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Fuck.

Arriving back at the dorm with Mia’s tired face greeting me felt like home, honestly, as strange as that sounded. She’d been with me since my first memory in this world, so in a way, maybe I’d imprinted on her. Like a baby chick.

It was past midnight, and while I’d wanted a good fuck for a while, because Ithinkmy hormones were slowly affecting my mind, I couldn’t let my knights lose sleep. I even had to order them to sleep or else they’d spend the entire night watching over me, as if Compton would come exacting revenge when he didn’t know who I was anymore.

My hand would do. Again. Like almost every night.

The other strange thing; whenever I was alone in my bedroom like this, sitting in the dark, it always felt like someonewas watching me. Just … curious. It made me nervous but oddly comforted at the same time.

I lay on my bed only in a nightdress. Parting my legs, I brought my hand down between them, imagining what it would be like to give Claude a chance. Would he accept my non-negotiable terms? He had shown possessive tendencies from the moment we met, even made a spectacle of it, but I managed to change his mind. Would I be able to convince him of this too?

Would he also be unpredictable in bed like his usual self?

A knock on my window took me out of my haze as I pulled my fingers out of me. My heart thumped in panic; who could be knocking at this time of night?

Getting out of bed, I walked over to see Eli, leaning on one arm by the window frame. I unlocked the latch and lifted, and he climbed in without a word a second later. Something seemed off about him, aside from seeing him in casual clothing when he was usually in uniform or hunting gear — his golden eyes were glowing. Was it the lighting?

“Eli, what’s going on?” After I latched the window again, I found him staring. Mortification shot through me when I realized he coulddefinitelysmell what I had been doing.

And then he pulled off his shirt.

Oh, my god. I knew these men trained a lot. Add the fact that he was a shifter. But I never expected him to havethesemuscles. He seemed leaner than Amos, and —

Wait a second.Eli took his shirt off!

I couldn’t believe my luck. Was I getting sex?

I hurried to the bed and waited.

Elias didn’t waste any time. He took off his boots and pants next.Ididn’t have enough time to ogle him when he climbed on the bed and leaned over me, completely naked, his golden eyes never leaving my face and body.

He smiled. “Gadreel.” I returned his smile, eyebrows raised; it had been a while since he last called me that name, where the “Ela” nickname came from to match his “Eli”.

I tried to hide how much this excited me. Iwasgetting sex!

But of course Elias could sense it anyway, smirking. He stroked my thigh gently; my leg trembled in anticipation. Then he pushed my legs apart, moving his head down, and I swallowed a whimper when his fingers parted my folds and a tongue swiped over me, tasting me, fucking me.

Stars.

He didn’t miss a beat, even as he switched between his tongue and his fingers and thumbed my clit, like we had been doing this regularly.

I definitely want it to be a regular thing becauseholy fuck.Just the feel of his kisses on my thighs was enough to end me.

Tingles shot up my body when Ialmostcame undone, but he stopped. What? Confusion warred with my lust. Why did he stop? I was about to ask when he only smiled, reached up to pull down the neckline of my dress, grabbed a breast and flicked a nipple. A fresh jolt of pleasure zinged through me.

“Say yes,” he mumbled, hints of a growl despite his smiling face.

I obliged. I was desperate for this man. “Yes, Eli.”

With a groan, he plunged his fingers inside again, fucking me with them. He fondled one breast gently, contrasting the rigorous thrusting of his fingers. When he pressed his thumb on my clit, my breath stopped to make way for my moans as he sent me over the edge.Fuck.

He rumbled in satisfaction as he positioned himself between my legs, his cock hard and twitching as it teased against my pussy.

I peered up at him. Surely we weren’t stopping now, right? Like how my twin knights thought I was inexperienced. I didn’thave the heart to tell them yet how they could fuck me into next week and I would request a week more. I wasthatthirsty.

I didn’t have to wonder long, because he gripped my thighs and thrust to the hilt, a gasp coming out of me. He stilled as his golden eyes assessed my body. Then he mumbled a chant, and a warm, subtle glow erupted in my abdomen, vanishing a second later.

He cast me a contraceptive spell through his dick. The knowledge was both amusing and strangely impressive.