Page 24 of Blood of Two Crowns

Zurie’s hand lifted to twine her fingers with mine beneath the water and tugged me gently into her lap. My heart leapt into my throat as I straddled her, and something painfully familiar tightened in my chest as if trying to close the distance between us. With each breath, my breasts grazed hers, stoking our arousal further as leaden butterflies swirled in my belly.

“And if you wish to be loved by a Kingdom, I am the worst of all to advise you. I fear I have nothing to truly offer you other than companionship, but if you are willing to swear your loyalty to me, I will offer you the same.”

Something fierce and possessive rose within me as my hope blossomed. My free hand curled around her throat, and my fangs lengthened in anticipation. With the urge to claim her. Something I hadn’t experienced since Soteira, mysoulbound.

“Where is yoursoulbound?”

Her brows pinched as if I’d ruined our moment, but I couldn’t help but ask. “If I have one, I have seen no sign of them. Where is yours?”

Numbness stilted my emotions at the thought of her. Soteira.

“Dead.”

Zurie’s brows tightened further. “Oh… I’m sorry.”

“Don’t be. I killed her.”

Zurie’s breath caught, eyes lifting to mine. I closed the small distance between us, and for the first time in nearly a millennia, my heart soared. Her lips were plush and tender. A sweet respite from the harsh world around us that seemed to fade away all at once. Reality narrowed to only her. The sensation of our hearts beating as one, the sweet glide of our lips and the caress of our tongues, the tingling arousal pulsing between my thighs.

I groaned as I forced myself to break our kiss. There were a number of matters to be taken care of before I would give myself to this female, body, soul, and vow.

“Let us dress. Azrael will return any moment.”

The disappointment in her gaze was blatant. I couldn’t help but grin and rewarded her by biting her bottom lip hard enough to break the skin. Her blood blossomed on my tongue to bestow a sweetness like raw, dark amber honey. Zurie moaned a sigh of pleasure as I sucked her bottom lip into my mouth to steal a few more drops, releasing it with a loudpopand licking my lips.“Delicious.”

Zurie arched towards me to capture my mouth again, biting viciously into my bottom lip. Surprise was swiftly replaced with desire as blood spilled freely down our chests. My grip on her throat tightened as my other hand reached between her thighs and possessively cupped her pussy.

“Clean it up,” I purred in her ear. I pulled back to take in her reaction and found a grin that matched mine. She leaned forward, licking thick stripes up my chest, throat and mouth. When her tongue reached the stiff peaks of my breasts, she held my gaze as she continued to lick up our blood.

Oh my fuck.

I rewarded her obedience by steadily circling her clit and dipping two fingers into her clenching pussy. She whimpered against my throat as her hips thrust against my hand in time with my strokes. It took nothing more than a single whispered word for me to realize I would kill for this female.

“Keres.”

Her tongue flicked against the peak of my breast before sucking it into her warm, wet mouth. Her fingers reached the throbbing center of me in a soft, teasing caress that made me desperate for more. Dutifully, she continued licking up the remainder of my blood. “I want more,” she murmured against my throat. My heart pinched.

“Sorry to interrupt but you do realize I’ve been waiting for over an hour.”

Azrael.

Neither of us faltered in our ministrations of one another, though I couldn’t help but hum my pleasure as Zurie growled.“Leave us.”

“Well, that’s one way to talk to people,” Azrael remarked in a bored tone. I turned my head to glare at him standing beside the bathing pool. “I need to find your niece.”

“How would I know where she is? I’ve barely met her.”

Azrael’s gaze settled on Zurie. “And would you happen to know the whereabouts of your daughter-in-law?”

Zurie pursed her lips, eyes narrowing. “Don’t tell me your people are still revolting.”

Heaving a sigh, Azrael slipped his hands into the pockets of his strangely fashioned black trousers. “Well, if you ever learn to take away someone’s free will, you let me know.”

Zurie’s lips tipped up in a smile that looked nothing short of villainous. “Sounds to me like you require a rather large favor then, doesn’t it?”

Azrael’s expression hardened. “As was liberating you from likely spending the rest of your life rotting in a dungeonandgiving you relief from your withdrawals.”

Zurie hummed thoughtfully to herself before returning to her task of suckling at my breasts and teasing my clit. I’d never be able to cum if Azrael didn’t leave. He’d told me something of his situation, though I didn’t know the details or the severity. Still, he had been kind to me when few others had. I stilled Zurie’s motions by tilting her chin up with a curled forefinger. “Tell us where she is, my darling.”

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