Brimstone (Fae & Alchemy, #2)

by Callie Hart

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. All you ever need do is ask.

“Don’t even think about it, or I’ll take you right here,” he panted.

“Do you like having fingernails, Carrion?” he asked politely. “I—” Carrion gaped. “I do, actually.”

“I’ve killed more people than I can count. I lost the parts of myself that knew how to feel anything other than pain and sorrow centuries ago. 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.”

“You taste like the end of the fucking world,” he purred. “Just kill me and be done with it. Nothing will ever be better than this.”

“Come now, Osha. Where else would an acolyte kneel to worship but at the altar of his god?”

“Umm. Yeah, I kinda need my tongue.” He took a deep breath and then sighed it back out. “People do seem to like it.”

“I could spend the rest of eternity right here and die happy,” he rumbled. “I could fuck you and feast on you until the ages turned and the suns all died and burned out in the skies, and I still wouldn’t have had enough of you.”

Thank me. I’m the one who’s about to make you scream.

“I had no idea what you would mean to me. I had no idea what I would do to keep you safe. 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.”

I want you on all fours for me, Saeris. Crawling…

“Every part. I love all of you.” He blew a dark curl out of his eyes. “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.”

“The way that you love me. Some would say that is your weakness.” The lines of his face softened. “Some would say that,” he agreed. “But they would be wrong. It’s my strength.”

Unfortunately for you, Swift, my sexuality doesn’t lean in your direction.”

very unstable. The ground could shift, and you find yourself leaning in a completely different direction at any moment. I, myself, have experienced all kinds of leanings.”

Tal smiled a little dubiously at him. “You’ll be the first to know if the ground ...

Carrion sighed, walking past my maker. “It’s all right. It would have happened by now if it was going to. That kind of thing usually ...