Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Colletion_ Books 11-15 - Laurell K. Hamilton [52]
I licked down the left side of his chest, his stomach, then moved back to the right and explored the scarred flesh as I had the other, because I knew now, that scarred or not, it worked. He could feel my mouth on his skin, my fingers trailing lower. If he could feel then I wanted to give him everything I could.
My mouth came to his waist, the belt, the top of his pants. I licked from one side of his waist to the other, then came back to the right side and licked along the front of his flat stomach, so the tip of my tongue eased inside the very top of his pants, even with the belt.
Asher’s voice came breathy, harsh, “You have taught her well.”
“I can take little credit for it, mon ami, she enjoys her work.”
I rolled eyes up at them. “Please, stop talking about me like I can’t understand you.”
“Our most sincere apologies,” Jean-Claude said.
“Oui,” Asher said, “it was not an insult.”
“No, but you assume that if I’m any good it has to be because a man taught me. That’s so sexist.”
“We can only apologize again, ma petite.”
I undid the buckle on Asher’s belt, and he didn’t stop me this time. I got the top fastener undone, but I’ve never been good at unzipping a man when he’s sitting down. I think I’m always a little afraid I’ll get him caught in the zipper.
“Some help here,” I said.
Jean-Claude lifted, Asher helped, and the zipper came down, revealing that he was wearing royal blue bikini’s in silk, what else? There is no way to get real pants off of anyone gracefully. I peeled the pants down Asher’s long legs, slipped off the shoes that he was still wearing, there were no socks to bother with. He lay back, cradled against Jean-Claude, wearing nothing but the tiny blue silk undies. I wanted to snatch them away from him. I wanted to see him completely nude, it seemed more important than anything else. To finally see if the scars went all the way across.
I crawled forward and licked the edge of his stomach, so that my tongue dipped just below the waistband of the silk, an echo of what I’d done to his pants. I could feel him pressed against the thin cloth, the hardness of him brushing against my chin as I moved around his waist.
I went back to the right side and the scars that dribbled down to mid-thigh. I licked, kissed, and bit along them until he cried out. Then I did the same to his other thigh, going lower until I licked the back of his knee, and he whimpered.
Jean-Claude’s voice came almost strangled, “Ma petite, please.”
I looked up, the tip of my tongue still playing lightly on the very edge of the bend of Asher’s knee. Asher’s eyes were rolled almost back into his head. I knew things through Jean-Claude’s memories that only a lover would know, such as the fact that he loved having the backs of his knees licked.
“Please, what?” I asked.
“Please, finish it.”
I knew what he meant. I crawled back up until I was kneeling between their legs again. The blue silk was stretched tight, and this time it was very erotic.
I slid my fingers in the top of the silk, and it was Asher’s hands that spilled eager, helping slide the silk down his hips. I pulled the silk down his thighs, but was only half paying attention, because I was staring at what had been revealed.
Scars dribbled from his thigh towards the groin like white worms frozen under the skin, but they stopped a few inches short of the groin, and he lay thick, and long, and straight, and perfect.
I had a confused image of him with the scars fresh, and he was misshapen, unable to become fully erect, twisted to one side, unable to perform.
I had to shake my head to clear the memory. I met Jean-Claude’s gaze. I’d never seen him look so utterly