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He massaged the ass cheek he’d just gripped, making my stomach swoop.

“Bunny, I…”

Nikolai retrieved his tongue from my mouth, panting hard. “I got carried away. I’m sorry,” he half moaned, looking at me out of those heavily lidded eyes. My gaze slipped down to the plush lips, swollen from our kiss.

“I don’t want you to apologise, Bunny. I want…I need…”

“Yes?” His hand found my face again. His thumb trailed over my cheekbone. “What do you need, Jules? You can tell me.” He placed a soft kiss on the tip of my nose. “The first time I met you, you were a head taller than me,” Nikolai whispered, a smirk playing at the corner of his mouth.

“I like that I don’t need to intimidate you with my height. But I can be taller if you want me to.”

“Oh, baby boy,” Nikolai crooned. I heard it now, heard ‘baby’ for what it was. “I don’t care how you look or how tall you are. I likeyou.” He took my mouth in a deep, toe-curling kiss and buried both his hands in my hair again. “I do love your long hair, though. It looks so good, and it feels so good in my fingers when I kiss you.”

Thirty-two

Nikolai

Fuck.

How good would it feel to grip his hair when Jules was on his knees for me?

Does he even want that?

Well, we’d worry about that later.

It’s my turn now.

I invited his tongue into my mouth, swirling mine around his and gently sucking on it.

Jules groaned and dug his fingers into my back.

“Yes, baby, let me hear you. Damn, you’re so hot.” I kissed over his chin and down his neck then licked my way up to his ear. Brushing his hair back, I pulled his earlobe into my mouth. For the first time I noticed the unusual shape of his ears. They weren’t round like mine but tipped like a stag’s.

I went all in, sucking and nibbling, my breath coming out in gasps.

It was so hot how Jules trembled and moaned.

“Do you like that, baby boy? Does it feel good for you?”

“Nikolai!” He groaned beautifully when my breath caressed his slick earlobe. “It feels so good. I don’t remember anything ever feeling so good in my life.”

Wow, baby. Way to inflate my ego!

I cupped his cheek, tilting his head back with my thumb under his chin. His pulse fluttered like a frantic bird under his paper thin skin. I sucked a bruise into the spot.

“I’m not going anywhere, Jules.” Fuck, he looked perfect with the deep purple mark on his neck. I trailed my mouth down to his collarbone and gave him another hickey there. “You’re mine.” I didn’t stop until his skin was covered in lovebites and Jules was nothing but a shuddering mess under my lips.

“Yes, Bunny, I’m yours,” he whispered. “I was yours from the moment I first saw you in my forest. I waited for you for all those lonely years.”

My beautiful forest god whimpered when I nipped his skin.

“More,” he demanded.

“You want more?”

Thirty-three

Jules