Hell, I hadn’t even gotten to the juiciest part, and she was already shutting down on me.I could see it in her eyes.The idea of living in the elfin forest repulsed her.Might as well put it all out there at this point.
“And take a mate and get busy creating the next generation, who will take over when I’m ready to retire.”
Her eyes flared for a brief moment, and hope bloomed.But then her eyes narrowed.“Creating the next generation?”
I nodded.“Yes, it means making babies, Daruka.”
“I know what it means,” she snapped, sounding far more irritable than the subject merited.But then again, she was part demon.Demons weren’t keen on the whole parent thing.Compassion, feeling responsible for another being all the time—that wasn’t in a demon’s nature.Just ask me.
Or my mother.Or, I’d wager, whichever of Daruka’s parents she got her demon side from.
“So this thing you keep insisting is between you and me…” she started.
“Daruka, that’s?—”
“How does this all tie back to Selina?”Krishna interrupted.
Damn, I’d forgotten the werewolf was still here.
“Yeah,” Daruka said, her words now dripping with ice, “finish your story.”
I was tempted to point out that she was the one who asked me to elaborate on the whole elfin responsibilities bit, but I held my tongue and explained Selina’s bargain instead.
“Twelve hours!”Daruka gaped like she could not imagine banging for twelve hours straight.I was beginning to lose hope that I could show her someday.
“I made it clear that it wasonlyfor those twelve hours,” I said.“But she has obviously chosen to ignore the memo.”
“You didn’t make that clear to me,” Daruka said.
“What I made clear to you was, ‘This will not be the only time between us.’”
Her cheeks flared an adorable bright red.Krishna stared at me like I was a deity.
Far from it, mate.
Daruka waved at my groin.“So basically, your dick is so fantastic that Selina wants to kill me because she got to ride it first.”
“I’m pretty sure she wants to kill you because I want you to ride it again and again, and I don’t want her anywhere near it.”
That doubt crawling across Daruka’s face was really starting to get to me.What was it going to take to convince the woman that I?—
The bed wobbled.Not the kind of shaking it did when two people were hardcore fucking—or even one person was spanking his monkey with enthusiasm.This level of movement was more akin to?—
“Holy crap, is this an earthquake?”Daruka asked, all that high color from her embarrassment leeching from her face.
I shook my head while swinging my legs over the side of the bed.“No way.Earthquakes don’t happen here.Never have, never will.”And yet, that hadn’t been the barely noticeable shiver that occurred every now and again.This was…what?Three times in two days?
And twice today?
“Maybe we should get down to the ground floor anyway,” I suggested.
Just in case.
ChapterTwelve
Daruka
Something wasn’t right.
