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Her eyes were half closed, and I knew she was already close to an orgasm just from the bite and the little bit of playing we’d done.

“More. Raiden. Fuck, more, please,” she said quickly.

“Always, My Queen,” I whispered against her skin as I kissed my way down her stomach, her blood still staining my lips. I couldn’t wait to clean her up with my tongue when we finished.

I unlaced her boots and pulled them off but left her other dagger. Pulling her tights down next, I tossed them with my discarded shirt. I groaned as I realized she had nothing beneath the tights. “Such easy access you left for me, darling.” I glanced up to find her staring down at me with a smile on her face.

I bowed down between her soft thighs, grateful that the forest floor was covered in moss. I kissed up her left thigh, gently nipping between the kissing and licking. Her hips started lifting off the ground the closer I got to her core. I growled. “One day you’ll be in control, but tonight isn’t that time.”

She let out a breath. “Please give me what I want, Raiden,” she stuttered.

“Patience, My Queen.” I stopped at the crease where her thigh met her hip and did the same thing again to her right thigh. When I got back to the top, she was writhing beneath me. I could see how soaked she was with my own eyes, and I hadn’t actually touched her where she wanted yet. I wrapped my arms around the underside of her thighs, holding them open for me. Before she could make another move, I ran my flattened tongue through her folds all the way to her clit.

She let out a moan that I was sure most of Darkmoor could hear and I smiled as I did it again. Letting go of one thigh, I brought my hand over, pushing two fingers inside of her as I started to suck on her clit. She jerked against me as I pumped my fingers in and out slowly. I lapped up the mess she was making, happily. It was just as sweet as her blood, and I could stay there all night—only moving to avoid the sunlight and keep her safe.

“So wet for me, darling. Was it the chasing you through the woods? Being bound by my shadows? Or bleeding for me?” I smirked as she growled, thrusting her hips back up toward my face. The message was as clear as the skies in the Court of Ravens.

Keeping two fingers inside of her, I used my thumb to apply pressure to her clit as I sank my fangs into her inner thigh. I could tell from the gasp that left her mouth, she wasn’t expecting it. The mixture of her blood and cum on my tongue was the best cocktail mix I’d ever experienced. As I sucked, I curled my fingers just right inside of her, and she shattered.

A combination of my name and curse words fell from her lips in a tumble as she spasmed around my fingers. As she came back down and her breathing slowed, I released her thighs, licking the bite on her inner thigh to close the wound faster.

Leaning atop her, I held my fingers near her mouth. “Open,” I breathed.

She opened her mouth, her tongue sticking out as she locked eyes with me. I stuck both of my fingers into her waiting mouth, and she closed her lips tightly around me, sucking her own sweetness from my fingers. I groaned, imagining what those lips would feel like around my cock. I’d been doing my damnedest to ignore the rock-hard length in my trousers this entire time, but that time came to an end.

I was about to pull my fingers from her lips when she gently bit down. One of her fangs sliced the side of my finger and she continued to suck. My blood pooled into her mouth. I quickly pulled my fingers from her mouth. Realizing what happened, I sat back on my heels. Silvana and her ice magic may as well have hit me in the chest, as I realized I now had two choices.

I could tell Silvana the truth—she’d either agree to continue and we’d seal our soul bond, or she could storm off angry, refusing to speak to me again. Or I don’t tell her the truth and continued to seal our bond, and she kills me the first chance she gets. Not that I’d blame her.

I looked down at her beautiful face. Her silver hair fanned out over the ground, her lips full and swollen from our earlier kiss. Her blood dried across her chest, the faint red mark from my first bite. I wanted to bite her there every day and let it slowly heal so she’d see the marks there all the time. So she’d remember who owned her body, mind, and soul.

I released my shadows from her wrists, and she slowly lowered her arms and leaned up on her forearms. “What’s wrong, Raiden?” she asked gently.

I looked toward the ground. “I need to tell you something, darling. And no, it can’t wait. I can’t… I can’t do this without you knowing first. I need to know it’s real for you too. I need to know it’s not allthem, because it’s real for me. This. Us.”

I looked back at her face and her eyes were wide. “What do you mean?”

“I… Allie mentioned…” I let out a breath.

She sat up fully and pulled the scraps of her sweater together over her chest as she growled. “I’d prefer not talking about another woman right now, Raiden. What is going on?” she demanded.

I looked up toward the moon, realizing there was only one real path for me right now. So, I brought my gaze back to the stunning female in front of me and sent a small prayer to Evika that this would work out because I couldn’t lose her.

“We’re mates, Silvana,” I stated.

I could see the shock written across her face as she scooted back, away from me. She reached over to grab her pants quickly, and I reached for her hand. “Silvana, wait. Let’s?—”

“Roses,” she whispered. Jumping to her feet, she quickly shoved her feet into her leggings and grabbed her boots. I watched her walk back through the forest, and for the first time in my long existence, I wasn’t sure what to do from there.

Chapter22

The Black Sea

Silvana

Iwalked until I found myself standing at the docks, looking out onto The Black Sea.

How easy it would have been to just get on a ship and leave.

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