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He rolled to his side, propping his elbow onto the mattress and resting his head on his hand.

“I was hoping I’d be able to hold back.” He smiled. “Stupid. I know. I had no idea how amazing you’d feel on my cock. So slick, and tight, and wonderful. There was no way I could hold back.”

The ache in his groin became unbearable. He fisted his straining erection and gave it one tantalizingly slow pump. A growl vibrated deep inside his throat. He couldn’t wait to be inside her again.

Leaning toward her, he kissed her thigh. The scent of her arousal reached him, making him groan with need.

“You came here to die.” She touched him gently.

“I took precautions to protect you if the worst happened,” he assured her, suddenly remembering that he’d placed Alcon outside her door. “Fuck. I completely forgot.”

The poor man was staying awake for no good reason.

Voron climbed out of bed and went to the door.

“Alcon?” He cracked the door open and poked his head out. “It’s all good here. Go to bed.”

Alcon was sitting with his back to the wall, a sword leaning against his shoulder. He climbed to his feet.

“Are you sure, my lord?”

“Absolutely. Go get some sleep. Good night.” He closed the door. There was no time to chat. He had Sparrow, warm and naked, waiting for him in bed.

“Has he been there all this time?” she asked. Her face turned a lovely shade of pink as she must’ve remembered how loud he’d made her moan earlier that night.

He strolled back to the bed.

“Yes. For your protection. If you were in any danger, Alcon had my orders to come here and kill me.”

He placed a knee on the mattress, and she reached for him, wrapping her arms around his neck.

“You were ready to die? Just for one night with me?”

“It’s not that I planned to die. Of course, I hoped to live. It just somehow no longer mattered much if I didn’t.” He scooped her into his arms, kissing her lips, her cheeks, her neck as they both fell into the sheets. “I wanted you so fucking much,” he growled against her skin. “I still do.”

As he moved inside her just a few minutes later, both of them sweaty and moaning in bliss, a thought bounced in his mind.

“It’d be worth it.”

Being with her was worth anything, even death.

“I feel like I could die, too,” she whispered, meeting his thrusts. “Just for one moment like this with you.”

ChapterNine

SPARROW

Ididn’t get much sleep that night. Voron kept me awake, making me come too many times to count before we both finally collapsed into the sheets, sweaty and exhausted.

He held me as I fell asleep, his naked body pressed against mine, with no clothes, no sheets, and what felt like absolutely no distance between us.

Deeply sated, I slept with no dreams. Until his touch woke me up in the morning. Spooning me from behind, he was kissing my shoulder. His hand caressed my breast. His appetite for my body seemed endless. He acted like a starving man who finally got access to food and now couldn’t stop himself.

“You are insatiable,” I murmured, turning in his arms.

He hummed in agreement, his hands and mouth never leaving my body. It thrilled me to be wanted by him so much. I loved seeing him so infatuated. He seemed ready to forgo food and sleep in favor of making love to me.

I didn’t exactly free him from his promise, but we managed to find a loophole that allowed him to be fully himself with me. And it happened through no effort on my part, simply because I was who I was—a human. For once, I felt utterly happy being a human among the fae.

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