Page 84 of The Other Side of the Mirror

We returned to my room. Well, our room, since we had decided to share just the one going forward, unwilling to spend so much as a single night apart. Eva ran to the closet, throwing open the drawers and grabbing an armful of clothing like my rangers might report back their findings at any moment. I could feel her anxiety at being forced to wait to save her brother, hear the careful pattern of her breathing as she fought to calm it, and resolved to do anything I could to ease it.

When she paused her frantic packing, I tugged her against me, holding her around the waist as I slowly backed her up against our bed.

“It’ll take at least a couple days to confirm the guard’s movements,” I said, burying my face in her shoulder. “Which means I need to find a way to help you relax.” I added, kissing her neck. Then pulled back as a thought occurred to me. “I meant to ask you if you’re on a tonic.”

Eva looked at me blankly for a moment, before blushing to the roots of her hair.

How is it possible for someone to be so fierce yet so adorable?

I must have said that particular thought out loud, because she pulled out of my hands and swung a pillow at me with a huff.

“I’m covered for now,” Eva muttered, then stopped, her eyes widening. “But I didn’t think about the difference between human and fae biology.” She gulped audibly, and I couldn’t help smiling at the look on her face.

“I’m on a monthly tonic,” I said, and her face snapped to mine. “As long as one of us takes it, it will work for us both, though you won’t have to suffer through your monthly cycles if you decide to start it too.”

She let out a relieved breath and nodded, her cheeks still red. I pulled her to me, unable to help myself from tasting that blush, working my way over to place a kiss on the corner of her mouth. She had a perfect dimple there, just on the one side. I loved being the cause of its appearance.

Eva’s soft sigh floated down my body, settling somewhere below my belt. Golden hazel eyes met mine. “We’re supposed to be packing,” she admonished me, even as her head fell back to allow me better access.

“Do you want children?”

I kissed idly across the hollow of her neck, teasing a breathless moan from her throat. Thatsound. I could happily spend the rest of my life finding ways to coax it out of her again and again.

“I…um…” Eva let out a small gasp as my mouth found her breast, the hardened nipple poking through her shirt too inviting not to nibble on. “Yes…”

“Yes, you like this?” I pulled down her shirt and the cup of her bra to suck her nipple into my mouth. Lavishing her with my tongue as she writhed against me. “Or yes, you want children.”

“Both,” Eva whispered. “But…when I’m ready.”

“I have no intention of rushing you,” I said, my fingers moving teasingly downward. “It’s always your choice, even if you change your mind later.”

Her shy blush had me on the verge of losing my senses completely. “Do you want kids too…one day?”

The thought of her carrying our child, joining us in that precious and permanent way, was too much for my newly bonded instincts to handle. In a second, I picked her up around her waist and had her bent over the table by the window, pulling her bottoms down. My shadows looped around her thighs, spreading them apart. I dropped to my knees, unable to stop myself from licking up the length of her slit with her splayed out in front of me like this.

“I want everything with you.”

I brushed my lips against her wetness, breathing her in as she squirmed against me, before lapping at her until she was shaking.

“Tell me what you want,” I demanded as I pulled back, licking my lips.

Eva looked back at me, and her gaze darkened. “I want you to wreck me, Bash.”

I swallowed hard; my mouth suddenly dry. With a gruff groan, I undid my pants, fisting myself before entering her in one long stroke. I couldn’t get enough of the sound Eva made every time I slid inside her, something like a whimper, a gasp, and a moan all in one.

Stilling, I let her adjust. Her name left my mouth in a gasp as she pushed back into me impatiently before I pinned her to the table with my hips.

Eva moaned loudly as I drew out to the tip, before sliding back into her, over and over. She looked back up at me with those big hazel eyes sparkling with mischief.

A wicked smile crossed her lips as she moved back against me, squeezing the entire length of me as she did. I groaned, swearing under my breath.

“Don’t stop,” Eva begged, her back arching.

I unleashed myself at the need in her voice.

My shadows ripped off her shirt, her breasts already broken free of her bra from the force of my thrusts into her. I snapped it off, then tugged her upright against me, unwilling to have even that much room between us.

Eva pressed back into me as if in the same mind, like any space between our bodies was unbearable. My shadows found that spot between her thighs and she gasped, her head lolling back on my shoulder as I pushed up into her.

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