Beasts Within by Lexi Lewis Page A

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                  Karic lowered his head and licked at her neck before kissing and nipping his way down to the place where her neck and shoulder joined, and Camilla couldn’t help the moan that spilled out of her when he bit down there.
                  “Oh fuck,” she breathed in a messy rush, and her hips pushed up as that heat burned brighter. “Oh god, I want you.”
                  His answering grin couldn’t be described as anything other than wolfish when he lifted his head, and he pressed his hips down, letting her feel the bulge in his pants. “I want you, too.”
                  Oh. No one had ever said that to her before, especially not with that look in their eyes, and Camilla reacted to it instantly, shuddering and giving a little moan at how it made her feel. Karic was smoothing one hand over her side and down to her hip, and then warm fingers were slipping under the hem of her shirt.
                  No one had touched her like this either, and her heart was pounding in her chest. What if he didn’t think she was attractive? What if he thought she was too fat, too inexperienced?
                  “Stop thinking,” Karic said, and he kissed her, bringing her attention right back to him. “It’s going to be fine. Do you trust me?”
                  Camilla nodded.
                  “Then I’ll take care of you.”
                  It was sort of amazing how those few little words were enough to calm her nearly instantly. She did trust him, more than she had ever trusted any of the members of her pride, which wasn’t saying much, she knew, but it meant something to her. So when he started taking her clothes off, urging her to raise her arms over her head and spread her legs and arch her hips, she let him, helping where she could. She could see the tension in Karic’s body, where he was holding himself back from just letting himself have her, and she appreciated that, but she didn’t want to be coddled.
                  Camilla had no idea what she was doing, but she grinned at him and reached one hand down to touch him through his pants, rubbing the bulge she found there.
                  “Fuck,” he gasped out. “Camilla.”
                  “Let me have it,” she breathed. “All of it.”
                  And from there the gentleness was gone. He was still careful with her, made sure not hurt her, but he pounced. Growls spilling from his lips as he pinned her wrists overhead and took his time kissing his way down her body, leaving bites as he went. When he got one of her nipples in his mouth and bit down on it, Camilla arched and moaned loudly, and she found that she’d had enough of being passive in this.
                  It didn’t take much for her to free her hands, and she grinned at him when he looked surprised. Her instincts gave her some idea of what she was meant to be doing, and she reached up, fairly yanking Karic’s shirt over his head. She wanted to see him and touch him, and when his leanly muscled chest was revealed to her, she moaned again. Damn, but he was good looking.
                  With a quick movement of her own, she flipped their positions, ending up on top of him, straddling his waist.
                  “You learn fast,” he teased her breathlessly.
                  “Of course I do. I’m a cat.”
                  He grinned at that and reached up to tweak one nipple. “And what are you going to now, Miss Kitty?”
                  Camilla growled playfully and leaned down to leave a few bites of her own along his neck and chest, smoothing her hands down his lightly hairy chest and scraping her nails along his abs. His reactions only stoked her fire, and soon she was undoing the button and zipper on his pants, freeing his erection when