Page 44 of Virgin Lust

My princess laughed as she let go. “You make it too easy.”

“Are you sure you have me?” I tilted my head and grinned. Her cackles died as I morphed into my reaping form. She staggered backward as I moved toward her.

“Shepherd,” she warned. I sensed a slight shift in the bond. Part of her was reluctant. Maybe because I was a shadow. She tried to mask her hesitancy with a glower, but I still felt her curiosity. Saw it in her flexed fingers. A sensation, like a restless phantom fluttering against my shadows, came across our link.

Come on. Reach out, I begged.

Prudence’s pert nipples stood at attention as her chest rose and fell. She didn’t move. Just waited for me to do so. I didn’t disappoint. A hand reached out of my blackness. She inhaled sharply as I palmed a breast. Eyes glazed, lips still red from my kisses, Prudence swallowed as I fondled her.Fuck... I could look at my mate for an eternity, and it wouldn’t be enough.

“Shepherd…” Her fingers slipped through me when she tried to touch me. “How can you stroke me, and I can’t even make contact with you?”

“I can do whatever I want to you, in whatever way I want,” I admitted.

Prudence took a step back, watching me intently. I closed the distance again. “Stop,” she whispered. It lacked conviction. We both knew a Reaper could pull out their weapon and wield it against me. My princess might not be able to touch me as I her, but her power could cut me down.

Her pink essence stirred and spread until it flowed around my hand. Prudence’s mouth parted as she watched. Just as I sensed her awe speeding up her heart rate, I was humbled by her spirit coming to me too.

“I think your soul likes me too,” I uttered as a jolt of happiness rolled over me at the realization.

I’m right where I’m supposed to be.

“Can you feel my essence?” she asked me.

“I can sense you and your emotions. I can also taste you. You’re like a sweet, addictive candy.”

“Don’t you dare eat my soul!”

“I’m not. I simply wish to explore you this way. Will you let me?”

“It’s weird…”

“How?”

“Because you’re just a shadow right now.Howexactly do you want to touch me?”

All over. Every which way. My mass actually brightened briefly, like a flash, before going dark again.

Prudence’s candy-rum arousal spread like wildfire, but she huffed and pointed at me. “See. That bizarre blink in your form suggested something dirty.”

“Princess…”

“Let me put it this way. You’re a soul right now. If you touch me or put any part of your shadowinsideme…”

My mass trembled, and I inhaled sharply. “You gave me some perspective. Idowant to soul fuck you.”

“Get out of your reaping form!” Prudence shouted. “Before I make you.”

Her arousal increased tenfold, but I didn’t tell her that. Instead, I retreated from the shadows and solidified. “Don’t think I won’t try again.”

Funny how much I wanted my mate to accept my reaping form when it took me decades just to tolerate it. If I were being honest, before Prudence there was no reason to like what I was.

She rolled her eyes. “Annoying soul reaper.”

“You’re already wondering when I’ll try again.”

She sputtered a few expletives before sighing. “Come on, Soul Reaper. I thought we were going to my dad’s castle?” A wave of pleasure crashed into me from the bond, and I basked in her happiness.

“We are.”