Lexa glowed with a Light I’d never expected to see.
“I feel so good right now. So at peace.”
Exactly. So she feels it as well. Dismayed my cock wanted still more of her when by rights I should have been too worn out to care, I joined her on the bed, my need to touch and be touched forcing me almost on top of her.
But instead of shoving me aside, as I half expected, she snuggled close, curling into me.
And my heart blossomed under the shine of her affection.
“I…ah, I hope I wasn’t too rough.” Yet part of me wanted more.
“I’ve never done that before,” she murmured, toying with the hair at my nape. “But I wanted it with you. You make me want things I shouldn’t.”
I wanted to purr like a cat. So satisfied and pleased with the woman who owned my heart. “Blue?”
“I felt your need to dominate, to punish and possess,” she said. Fortunately, from her angle, she couldn’t see the flush I felt staining my face. “I want more.”
“More, hmm?” I put a finger between her legs and stroked, pleased at her hiss of pleasured-pain. “Sensitive, are you? How sensitive?” To my shock, my cock jerked. “I think you’ve bewitched me.”
She chuckled, a sinister sound that slid over my body like a silken caress. “I’d say the same, but I know Sava’s tamped our powers.”
“I know.” I stroked her soft skin, enthralled with her. “As much as it will surely pain me, I’m going to be in Sava’s debt forever.”
“Oh?” She tried to move, to lean on an elbow to better face me, but I maneuvered her flat on the bed, a hand to her chest to hold her there. My fingers itched to flick those hard little nipples until she screamed.
“Lexa, you gave me back that part of me long missing.” I didn’t miss the alarm that crossed her face. The mistrust I’d banished for just a short while returned. “And that part’s going to stay with me whether you like it or not.”
To my amusement, her gaze frosted over. “Just who do you think you are? My lord and master?”
By the Light, she got me so hard without even trying. “Hmm, ‘Master.’ That’s what we’ve been missing.”
Lexa looked to protest but caught sight of my straining cock and surprised me with a grin instead. “I knew you were bossy as hell, but this takes it to a whole new level.”
Desire raged between us once more. I quickly got to my feet and grabbed a damp cloth and soap from the bathroom. It took precious time to clean us both, and by the time I’d finished, I was raring to go again.
I rolled on top of her, no longer questioning my driving need to dominate. “You have no idea what I have in store for you.” But you soon will.
Losing myself in her again, I focused my all on Lexa’s pleasure and was rewarded with more than a “Master,” but with a splinter in the armor Lexa wore like a second skin.
For a brief moment, I saw the emotion she held in check. And that glimpse made me that much more determined to have it all.
Tanselm, my family, and Lexa by my side for an eternity.
Chapter 17
Darius
The Prince of Fire
Tanselm, the Northern Territory
I threw another fireball at an encroaching wraith. The monster screeched and combusted into ashes, floating over fifty or more Netharat. “You know, Cadmus, when you asked us to come for a visit, I thought it was for a relaxing supper, just the four of us. A small breather to recoup from the nuttiness of the past few days.”
I focused my gaze, and flame shot up in a wall in front of the large trees protecting the huddling farmers and their families on the edge of the northern kingdom.
Whips of tree roots thundered out of the ground at Cadmus’s command, tearing through Netharat and enemy Djinn as they hacked at Tanselm’s foliage.
“Truly,” Marcus rasped as he forced a tide of water toward the red, gelatinous Nocumat, creatures only their Shadren brethren, the Aellei, could control, and only then somewhat. “I gave up my wife’s very creative company for a night with you three. I have no intention of spending my time battling this filth.”
