“But I’m notyourlove.”
“Yes, you are.” I held her gaze, determined to make her understand. “To me, you areeverything,Wren.”
The panic didn’t leave her eyes, but she softened toward me. Bending my head, I drew her bottom lip into my mouth before sliding my arm around her waist and rocking my shaft against her once more. When I released her lip, her head fell into the hollow of myshoulder.
“I can’t get pregnant, Corson,” she murmured. “You said humans have had demon children before, but I can’t have a baby, not now. It would be a death sentence for our childandme.”
“You would be safer at the wall; we could return there if you carried mychild.”
“I don’t want that.Notnow.”
“I will take care to make sure you don’t get pregnant,” Iassuredher.
“The last time wedidthis—”
“The last time I wasn’t expecting what happened. I’ll be more careful this time, but know that I wouldneverallow any harm to come to you or our child. I’ll fight to the death foryouboth.”
A child. It surprised me how much that possibility pleased me. I’d never considered a child before,butnow…
My hands tightened on her as I imagined a little girl with Wren’s hair and smile and none of the sorrow haunting her blue eyes. I would make sure our child only knew peace and love. Those were the only things I wanted Wren to know, but I couldn’t give them to her while our world was so uncertain. It could be years before things settled enough for us to experience peace and Wren might not haveyearsleft.
I grappled to control the tumult of emotions the knowledge of Wren’s inevitable death brought with it.Mymortal.
“I know you would protect us,” she said and slid her hands inside my shirt. Her fingers ran up my stomach before her short nails raked lightly down it. “I don’t think I could handle being a mom with everything I’ve seen, and we’re nowhere near close to the child stage of our relationship, or whatever this isbetweenus.”
“This is the beginning of somethinggreat.”
“Oh is it, demon?” she asked in a teasing, breathyvoice.
I found I didn’t mind her calling me demon in that tone. “Itis.”
She tugged my shirt over my head and threw it aside. Her fingers traced the muscles of my abdomen as I brushed her hair aside to reveal my marks on her. The unfamiliar sensation of my canines lengthening into fangs came back when they started to fill my mouthagain.
Wren must have detected the outline of them behind my lips as she tilted her head to study me before leaning closer. “Let me see them,”shesaid.
My lips skimmed back to reveal my fangs to her. Her breath caught before she reached up to prod the tip of one with her finger. She snatched her hand back when her prodding caused it to lengthenfurther.
“Amazing,” she breathed. “I never knew you hadfangs.”
“I never did,untilyou.”
“Did you know that would happen when you found yourChosen?”
“No.” My hands fell to the button of her pants, and I slid it free. “I remember seeing my parents’ marks on each other, but I never thought about the fact there were always two punctures on them. A Chosen strengthens a demon and brings out things in them they never knew they could do before. You have already brought out some of those changesinme.”
I tugged her pants down her legs and bent to untie her boots. Pulling them off, the boots clattered onto the floor when I dropped them before pulling her socks and pants off. She raptly watched me as my hands glided up her shapely calves to her thighs. I pushed her legs further apart to reveal the pale blonde curls between them; curls that were already wet with her want for me. I held her eyes as I knelt to place a kiss against her inner knee before sliding my mouth further up herthigh.
Her breath sucked in when my fangs grazed her flesh before I sank them into her. Her body jerked and bowed toward me; passion darkened her eyes as she watched me. Sliding my hands beneath her legs, I lifted them over my shoulders until her knees were on either side of my head. Releasing my bite, I continued to kiss my way up her thigh until my mouth fell upon her hot center. I slipped my hands under her ass to lift heragainstme.
“Corson!” She panted when I dipped my tongue inside her. She tasted like she smelled, of the outdoors and something sweeter that brought to mind the honey I’d seen some of the humans eating. Her fingers entangled in my hair, drawing me closer against her as her head fell back and she rode mytongue.
I couldn’t get enough of savoring her and greedily took in more and more until I was on the point of coming in my pants. Releasing her ass, my hand fell to shift my erection as it throbbed against my zipper. I slid the button on my pants free, breathing a sigh of relief when I released my shaft from itsconfines.
When I drew back, I ran my tongue over her clit while sliding one of my fingers into her. I drank in the sight of her body bared before me and my finger deep within her as I pushed her closer and closer to release. Bending back to her, I tongued her clit and spread her further to slip two fingersinsideher.
Wren tugged on my hair and cried out as she came in a heated rush. The muscles of her sheath gripped my fingers before I slid them away from her. Rising, I tugged my pants down and kicked off my boots before grabbing her hips and drawing her closer to the edge ofthedesk.
Her dazed eyes met mine; her lips still glistened from my kiss as a smile played across her swollen mouth. She caressed the tip of one ofmyears.
