My tattoos! Haydn put a tattoo on my waist and another on my thigh. Leo can’t see them, not yet. I don’t want to fight right now, especially when I can’t even explain what the deals are for.
Leo noticed something was wrong. “What is it?”
Shit. What am I supposed to tell him?
Evelyn used magic to extinguish the oil lamps and draw the curtains, plunging the room into darkness.
“I don’t get to see you?” Leo asked uncertainly.
She reached for his chest. “Two centuries of Vision magic have you obsessed with sight.”
“I am obsessed withyou.”
“Thentouch me,” Evelyn whispered in his ear.
Leo didn’t need any more convincing. His mouth claimed hers once more. Lesser magic loosened Evelyn’s gown until it slipped off her.
She laughed and stepped out of the dress puddled on the floor. “I feel like you’ve been practicing that trick.”
“Damien taught me,” Leo muttered absentmindedly as he kissed her neck.
The same magic worked on Evelyn’s corset, and the momentary image of Damien undressing her sent a shameful rush of heat between her legs. Leo seemed to sense her arousal but not her embarrassment.
Thank the gods.
Evelyn removed everything left on her body, including the crown, then tugged at Leo’s belt. He kicked off his boots and got rid of his own clothing.
“I wish I could see you right now,” Leo complained lightheartedly.
She climbed onto the bed and rested comfortably on a plush pillow. “Come find me!”
The bed shifted when Leo sat at the end of it. He reached out blindly and found her foot.
“What are you doing down there?” Evelyn asked.
Leo’s lips landed on her ankle first. He kept going, leaving a trail of sweet kisses over her knee, up her thigh, and onto her hip. Then he switched to her other side and kissed his way down her opposite leg, hip to ankle. He took her hand and kissed from palm to shoulder, across her collarbones, and down the other arm.
Leo was worshipping every inch of her soft skin.
Evelyn was losing patience.
“If you like kissing me so much,” she purred, “I can think of more interesting places for your mouth to be.”
Leo huffed out a laugh. “You made me wait, and now you’re being greedy?”
He moved over her, straddling her hips. She gasped as his tongue licked her left nipple. He kissed a line across her chest and did the same on her other breast.
Evelyn squeezed her thighs together, desperate to relieve the ache there. “Leo!”
He leaned down to kiss her neck again. Evelyn ran her fingers through his hair, pulling gently.
Leo chuckled. “I’m not a horse. You can’t pull the reins to make me change direction.”
“What about to go faster?”
She could feel him smile against her skin. He sucked on the sensitive spot below her ear. Evelyn arched her back, trying to get more of him.
Leo kissed down her neck, between her breasts, and over her stomach. He paused right above the bundle of nerves between her legs. “Is this where you want my mouth?”
