Page 156 of Song of Her Siren

He moved toward me like a wolf stalking his prey. Had he learned that from his brothers? My lips parted as he knelt beside me, his eyes smoldering with desire as he twirled a lock of my hair around his finger. Without waiting for an invitation, he grasped the back of my neck, capturing my lips in a fiery kiss. I thought I heard my other mates stir, but I was too transfixed by Helian as he hovered over me, encompassing me with his large body. When he grasped my thigh, hiking up my night shift, I pulled back with a gasp.

The children, I projected to him.Ash and Finn.

Can wait, he answered.

Goddess, where had this Helian come from? He lifted me into his arms with a snarl and brought me to the sitting area, a section of the tent marked by low sofas piled with pillows the servants had covered with more linens.

He set me down and began stripping off his clothes, his heated gaze never leaving my body.

I regained enough sense to put up a privacy bubble moments before he lifted my shift over my head. Then he was between my legs, his hands and mouth everywhere, branding every inch of my skin with his fiery touch.

I dropped back my head with a groan as he feasted on my neck, his hand cupping my mound while he slipped a finger inside me. Oh, Goddess. The feeling was exquisite. Spreading my legs, I welcomed his probing fingers as his mouth captured one pebbled nipple and then the other. My climax punched through me without warning. Sucking in a groan, I pulsed around his finger, gushing into his hand.

He climbed between my legs with a growl, slamming deep into me. I clung to him, digging my fingers into the globes of his tight, round behind while he rode me hard. Our bodies slapped together, the sounds of our heavy breathing echoing through our small chamber. I had no idea where this animalistic side of Helian had come from, but the rougher his thrusts, the more I gushed.

I am your king.His thought projected into my mind while his hips rolled into me.And you will be my queen.

Oh, Goddess. I clung to him, riding through each thrust, the head of his thick cock making me swell and clench while banging me like a drum. Who was this Fae?

Say it, he commanded while roughly claiming me with a bruising kiss.Say I am your king.

You are my king!I cried.

Say you will be my queen.

Helian—

Say it!He rode me harder, faster.

I gushed and gushed, the threat of another climax robbing my mind of all reason. I would say anything, so long as he didn’t stop.I will be your queen, I cried.I will be your queen!

He fucked me so hard, I swear my soul left my body as another powerful climax rolled through me. I cried out his name when he stilled with a roar, spilling into me.

I hadn’t yet caught my breath when he was moving inside me again, his bruising fingers digging into my breast. What had happened to my sweet Helian? I felt a shift in our dynamic, and I feared Helian would no longer allow Ash to be alpha, and at the moment, I didn’t care so long as he kept riding me.

Only after he gave me another orgasm and then another did he finally roll off me, taking me with him, his hands and mouth possessively roving over my body. And the magic that hummed through me was unlike anything I’d ever experienced, so powerful, my veins buzzed with an endless well of energy.

Sometime during the night, he finally finished, welcoming Ash and Finn into our bubble. Neither complained that Helian had shut them out. Though Helian and Ash hadn’t spoken, I felt the shift between them, and I realized why I’d always been so tired. My magic relied on love to replenish it, and Helian, my true alpha, had been holding back. But after the way he loved me tonight, I felt like I could soar across the world, turning every last demon to ash.

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Tari

AFTER MY MATES ANDI made love for nearly half the night, I would’ve expected to fall fast asleep, sated and exhausted. Instead, I drifted in and out of a fitful slumber, tossing and turning, a dozen different scenarios of the war to come playing through my mind. Finally, I gave up all hope of getting rest and sat up, rubbing sleep from my eyes. Finn and Ash were curled up with the girls beside me, but Helian was gone. I slipped into a pair of thin slippers, summoned a small ball of light, and ducked outside the tent.

Following my instincts, I found Helian sitting with a group of other riders in front of a large fire. The moon was heavy and bright tonight, its reflection off the water providing ample light and making Helian’s silvery hair shine like a polished sword.

“Helian,” I whispered, shivering when a cool ocean wind blew the hair off my neck.

He jumped from his seat, wrapping a blanket around my shoulders, the sweet, caring Fae a sharp contrast to the animalistic mate who’d dominated me in bed most of the night. “What are you doing up?”

I shrugged. “I can’t sleep. What about you?”

He cast his gaze to the fire and sighed. “Same.” He snatched another blanket from beside the fire and motioned toward the jagged crimson scales jutting from behind a large dune. “Want to visit the dragons?”

“Sure,” I answered, “as long as they don’t mind.” I wanted to be alone with Helian, mostly so we could explore this change in him. In us. He’d told me I would be his queen. Goddess. I could tell by the force of his declaration that he’d meant every word.

“Radnor’s awake,” he said. “He sleeps like me, one eye open while watching for threats.”

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