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Veyka turned those clear blue eyes up to me as the doors closed behind us. No glowing of desire in them. Whatever her power, it must be weak. I’d surmised as much from the story of her torture. Weak enough she hadn’t been able to fight back, weak enough it could be stifled.

It didn’t matter, I’d decided in a breath.

I would protect her. No one would ever get close enough to test the strength of her magic. I’d kill anyone who tried to touch her and offer her their severed heads as a gift. We’d bring each other to climax with the scent of our enemies’ blood swirling around us.

“If you are that skilled at scaring away courtiers, you may carry me everywhere,” Veyka purred, catching her lower lip between her teeth. Dropping her eyes to my mouth.

I peeled away her clothes, inch by inch. I worshiped every new stretch of skin revealed to me. Before, it had been hasty. Clothing torn, pushed aside, the desperate need to get as deep within one another as possible.

Not now.

I wanted her naked and writhing beneath me. I wanted to see every inch of that pale skin shimmering beneath the torchlight.

I started at the tip of her delicately pointed ear, nipping at it with my canines and then dragging my tongue along the outer shell. Veyka trembled deliciously below me, like she always did when I played with her ears.

“Do you like that, Princess?” I whispered to the hollow of her neck, meeting her arching hips with my own.

I was still fully clothed. Veyka seemed to realize it as she slid her hands up over my shoulders, then down my back to grip my bottom and demand the intensity she craved.

“Ah, ah, ah,” I said, shrugging her hands away and catching her lower lip between my teeth. I sucked hard, until she had to lift her neck off the pillow or cry out in delicious pain. “Me first.”

I released her lip, and her mouth fell open. She expected me to press my cock inside of it, I realized. I felt the wicked, carnal smile climb across my face. I slid down her body, pressing kisses and licks as I went. I paused at her nipples, nipping them between my sharpened teeth enough to draw gasps of pain, but not blood. Then I covered those small hurts with a swipe of my tongue.

When I finally reached her pussy, quivering, wetness already spilling out of her, she was near the breaking point. But I wasn’t quite ready to shove her over. I dragged my nose along the seam where her thigh met her abdomen, inhaling the rich scent of her arousal.

I groaned in appreciation, loud and deep, letting her hear every drawn-out syllable. Another rush of wetness in response.

“Such a good girl,” I said, laughing ruefully.

She squirmed beneath me, but I held her pinned, tracing my thumbs over the dip between her rounded stomach and the curve of her hipbones down to her glistening pussy.

I eased my fingers around to grip her full ass, then flipped us both so that she was straddling me.

Her hands went right to my trousers, working at the lacings to get me free. My cock strained in response, wanting nothing more than to get inside her dripping cunt. But I kept myself under control, just barely, using my hands still on her waist to urge her hips forward, up over my chest until her lust-glazed eyes flicked down to me uncertainly.

I didn’t hesitate as I urged her down, the pink lips of her pussy begging for my kiss.

“Now sit on my face, Veyka.”

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VEYKA

Oh.

Oh.

I grabbed onto the headboard, certain my legs were going to give out any moment. “How do you intend to breathe?”

“I’ve been waiting for you for too long,” he growled—half Arran, half beast. “Mine.”

Not an answer. But I didn’t try to stop him as he dragged my hips downward, his eyes turned to nothing but raging black flame. I could have stopped him, if I’d tried hard enough.

But I didn’t want to fight, I didn’t want to test the strength of those arms around my waist. I wanted to give into it. Such strength—he threw me around like I weighed nothing.

With that first swipe of his tongue, wide and flat across the seam of my pussy and right up to where my clit begged for him---

“Oh, Ancestors, yessssss.”