He felt the shift in her the instant it happened.
One moment she was soft, pliant, trembling under his careful reverence; the next, the volcano inside her erupted.
He didn't let her stay crushed between his weight and the unforgiving wooden bed. With effortless strength he slid an arm beneath her, lifted her as if she weighed nothing, and rolled onto his back. Suddenly Aurilia was on top (delicate, glowing, straddling the solid expanse of his chest). The coarse denim of his jeans scraped the tender skin of her inner thighs; the cold metal teeth of his zipper grazed the soaked silk of her panties with every tiny shift. Her bare breasts pressed to his chest, nipples dragging through the rough hair there, sending sparks straight to her core.
She looked down at him (dark hair tousled against the pillow, eyes steady and amused and hungry all at once) and something wild broke free.
No more waiting to be kissed.
Aurilia braced her hands on either side of his head and took his mouth like she was starving. Not a soft meeting of lips; this was devouring. She licked into him, teeth scraping, tongue demanding, a low, desperate sound vibrating in her throat. He let her. His hands settled on her hips, not guiding, just anchoring, letting her burn.
Her thighs clamped tighter around his waist, knees digging into the mattress as she ground shamelessly against the hard ridge straining beneath his jeans. The friction of denim and zipper against her slick, barely-covered pussy made her gasp into his mouth. She rocked harder, chasing it, wild little rolls of her hips that tore a growl from deep in his chest.
He still didn't move to take control. He let the volcano rage.
Aurilia broke the kiss only to bite his lower lip, to drag her open mouth down the strong column of his throat, tasting salt and heat and man. Her nails raked lightly over his shoulders, his chest, claiming every inch she could reach. She was shaking again, but not from nerves now; from pure, electric need.
She was unstoppable.
And he was more than happy to lie beneath the storm and let her burn them both alive.