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Chapter 6

Rev

My love cried out for me in the early hours before dawn, before we’d have to take the steps toward our responsibilities. She called my name, writhing beneath my mouth. Her fingers pulled on my hair, urging my tongue closer to the warmth I pressed it to.

By her breath , I’d never tasted anything so sweet or lush as the desire that poured from her body because of me.

Our fire had never extinguished. Our passion had always burned. Even in the seven years she’d been gone from me, it had been there, waiting. A beacon so great, I could not escape its light.

How I had wanted her then. How I had wished to hold her, touch her, protect her from what had been done.

I gripped her hips, pressing them to the bed as she approached the release I’d give her. She’d become voracious, a fiend in my arms, greedily taking what she knew was hers to take from my lips, my teeth, my tongue.

It was a challenge to hold her there like that. Her moans seeped through my skin, and my body did not want to wait. It wanted to consume. It wanted to take her every inch of life and meld it to mine, weaving the threads of our bodies to mirror the threads of our bond.

My beloved shuddered beneath me as I pressed her legs open wide, sinking my tongue into what was mine to taste, mine to enjoy.

She pulled me to her mouth with nails that dug into the skin of my arms. Her tongue slid across my own, and I shared the delicate result of how I loved her.

Pushing me to sit back against the headboard, she slipped herself on top of me, sliding up and down my hard length while she gripped the headboard for balance.

Her hips rose and fell, bucking against me as she took her turn to love me. She was so beautiful and wild. Born an ethereal creature, I held no doubts fae blood flowed through her veins. Everything —even down to the last strand of white hair on her head which had taken over most of the original chestnut hue, was so very, very alluring.

She rode hard, her head tilting back as she shook the bed in her pursuit of another end from me. I tucked my arms around her, lifting her up. A whimper came from her throat, but I caught the protest on my lips.

I wasn’t done with her.

I never could be.

I lifted her off the bed, her legs wrapping around me, and I carried her before the fireplace, murmuring between our lips the spell to kindle the flames before I laid her down on the soft, woolen rug.

I loved her best on the floor.

I loved her best sprawled out below me, my hands seeking to thread through hers, holding them down above her head. I loved her best closest to the ground where we both had come from in some way. Where we both took our power from the roots and the soil in Felgren . We’d both been channelers before we’d been Barons , and I sought to love her closest to where our lives had begun.

She sucked in a breath as I slid into her fully. Her knees pressed to my sides as she bucked her hips, doing her best to summon what she was ravenous for.

Pulling her bottom lip between her teeth, she looked at me pleadingly, a desperate moan of my name pulling from her panting breath.

Still pinning her hands to the floor, I withdrew myself before easily slipping back inside her. Her hips bucked up against me harder this time with the demand of more.

“ Say it, Karus .”

I didn’t have to wait long before a pleading please, Rev came from her lips.

Karus was a woman who could never be tamed. Her glow could never extinguish, and I’d be a fool to try to control her. But in those moments where her ecstasy relied on me, I held a power over her she had only ever let me wield.

And I wielded it well.

My pace picked up as I gave her what she’d begged me for a hundred times. If there was anything I wanted control over, it was this. It was the rhythm of my hips driving into her repeatedly while she bucked and writhed beneath my body. It was the flash of green in her eyes overtaking the black eyes of a Baron .

“ Rev ,” she panted as I thrust hard again and again, just as she liked it.

No . She loved it.

It was her last call to me that I was about to finish her into a state of limp euphoria, so I buried my face into her neck as I let go of any of the wait I had promised myself, spilling into her heat while her body slackened around me.

I let her fingers free and steadied myself above her on my elbows, sliding my hands through her hair to hold her head.

I kissed her deeply, fully, barely letting her come up for air as I tried to extend those moments of lust for her long after our bodies were spent.

She lifted her hands through my hair and pushed me to lay on my side, draping that long, smooth leg over my hip.

My back to the fire, I watched her green tendrils of magic pull the blanket off our bed and settle over our skin, streaked in the best kind of sweat.

I wrapped my arm under her head and pulled my forehead to hers. “ Whatever it is she said to you, I’ll keep you both safe, just as I promised.”

She nodded, pulling the cover up over our shoulders, brushing her lips across mine before closing her eyes and falling into a few more hours of sleep.