“Aerolus?” Her voice was high with excitement.
“Quiet, purie. Let me love my affai as a true Storm Lord should.” I stared into her eyes and saw the exact moment the carefree joy in her expression changed to one of shock and disbelief.
“Affai?”
“Well, maybe.” I rubbed myself between her legs, using her cream to slide faster between her wet sex. “I’m willing to make a bargain with you. But it’s on my terms. Take it or leave it.”
I took her nipple in my mouth and sucked, loving how she tensed and sighed, moaning my name. She had a petite frame graced with such generous curves. I couldn’t get enough of her breasts. It was all I could do not to shove home and come deep inside her.
Instead, I brought her to near-orgasm with my mouth and tiny teases of air that stroked her heated skin.
“Aerolus,” she moaned. “What are you doing to me?”
“I’m loving you, affai,” I liked the sound of “affai” more and more. With Alandra, the title sounded magical. I trailed my mouth down, past her taut abdomen to the treasure between her legs.
I licked at the ambrosia glistening between her thighs and parted her folds with my fingers, torturing myself by waiting. “Don’t you want to know what I want out of the bargain?”
Her breathing heavy, she tried to draw her thighs closed. “If you’d give me a minute to think —”
“Now we can’t have that.” I closed my lips around her clit. As she keened, I nipped and pulled, teasing the flesh into a tiny pearl, so sweet and hard.
All the while, Alandra squirmed and begged, pleading for me to enter her.
“Tell me you want me.” I thrust a finger inside her and sucked her clit once more.
She arched into my touch, her body coiled like a bow about to release. “I want you,” she gasped.
I pulled back to stare at a face I would never forget. “Now and forever.”
She moaned as I pumped another finger inside her, thrusting harder and faster. “Now and forever, Aerolus.”
I pushed my luck. “Admit you’ve known for some time that you love me.”
I stopped, waiting.
Her eyes opened, and within their depths I noted silver striating the lavender in her gaze. A true bond, both of us part of each other.
“Aerolus.” Alandra squirmed, but I held her down, my winds more powerful now than they’d ever been.
“Tell me, purie, how much you long to be my wife. How the thought of another woman clenching me, taking my cock and my seed, makes you rage.”
She shuddered, Dark waves of energy emanating from our passion.
The Dark should have hurt, but it didn’t. Instead, I felt Alandra all over me. Inside me.
“Damn you, Aerolus.” She struggled but remained trapped. “You want to hear it? Fine. You’re mine,” she snapped. “You’ve been mine for a year. My charge, my responsibility.”
“Your what?” I asked with a coolness belied by my raging cock. Did she really think we would continue by ignoring the truth? By the Light, I wanted her so badly. But I wanted all of her, an acknowledgement of her feelings.
No more games. “Your what, Alandra?” I asked again.
“My mate,” she said with a disgruntled sigh. Then with a sultry note, added, “My love.”
And I buried my face between her thighs once more, my fingers working magic in her warmth.
I was completely out of my mind, drugged on my bride. She cried out and came, and I rose over her and thrust deep. “We’re in this together. One heart, Alandra. One soul.”
I tried to hold out, but before I knew it I’d come hard, the pleasure extreme.
