Page 16 of Taken to the Deadlands (Stolen Demon Brides #1)

Chapter 16

Mia

D o you resent me?

The words circled my mind over and over again with no reprieve. We just watched as Yien went through the house, destroying six more wraiths before she went back to her world.

We had days together where we just… lived. Days of sleeping next to Aris in the most restful sleep I had gotten since coming here. Days of traveling her realm. Days of trying new foods. Days of listening to her stories and learning that, although she was a demon, we might not be that different in the end.

We hadn’t talked about Cara. Nor had we mentioned anything about the humans she had murdered. We ignored all the obvious things that threatened the peace we had here.

But still, I couldn’t get her words out of my mind.

Even as her arms wrapped around me and her lips trailed my shoulder, I couldn’t stop thinking. I didn’t resent her, but I couldn’t put my emotions into words either.

The real question was… Would she resent me ?

After she found out that I had lied to her, then what? Would she feel betrayed? Would she be angry?

She might end up being both, but I somehow knew that she would do anything in her power to keep me safe anyway.

“What if we never make contact?” I asked, my voice barely above a whisper.

We were in her bedroom again. We were supposed to be sleeping, but we never really cared to. Not when my body seemed to hum whenever she even so much as brushed her hand against my skin.

She stalled before her hand grabbed my thigh and hooked it over her leg, opening me so my pussy was bared to her. The image of her between my legs only caused me to grow wetter.

Nothing could stop my reaction to her. Not wraiths. Not ghosts of her old companions. Nothing.

We didn’t bother with clothes in bed anymore. And now that Aris had gotten used to my scent, she hadn’t needed the muzzle.

I gasped when her hand touched my cunt. My body was always ready for her to play with. It didn’t matter the time of day nor how many times we had already fucked, as soon as her hands brushed my hips or her lips trailed kisses on my neck, I was already melting for her.

It made this whole thing that much harder.

“Then I’ll have an excuse to keep you here,” she whispered. Her fingers brushed across my clit teasingly.

My heart skipped a beat. An excuse.

“You would keep me?” I asked. She hummed against my skin. My nipples raised to points at the sound, and a shaky breath forced itself from my lips.

“Is it wrong for me to want to?” she asked. “I haven’t felt like this in decades. I can’t imagine this realm without you.” She paused, her hands trailing down my cunt before teasing my wet entrance. “Unless you want to leave me?”

She pushed her fingers in just enough to tease me, but not enough to give me any relief. My clit was swollen and aching, just begging for her touch. I tried to buck against her, but she wouldn’t move.

“Tell me, Mia .”

God, the way my name sounded from her lips was enough to cause my head to spin.

Of course I want to leave… right?

I had a cat, a shop, a life to get back to. Aris had been so open about giving me the chance to go back there from the start that there was no reason to believe she was lying about it.

“Aris, I?—“

My voice cut out when she forced two fingers inside me. She wasn’t gentle this time as she fucked me. She knew how to make me come after weeks of being together, and she employed all the tricks she had learned. Her tongue trailed my skin. Her fingers circled inside me. Her thumb abused my engorged clit.

“Your pause tells me everything I need to know,” her voice had turned hard. “Don’t worry, I’ll fuck you good until then. So even when you leave here, you’ll still find yourself aching for me.”

I cried out as my orgasm hit me faster than it ever had before. I shook against her as my pussy clamped down on her fingers, but even as I came, she made no move to stop. If anything, she picked up the pace.

“Aris, too much?—“

She covered my mouth with hers. Something she hadn’t done since the first night.

Her tongue explored my mouth. Her kiss was harsh, like all she wanted to do was dominate me. She was trying to keep true to her words. She never ever wanted me to forget what happened here.

When she pulled away, I was breathless. Spit connected our mouths, the sight of it causing me to clench around her fingers.

“I need to taste,” she said in a voice akin to a whine.

“ Please .”

My brain told me I shouldn’t let her. That I should push her away. But instead, I was quiet as she turned me onto my stomach and pulled my hips into the air.

Her breath fanned across my cunt and caused my hands to fist the sheets underneath us.

“You smell divine,” she groaned.

The first brush of her tongue was light. A test for herself as she paused behind me. I waited for her to tell me she couldn’t do this, but then her tongue trailed from my clit to my ass.

I cried out, pushing my hips back to get more of that delightful tongue.

“Fuck,” I moaned as it plunged inside me.

She was thorough as she devoured me. No place was left untouched. She made sure to clean up every bit of wetness I was leaking.

I could tell her actions were more about herself. So that she could finally get a taste of what had been teasing her the entire time we had been together. But even so, she took good care of me.

She always did.

When I used my hands to pluck my nipples, she groaned against my cunt before reaching under me and doing it herself.

“You taste even better than I imagined,” she moaned. She gave me a long lick before forcing two fingers inside. My walls fluttered around her fingers, warning me of what was to come.

“So sweet. So intoxicating.” She thrust her fingers into me with each word. The slam of her fist against me caused my moans to get stuck in my throat.

I couldn’t speak. Couldn’t move. All I could feel was her.

The way her fingers pinched my nipple. The way her breath felt against my pussy. The way her fingers pounded into me like they wanted to bruise me. The brush of the sheets against my oversensitive skin, along with the scent of her, was becoming too much.

When she pulled her fingers out of me, I whined, but it was cut short as her tongue lapped up the extra wetness that had gathered.

I was trembling by the time she sucked my clit into her mouth.

I couldn’t hold back my orgasm. It hit me without any warning and caused even more wetness to leak from me.

“Oh my god, Aris , please don’t stop.”

She growled but kept up her movements until my orgasm had subsided.

When she pulled back, her fingers replaced her mouth and rubbed slow circles over my clit. It was torture in the best way possible. My entire body was humming, and each movement against the bundle of nerves felt like a bolt of lightning going through me.

“I’m saddened you would want to leave me after we finish up here,” she said from behind me.

From my position, I was able to look back at her but couldn’t catch the full expression on her face.

“But your companion?—“

“She’s not here anymore! You are!”

I let out a whine as her fingers stretched me. Four this time while her other hand continued to rub my bundle of nerves.

“Can’t you see how much better my life has been since you’re here? I even stopped asking you to look for her.”

She had. Ever since the day Yien got rid of the wraiths, we hadn’t spoken about her previous companions at all, let alone Cara.

And why was that? If she wanted me to find her, why would she give it all up?

“Because I couldn’t find her,” I spat back.

A low chuckle rumbled in her chest. It only heightened my arousal. She was playing my body like an instrument. Forcing me to fall apart, all while she was there laughing.

“Because I didn’t want you to.”

The heat she had been building in my belly grew tenfold at her confession. It was dark and held such power that everything that had been holding me back before vanished.

Because she wants me. That’s why she didn’t ask me to continue. Because if I find her, I’ll leave.

But nothing could dampen the guilt. I should have been happy, but instead all I felt was guilt.

“Aris,” I panted. “I have to tell you something.

“Tell me that you’re staying?” she asked with a laugh. “All it took was two more orgasms? You should have held out for longer.”

“Aris, I—“ I took a deep breath and used the fact that she couldn’t see my face right now to blurt it all out.

. “I can’t see ghosts. That’s why I couldn’t find her. Because I can’t see her.”