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“Didn’t think so.” With one finger, I lifted his chin, seized his lips with mine, and rolled my hips against his.

A groan left the prince, and my lips curled up at the corners. I loved the feeling of power I had over him, nearly as much as I loved feeling us, so close, so . . . right.Never in my life would I have thought I’d find someone who made me feel this way, so alive, so protected, even so cherished. And though I wasn’t sure what I’d do in the future, I intended to enjoy every second Vale and I spent together now.

“I need to see more of you,” Vale whispered against my lips. “Hold on.”

Before I could so much as pull in another breath, Vale’s arms wrapped around me, and he pushed up. His powerful legs found purchase on the tub and suddenly, we were standing. Or he was. I was straddling his waist.

“Vale!” I laughed. “Be careful!”

But I didn’t need to worry. We might be dripping wet, but the prince was sure-footed and strong as he stepped out of the tub. I got one delicious glimpse of his backside in the mirror before he strode out of the bathroom.

“We’re soaking,” I protested. “We’ll get the blankets wet.”

“Who cares?” Vale rasped.

A moment later, he stopped, and I fell atop the blankets. His eyes raked over me as if he were a male finding a feast after many days of starvation. Never, in all my life, had I felt so raw, so exposed. Nor so seen.

Then, without so much as a warning, the prince grinned and pounced on top of me.

“Wait!” I giggled when his teeth tugged at my earlobe and his fingers found my sex again.

“Wait?Why do you torture a male so?” Vale drew back, his eyebrows pulled together.

“Because I plan to torture you in a completelydifferent way.” I took his shoulders, sat up, and pushed him down onto the mattress. Catching on, Vale allowed his weight to fall.

He grinned the grin of a male who would rather be nowhere else. “I love a female who takes charge.”

I didn’t answer, just began to kiss a trail down his chest, savoring his taste mixed with the smell of our bath until I reached his cock.

Beneath my lashes, I glanced up to find Vale watching me with anticipation. My lips curled up as I cupped his balls and tugged lightly.

A groan escaped from his lips as I wrapped mine around the tip of his cock. A slow kiss, the taste of him on my tongue, and my heart raced.

Having control over him, one of the most powerful fae in the kingdom, was intoxicating enough, but when he pushed his torso up and his hands dipped down, gripped my hair and tugged as I worked at his cock, I swore I was seconds from another release.

So I pulled back, slowing my rhythm, wanting to make this sort of exquisite torture last.

I’d been with human men before, done all there was to do with them, besides fall in love. As a slave, love was simply too dangerous. But one didn’t need to love to spend time learning about others’ bodies and allowing them to learn about mine.

Never had I felt like this with another person. Never had I held this equal sense of both immense power and wanting to pleasure another person. It was a high unlike anything I’d ever hoped for.

“Bleeding skies, Neve,” Vale growled after only a few minutes of my lips around his cock. “I’m close.”

I felt it, the way his cock twitched, the build-up. Wanting to give as well as I’d gotten, I gripped his balls again and tugged.

Vale groaned, and I swallowed his hot release. When he was done, his hands stroked my hair, and slowly, lingering with that heady sense that supplying pleasure gave, I lifted my head and licked him clean.

“You’re going to be the end of me, little wife,” Vale said when I was done.

“I’m trying to show you that you aren’t the only one with talent in this relationship.”

He barked out a laugh. “As if I could ever think such a thing.” I shifted off him, but before I settled on the bed, he held out a hand.

Desperate for his arms around me again, I went to him and settled on his lap when Vale kissed me. With the feel of his calloused fingers and the taste of him still on my tongue, I might explode with pleasure. And when he pulled away and gave me a lazy smile, I wondered how I hadn’t already.

“Lie with me,” Vale whispered.

“What?”