Page 182 of Serpent In White

Wait…Something clicks in my mind.

I blink at him.

“What?” He asks in a desperate whisper, his mind echoing his need.

I can hear his thoughts, plain as day.Stop fucking around and fuck me, Darian. Please… I need it.

Drake,I think.I can hear you.

Yea, no shit,his impatient and irritable thoughts respond.

You haven’t given me Empyrean in like… a long time. It’s been…I literally can’t even remember the last time I had it.Solstice? Earlier??

Drake’s face is still while he shimmers up at me. The corner of his mouth curves.

I shake my head down at him.What else have you been hiding?

This isn’t a secret, baby. I’ve tried telling you, but you wouldn’t listen.He grabs my face in his hands.Your mind’s eye is open, Darian, and it has been for many years. Your Ecdysis happened long ago. You don’t need Empyrean to hear anymore. You don’t need the drugs to see… You’re awake.

My heart jumps inside me. My fingers are trembling as I touch them to his lips. I’m blown away by what I’m hearing. All of his thoughts, everything in his head.

I never needed solitude; I never needed a weekly injection of Empyrean…

My gifts live inside me.

“Well, I would argue that you still needed your solitude,” Drake says. “You definitely needed your weekly dose of me.”

I narrow my gaze at him. “I’m going to eat you alive, snake eyes. You better be careful.”

“Do lions eat snakes?” His grin goes wide.

“I guess we’ll find out.”

My mouth takes his in a kiss that doesn’t stop, not while I hold his waist, aiming my cock into him. I suck his lips as I push, fighting the resistance of his body. He shivers in the grass while I force myself inside him, and finally it breaks.

“Fuck…” he hisses as I nudge my cock into his ass, trying like hell to be gentle, butholy fuck this is amazing.

So tight… so so tight.“You’re strangling my cock,” I growl, thrusting deeper while he whimpers.

“You’ve never fucked before, have you, my King?” He gasps when I hit that spot, the one that makes me soar. I shift to do it again and he cries, digging his fingers into my skin.

“My dick technically went inside Lauris once.” I huff a breathless chuckle, holding his throat while my hips push into him, slowly, pulling back and then pressing deeper.

“That’s a disturbing thought,” he rumbles. Then his eyes roll back in his head. “Good God, fuck me. Your cock is too fucking thick…”

My lips lower to his jaw. “You love it.”

“I do,” he groans as I pump between his legs.

He wraps them around me, our hands all over one another, touching and squeezing and holding while I bottom out, dick so deep in him, his balls are on my pelvis, and it’s the most exquisite thing I’ve ever felt.Shy of him doing it to me, of course.

The sounds of him being fucked into the dirt, his deep voice rasping outmore more more… I can’t tell if they’re his thoughts or his actual words, but it doesn’t matter. This is everything I need right now, to soothe my soul.

It’s a balm for the hurt we’ve unintentionally caused each other over the years.

It’s healing. Cathartic.

We’re one, in this moment. The King and his Serpent.