Page 213 of Mama Si's Paradise

“Hmm. Here’s two,” Grey said, kissing the tip of my nose. “Een aeva.”

Shivers ran down my arms, and he rubbed the goose bumps away from my skin. “Een aeva,” I repeated. It sounded so beautiful. “What does it mean?”

“To translate it literally, it meansmy life,” Grey said. “But in different contexts it’s more than that. Maybe the better translation would be,my essence. All that makes me, me.”

“I like that,” I said with a smile.Aeva.Essence.“What did you say to me during the Blood Call? Was that Faeish, too?” All the brothers had whispered words to me before biting me, and I wanted to know what it was.

“It was.Erchin vinna meio,” he said, throwing me back to that bed. To that burning sensation that had been about to fucking kill me.“It simply means,honor me by making me your choice.Part of the ritual.”

I flinched. “I’mreallyglad that ritual is over.” And that I never had to be burning that way again.

“Me, too, baby,” Grey said, closing the book, his eyes never leaving my lips. As soon as he dropped it on the desk, he slammed me to his chest again, wrapped his wings around us, and kissed the breath out of me.

I was panting before the minute was over.

“Grey,” I whispered when he continued to kiss the side of my neck. I needed him so much so suddenly it seemed impossible.

But then his hand snaked under the sheets and ran up my thigh, and my legs spread to the sides all on their own, andyes.Absolutely yes—it was very possible. I felt his touch all the way inside me, to my very core.

“I’m going to do things to you, baby,” Grey said, making my heart skip a long beat. “I’m going to do a lot of things to you in this bedroom.”

Fuck. “What things?”

“All kinds of things. I’m going to keep you in bed for as long as you let me. I’m going to feed you and I’m going to fuck you and I’m going to watch you sleep in my arms until I know every pore of your skin—but right now?” He bit my lip and sucked it in his mouth until it hurt. “I’m going to serve you to myself right here and now because I can’t wait. I’ve been patient enough for a whole month, have I not? I’ve made myself come imagining you in front of me every single day for long enough.”

God, the thought of him touching himself until he came while he thought of me…

Grey bit my shoulder but his fangs weren’t out, just his normal, square teeth. I moaned, my back arching as his fingers squeezed my thigh. I needed that hand higher. Fuck, I needed it just a little bit higher, pressed to my throbbing clit before I fucking died.

“I have no patience whatsoever anymore. I want you everywhere, in every way, all at once,” he hissed, coming up to stick his tongue in my mouth again, and devour me like a savage. I had no complaints. I wasbeggingto be devoured with my body, with my moans, with the way I held onto his neck.

“Lay down, baby.” Grey said, lowering his wing and arm behind me, and he didn’t have to ask me twice. I leaned back and he positioned me better on his lap, then slowly unwrapped the sheets from around my body, exposing me to himself completely.

Fuck, I was so turned on I could hardly breathe. And the way he looked down at me as he ran his fingertips between my breasts, down to my stomach and to my legs, set me on fire even more. He was awestruck, like every new inch of me he saw was the best thing in the world to his eyes, and I fucking loved it.

“I’m going to lose myself in this body. I’m going to lose my mind in you,” Grey said, dark eyes glistening, and he moved me before I had the chance to blink.

The next second, my ass hit the desk right where his book had been just now, and my feet were on his knees.

Grey looked fucking possessed as he ran his hands up my calves, then under my knees, and pulled my legs apart slowly.

A whimper escaped me, and I put my hands behind me on the desk to brace myself. The cold air of the room against my wet folds and my rock-hard nipples was a tease on its own. I was burning in the best possible way.

“Tell me, baby, do you have any requests?” Grey whispered as he kissed my knee, then moved closer and closer, kissing his way up my thigh.

Oh, God…

I shook my head. “Just have your way with me.” I was up for anything he could think of. Anything at all.

The surprise made him grin again. So goddamn delicious, this man.

Then he licked his lips and I all but came right then and there. “As you wish, my queen.”

And he got to work.

Suddenly, his chest was between my legs and his mouth was on my nipple, biting and sucking until I saw the sky over the darkness of the Woods clearly in my mind’s eye. I was flying as I watched him devour my body, and all I could do was moan and cry and whimper his name. His fingers dug into my waist and my thighs and my ass, and his mouth lickedevery inch of my breasts, then continued lower to my stomach and my hips.

He pushed the chair he’d been sitting on back and he kneeled on the floor between my legs, holding them up by the thighs as he spread his wings, then positioned my heels right over the edge of them.

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