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I buried my teeth in her shoulder, muffling my groans as I ground my cock inside her, guiding my shadows to that sensitive spot and making them shudder like vibrations. No one had taught me this, but I'd had a long, long time to contemplate how I could use my magic on my mate. Her reaction was so much better than I imagined, her cry so much louder.

Her legs locked around me, breathing fast and sharp, and when she came, the convulsions were so powerful that they ripped another orgasm from me before I'd even come down from the first. I was so sensitive, all I could do was whimper when she kept coming, but I didn't stop my shadows caressing her for a damn second. If I died from overstimulation, so be it.

Her next sound was choked and short, her inner muscles milking my cock from the tip of my shadows all the way to the base. Coming all over my scar of her name like I'd told her to, because she was my good girl.

When she stilled, I pulled my mouth from her throat and gritted my teeth, my cock too damn sensitive.

Her eyes were shut, her body slumped against the wall and dark wings splayed—and panic hit me fast. But she was breathing, and there was only pleasure and relief in her soul. Smugness bloomed then, a grin crossing my face as I embraced the final flutters moving her pussy around me.

I'd made her come so hard she blacked out. Good. She deserved nothing less.

I tentatively withdrew from her pussy, a sharp breath whistling through my teeth at the way she clung to my cock. It was right on the edge of pain, and I couldn't decide if I couldn’t bear it or wanted more.

Fuuuck.When my shadows slid out of her, cum overflowed her pussy, oozing over the countertop. A dark sound vibrated my chest; I stared at my cum coating her pussy.Mine. Fucking mine.And there was the proof, dripping out of her,markingher. It was primitive, but I didn't care. I stroked a finger through our combined fluids and pushed them back inside her where they belonged.

Haley’s eyelids fluttered, lashes parting as she gazed at me like a lazy, satisfied queen.

"You passed out," I told her, guiding more of my cum inside her.

"You don't have to sound so smug about it," she whispered. "Are you—pushing your cum back into me?"

"Yes," I agreed.

She laughed, rubbing her face. "Psycho."

I raised an eyebrow at that remark, gliding my fingers out of her and pressing them to her lips. "Suck."

She groaned, and obeyed, swirling her tongue around my fingers like they were my cock. I was too spent to throb, but I couldn't hold back a soft curse.

"Wane?" she murmured when I dropped my hand.

"Yes, Haley?"

"I love you."

I smiled, my chest so full of affection that it ached. "I love you so much, it should be impossible."

"Is this the part where you take me into the shower and wash me clean?"

I kissed her, soft and loving. "No, Haley. I'm nowhere near ready to wash myself from your body."

She trailed a low, proprietary stare down my body. "Hate to break it to you, zivai, but you're looking a little limp there."

I grinned. "My cock is," I agreed, enjoying the flash of panic and lust across her features when I added, "But my shadows aren't."

Her whole body arched when I filled her with a thick tendril of darkness. I made her scream my name so loudly there was no doubt everyone in the house heard her.

CHAPTER4

HALWEN

Islept so deeply I probably snored, my body relaxed and satisfaction burning every ounce of stress from my body. I woke up around dawn, my face on Wane's bare chest and my eyelashes glued together. I didn't bother getting up; I rolled over, pulled his arm around my waist, and fell back asleep.

I didn't recognise where the dream took me at first. There was only a blank wall across from me when I groaned and sat up, but apprehension rolled down my spine like ice water.

The ground began to quake, shaking my body so hard that the feathers on my wings shuddered, my hair lashing my back and shoulders.

And then the sound came, arrowing deep into my bones, carving through my skull until it was all I could hear. My thoughts were drowned out by the noise, my breathing silenced. Stone ground on stone, violently loud, sofamiliarthat I flinched and forgot I was dreaming.