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“I told you. He’s going to be fine, Osha. I promise.”
I couldn’t tear my eyes from her. Gods, she was fucking beautiful.
“You should leave Nimerelle here. They’ll see you carrying a weapon as an act of aggression.” “Good.” My mate’s expression went dark with the promise of violence. “It is.”
“I am no child. My name is Saeris Fane, and I am your queen.”
You can own your fantasies with me, Little Osha. There is nothing in this realm or the next that I won’t give to you if you desire it.
“Don’t even think about it, or I’ll take you right here,” he panted.
I can run drills with you, Osha. I can raise a sword to you and pull my blows. I can show you footwork and teach you about warcraft. What I cannot do is attack you like it’s real. And that’s what you need, if you truly want to learn how to fight with a sword. The stakes must be genuine for you to learn how to think and react under pressure. And I will never come at you with everything I’ve got. You are my mate. I’m in love with you. I couldn’t do that even if I wanted to. Which… he added softly, I do not.
“She isn’t my girlfriend. She’s my mate,” Fisher said quite amicably. “And if any part of your body, literally any part of it, comes into contact with hers, then I will remove it.”
You are home.”
But for better or worse, you have brought me back to life.”
“Three nights. That’s how long I’ve paced this room, fantasizing about fucking you raw, Saeris Fane.”
“Come now, Osha. Where else would an acolyte kneel to worship but at the altar of his god?”
The way he ate me now was just like that—like he was still starving and could not be sated. He growled into my pussy. “Fuck! You taste incredible.”
“It’s almost as if you don’t want to fuck me,” I snarled. More laughter. This time lower. Rougher. “Oh, believe me. I want to fuck you. Need proof?”
And Kingfisher laughed. “Because I am pleased with myself. Because I’m the luckiest bastard alive. And because you look like you’ve just been thoroughly fucked.”
“Fisher? Fisher. Are we nearly at the door? Ow, what the hell was that? Something hit my arm really hard.” “It was my fist. Now shut. The fuck. Up.”
All libraries contained magic. Even libraries that didn’t specialize in such things. Because what was a book, if not a portal into another realm, another time, another life even.
No, I couldn’t blame the male for seeing what was obvious. I could only pity him that she wasn’t his and be fucking thankful that she was mine.
When I close my eyes, you are all I fucking see, Saeris Fane. I could be dead in the ground five thousand years and the frosts could have taken my bones, and still no other male will ever have loved another female the way that I love you.”
“Watching you come is a fucking gift.” His hands locked around my wrists, swiftly pinning them above my head. “I could watch you fall apart for me forever.”
“Do you know how incredible you were back there?” he asked. “When I was fighting for my life?” He shook his head. “When you single-handedly took down five guards with those pretty new short swords of yours. That was really…” He trailed off, eyes burning. “Stupid?” “Hot,” he corrected, the tips of his canines glinting between his lips as he emphasized the word.
“Or maybe those are traits they decided to bless you with. Either way, they’re appropriate names for your new weapons. Now enough about swords. Come here. If you can bear the fact that our bodies aren’t touching for one more second, then you’re a better person than me, Saeris Fane,” he whispered.
could hardly feel his pulse hammering beneath his thick leathers… but I could hear it now. “No,” I whispered.
And this? He took hold of my other hand, guiding it low until it rested on top of his hard cock. He wasn’t just hard. He was rock solid, his erection straining at the front of his pants like it needed to be free. No. That doesn’t feel normal at all, I said. That feels… extraordinary.
“Do you have any idea how good you look in that shirt, Osha? Two days was too long.”
“It doesn’t matter. My soul is on fire. Tell me yours isn’t.”
“Never again,” he murmured. “Wherever we go, we go together.” “Yes. Promise me.”
“Don’t think about that right now. Don’t worry about any of it. Just be here with me.” My prince of shadows. I had been born into the light, but my salvation had been waiting for me in the dark. It was a miracle that we’d found each other.
When he loved, it was with everything he had.
“I’d spend the fortunes of the universe to protect you. I’d drain the seas dry. Fell every tree. I would sacrifice the sun from the fucking sky and surrender the stars, too, if I could. But those things aren’t mine to give. All I have is my life. It isn’t much, but I’d spend it and consider the price small if it meant keeping you safe.”
“Fuck me, Osha.” His voice was rough from sleep. “That sound haunts my fucking dreams. I want to make you moan for hours.”
“Irrellieth ka tintar shey an mé correshan dow.”
“What are you saying?” I gasped. “Only whispering secrets,” he rumbled in response. “Tell me.”
“I said, ‘I’m going to drown myself between your thighs.’
I will not rob you of your path by insisting I carry you.”
“You’re a wildfire, Saeris Fane. There’s no controlling you.”
“You’re beautiful,” I told her.
Black on black on black.
Would the gods punish me for such a flagrant misuse of power? Fuck it. Let them.
for the rest of the night, anyone who comes within five feet of you will scent the orgasm I’m about to give to you.” Yes, it was primal. Yes, it was petty. No, it was not very progressive of me to want to mark her in this way. I didn’t fucking care.
Grinning wickedly over her shoulder, I slowly slid my fingers into my mouth. I sucked them clean, winking at her in the mirror. “Don’t say I never give you flowers, Osha.”
Calm as the center of a storm, she was. Brutal. Cruel. Lethal. Even I wouldn’t have fucked with her in this moment, resting her feet on the back of a female whom most of this court was afraid of. I would have fucked her, though. I desperately, desperately wanted to do that.
“They’re lucky I’m not tearing you out of this dress and bending you over that fucking throne right now, Saeris,” he growled.
“They’re an invitation. The life you lived in Zilvaren was hard. You had to do everything for yourself. I’m here now, and—no‚ wait. No, let me finish. I’m here now, and just because I am your mate and you are mine doesn’t mean that I expect you to sit around looking pretty, or… or put down your weapons and adopt a different way of life. I would never want that for you. But you don’t have to be one thing here, Saeris. You can be many things. You can wear your leathers and fight every day of the year. I would never ask you not to. But sometimes, if you wanted to… you’re allowed to soften,
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“You just asked me to hold you,” he said softly. “I did.” “Have you ever asked anyone else to do that?”
“No. And if you tell anyone I asked you to, I will vehemently deny it.”
“Saeris makes me kinder than I should be. Do not misjudge me. I would do all manner of unconscionable things in the pursuit of her safety. I’d take my friends and my mate to another realm and let this one burn if I thought for one second that it was what she wanted.
Rise, Khydan Graystar Finvarra, in honor of the name you were given at birth! Rise up and fight!”
“You want to undo death?” it said disbelievingly.
“All this for a fox?” the Hazrax scoffed.
