man starved and she was his last meal.

Jessie moaned as her fingers dug into his shoulders. His kiss made her so hot she

burned with desire, pressed tighter against him and arched her hips against the hard,

hot press of his dick trapped between the bedding and her thigh. Justice shifted and his

hand drove between their bodies. Jessie tore her mouth from his to cry out when his

finger breached her pussy without warning.

It felt so incredible that she couldn’t catch her breath as he nearly withdrew it

completely from her welcoming body then pushed in deeper, stretching her with a thick

digit. He moved it faster, fucking her hard and fast and snarled at her.

“You’re so hot and wet for me. So damn tight.” He snarled again, a really scary

sound and yanked his finger from her pussy. His body tensed and he shoved up from

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the bed, rolling away from her. “Damn it!” He yelled those last words as he sat up on

the edge of the bed, his back to her.

Jessie lay there stunned, wondering why he’d stopped and what was wrong. It took

her a few seconds to move, to sit up and gawk at him. She noticed then that she’d

scratched his back—red bloody marks from the tips of her fingernails—and her mouth

dropped open.

“I’m so sorry. I didn’t mean to draw blood.”

Justice’s head snapped in her direction to stare at her over his shoulder. The look on

his face frightened her. He looked completely enraged and she forgot to breathe. He

turned to face her, his hands were balled into fists and he snarled again.

“Justice?” Her voice came out barely a whisper. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to hurt

you.”

He flinched and his chin lifted until his face was directed at the ceiling and he no

longer held her gaze. He breathed hard and fast, panting. “I’m the one who is sorry,

Jessie. I could have hurt you.” His breathing slowed. “I wouldn’t have meant to but I

nearly lost control.”

“How?” She was baffled. “Justice?”

Justice refused to look at Jessie, afraid he’d see fear in her expressive eyes again.

That’s what he’d seen when he’d snarled at her. His eyes closed as he tried to calm his

erratic heartbeat and raging body. His cock throbbed, hurt, and his fists clenched tighter until his nails bit into his palms.

He’d lost every ounce of his reserve when she’d wrapped around him while they’d

been kissing. She was not a Species female but he’d forgotten that huge fact until he’d

felt how incredibly tight her muscles squeezed around his finger. She wasn’t designed

sturdily enough to handle a male in full-blown lust and that’s exactly how he’d gone at

her. He had wanted to flip her over, shove her ass in the air and fuck her into oblivion.

Just the realization of how painful that would have been for her made him tremble

with fear. He’d have left bruises on her hips while holding her still to keep her where

he’d wanted, might have made her bleed from his rough entry when he began to fuck

her and he wouldn’t have been able to stop once he’d started. Memories of how good

she felt assured that.

“Justice?”

Her timid, unsure voice tore at him and he opened his eyes, gazed at the high

ceiling of the bedroom and knew he should leave. He owed her an explanation at the

very least. He lowered his head and met her concerned stare.

“I’m so sorry I scratched you. Your back is bleeding.”

“It’s not that.”

His voice came out too gruff, with a harsh edge in it that he wished he could

remove but his emotions were too close to the surface. That other side of him that he

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tried to keep in check wasn’t about to be leashed behind the facade he showed the

world outside the walls of Reservation and Homeland. He was a Species male at that

moment, one with feelings for a woman he knew he couldn’t have and it tore him up

inside.

She huddled in the middle of the bed, appearing smaller than normal, pale, her

bright red hair spilling down her chest, hiding her breasts. She looked like a nymph—so

innocent, completely the image of a female who never should be at his mercy in a

bedroom.

“What’s wrong? Why did you stop? I’m still on the shot. I’m not taking anything

that will mess it up. I was sure to ask that at the hospital before they released me.”

She remembered that he’d worried about pregnancy and that made him hate

himself a little more. Jessie took everything into consideration, remembered the little

things about him that caused him concern, yet he hadn’t managed to remind his raging

hormones to play nice with her delicate body when he’d had her trapped under him.

She wouldn’t have been able to stop him and had zero chance of fighting back when the

pain began. He rated even higher on his bastard scale.

“The truth is, I nearly harmed you, Jessie. I wanted you too much, too strongly, but

thankfully I pulled it together enough to release you before it was too late.”

He faced her, knew his dick still strained upward with need. She noticed too—her

gaze dropped there before she met his eyes again. Fear didn’t show on her features at

the sight of how much she affected him but Jessie Dupree was a brave woman. Between

her job and the way she’d handled the attack by the Species male, he admired her

courage. Another woman would have run screaming away from him by now but she

held still.

“Desire isn’t a bad thing and I’m totally onboard with it.” She dropped her arms

from hugging her legs and leaned forward, her hands flattened on the bed and she

exposed her lovely, rounded breasts to him. “You appreciate bluntness so that’s exactly

what I’m going to be. Inhale and you’ll know how much I want you if feeling how wet I

am wasn’t enough to convince you. Use that enhanced sense of smell of yours if your

sense of touch didn’t convince you.”

“I came at you without regard to your fragility.”

To his amazement, she grinned and her blue eyes sparkled with humor. “I’ve been

described as a lot of things in my lifetime but that term isn’t used often. At least not

more than once because I usually take down guys who pull that crap. I’ll make an

exception for you because you’re as cute as can be and you’re different from other men.

I don’t think I could take you down in a sparring match, not with your reflexes and

strength. You aren’t going to break me in bed though.”

“I forgot you were human,” he admitted.

“Is there a difference?”

“Yes.” He closed his mouth, not wishing to speak more on the matter.

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“I’m smaller than your women, not as strong or as buff. It doesn’t mean I’m less

tough though. I can promise you that.”

His body wanted to believe her but his mind was in charge. “I could have harmed

you severely. You need to understand that.”

“Okay. I do but you stopped whatever you thought would hurt me.”

She lowered her chin a little and her blue eyes tracked him as she crawled a little

closer. He couldn’t help but react to the incredibly sexy picture she made on her hands

and knees, coming at him. His heart hammered, his cock jerked in response to the need

to take her and he resisted the urge to tackle her flat and fuck her.

“We’ll work through this, take it slow, so you don’t get scared.” Her smile widened.

“We did this once and I want to do it again.”

“Jessie,” he growled in warning. “Stop. I touch you and have a difficult time

keeping in control of my urges.”

“Your urges felt pretty fantastic until you stopped.” She halted and sat up, her legs

parted and her hands gripped her inner thighs.

His breathing increased to a pant, his gaze lowered and a purr tore from his throat.

It alarmed him that he couldn’t stop doing that with her, embarrassed him slightly, but

the scent of her need drove him insane. He wanted to shove her onto her back, bury his

face between those lovely thighs and taste her.

“You want me,” she whispered. “I want you. What’s the problem?”

“You have no idea.” He trembled again and knew he should leave. His body didn’t

respond to the demand to stand though and his gaze refused to budge from the sight of

her tempting strip of paler red hair, which barely concealed where he wanted to put his

mouth. “I’m dangerous.”

“I’m an adrenaline junkie and you’re extremely sexy, Justice. We’re both adults and

naked in my room. Do you need more incentive?”

He nearly lost his mind when her hand released her thigh, slid closer to her body

and her finger slid over the slit of her pussy. She pulled it away, glistening with her

honey and he lost the ability to think.

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Jessie knew she pushed Justice to the breaking point when his catlike eyes fixed on

her every movement as though she was the most fascinating thing in the world to him.

His breathing grew erratic. The soft sounds he made were purely animalistic and

turned her on further.

He had admitted to being dangerous but she didn’t believe for a second that he’d

hurt her. It might be nuts but her instincts were always something she counted on. No

alarms were triggered when it came to the New Species leader. Her attraction to him

wasn’t the smartest thing she’d ever felt but she refused to deny it. She wanted him

enough to fight for him. That meant being provocative in bed and making him break his

iron control.

He grabbed her finger without warning and pulled it to his lips. Jessie was stunned

when it disappeared into his mouth, he snarled, and he sucked. It was erotic watching

his reaction. The need tightened his features and pure desire shone in his gaze as he

stared at her. He eased his tight hold with his lips and tongue on her finger, slowly

pulled it out and glanced down at his lap. Her gaze followed his to appreciate the rock-

hard condition of his sex.

He moved suddenly and his hand shot out to grip her shoulder but his hold was

gentle. He pushed against her skin, urging her back and disappointment hit. He was

refusing her again. She didn’t need the words to know this was one battle of wills she’d

lost. She sat back on her ass on the bed, ready to draw her knees up to her chest to cover her body since he didn’t seem to want to see it any longer.

He released her shoulder and both of his hands gripped her calves. She was too

shocked to do anything but fall back. Her legs fell open when he yanked her flat,

dragged her toward him a good foot and spread her knees farther apart.

Jessie gasped when Justice leaned forward to bury his face in her lap. He nuzzled in

tightly and purred loudly. He released her legs to grab her inner thighs, spreading her

open for his tongue to brush over her clit. He lapped at the bundle of nerves in a rapid

lash of his strong, raspy tongue and she cried out at the instant pleasure.

Her fingers grabbed for the bedding near her hips, dug into the comforter for

something to cling to. The urge to grab his head wasn’t easy to resist but she clutched

the soft material instead of grabbing fistfuls of his hair.

“Oh God,” she panted, hearing how loud her voice sounded but couldn’t have

cared less. Justice felt too good. She couldn’t think and didn’t want to. “Yes!”

He was relentless, finding the exact spot that made her gasp, groan and grind her

pussy against his mouth. She wanted to come and knew she was about to. Her body

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tensed, every muscle tightened. Her back arched off the mattress as the pleasure turned

to near pain, the climax building to the point of no return.

He stopped and she cried out in protest. She had been so close. His tongue lowered

instead and drove into her pussy before she could utter real words to convey that she

didn’t want him to stop tormenting her clit. The sensation made her throw her head

back and a different kind of pleasure tore through her body. No guy had ever done that

before, fucked her with his mouth and she realized she’d been missing out on a lot. He

slid his tongue a little deeper, moving in and out of her slowly and his nose nudged

against her clit.

“Justice,” she moaned. “Please?” She wasn’t above begging. She just wanted to

come, needed to. Her body burned. “Please, baby?”

His tongue withdrew and his lips nibbled higher, sealed around her swollen clit.

His tongue pressed down against it and he purred loudly. The vibrations and

manipulation of her sensitive nub as he began to suck on her drove Jessie insane. It felt too good, too intense and she couldn’t take it. She whimpered and moaned. Panted. Her

body bowed and she sucked in air as ecstasy struck with blinding intensity.

“Justice!” Her body jerked hard.

His mouth tore away from her clit while she shook, reeling from the strongest