Page 202 of Jagged Souls

“I’m already mated to you.”

“Yeah, but my soul could burn for all eternity if we don’t get married.”

“It’s a silly ritual when compared to –”

“Mymecia pyiformis.”She places her hands on her hips and huffs out a breath. My eyes dart to her tits, and she reaches forward to twist my nipple between her fingers.

“Ow!”

“You better ask me to marry youright now. Because I’m tired of waiting for you, and I’m fucking horny.”

“If you’re happy to curse without damning your soul, you should be happy to have –”

I yelp as she tickles me. She grins as she attacks me further, her little fingers destroying my sides until she gets me to yield.

“Fine! Siome Jackson, will you marry me and put me out of my misery?”

She lights up, and silly human tradition or not, I’d marry her a thousand times if she keeps looking at me like that.

“No,” she says.

My mouth drops open. “What do you mean no?”

She shrugs. “I feel like that was a lackluster proposal.”

“You put me on the spot!”

“Well.” She sniffs. “Do better.”

Rolling her beneath me, Idobetter all right, and she is Better.

I get her to scream until she begs me to fuck her and marry her and do anything else I please.

Curling up with her in my arms, I realize we forgot to watch the sunrise. But that’s okay because we can watch it together tomorrow.

And the day after that.

And the day after that.

Because this parlay is going to lead to a peace treaty. I can feel it in my soul.

Surely, they are as tired of war as we are?

Present day, Somewhere adrift in the ocean – Antonio

My mind reels as I look at the woman in my grip.

It can’t be…

But itcould.

Siome’s been dead for over a hundred years. She would have had time to be reborn. To come back to me… She never was one for waiting.

I shake my head, trying to clear my thoughts.

But she looks a bit like her. If her black hair was longer. If her eyes were red…

And she’s been such a pain in the ass since I met her. First at the Shadow House when I tried to grab Khalid’s girl. She made it so I didn’t have time to check for the back-up stash of alexandrite I knew they had.