Sea Haven 02 - Spirit Bound

this time, the anger was all his.
    “Is there still a doubt in your mind, because you don’t sound sure?”
    “Of course I have doubts. You could have been killed tonight. A million things could have gone wrong, Judith. I won’t take chances with your life.”
    He didn’t try to prevent the edge to his voice. His belly was in tight knots and he had a sick feeling in the pit of his stomach. Since the moment he had realized she was there in Sea Haven and there was nothing he could do about it, he’d felt anger at his lack of ability to control the situation. He needed her safe and she wasn’t. He obviously wasn’t like his brother who could watch his wife dive under the sea and put herself into harm’s way. He had spent an entire lifetime alone and now that he’d found Judith, he found he couldn’t handle her in danger.
    His hand bunched in her hair in his hand and yanked her head back, taking her mouth before she could protest. The moment his mouth settled on hers, the moment his tongue swept inside that soft, hot haven, his world righted itself. He’d been off-kilter, but even anger tasted a lot like passion when he was kissing Judith.
    “I know you’re cold, angel. And you’re angry with me, but I need you. Right now. Right here.” He murmured the words against her soft lips and kissed her words away. He didn’t know if she protested or acquiesced, nothing mattered but the feel and taste of her, the knowledge that she was alive and kissing him back.
    He slipped one arm around her bare, wet back and lifted her, wincing a little when his arm protested. He didn’t care that blood was still leaking from the wound and running down his arm, or that she was soaking wet. He needed her.
    She turned in his arms, leaning over the back of the bathtub to reach him, feet still in the water, sliding her arms around his neck as she pressed her wet body against his. “I’m really angry with you,” she whispered into his mouth, even as her lips moved over his, kissing him over and over.
    He felt that edge of anger in her kiss, the sizzling passion rising with a needy demand. “That’s okay, Judith,” he whispered into the heat of her mouth. “Be angry with me later.”
    His mouth blazed a trail over her face, down her chin to her throat. He lifted her right out of the bathtub, uncaring of the water dripping onto the floor.
    Judith’s breath caught in her throat. “I’m no little pixie like Lexi or Airiana, Thomas. I’m tall, so I’m not a lightweight. You’ll hurt yourself.”
    He kissed his way around to her neck, his teeth nipping, and his tongue dancing over her all that soft, enticing skin. “I want to eat you up, Judith.”
    “Your arm,” she hissed, pulling back.
    “Fuck my arm. Who gives a damn about my arm? Right now, I need one thing.” He caught her leg and wrapped it around him. “I need to be inside you right now. Put your legs around my waist.”
    His voice had gone hoarse, the urgency in him catching him unawares. He didn’t need. Not like this. Not as if his very life depended on it, yet he couldn’t stop his hands from gripping her thighs, fingers digging deep as he raised her up. She hooked her ankles around his back. If he felt his arm protesting, it seriously didn’t register. The only thing that mattered was this woman, being inside her body, joining them, skin to skin, heart to heart. He needed her melting into him, surrounding him with her scorching heat.
    Whatever soul he had left was hers. His heart pounded in his ears. Blood roared, the thunder loud in his mind. Save me, angel. Give yourself to me.
    He couldn’t stand that he’d put her in danger, that he’d been the one she followed into hell, opening the way for a man like Ivanov to get to her. And there would be another and another after that. What right did he have to bring her into his world of shadows and death?
    I’m so in love with you, Thomas. It doesn’t matter. None of that matters. Just this. Just us. Love me. Show me you love me.
    Judith placed both hands on his shoulders, rising over him, pressing her center down until the head of his heavy erection was tasting the hot slick honey pouring from her body in welcome.
    Her soft voice filled his mind, slipping inside every shadow, erasing every doubt, driving him beyond sanity. He didn’t wait. Didn’t give her any time for adjustment. Lifting her in strong arms and slamming her over him, driving upward as he drove her down to seat her fully on him. Her