[ Soon enough, he'll have to get up out of Alina's bed. There is the All-Sight to consider. Quentin had asked him to be there, to convince their people of the wisdom of negotiation. And this, what Alina gives to him, will be a protection against the possibility that the All-Sight might spin him out of control again, wrench a monster from beneath his flesh.
His fingers press firmly down, palm flattening as if to pin her to the bed. She could buck free if she liked, Nikolai knows. This is only suggestion, really.
Alina's fingers in his hair encourage. Nikolai shifts that minor stretch of space downwards. Uses his opposite hand to splay her thigh out against the bed before he puts his mouth to her, just as he had done at the party. Purposeful, this time. Certain of what he is doing, because he had learned well what she preferred then. ]
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His fingers press firmly down, palm flattening as if to pin her to the bed. She could buck free if she liked, Nikolai knows. This is only suggestion, really.
Alina's fingers in his hair encourage. Nikolai shifts that minor stretch of space downwards. Uses his opposite hand to splay her thigh out against the bed before he puts his mouth to her, just as he had done at the party. Purposeful, this time. Certain of what he is doing, because he had learned well what she preferred then. ]