Forged by Malice (Beasts of the Briar, #3)

by Elizabeth Helen

Let’s see if you can be as quick a learner at magic as you are at pleasuring our girl.”

“The mountains told me your name. The forest sang your song. My heart has been searching for you since the first dawn.”

I pierce her with my gaze, and it takes everything in me not to lift her up and bring her down on my face. I can’t survive for long in the world up here, but I bet I could survive on her.

“Daytonales, you are my mate.” She snatches my jaw. “Let me fuck you in the blood of the enemies we slayed and prove it.”

“Look at you, outside on the bridge.” He strokes faster. “Naked and mine.”

“because this is positively the most glorious cock that ever did hail from the Summer Realm.” Dayton grabs a knot of my hair, tugs. “Are you making fun of my cock, Blossom?” “Wouldn’t dream of it.” “Good.” He draws me closer until his lips are by my ear. “Because this cock is going to fucking claim you, going to make you scream my name, going to fill you with so much cum it’ll be leaking down your legs, and there won’t be a soul in the Enchanted Vale that won’t recognize my scent on you.”

Call me old-fashioned, but bringing a lady to a private arboretum and eating her out like your own personal buffet kind of feels like courting.

“I could pass a thousand seasons staring at you and never have my fill of your beauty. I want you when the cherry blossoms fall in spring, and during the balmy nights of summer. I want you on a forest floor filled with autumn leaves and shivering in winter’s snow.”

This will only confirm for her the villain I am. But I told her I’d be her darkness, and if only a villain can save her, then so be it.

“Let me take no other but you. If one day, my vow shall prove false and I lie with another, let them serve you in repentance until you tire of them as I did your heart. And if ever there is no love between us, let this bargain melt away like snow under rain.”

“I’ll keep it safe. I’ll keep you safe.” I think I catch a smile on his face between the speckles of light. Then he’s kissing me again. And I believe him. Maybe here in this moment, in this space that doesn’t really exist, it’s okay to give in to the shadows. To submit to pure feeling and sensation and need. His fiery, desperate lips caress my neck. All sense of control is lost from both of us as I thread my fingers through his hair and writhe my body against his.

“Close me out again, and I’ll chop that perfect cock off with my thorns.”

I drop the thorns and kiss him lightly. “I’m yours, Kel. You know I’m yours.” He grips me around the waist and tugs me over his hips. “Then hold on to the headboard and sit on my face.”