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“It’s been a couple of months since I had any cocoa,” Tormund said. “And based on your moans of pleasure, I definitely want to wrap my tongue around a piece of it.”
Fate be damned, she looked beautiful like that. If I were a different sort of man with a different sort of goal, I could see how I might be tempted to do anything in my power to get her to laugh like that again.
Do you often make it a habit of dining with your enemies the eve before battle?” And then words fell out of my head and off my tongue before I could stop them. “When they’re as pretty as you, yes.”
Someone must have found out my secret. The brother I wanted to save wasn’t a shadow demon. He wasn’t even my brother. He was a dragon.
“Are you just constantly waiting for someone to say something that you can turn around and make a suggestive joke about?” “No.” A pause. “But I do look for any opportunity to make you smile.”
“You are a beautiful person, Astrid Balstad. And I’ve been a fool not to sweep you off your feet.”
“I’d gladly give up the sun if it meant I could have you,” he said without a moment of hesitation. I shuddered out a breath. His thumb caressed my jaw, heat trailing in its wake. I shook my head, his words beyond my comprehension. “How can you say that?” “Because the sun has never made me feel the way that you do, Astrid Balstad,” he murmured.
Did you play with his horns? Tell me you played with his horns.”
Some people loved to wander. And some found a corner of the world they loved, curled up in the warmth and familiarity of it, and found a happiness so bone-deep they yearned to stay forever.
“And I will relish every inch of your beautiful body. I’ve served no gods before, but I will gladly serve you.” I
“You are my sun. My moon. The first thought in my head when I wake and the last before I sleep. And when you smile, the pieces of me that were broken feel whole again. I’ve told you before that I want to spend the rest of my life with you, but I want to do one better than that. I want to make binding vows with you. I want to stand before the gods and declare that you’re mine. Astrid, will you marry me?”
