The Lesser Gods (The Lesser Gods - Exclusive Edition)

by Heather Dubree

"And I think we're meant to do a little more than just touch, wife."

"You need to slow your breathing," he whispered in her ear, his breaths coming fast. "I can hear your heart pounding across the room."

"Careful, wife, I might start to think you're flirting with me."

"My goal in life was to learn as much as I could about your kind. Your language, your lore. Your gods. Not all of us sat out the 200-year war in our fettered castle after murdering innocents. Don't look so surprised."

"Stay low, get to the tree line. Hide. I will find you," Euclid whispered loudly, his breath hot and rapid in her ear. There was something in his voice that she hadn't heard before: fear.

“Better. If you’d like to feel how much better, you can scoot back again.”

“Then let me tell you what I want, human. I want to sink myself inside you until we can’t discern where you end and I begin. I want to taste you in the throes of ecstasy, feel your skin underneath my fingers. Feel your heartbeat against where my dead one lays. I want to see if you taste like you smell.”