“Oops. My bad,” Zuko murmured, his voice a rumble against my skin. He dragged his split tongue along the trail of blood, hot and slow. He lapped up the red line between my breasts before sealing the already-healed punctures with a kiss. “My girl’s all cleaned up now.”
His tongue shouldn’t have made my knees this weak. It shouldn’t have made heat spread so violently in my lower abdomen. But itdid.
Dimitri swallowed audibly.
My mouth parted, his name on my tongue again, but before I could say it, he blurred into motion. His vampire speed turned him into a streak of shadow as he vanished down the hall.
His door slammed hard enough to make the cupboards rattle.
The sound hollowed out my chest cavity for a reason I couldn’t put my finger on.
“Well,” Zuko drawled, his lips still brushing my skin, “that wasn’t supposed to happen.”
“No, it wasn’t.” I gasped, finally turning to face him.
That was when I noticed a tiny mouse perched on the counter, staring at us with big brown eyes.
I blinked once.
It shimmered, blurred, and suddenly, a fly buzzed there instead.
Zuko’s hand slid up my spine, distracting me from it altogether.
His orange eyes burned into mine, molten and desperate. “Let me show you how much you mean to me, pretty little poison.”
My body still trembled from Dimitri’s reaction, but I didn’t have to force the smile that spread over my lips. I wrapped my arms around Zuko’s neck. “Not here. My room or yours. I’m not giving our squad a free show.”
He pouted, but I silenced it with a kiss. He kissed me back, slipping his tongue past my lips. His kiss wasn’t just hungry…it wasall-consuming.
The magic in his venom and mine rolled over our tongues, crawling down my throat and wrapping around my chest until I couldn’t tell if it was his magic or mine that was trembling.
When he grabbed my ass and lifted me up, the heat of his body pressed into mine. I swore my core pulsed with more than desire. It was a strange, aching pull, like some invisible tether was trying to tie us together, but it kept slipping. It felt like the Fates, but I didn’t know if I was just crazy and getting my hopes up, or if that wasreallywhat was happening.
By the time he carried me to his room, the magic under my skin was buzzing so hard it felt like I was vibrating.
He kicked the door shut behind us.
“I finally have you alone,” he murmured.
When he threw me onto his bed, my heart leapt from my chest.
Tugging his pants off first, he got completely naked and showed me his cock. It was hard, weeping at the tip, still beautifully pierced, but now it had my name,Rune,on the top of his shaft. He inkedmyname onto his cock.
“You actually did it?”I gasped, feeling a primal sort of glee spreading through my chest. My venom stirred, leaking from my fangs. I wondered if he had always been mine.
His lips curved into a smirk as he sat on the bed. “I told you I wasn’t going to fuck you until your name was on my cock. Now, why don’t you be a good little basilisk and take your seat?”
I hopped up and stripped my clothes off, leaving them in a discarded pile on the floor. I climbed back onto the bed and straddled him.
I was already dripping with need.
“You don’t have to ask me twice.” Lowering myself over his hard cock, I slipped down onto him, his piercings sliding in like they were made to fit inside of me.“Fuck.”
“Fuck is right,”Zuko moaned, hands settling on my hips.
Every inch set fire to the hollow ache in my chest, and by the sixth piercing, I could feel my magic tugging at his like a desperate plea.
When the eighth and last piercing was seated deep inside me, my whimper was puredespair.
