Page 51 of Their Promise

He gave me my wanted growl, making me smile wider.

“You’ve always angered him on purpose and I’ve always enjoyed it,” Trey said as we walked out the back door and down a concrete path lined with small solar lights that gave off just enough light to keep you on the path.

“How have you been?” I asked Trey. “Is traveling and hunting demons all it’s cracked up to be?”

“There have been rough days,” he said with a nod. “Most of the time, it’s just been one fight after another, simplistic and fun. There were a few times when one of them got injured enough to worry me, but they pulled through.”

“I heard your mom set you up on blind dates.”

He stopped so abruptly I almost ran into him. Turning around, he looked down at me with a scowl. “Who told you?”

“Does it matter?”

He growled and resumed walking until we got to a large lake. The manmade lake was constantly stocked with fish and was always warm thanks to a spell by the former Mage King, Johann, Grandpa Nico’s father. The lake bordered the Den and Trey’s property.

“Yes, I went on a few dates that my mother set up,” he finally answered as we took our shoes off at the lake’s shore.

One great thing about our shifting abilities was that it somehow interacted with our clothing, too. So, I could shift and then when I returned to human form, I would have my clothes back on. Shifting into a warrior form so I could have scales all over my body, but still be able to talk, I jumped into the water and sighed in relief. “Seems like none of them worked out? Why not?”

He swam out to me in warrior form with scales covering his body as well. His bluish scales reflected the moonlight, casting beautiful colors atop the water around him.

“Because they weren’t you,” he answered.

The truthful, sudden statement made me stop treading water for a moment, my head going beneath the surface before I spluttered and kicked my legs to get above the water and breath again. My heart pounded in my chest and my mouth hung open.

Trey swam in a circle around me. “I missed you more than I thought it was possible to miss someone who is alive. We would walk through a city and I could swear I smelled you, but when I turned … you weren’t there. I wanted to call you so many times, but you blocked us. I considered changing my number so I could call you, but I also wanted to respect your wishes. I tried to figure out why you blocked us, what could have possibly happened to upset you so much. There were several times I was about to hop on a jet to fly to you, but the investigator I hired claimed you were dating Luca.”

I scoffed.

“Yes, I should have hired a better investigator, obviously. It was when I heard you were dating him that I agreed to the dates my mother set up.” He smiled, showing off dragon’s teeth in his mostly human face. “I figured if you were doing it then so should I. I had hoped it would ease some of my pain, but all it did was intensify it. You are like a fire and I’m a moth.” He swam closer to me until he was treading water just in front of me. “I would gladly burn if it meant you accepted me as a mate.”

Toads on a stool. He was serious. One hundred percent honest.

“And what if I stepped through a demon portal?” I asked.

He put an arm around me beneath the water and I wrapped my legs around his waist, letting him keep us both afloat. Knowing he would keep me safe, even if it meant drowning himself. “I would follow you through the deepest, darkest depths of the demon world. Life is only bearable with you in it. I know you’re courting the others and I know you deserve the best, and I may not be it, but I can promise you that I will love you with my entire being this lifetime and the next, and you are the only woman for me. You’ve been the only woman for me since we made that promise as kids.”

Shifting into my fully human form, not caring that my dress was now wet, I leaned forward and pressed my lips to his. His scales disappeared as he hugged me tighter and kissed me back. Swimming towards the shallower area so he could stand, he slid his hands up my back beneath my dress, stroking my skin as we kissed. Heat built within me, my core throbbed with need, and I had to resist grinding against him. He must have sensed it because he reached between us, pushed my underwear to the side, and slid a finger into me.

We both groaned. I rested my forehead against his shoulder as he pumped his finger in and out of me, stroking the fire within me. My stomach coiled tighter and tighter.

“I want to see your face, Princess, when I make you come,” he said and wiggled his shoulder beneath my forehead.

Leaning back, I stared into his bright eyes, mesmerized by the bit of darkness in his aura that was swirling maniacally now.

He withdrew his finger and before I could complain, he slid two fingers back into me, pumping faster and harder.

My fingers dug into his shoulder as I panted.

Leaning forward, he kissed, licked, and nipped at my throat, making an almost purring sound. “Come for me, beautiful. I promise this is just the first of many pleasurable encounters.” Moving his other hand where it had been pressed against my back, he slid it around to cup my breast, squeezing and massaging.

“Yes,” I gasped and threw my head back, grinding against his hand as he continued to finger me.

When he moved his thumb up to rub at my clit while he fingered me, my grinding increased. Had this been Liam or one of the men I hadn’t known, I might have been embarrassed, but not with Trey. This was a long time coming … pun totally intended.

He bit down on my neck, though not hard enough to break skin or mark me, it was just the push I needed to send me over the edge.

I screamed his name as I came, but he didn’t stop pumping his fingers in and out of me until I had fully stopped with the aftershocks. I pressed my lips to his and he kissed me back.

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