Chapter 31: You Like a Challenge

~“And the world hasn’t been kind to you, sweetheart. You’ve been through hell and back, sweetheart. Are you still here because you’re guarding my heart? If I never loved you, right here’s where I’d start.”—Haley Smalls.~

Chapter Theme Song: “All Yours” by Haley Smalls.

HARMONY

I’m lying flat on my back, with Blaze hovering over me.

His lips are still on mine, kissing me slowly, his hand pressing into the bed next to my head. He’s holding himself above me, his warm arms forming a comforting cage around me.

The smell of his shower gel and deodorant fills my nostrils, stirring the butterflies in my stomach.

His tongue is exploring my mouth, taking control of the kiss.

This kiss is everything I’ve read about, everything I’ve seen in movies, but I never thought it would happen to me. It’s intense, all-consuming, taking over my body, my mind, my soul.

He pulls away from the kiss, and I open my eyes to see his blue ones filled with desire.

I’m breathing heavily from the intensity of the kiss, but his breathing is steady. I wonder how that’s possible when his lips were so passionately engaged just a moment ago.

“I bet your heart’s racing now,” he says, his voice husky, a smirk playing on his lips.

It is, and I think he knows it, but I won’t let him win that easily.

“It’s not,” I counter.

He laughs at my response, pushing his hair back from his face, licking his already moist lips. “You’re stubborn, aren’t you?”

I can’t help but smile.

“Alright.” He bites his lip. “Guess I’ll have to try again... Can I?”

Before I can respond, his warm hand slips under my T-shirt. The moment his skin touches mine, I shiver. He grins at my reaction.

“Did I make you shiver?” he whispers, his finger tracing a tantalizing pattern around my navel.

“Shivering means this is affecting you. But you said your heart ‘isn’t racing,’ so I think we need to investigate this, Harmony.”

I take a deep breath. “I-I’m probably just cold.”

“Are you?” His voice is filled with lust and a hint of amusement. He knows my breathing has quickened, and yet I’m still playing hard to get.

“Maybe my lips can warm you up.” He lowers his face to my stomach and presses his lips against my skin.

I gasp, my eyes closing tightly.

His lips move over my stomach, sucking gently at my skin. It feels so good that I have to lift my head to make sure he’s really just kissing my stomach.

He looks up at me, the dim light making his blue eyes appear darker. Or maybe it’s the desire in them.

“Do you know how close I am to your heartbeat?” he murmurs against my skin.

The desire is overwhelming. I lay my head back on the pillows, my mouth falling open, savoring the feel of his mouth on my body.

“I can hear your heartbeat. And you lied to me. Your heart is racing.”

He moves up to press his forehead against mine, his hand still moving on my stomach.

“How should I punish you?”

His mouth hovers above mine. I lift my head, trying to meet his lips, but he pulls back just out of reach. Is this his punishment?

I open my eyes to see him smiling, knowing exactly what he’s doing. His hand moves from my stomach to the waistband of my pajama shorts.

He traces his index and middle finger along the elastic, the heat between my thighs intensifying.

“I want to touch you...without barriers.” He’s watching my face as he speaks. “But I need your permission, Harmony.”

His words make me feel more aroused than I’ve ever felt before.

I’ve lost all control. I want to feel his hand on me again, like that day at the beach. I want to experience that strange, new sensation again.

I nod. “Please...” My voice sounds strange to me.

“Please what?” He tilts my chin up so I’m looking into his eyes. “I want to hear you say it... Please what, Harmony?”

“Please touch me.” The words slip out before I can stop them.

He smiles, satisfied, but moves his mouth to my neck, kissing my skin. My eyes roll back in my head.

I told him to touch me, and he’s still teasing me. I underestimated Blaze Xander.

I’m losing control. I lift my hips impatiently. I can feel his grin against my neck, and then his fingers slip under my waistband and into my underwear.

His hand touches the smooth skin of my womanhood, and I gasp at the contact.

It’s a new sensation. No one has ever touched me like this before.

His fingers part me, rubbing me through my panties. My thighs spread apart, my breath catching in my throat with each stroke.

He lifts his head to watch me, my chest rising and falling with each breath.

“You’re so wet for someone whose heart isn’t racing, green eyes,” he whispers, his fingers exploring me, touching places that make me jerk and pant.

This is nothing like that day at the beach. This is more intense, pushing me towards the edge of pleasure faster than before.

“I bet you’ve got some wicked thoughts hidden in that shy head of yours.”

His lips curl into a smirk, and I squint, trying to handle the intense sensation building in my lower body. This is too much.

He uses his fingertips to trace small, light circles on my sex—the sensitive spot that sends sparks through my entire body.

It feels like I’m being shocked as my muscles start to twitch. Sweat beads on my forehead as I pant, staring at his flushed face with my mouth hanging open, my body shaking nonstop.

“Do you like that?”

I squeeze my eyes shut, nodding.

“No. I need you to say it, Harmony.” His smoky eyes are locked on me. “When it’s just us...you don’t have to be shy or scared.”

“I...” I gasp. “I...I like it.”

Satisfaction washes over his face. “What do you like?”

“Y-you touching me.”

“Good girl.”

He smirks and kisses me again, his tongue dancing with mine, adding to the pleasure.

Changing his approach, he uses his middle and forefinger to massage my opening while his thumb continues to circle the sensitive spot. His name slips from my lips.

“Ah, Blaze.”

“You don’t touch yourself,” he murmurs. “That’s why you might not know...how incredible your own body is.”

I clutch the sheet as my legs jerk, feeling my body steadily climbing toward the peak of pleasure.

“You feel too good not to be touched by anyone. You’re precious, Harmony.”

My chest heaves as the built-up feelings start to surface again. Like that moment at the beach, I’m close, and when Blaze realizes this, he smiles.

To slow things down, he stops moving his thumb over the sensitive spot and uses just his two fingers to trace a long path along my slit from bottom to top.

He repeats the action slowly, his fingers parting my folds.

I watch his hand as it moves inside my shorts, wondering what on earth he’s doing to me. It’s mind-blowing, and it feels like the whole world has vanished.

It’s just me, and him, and his fingers that are drawing pleasurable patterns on me.

I look up at him, my forehead creasing as I start to tremble. His eyes are hazy and shining in the dark room, the moonlight from the window illuminating half of his face.

He looks divine and mesmerizing as he watches me through his long lashes.

“Are you ready to cum for me?”

I nod quickly. His face is nothing but a blur now and my eyes can’t stay open. I break our gaze as I shut them tightly. My body is reaching its limit as I grip the linen, drenched in sweat.

“Open your eyes, Harmony. You know how much your green eyes drive me crazy...”

I do as he says immediately and his eyes are filled with so much desire it’s almost blinding.

“Keep your eyes on me while you cum.”

Those words are enough to send me over the edge into a sea of mind-blowing pleasure.

My opening clenches around his fingers as I fall apart beneath him, pressing my face into the pillow to muffle a soft cry.

I grab his shirt, clinging to him for dear life as I dissolve into a gasping mess against my sheets while he watches me silently with hooded eyes.

He keeps touching me, extending and intensifying the heavenly euphoria, and I feel like my soul is leaving my body.

Shaking thighs. Trembling limbs. Quick, shallow breaths. I’m nothing but a bundle of nerves underneath him.

Evidence of my climax soaks his fingers and my panties, shorts, and the sheet we’re lying on.

He’s beautifully wrecked my mind and my body, sending me to a place I’ve never been before. A place filled with stars, and fireworks, and bright, flashing lights of ecstasy.

I don’t know what he meant by being emotionally destructive, but I know that he’s sexually destroyed me, because I don’t think any other guy on this earth could make me feel the way he just did.

I wouldn’t trade this moment. For anything.

When I finally come back to myself, I see Blaze’s smiling face as he watches me recover from the blissful disorientation I’d sunk into.

“You okay?”

I nod as I use the back of my shaking hand to wipe the sweat from my eyes.

“You look so beautiful when you orgasm.” He bites his lower lip as he brushes wet hair from my face, making a spot to press his lips against. I close my eyes at the feeling.

~I wish this moment could last forever. I would do anything to freeze time right here.~

“Now...” He meets my gaze, cupping my cheek and stroking his thumb against my skin. “What was that you said about your heart not racing?”

I blush and cover my face with my hands, and he chuckles before lying on his side and pulling me against him.

I move my hand as he wraps his arms tightly around me, almost crushing my small body against his chest. I breathe in his scent with a small smile on my face.

“Are you tired?” he asks.

I nod weakly, my eyes already heavy with sleep.

He smiles and plants a quick kiss on my forehead. “I know. Sleep tight in my arms, I’m not going anywhere.”

I smile and close my eyes, feeling satisfied and content.

I guess lying next to him was very dangerous after all.

But ~danger~ has never felt so...~safe~.

~^”Loneliness looks for happiness, but happiness isn’t obvious.”—Haley Smalls. (All Yours.)^~