Page 183 of Mama Si's Paradise

My thighs hurt. My hips hurt. Fuck, I hurt everywhere, and I also felt as though my body had finally awakened.

The sheets were definitely new. Last night they’d been black, and now they were a deep grey. Same fabric, same smell, but new sheets. Nobody else was in the room with us, just me and Grey.

Me and Grey, in bed, together.

The incredible urge to lie down next to him again nearly suffocated me. I had my eyes squeezed shut, trying to call to the rational part of my brain, the one that said I should regret having had sex with him last night, having wanted him the way I did with every fiber of my body. The one that said I should have beenmortifiedto wake up next to him like this.

Except it wasn’t there. That part of my brain wasn’t there, or it wasn’t working as it should because I didn’t regret anything and I wasn’t mortified—on the contrary.

I wanted more instead.

Calm down,I called to my mind, barely breathing. I opened my eyes and I tried to focus on the now, tried to keep myself grounded so that I could figure this out. I just needed to stay calm.

Then I saw Grey’s back.

I’d pulled the sheets almost completely off him when I sat up, and now I saw his back and the curve of his ass.Naked. There were tattoos of the outline of wings spread on his back and shoulders and arms, thick black ink on them, the skin raised.

Was that what I’d felt the night before when I was touching him, trying to take him inside me so desperately?

My pussy was already throbbing, andthatdid mortify me a little.

How was I turned on by Grey? What the hell was happening with the world?!

Even so, I was already reaching out my hand to touch hisskin, careful not to wake him. I wanted to know if those tattoos really were raised like I’d felt last night.

The pad of my middle finger touched the black ink on his shoulder just slightly.

Grey’s eyes opened wide.

My heart jumped and my muscles froze in place. I couldn’t take my hand back if I tried.

“Go ahead,” Grey said in a whisper that had every single hair on my body standing at attention.

Real.It had been real.

“Touch me, Fall. Anywhere you want.”

The image of his hard cock suddenly filled my head and blood rushed to my cheeks instantly. Fuck, I’d had sex with Grey. I’d actually had sex with Grey.

Mind-blowing sex. Life-changing sex. Soul-altering sex.

Butwith Grey.

And now I was touching him.

I was completely shameless because heat was pouring all over me, and it hurt between my legs, and I was running my fingers all over his muscled back, touching the ink, touching his skin.

“Are those your wings?” I asked, still holding the sheets to my chest like he hadn’t seen all there was to see about me last night.

They allhad.

Oh, God…

“Yes,” Grey said, not moving a single inch, his eyes closed as I touched him. “They came out of me last night.”

I did a double take. “Really?” The brides had told me before that Grey felt his wings coming out when he was still in his twenties, but they seemed to think it would take a good while until they came out all the way. Even Romin, who was the most powerful of the brothers, hadn’t gotten his until he turned forty.

“You fell asleep when they did,” Grey said, his eyes opening again. My cheeks were going to fall off me any second, and I still didn’t move my hand away. “Do you remember the rest?”

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