Sanctuary With Kings (Tempting Monsters, #3)

by Kathryn Moon

I was not a lodestone or a tool or a body to sleeve a monster's pleasure. I was a woman, and I wanted to live again!

Laszlo snorted. "You can have her back when you wake, you lazy beast," he said, but the words were so tenderly spoken it was clear what he meant. Wake up. Wake up for me. Wake up for her.

The castle? I wondered. Or the men within its walls?

It was one thing to claim noble intentions, but I would've preferred the intention to remain with me.

I would devour the Red Wolf until he pried my jaws open and made his escape.

Weariness added weight to my eyelashes, made my eyelids sink and flutter. If I fell asleep, I would dream. I didn't fool myself. I knew what would come. But I was craving punishment, so I gave in to sleep.

"But I see the way Conall looks at you. The way the Kings of Clouds and Dreams dote on you. I won't be lesser, not with you, Evanthia."

"We're going to take your heart, Evanthia," Hywel whispered. "We lay claim to it and to all of you. And if you want to fight us with your pretty claws and sweet little teeth, we will take your scratches and bites too. All of you."

"No, Asterion. You take me like this. Fuck me, and fill me with your scent and theirs. You will be equals. You claimed me, and not one of them will change that. But you won't erase their claims either."

"I will share your bed, alone or with others," Asterion said, looking up at me. I sighed and nodded, urging him to continue. "I will claim your body, alone or with others. I will protect you, alone or with others. And I will love you, no matter what."

"You are my mate, Evanthia," Asterion rasped. "I will always find you, shelter you, protect you…love you."

No, my own voice echoed in my head. No, I won't accept that. I won't surrender again. I will fight until I am free, even if that freedom is death. I do not belong to Birsha.

"I love you, King of Dreams. I love you, mate of my mate. I love you, Hywel. I will clean your scales and ride your cocks and kiss your lips, and I will share my heart with you, pieced back together as it is," I said, kissing his chin and then his mouth.