Warriors of Poseidon 01 - Atlantis Rising

can't do this, Riley. I can't go into this battle tomorrow with you anywhere near danger. Please don't ask it of me."
     
    She turned in his arms, put her arms around his neck. "I don't think it's up to us. I get the feeling that this is some kind of proving ground, and Poseidon is making all the rules.
    When he put this mark on my back, he put my game piece in play."
     
    Conlan laughed, the sound of it ringing bitter and hard in his ears. "Because that's all we are to him. Pawns in some insane chess match."
     
    Riley touched his face, traced the edge of his lips with one finger. "Doesn't history teach us that we are only pawns to all of them? My God, your gods, everybody's gods? We play the best game we can, and then we die. Match over. And all we have to show for it is how well we played the game."
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    She smiled. "I think I stretched that metaphor completely out of shape. But you get my meaning."
     
    He closed his eyes. Focused on the feel of her breath on his skin. The heat exploding up through his body at her touch.
     
    "I don't care about games or gods. Not tonight. All I want is to hold you and burn this moment into my memory for all time," he said roughly, tightening his arms around her.
     
    "Yes," she said. Simple and direct. Just yes. And then she lifted her face to kiss him, and his world caught fire.
     
    He lifted her, and her legs came up and around his waist. He cried out at the fierce pleasure that pounded through him at her touch. His body hardened, muscles clenching, and he walked, carrying her, until her back was pressed against the wall.
     
    She moaned into his mouth and twined her fingers in his hair, pulling his head toward her as she plunged into his kiss. He shifted his hands until he felt her rounded ass in his palms, and he squeezed and caressed her, pulling her forward so her skirt rode up her thighs and nothing but his pants and the thin silk of her underwear was between them.
     
    It was still too much. He propped her up on one of his thighs and shifted his hands to rip the lace in two and yank the pieces off her. Then he pushed his leg up so that the hardness of his leg rubbed against her wetness.
     
    She moaned and writhed against him, her fingers digging into his shoulders. "Yes, touch me. Take me, Conlan. I need you."
     
    He bent to bury his face in her neck, needing to shout out his triumph but wanting to muffle the sound from everyone gathered so near. With a muted growl, he bit at her Atlantis Rising – Warriors of Poseidon 01
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    neck where it curved into her shoulder, then caressed the spot with his tongue, soothing the tiny scrape.
     
    She moaned again and arched into him, frantically pulling at his shirt, trying to get her hands on his skin. He ripped his shirt up out of his pants with one hand, unbuckled his belt and unzipped in seconds. Before he could do anything else, she put her hands on his shoulders and used them to lift up a little.
     
    Then, looking into his eyes the entire time, she centered herself and slid down on his erection, wrapping him in her heat and wetness. He couldn't help it, he shouted out her name. Grabbed her delicious ass again and squeezed. Lifting her and driving into her again and again, watching pleasure glaze her eyes until they fluttered closed.
     
    Then he stopped. She whimpered, blinked at him. "Why did you stop?"
     
    Slowly, inch by inch, he lowered her onto his shaft again, watching her face. "Because I need to see you while I take you. I need to look into your eyes and see into your soul, my Riley, mi amara aknasha. I need to know that you are mine, now and forever."
     
    He pulled back out of her, drove in again to the hilt, loving the sound of her gasp. "I want you to take me and know that I am yours as well."
     
    She lifted up, feminine muscles clinging to his cock even as she pulled away from him.
    Torturing him with her deliberateness. "Now and forever, Conlan. No matter what the gods may have in mind for us, there will never be another for me. You are my only. My happily ever after. My love. My soul."
     
    With the words, she seated herself on him, pushing against him until she could take no more.
     
    There was no more to take.
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    Then stopped, surrounding him, tightening around him, his hardness entirely sheathed in her heat. His heart sheathed in hers.
     
    Simultaneously, they swept