Leave it to the gods to give me a deceitful mate.
Perhaps this was my punishment for my younger years, when all I’d truly thought of was myself and my own pleasures.
I was pissed and jealous and hungry…and I stillfuckingwanted her.
That made me angriest of all. The trip to Salaire had been a much-needed distraction. The business with my brother, Thaine, had helped divert my attention away. But now that I had returned, it brought everything I’d tried to escape back tenfold.
Fuck this,I thought. If she was going to use me to create a better life with the male she actually loved, then on Raazos’s blood, I was going to use her too.
“I can make you come without my fangs in your neck,dallia,” I purred. “Is that what you want? Is that why you came to me?”
“That’s…that’s not why I?—”
“But you knew that I’d give you what you wanted, didn’t you?” I rasped. I heard the bitter twinge in the words, but I was certainshe didn’t. I felt her shuddered breath against my neck just before I felt her dull little teeth bite into my flesh.
I groaned, my eyes closing, and I felt the last of my will leave with the surrender.
With my free hand, I slid my touch up her thigh, delving beneath her dress, bunching the material up around her hips.
The moment my fingers registered between her thighs, she moaned against my skin. I nearly hissed at the slick heat of her. She was dripping, coating my fingers with her desire.
My fangs bit into my lip when I gnashed my teeth together. The scent of her skin mingled with thelorespun me up into her web.
“Let me look at you,” I growled, pushing her back, away from my neck. Partly because I wanted to watch her come apart, but mostly because I thought I might feed from her if I was any closer to her neck. And if I fed from her right now…there was no coming back from it. There was no way I would have the control to resist her.
Erina’s cheeks were flushed, her eyes half-lidded.
I couldn’t help but rub my cock through the loose material of my pants with the base of my palm. A flood of pre-come was already wetting the front.
“What do you want from me?” I growled.
My wealth? My family name?I wondered. That was what this was all about, wasn’t it? Just like the keeper my uncle had destroyed his entire life for. I wouldn’t be made a fool.
“I want you to touch me,” Erina mewed.
I wondered what her beloved Luc would think if he saw her like this. A possessive part of me burned with the thought. It made me even harder, imagining fucking her while he watched. I would never allow him to touch her. I would own her completely because she wasmykyrana. Never his. I would be everything she needed so she would never have a reason to return to him.
Madness,I thought, growing angrier with the thoughts. It feltlike an untamed beast was rising in me with the aggression. Coupled with my hunger, I feared it might be a dangerous path to venture down.
She wanted me to touch her? I would give her what she wanted.
Erina cried out when I drove a finger inside her tight, slick cunt. So tight I nearly frowned. But her hips snapped over my hand, pushing me deeper inside, as if she couldn’t help herself. When I rubbed her sensitive clit with my thumb, her head tilted back, a soft moan falling from her throat that nearly scrambled my entire brain.
I hated that I would remember her like this. I hated that this erotic image of her would forever be imprinted on me. I hated that my venom began to drip at the mere thought of her, that her scent calmed me in a way not evenlorecould.
I wedged another finger inside her, pressing harder against her clit. Her lips were parted, and she gazed at me with something akin to disbelief.
“I want to watch you come,” I told her. To center myself, I took another slow drag of theloreand billowed it around her like a veil. She gasped in the smoke, rocking her hips in a practiced slow rhythm that had me wondering how many times she’d done this before. Withhim. “You’re close already—I can feel it.”
I watched as she rode my fingers to her orgasm. And when she was there, her whole body tightened up and she froze, holding her breath, held on the precipice of the fall. Her expression was locked with drawn brows and full parted lips I wanted to bite.
Then she hurtled into her pleasure and her body came alive. Her skin flushed pink, and she rocked her hips in a wild way, chasing and prolonging the orgasm for as long as she could, the greedy little thing. The knot at the base of my cock was beginning to swell, my balls drawn tight.Fuck.This was not supposed to happen like this.
I managed to keep my control, even as the slick sounds against my hand rose between us and I could smell her arousal all around me. I didn’t knowhowI controlled myself, truthfully.
But when it was over and Erina was gasping to catch her breath, I simply took my hand away and leaned back in the chair. I dragged in another slow inhale of mylore, hoping my expression was impassive as I studied her.
“Go.”
