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Story: Rhapsodic
Des hisses out a breath.
“Careful,” he warns against my lips. His eyes say an entirely different thing. They’re daring me to go further.
I break away from his mouth. “What if I don’t want to be careful?” I say, grabbing hold of him. My breathing deepens at the feel of him. Never have I done this with him. It feels righter than our kiss.
“What if I don’t wantyouto be careful?” I punctuate my words by moving my hand up and down. Up and down.
He rocks against me.
I lean in close. “The tough Bargainer isn’t so tough anymore.”
“Callie—”
“Love,” I correct, the siren beginning to seep into my words.
“Love,” he says, “I was planning this … the other … way … around.”
“Too bad,” I say.
“Wicked woman,” he says, his mouth curving into a smile.
I’m tempted to bring him to the edge, only to stop. That’s what the siren wants. Enjoy his lust, and then make him suffer.
But a bigger part of me wants to see this through to the very end. This man that left me, but agonized over it. This love who seemed jealous of my exes. This usually polished king that’s going to come in his pants because I want him to fall apart under my touch.
I watch him with awe, my eyelids lazy. His high cheekbones are even sharper at this angle, his crafty eyes focused on my face as his hands squeeze my thighs.
“Too good, Callie—”
I move my hand faster.
He hisses out another breath, his hands moving over me like they’re trying find exactly what they want to touch but can’t decide. Eventually, they settle on my hips.
I work him, feeling his body tense beneath me.
He groans. “Going to come …”
I lean in and kiss him as he jerks against me, again and again and again. His fingers tighten against my flesh, trying to pull me closer to him.
I smile against his mouth when I finally feel him relax.
He breathes heavily against me, leaning his forehead against mine. “You want to know a real secret?” he rasps.
I nod against him.
“I want to wake up to you every single morning.”
This time whenwe head to the Otherworld, I know the drill.
We crossover, arriving at another set of fae ruins—this one a stone circle made up of statue after statue of solemn fae men and women—before Des flies us to his palace.
He holds me close, and I catch him more than once staring at me with an unguarded look in his eyes.
Like he wants more of me.
I never gave him the chance earlier. Right after he came, I slipped away from his bed.
Why did I run? Perhaps because I was scared of what I did to our relationship. And perhaps because I wanted to give him something to fixate on, the same way I’ve fixated on his confession last night.
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