“Allow me.” Garrin eased her down on top of his coat and leaned over her.
Lex cuddled into his body. “Mmm, this was how I stayed warm all those weeks traveling across the Land of Ice.”
Garrin thought back to their treacherous journey and the reason he’d meticulously planned their return trip. He’d been so fearful of losing Lex that he hadn’t thought about keeping his distance, often tucking her against him at night.
“I haven’t begun to warm your body.” He ran his hand up and down her back and over her soft curves, sending heat to her limbs with his magic.
Her eyes widened. “Oh, now that is a nifty trick. A perk of commanding fire?” She glanced at his hand on her rear. “You’re very thorough.”
He took her mouth with a fiery kiss that set his own blood racing. “Tell me to stop and I will.” He moved his hand over her thigh, warming her.
A soft, breathy gasp escaped her lips. “If you stop, I’ll singe you with your own power.”
His mouth pulled into the beginnings of a smile, and then he stilled. “Can you do that?” The wonders of Lex’s power were never-ending.
She grinned. “While you strategized our survival in the Land of Ice, I might have practiced creating a fireball or two with Elena and Reese.” Her mouth twisted and she glanced up. “It looked more like a spark, but just you wait. I’ll get there.”
If his father knew what she could do—
Lex ran her hands over his chest, causing heat to simmer beneath his skin.
His mind went blank and he looked down at her beautiful face to her neck and lower. “Perhaps we can test it out later when we’re not busy,” he said. “They say the best way to stay warm is skin to skin.”
Lex laughed, and he frowned. “Is there something funny?” he asked.
“That is the oldest pickup line in the book. Even I’ve heard that one.”
He sent her a crooked smile. “I may have heard it in the Earth realm a time or two.”
“Did you seduce many humans with that one?”
He nuzzled her neck. “You’re very cute when you’re jealous. I didn’t partake in what the human female who delivered the line offered. I was too busy searching for you.”
“Such arrogance.”
“So you’ve told me. Shall I take off my clothes?”
She glared at him as though trying to decide if she should argue. “Yes, but do it slowly.”
Garrin reached over his shoulder and eased off his tunic the rest of the way. He sensed his hair sticking up in the back, but he didn’t bother to smooth it. Because Lex was staring at him with lust in her eyes, which caused desire to pulse through his veins.
She swallowed and cleared her throat, scanning him from head to waist. “You Fae are well built.” She ran her fingertips over the muscles of his shoulders and chest, setting off fireworks beneath his skin.
Garrin inhaled, his breath catching when her fingertips reached his lower abdomen. “Some more than others.”
“Again with the arrogance,” she murmured, but she seemed to be enjoying herself, because her next words were, “Maybe you should take off your pants? You know, to keep my lower half skin to skin.”
“You’re using my line.”
“Do you have a problem with that?” she said distractedly as he unfastened his pants and pulled them down.
Garrin felt the shiver that ran through Lex’s body.
“This only works if you’re naked too, yes?” He kissed her mouth and placed his hand over her heart.
“My fingers are numb,” she said, staring at his manhood.
Garrin didn’t wear human underwear, and Fae men were larger than human men. Everywhere. “Your shock at my masculinity is understandable.”
