“I opened a page with cursive writing and only made out my name before shutting it. There was a pull toward it. I can’t really explain it, but as soon as I realized it was private, I shut it. I promise. I’d make a contract with Thorn to prove it.”
His lips cracked into a smile, and he shook his head. “No need to go that far. I believe you.”
“Still having problems with your pheromones?”
“Only around you.”
“I have a theory.” I gulped, standing on wobbly legs.
“Do tell.”
“What if we… um… sleep together?” I tucked my hands together in front of me as a demonstration.
His brows knitted together. “We slept together last night.”
“Not exactly what I meant…” Letting out a nervous giggle, I stepped closer. “Aren’t you supposed to be a sex demon… incubus?”
Realization clicked, and his brows darted up as his mouth parted open. After a few beats, a smirk spread over his lips. “Where did my innocent little arctic fox go?”
“Well, I have completed the matebond with a firedrake, ice fae, and shadow demon.” I nibbled on my bottom lip and dropped my head. “I’m not pushing you, though, obviously. If you’d rather not, that’s fine too.”
Sex was a part of being mated, and from what I’d grown to realize, it was about more than just the physical gratification. It held a release and comfort that I’d come to truly rely on. If Rhett’s pheromones were going crazy around me, it made sense to me that he needed to be with me in the same way I needed to be with him.
His finger went under my chin as he tilted my head up. “Baby, it’s not that I don’t want to… I’d like nothing fucking more.”
“Then why not?” My heart tugged toward him as if it were on a visible string.
“I can’t hurt you. If I were to overload your body with my pheromones like I did with…” He squeezed his eyes shut and took a deep breath before opening them. Tears glistened in the violet depths. “I’d never be able to live with myself.”
“You won’t hurt me. If it gets dangerous, my shadow would probably slice you up anyway.” I stepped back and whipped my shirt over my head and stepped out of my skirt, standing in front of him in only my bra and panties. “I’m not scared of you.”
“Too fucking trusting,” he groaned, reaching out and gliding his fingers from my neck to between my breasts.
“I’ll always trust you.” I breathed and relished in his touch.
“Why are you so confident in me?” His voice broke, and he pulled his hand away.
“Because you’re my mate, Rhett. I trust you, and I care about you more than you could possibly understand.” My hands went behind my back, and I took off the rest of my undergarments until I stood naked in front of him. I wasn’t normally so bold, but there was an incessant buzzing pushing me to have my skin on his. “You won’t hurt me.”
His gaze dragged down the length of my body, and his erection pushed out, tenting his pants in a way that looked painful. “Wren, if I put my hands on you, that’s it. You’re mine. I won’t be able to stop my pheromones from filling the air or from feeding off our sexual energy.”
My skin started to tingle as his pheromones hit the air around me, and my legs quivered. “Touch me. I trust you.”
He stripped out of his clothes slowly, keeping his gaze on me. I drank in every piece of exposed skin.
There was the black mark of a bat on his left pec, and a tattoo of a skull on his right with vines interweaving through the eye sockets. Sleeves of different illustrations decorated his arms, and he had symbols on his muscular thighs that made my arousal only peak.
He was magnificent, and I absolutely understood why he was such a sought after man.
Rhett was hypnotizing when clothed, but naked, I wanted to be at his mercy for the rest of time.
“Do I live up to your expectations?” He tilted his head, and a flick of his tail drew my attention to it.
“You exceed them.”
The end of his tail was pointed like an arrow, but it wasn’t sharp. Damien’s tail was forked, but Rhett’s looked almost like a larger tip of a—
“Baby, if you don’t stop looking at me like that, I’m going to pin you to the bed and fuck you until you’re crying out for me to stop as pleasure possesses your body over and over again.”
