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“It will cost you,” she warned. I had no doubt she spoke the truth. If the books had taught me anything, it was never to underestimate a Fae.
“Besides, you still deserve a stab or two after what you did.” I yelped. Just some unrequested acupuncture. “You didn’t come back. What else could I do?”
Tonight, hearts would be broken, maidens would be soiled, and blood would be spilled.
Bright emerald eyes turned toward me. His deep, husky voice rumbled across the forest, caressing my ears. “Do you not wish to come out and play, darling?”
I supposed if I had to choose a way to die, there were worse ways than at the hands of a handsome devil.
He chuckled, the sound moving like teasing strokes down my spine.
“Well, darling.” His voice dripped like warm honey. “If you wanted a night of pleasure, you simply needed to ask. I will more than happily bring you to the brink of ecstasy.” His eyebrows furrowed. “Although, with the fabric closing, we only have a couple of hours at best and that will hardly be long enough to enjoy you.”
His wings hung low behind him, like a fallen angel too tired and weak to reach for the Heavens.
“It will be troublesome if you fall madly in love with me.” He tapped his finger against my nose. “Please refrain from it.”
“I have heard many beautiful sounds in my long life, but your laughter is a song from the Heavens. Lucky the world would be if it could hear its melody more often.”
“Only in your dreams will you ever see me naked.” Calstar winked. “You would be lucky to grace my bed, even if only in dreams.”
No one else wielded words like a deliberate touch.
“Is it so difficult to believe that I find myself tempted by you?” He touched his roughened finger to the bottom of my lip as he bit his own. “That I often wonder if you taste just as divine as strawberries. I could spend all night eating you.”
Calstar straightened his spine. “I don’t kneel in front of anyone. It’s a promise I made long ago.”
Calstar’s breath fanned the fire growing within me, stoking it into a blaze. His lips trailed my pulse again and again, and I ignited under his sensuous assault.
It was hard to maintain a stern guise. For such a deadly Fae, he often resembled a puppy deprived of attention.
“Despair is momentary, but scars are forever. You should take care of your body.” His voice dropped, and his next words purred with intent. “Precious things should be taken care of.”
“Zurilya,” he growled, “bite my shoulder, stab me, if you must. But if ever you bite my ear again, I swear to the Moon Goddess, I will flip you on your hands and knees.”
His gaze was dominating, rimmed with darkness and power.
Zurilya looked like a wounded north star. The white nightgown wrapped around her heavenly curves and fell like a celestial veil against the darkening sky.
People will try to spite you. Do not give them the satisfaction of seeing you cry and crumble. Defy hate with a smile.’ I forced my head high. If this was my last moment, I would burn stronger than the flames.
“Your scent begs me to fuck you.”
“Normally, I would take great care to explore every inch of your body, as one should when a goddess is under him. But you seem so desperate for my mouth and I am not one to deny a female the pleasure she seeks.”
The wings on this man!!
My body flushed from the memory of him, his tongue, and just how utterly majestic he looked—midnight wings spanned as he bound me down.
“I do not speak to flatter you, but to tell the truth my eyes see. You are the rarest star I have gazed upon in this world and the next.
“I couldn’t save you—and why? Because I let my fears get the best of me. I let you go alone, and I suffered every one of your cries because of it. They tore me. I nearly lost my mind. It was torture hearing you call my name when all I could do was listen.”
“While there is life, there is time. Time to change and choose to be better.”
“I will fuck you, Zurilya. I will feast on you until all you know is my name on your lips.”
I could linger in the past and let it eat me up until I am nothing, or I can let it build the pillars of who I am to be.
“The universe could rip us apart, and I would bend it to my will so I may find you.”
