I feel the shift in his body as his wrists are dragged up, pinning him against the cool stone. I force myself back a step, breaking the contact between us as I survey him.
His smile is slow, and curving. “You planning on punishing me for leaving? Because this doesn’t feel like a punishment.”
The light thrust of his hips tells me exactly how he feels about his current position. It almost makes me smile—healmost makes me smile—but I force it down.
I want to punish him for even attempting to leave me, no matter that it’s temporary. For putting himself in danger. For risking himself in any way, because Eres being at risk is fuckingunacceptable.
“Kae,” Eres coaxes. “You’ve already lost five minutes.”
And I won’t lose a minute fucking more.
He inhales as I step into him. Our eyes stay connected as I reach for his trousers, unbuckling his belt and yanking it down. My palm meets hot, swollen flesh, and I finally flash a smile at his hiss, his hips bucking into my hand. “You’d better wear underwear out there, you little shit.”
I run my hand up and down his glorious fucking cock, my thumb rubbing over his head, feeling the liquid gather already. Eres’s head bangs back into the wall as I lift my hand and push my thumb between his slips. “Taste.”
There’s nothing quiet about his moan. I can hear footsteps, but they can’t hear us, and the knowledge emboldens me as I pull away only long enough to flip my hand.
Eres moves, allowing the shadow to push him into position. His cheek meets the stonework behind him, pressing to it as his wrists are yanked apart. A second set pushes between his legs, nudging his ankles apart andback, until he’s spread wide for me. His stomach, warm and firm, flexes under my touch as I slide my hands under it and lower, barely brushing his cock.
He presses his forehead to the wall. “So help me, Kaelen, if you leave me wanting you—”
“Never.” The vow is immediate, and truthful. I push his trousers down with one hand, hooking them over his hips until they tumble to his knees. My hands almost shake as I flick open the buttons to my leathers, pulling my cock out and stroking it asI press against him. My lips push into his shirt, into his shoulder. “You will come back to me.”
“Of course I will. You demanding little princess.” His voice shakes as I push my hand between the cheeks of his ass, my finger probing before I yank it away and slap his ass. He yelps. “If you want me to call youyour highness, you’d better finish me first.”
“Fully planning on it.” Dropping to my knee, I nip at the tempting bare skin in front of me as I rummage through the supplies he keeps attached to his belt. Even the sight of them tightens my chest, another reminder. Tugging out the pot, I curve my fingers into it and rub the mix between my hands until it warms.
“Kaelen.”
My healer sounds precariously close to begging.
Staying where I am, I reach for him again and push my finger inside, stretching him with two, and then a third. “You look so perfect with my fingers buried inside your ass.”
“I’d look—” he sucks in a breath when he feels the shadow wrap around his dick. “Even better with your cock.”
True. I listen to his moans for a minute, drinking them in. Taking every part of him in. The shadows pump Eres’s cock as I pull my hand free and straighten.
He presses his back against my chest as I use one hand to work my way inside, past the tight rings of muscle as he breathes against me until I can’t get any deeper. When I bottom out, both of us groan.
“Maybe I’ll keep you like this.” Eyes closed, I brace one hand against the wall. The other wraps carefully around his throat, holding him against me.
I pull out halfway and thrust, pushing him into the wall with long, slow strokes. “Keep you tied to my bed with shadows, keepyou so fucking full of me that there won’t be any space in your mind tothinkabout leaving.”
Fuck. Maybe I’ll do that anyway. The thought of going about my day with a needy Eres bent double in my bed, his ass exposed, has me thrusting harder. I could leave him with shadows pulsing in and out, keep him on the edge long enough to make him desperate by the time I get back.
For a second—the barest second—another image enters my head. Not just Eres, but two bodies, both begging—
My cock swells impossibly, and I swallow, forcing the image away.
Our gasps and moans fill the small space. Eres cries out when I swivel my hips, and I smirk as it entwines with the noise of passing discussion barely a foot away. “I need you loud enough for them to hear who you belong to.”
They pass by without noticing us at all. I’d never let anyone else see him like this. The most respected healer in Umbraxis, and now he's the only one we have left.Magical hands, people whisper when they come to him. Now those hands are pinned with darkness, Eres soft and pliant and full of my cock. But my ears are full of him, and my hands shift, pinning his wrists in place. “More?”
He shudders beneath me. “All of it. Let go.”
I know he’ll take it. With a smile and a plea for more, he’ll take everything I give him. My hips move faster, pumping into him, almost lifting him off the damned floor with the harshness of my movements. “You’re going to feel meevery bitof that ride.”
Something close to a whimper falls from his lips, and the noise has my balls tightening, my release forcing itself upon me before I’m ready.
