Font Size
Line Height

Page 32 of Once Upon a Demon’s Heart

Chapter Twenty

ALIRA

Kalel pulls his hand away like he’s going to retreat from me.

He was shaking. I don’t know what battle he’s fighting in his mind, or if he’s weak from hunger, either way, I catch his hand before he can withdraw completely.

“It’s okay,” I whisper, holding his hand over my chest. When I’m sure he won’t move it, I let go and lift my arm to his head, stroking his hair back a few times while he hesitantly continues to drink from me.

He doesn’t lean into it right away, but with the third brush through his hair, Kalel lets his body relax into me, and the stiffness leaves his arms. This is how I imagine lovers embrace one another. How affection should feel in the dark hours of the night.

After a few more gulps, he removes his teeth from me, licking the bite marks and pressing his lips to them. I’m too tired to try and wriggle away from him while he scents me. I just close my eyes and let him drag his tongue up the side of my neck, telling myself repeatedly that I don’t enjoy it.

But I do, and there’s no hiding it.

“Alira,” he whispers, begging my eyes open.

“Hm?” I mumble sleepily.

Kalel shifts under the blanket, pushing me onto my back and moving on top of me.

His palms are pressed heavily into the bed on either side of my head.

My eyes widen a little because he has me in a vulnerable position, but also because of the look on his handsome face.

It’s too dark to tell if his cheeks are red, but his eyes are filled with heady thoughts.

“Why did you tell the dragons to leave?” he asks. It’s the softest he’s spoken to me, brows pinched with doubt.

Would he believe me even if I told him the truth? He’s been so sure that I’m nothing more than a monster, and he isn’t wrong. I wouldn’t blame him if he didn’t trust me.

“Because they were hurting your men.” I lift my hand slowly to his cheek. He stiffens at the contact but doesn’t pull away. “Because I didn’t want them to hurt you.”

His eyes dip to my lips before lifting to my eyes once more.

“You could have destroyed my entire army with the four dragons alone. Why didn’t you take the chance? I saw the realization spark in you the moment it crossed your mind.” His voice darkens and he puts more weight down on my hips.

I wince at the pressure.

“Kalel, I want to be here. I want this peace agreement as much as you do.” I plead with my eyes for him to believe me. Now that the demons know I’m a weapon, they could decide to get rid of me, for nothing more than to keep the dragons untamable.

Dark locks of his hair halo his face as he gazes down upon me. I could stare into the fiery embers of his soul all night. This hurt, tame side of him is lulling. Enamoring.

He considers my words but doesn’t reply. Instead, he lowers to my chest, working my shirt up until my breasts are exposed.

I know he’s only scent marking me, but it’s so intimate and sensual that I can’t help but whimper and rub my thighs together as he licks my breast and sucks down on it.

He lets out a long breath, sliding an arm beneath my lower back and pulling my core into his crotch. The air hitches in my lungs as I feel how hard he is beneath the thin pants. Gods help me.

Kalel moves to my other breast, lapping at my sensitive flesh and sucking until I’m melting in his arms. I run my fingers down the corded muscles of his arms, admiring how fit his torso is. He’s twice as big as me, and he’s being so gentle tonight that my heart twists.

He presses a final kiss to my breast before sitting up and staring at me. “We are in the kingdom now, little godling. The demons will be more dangerous here, eager to kill you if they get the chance. I need to make sure they understand that if they try anything with you, they are also crossing me.”

My core is seeping wet. Fuck.

Kalel’s eyes narrow and his jaw flexes as he glances down at my thighs. He swallows and licks his lips. “Spread your legs.” His voice is gravelly.

I suck in my lower lip and do as he says, letting my legs fall to either side of me.

His hands go to his waist, and he pulls down his pants. My heart drops into my stomach.

Kalel’s cock is huge. I can see it clearly now with the moonlight shining in. It has the same anatomy as a demigod’s except… wait. My brows quirk, and my tongue swipes over my lips to wet them.

“Um… what is that?” I look at the bulbous part at the base of his shaft. I recall feeling it when he fucked me in his tent, but I didn’t see it like I am now; I only felt it hitting my entrance as he thrusted his dick into me.

He grins at me, one that shows off his fangs and makes my center weep. “You’ve never seen a knot? Oh, little godling, you don’t know what you’ve signed up for.” He chuckles as he pushes my nightdress up and removes my underwear.

A knot? Why do demons have knots? My cheeks flush with heat and I have to bite my lower lip to keep the shameless curiosity from my face.

Kalel tosses my underwear to the floor and lies back down behind me. He rolls me over on my side and brings my back to his chest again, but this time he guides his thick cock between my thighs and bucks his hips lightly. His dick rubs against my slit, coating himself in my slick.

He moans in my ear and lowers his hand to my clit, circling it in small motions that have my hips bucking against him.

“ Fuck ,” he rasps, burying his lips into the crook of my neck.

“Are you going to knot me?” I take a deep breath. I’m not sure why I want it so desperately, but it’s like my body is telling me that he’s made for me. That he will fit so snug in my pussy.

“No. I’m not going to claim you completely yet.

This is an exchange of scents. I will be in you, and your scent on me.

” He barely gets the words out without moaning.

My thighs instinctively squeeze together at the pleasure from the friction where his dick rubs me.

Every time his tip glides over my clit, it makes my back arch into him more.

My orgasm is building quickly. My eyes loll to the back of my head with each thrust.

“Does my little pet like having her slit fucked?” he groans against the back of my head, inhaling the scent of my hair, and I swear as he does, his dick throbs and hardens a bit more.

I’ve never felt so good in my entire life. It’s like he’s put a spell on me, and every part of him that touches me is on fire.

Kalel abruptly stops and lifts my top leg, hooking it with his arm. A gasp escapes me with the sudden rush of cold air. He aligns the tip of his cock with my center and slowly pushes his cock inside me. He spreads me open and lightly bucks so just the tip is fucking me.

My head falls back on his shoulder, and my breaths hitch with each thrust. He takes his time inching in further. I bite down on my lower lip to keep myself from screaming. He’s being so gentle this time that I can feel everything. Every stretch and movement is driving me crazy.

His hand glides down my stomach, and he presses over my lower abdomen to add pressure where my belly has already expanded to take him in. I watch as he rubs himself through me, and a deep rumble escapes his chest and instills deep into mine.

“Divine gods, what were they thinking when they created you?” he murmurs into my shoulder as the tip of his dick kisses my cervix, over and over, stirring me into a drunken, pleasured state. I barely hear his words, half wondering if I heard him correctly.

He hooks his other hand around my throat and tilts my jaw up.

Kalel takes my ear between his lips and bites down enough to make me wriggle.

He moans and holds his knot up against my entrance, not quite pushing it inside, but edging that line and making me nervous.

There’s no way he can fit that thing inside me.

My pulse leaps into my throat, and I let out a staggered breath.

“I’m going to mark every part of this womb. Every part of you belongs to me, little godling.”

Wait. Mark ? Is he going to come inside me?

A gasp escapes me. “I’ll get pregnant if you come inside me!

” I cry out, fisting the sheets at how full he’s filling me with his engorged cock.

I can’t keep my orgasm from exploding with his last few hard thrusts.

I come on his cock, hips trembling and lips parted.

He moans as I come on him, then his hand tightens around my throat and he stills completely. Every muscle in his body is motionless except his dick. It throbs in my deepest parts, pulsing, releasing so much hot come inside me that I whimper at the pressure building in my abdomen.

“Don’t move. Our releases are longer than demigods’,” he growls over my neck in a possessive way that makes my core tighten around him. He groans, and another hot wave of come spills into me.

I’m going to get pregnant. Tears start to spill down my cheeks. I knew what I was signing up for, but I didn’t think it’d happen so quickly and like this.

Kalel strokes his tongue up the nape of my neck and murmurs, “Stop crying, Alira. You won’t get pregnant. You have to knot with a demon in order to conceive. Even then, you are a demigod. It might not even be possible for us to have children. It’s never been done before, so cease your weeping.”

Is that true? The tightly coiled anxiety in my chest uncurls a bit. A relieved sigh leaves me, and I relax more into his arms.

“Thank gods.” I don’t think anything of it when I say it, but Kalel flinches like he’s been wounded.

“Are you so relieved that you won’t have a filthy demon’s child yet?” His voice is hardened back up, and he withdraws from me. More liquid than I thought possible for a male to come leaks from my center.

“That’s not what I said.” I sit up to look at him, but he’s already up and securing his pants back around his waist.