Luxuria (Shades of Sin, #1)

by Colette Rhodes

Seriously, I was one muttered complaint about how slow my human legs moved away from whispering, ‘sorry, Monster Daddy,’ and dropping to my knees to ask for forgiveness.

Why wasn’t he accosting me yet? Freeing me from the confines of all this damn fabric? I’d been promised monster fucking, and I wasn’t getting any damn monster fucking.

“I made a bet,” he replied unrepentantly, smiling wider in a blatant attempt to intimidate me. Pity for him that he didn’t know my brain was wired wrong. Whenever I saw pointed teeth, I imagined them pressing against the delicate skin of my neck, pinning me in place while my monstrous lover fucked me ruthlessly into the mattress. Or the ground. Or the wall. Basically anywhere he could have me. “Ah, that’s more like it,” Allerick sighed, inhaling deeply. “Never forget where you are, little huntress.” So… he wanted me to be horny? He seemed to like when he could smell my arousal, but he spoke as if he wanted me to leave.

Were they flirting? It seemed kind of flirty. The kind of flirting you did when someone pissed you off most of the time but you still had sex dreams about them and woke up hating yourself a little bit.

He looked at me before returning that ice blue gaze to my explicit drawings, finally putting the pieces together. His wife had elaborate monster fucking fantasies, and he was a monster who hadn’t been fucking me. Fear. I almost snorted at the thought. Idiot.

Allerick loomed over me, looking every inch a feral monster with the crimson fabric of my panties caught between his teeth like blood dripping from a beast’s maw.

Astrid gave me a long searching look, and I was struck again by the differences between her and her sister despite their similar features. Ophelia looked at faces like she was trying to find answers, Astrid looked at faces like she was trying to find weaknesses.