I don’t want this to end. I need her beyond this minute, beyond this hour, and this night. There is never enough time with this woman.
Her fingertips rub her clit, and I drink in the sight of her pleasuring herself with my cock inside her.
“Kade!” she screams. “Gods, please don’t stop.”
I grip her hips and keep our pace with ease.
She knows I’ll never stop until she’s trembling and quivering with nothing left to give, but she always begs me, and I gladly obey her commands.
Every.Thrust.
Single.Thrust.
Time.Thrust.
Her small nails dig into my chest, leaving little marks I’ll be disappointed to cover with my clothes and even more disappointed when they fade.
Grace’s eyes latch to mine, her mouth parting as she clenches, and her first release begins.
“More,” she gasps through her orgasm, and I drown myself in her soaking-wet heat, pumping into her.
She drips down my length, and potent desire rips through me.
Grace’s moans tumble out of her and surround me like they’re the only sound in the world.
“What a good little Hunter you are,” I praise as her eyes flutter open, and she slams herself down on me. “Are you going to come again for me?”
She nods, leaning down and taking my mouth with hers. Our tongues lash, and I grip the back of her head, threading my hand in her hair, then I tug her back from my lips to stare into those green eyes. I wonder how I ever survived without her as I savor the tooth she pulls over her bottom lip, and her imprisoning smirk brings me dangerously close to flipping her over and pounding mercilessly until I can’t breathe.
Grace sits upright, and her words pour over me. “This life is so much better with you in it, Hunter.”
And I know we’re the same in this way—we believe we’re better together, stronger, and embrace the life the gods gave us because it doesn’t really mean anything without each other.
Her eyes close, and I feel her pussy tighten around me, and our rhythm ensues as Grace rides me and takes us to our edge, to the place our bodies know, to the sacred ground we walk that is uniquely ours. I memorize the vision of her above me as her climax explodes again, watching her until her shudders subside.
I stand, keeping us connected, and Grace wraps her legs around my hips, consuming my mouth as I stride for the wall, slamming her up against it just hard enough to make her groan.She braces her weight on my shoulders as I pound into her and unleash myself on my wife.
Savoring her shaky breath in my ear, my hands grip under her thighs, and I drill pleasure until we can no longer stand it. Until Ineedto mark her. To feel her take me fully.
We explode together in our ecstasy; I consume Grace’s mouth as she kisses me and I pulse into her.
Breath thready, I pump the last of myself into her, giving her everything I have, just like I promised I always would.
CHAPTER 15
VEYA
Present Day
DEL AND I STARE each other down in front of the fire in my bedchamber, and I pray to the gods I won’t regret what I’m about to say.
“I’ll consider an alliance. More importantly, I’ll let you live.For now.”
Del rises from his knees. “Queen Veya,” he says with a thankful nod of his chin and a red flash of his eyes, crimson blotting plum like spilled ink before he turns away.
“Don’t make me fucking regret it, Del.”
His face jerks back to me as he stands over me, expression on fire. “Iwon’t,” he growls, the fire spitting behind him. “I’ve been trying to find Aurelia a way out of the cellar for over a year. You gave me that. You have myunendingloyalty for it. Iswearit.”
