“I…” Nix’s vision sparkled with blobs of pink hues. “I only care about you.”
Adar smiled and kissed her temple. In a low voice, he told her, “You love me more than them.”
“I…love you more,” Nix whispered, breath caught at how he planted little kisses over her face.
“I couldn’t believe how you let them touch you,” Adar said, tangling his fingers at the back of her neck to tip her head and position his lips closer to hers. “When I’ve never gotten to touch you before.”
Nix swallowed. Did Adar want to touch her now? Was that why he invited her back to his room?I…love him, so I want him to touch me.
Adar lowered a hand to finger the hem of her shirt. “If you were going to give it up so freely, why didn’t you ever offer it to me?”
He added, “I contemplated giving you a heat dose; Father wouldn’t blame me if you went into heat and begged me to fuck you. He’d probably be curious to hear what it was like.”
Nix blinked. She…had misheard him. The words didn’t sound right coming from the mouth of the boy she loved so deeply. “What?”
“I have needs too, Nix,” he whispered onto her cheek and sloppily kissed her ear.
He needs me.
Wrong…Wrong? Nix shook herself, her vision blurring with pink and gray for a moment.
I need him too. Love him. I love him.
“Heat…dose?” she asked.
“Aw fuck, I shouldn’t have said that.” He flexed his arm, scratching the back of his neck, then he shrugged. “But I can make you forget it later.”
A heat cycle happened naturally in female prey shifters when they were around alpha pheromones for too long…right? So, what was a “heat dose?”
“Hell, maybe I should still give you a dose,” he muttered under his breath. “Might make this even hotter to have you beg for it.”
“Dose?” Nix asked again, confused.
“My father’s genius idea. Winged shifters, prey or not, don’t naturally go into heat the way other prey shifters do,” Adar revealed something that shocked Nix to her core.
Her vision momentarily went from pink to purple.
How could he say it so nonchalantly?
The threat of going into heat was what kept so many female prey shifters from taking the same important classes as the alphas. Going into heat was also a reason why alphas agreed to marry prey shifters—for the “wild experience.”
It wasn’t even real?
“But it was easy to create something to trigger a fake heat cycle in winged female shifters. A couple of drops makes them go mindless with lust. Does that sound good? You want to try it?”
Nix gaped, still in shock that heat cycles for winged shifters had beenmanufactured. Did only Adar and his dad know?
His hand slid under her shirt and snaked up her stomach, up, up… “I may not be as good as the incubus, but at least I can come inside you more than three times and not steal your soul.”
Nix’s lips pursed as he squeezed her left breast. With his other hand, he lifted her free hand and placed it onto his crotch, where a bulge lifted her fingers.
“Dad always said I couldn’t touch you, that it would be dangerous to get too attached.” He kissed down her chin, nuzzling her neck. “But a part of me has always been curious. Always desired your crush on me.”
His thumb brushed over her nipple. “When they said to do a spell, I was a little offended that they didn’t think I could seduce you away all on my own,” he said.
Seduce her away? “What are you—”
“Shhh, let me enjoy this,” he requested, and Nix knew she was supposed to do whatever he requested.
