Warriors of Poseidon 01 - Atlantis Rising

caught his face in her hands and drew him down to her mouth. "I'm yours, Conlan."
     
    She kissed him with all the passion he could feel in her soul. She looked up at him, blue eyes warm and glowing, and smiled at him again. "And you're mine, too."
     
    Riley's body arched to meet him. The emotion that washed through him and into her was a revelation. Awe… astonishment. Simple gratitude.
     
    He had never belonged to anyone. Had never been wanted just for himself since he was a child.
     
    His gratitude transformed into a tsunami of passion, tempered with warmth, and he shared it all with her through their bond. She shuddered underneath him, and something in him seemed to snap.
     
    "I'm sorry, Riley, but I don't have any more control," he managed, grinding out the words. "I'm going to take you now, and it's going to be hard and fast. I promise I'll try for finesse later, but—"
     
    She held a finger up to his lips and smiled, feminine power shining in her eyes. "Less talking. More action."
     
    With a shout of joy, he pulled back and thrust into her again, his body catching the rhythm that was older than even Atlantis. Older than the gods themselves.
     
    She arched into him in time with his thrusts and he rode her, stroked her, thrust into her again and again while he felt her body tightening around him and the tension building and building inside her.
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    Riley had never felt anything like it before. The heat and slick tension, the coiling electricity of his body pumping inside her, the hard muscles working under her fingers, the glow in his eyes showing her that he was loving every minute of it as much as she did.
     
    It was all driving her over the edge. Every nerve ending in her body sang. The pressure climbed in a starburst crescendo until she exploded, free-falling into space, fingers digging into his shoulders to keep from cartwheeling off the edge of the world.
     
    He tensed, muscles straining for control as she shuddered beneath him. As she came back to solid ground, she opened her eyes and stared up at him. "Conlan?"
     
    He bent to press a gentle kiss on her lips, the stark outline of the muscles in his neck and shoulders telling her how much his restraint cost him.
     
    "Riley, know this. As the ancient stories foretold, so it is true. I have waited for you, unknowing, all my life."
     
    She stared at him, dazed by what his words and his emotions were telling her. "Are you saying—"
     
    "I love you, Riley. You have captured my heart." With the words, something in his control seemed to break. He plunged into her once, twice, three times more, then drove into her with one final thrust that took him so deep she felt him against her womb. He threw his head back and yelled her name, exploding inside her. His mind, his heart, even his soul opened up to her more fully than they ever had before, and she felt herself dancing, twirling, reveling in his emotions.
     
    In his passion.
     
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    And she exploded again, spiraling up and up into a place she'd never been before.
    Exploding again around him. Falling and falling…
     
    Into love. Somehow, incredibly, she loved this man she'd only just met. This man she'd known forever.
     
    Before she could catch her breath from the realization, she seamlessly wove her shields into place. It wasn't knowledge she was quite ready to share. Not even with Conlan.
     
    Not yet. It was too soon. If you loved people, they left. She wasn't ready for him to leave.
     
    Maybe not ever.
     
    Conlan collapsed on top of her, holding himself up with his arms so he didn't crush her with his weight. The only sound in the room was panting. From both of them. After a minute or so, he stirred himself to move, rolling to the side, still holding her in his arms.
     
    "Forget the mountain of the gods," he murmured. "I'd give that up for this in an instant."

Chapter 24
    Riley woke up, warm, content, and deliriously sore in places that hadn't been sore in a very long time. For a moment she didn't open her eyes, perfectly happy to just lie there with Conlan's arms around her, her head nestled on his shoulder. Sunlight wanning the room. Peace, even the illusory peace that she knew it was, warming her heart.
     
    "I wondered when you might wake up, sleepy one."
     
    She turned a little to smile up at him. "Sleepy one? It was after four when you finally let me