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“Let me make myself crystal fucking clear, little thing.” My eyes widened at the ease with which he’d cussed. “Out of all the dangers awaiting you in my court, I’m the one you’ll need to be protected from.”
“Love knows no bounds for mortals and has no end for faeries.”
“You enrage me.” “The feeling is mutual,”
“Besides, I find myself poisoned by thoughts of ruining only one dreadful little creature.”
“What you want will soon be irrelevant. You’re a halfling who will breathe when I tell you to, eat when I say so, and pleasure my cock when you manage to make it hard.”
“A beast who wants to kiss your pretty mouth until it bleeds.”
“No more little thing?” “Certainly not with tits that huge.”
I wasn’t sure I could. But I was shamelessly sure I wanted to try.
“Give in, defiant creature.”
“You really shouldn’t have given me that.” He nipped my earlobe. “Never will I let you forget it.”
“I’ve ruined your innocence with my fingers. Now I want to stretch and stuff you with my cock until tears leave your eyes and your defiant mouth can’t form words.”
“I can’t decide if looking at your body makes me happier than the thought of watching you die.”
“If you so much as think about playing with anyone but me, I will tie you to this bed with their entrails and paint you in their blood while I fuck you.”
“I want to do this while your tight little cunt struggles to adjust to my cock.”
“Enough to make me miss the creature I loathe the most.”
“I want you. I want you as much as I loathe you—so much, it feels like I can’t breathe.”
Though even if I could seduce Atakan, play his games until he wanted nothing but me, I would never be free. Never be loved. A partial cage for a pet was still the best I could hope for.
“I’ll give you whatever you want.” His wings lifted, splaying slightly as he turned and paced toward the doors he’d left ajar. “Good food, good literature, good housing, and good sex…” He spread his hands. “I will give you everything a female wants. All you need to do is let me.”
“Love isn’t found in pleasures, King.”
“How did it feel, Princess?” “How did what feel, King?” “Taking the cock of a male who’d rather die than admit he cares for you.”
So although I wasn’t anything worth killing for, an example would still need to be made.
“Males are all the same. Unaware that love means more than an obsession with humping someone.”
I couldn’t deny it. Not entirely. But I would certainly try. “No.”
“When you laugh, I remember what joy feels like.”
He might have been a murderer, but he sure knew how to make me forget that important fact.
Such a venomous creature had no right tasting so sweet.
“Something more than my cock returning to your lovely cunt and my mouth feasting on yours.”
“You should know by now that watching you squirm pleases me beyond measure.”
He’d done this to me. Now, he could damned well fix me.
“You did this.” He grunted, then trembled when my fingernails dug into his smooth back. “And there’s no changing it. Believe me, I’ve tried.”
“Breathe for me, dread.” Atakan exhaled into my mouth. His pace turned frenzied, the bed frame protesting. “Only for me.”
Without looking at me, he dragged his hand through his hair, pushing it back over his head as he exhaled roughly. “We mated.”
“It makes so much sense now. Atakan searched high and low for you for days, believing you’d somehow fled. He didn’t stop until we learned the Unseelie king had you, then…” Her voice quietened. “He just disappeared.”
“You have thirty minutes,” he told his cousin, then seized my hand.
“Perhaps you should walk ahead.” “So that you can stare at my ass?”
“You think I don’t know what everyone calls me?” He skimmed his knuckles over my cheek. “Dread, I practically begged them to.”
“You’re right. You’re not my lover. You’re now my wife, yet that doesn’t seem quite enough either.” I nearly swayed when I rose, and he went on. “What do you call the only creature you want to watch and touch endlessly?”
“You can take it, dread.” He pulled me down again, pressing so deep, I whimpered. “You were made to handle me.” He placed a single kiss at my jaw. “To take me.”
“I want your unyielding defiance, your mischievous curiosity, your ceaseless muttering in your sleep.” His eyes opened. “Your buttery hair in my hands.”
“I want you, Mildred. Always and incessantly, I’ve fucking wanted you.”
“If it isn’t my darling wife.” “If it isn’t my monstrous husband.”
Why are you blocking me from your mind? Atakan asked. Better yet, why aren’t you here, feeding me your sweet spite and taking my cock?
I’m saving it for my disobedient creature’s return. She’s going to lap at it while I fuck her from behind.
Ours was not a bond unwanted. So I’d then sent my troublesome Mildred a letter. Short, no-nonsense. You have two choices—stop drinking that rotting tea or come back.
“You cannot just take her, Atakan.” I huffed. “Believe me, I know.”
“If it isn’t my misbehaving wife.”
“I need you to come back, Mildred.”
“For you, I would stay on my knees until they bled your name.”
