When my hands went to my belt, she pressed an elbow into the mattress and leaned up to glare at me. “I really don’t think that it can. Not when one of the most powerful demons in the world is currently contemplating my demise.”

I didn’t care who Adan Deville was or what he could do. Ember was mine, and nobody was going to take her from me.

The years I’d spent training had taken on a new meaning. If I had to use every skill I’d learned, each weapon in my arsenal, and call in any favors owed to me to protect her, that was exactly what I’d do. “I won’t let anything happen to you.”

“But—”

Whatever she was going to say was cut off when I stalked over to the bed and tugged her shoes from her feet, tossing them over my shoulder.

“I don’t blame you for having doubts,” I murmured as I crawled onto the mattress, angling my body over hers. “Although you’re the other half of my soul, you don’t know me or what I’m capable of.”

She lifted her hand, her troubled gaze going to the symbol on her wrist—the flame filled with dragon scales that marked her as mine in the world of witches. “I’m scared of what might happen when we leave this room, but I don’t have doubts when it comes to your place in my life.”

“I’ve waited a long damn time to find you.” I pressed my body closer, letting her feel how long and hard my cock was just from having her near. “To sink my cock into your pussy and fill you with my come while I sink my teeth into your shoulder, leaving a mark no shifter can miss.”

My mouth watered at the thought of gorging on her taste, but tasting her pussy would have to wait because my first kiss was going to be on her mouth. I lowered my head to capture her lips and groaned when they parted to let my tongue inside. She tasted so damn sweet. I would happily spend the rest of my days starting and ending each one just like this.

The way she kissed shook my control. She started out tentative but quickly turned eager, her tongue stroking against mine as her hands explored my body. My cock was rock-hard, poking against her belly, and she arched her hips forward in response. “Need to be inside you so damn bad.”

“Yes. Please, yes,” she panted in complete agreement.

In the time it took for me to strip down to my boxer briefs, she’d only undone a couple of buttons on her blouse. Her fingers were on the third one as she stared at my chest, her teeth biting into her bottom lip. “You can look at me all you want later, baby. Right now, I need you to hurry.”

She shook her head. Her blue eyes were hazy with passion. “Uh-huh. Right, hurry.”

Fresh out of patience, I took over. Gripping the top of her blouse where she’d already undone the buttons, I yanked until the others popped off. “Strip that off while I get your pants.”

Her jeans weren’t going to come off easily, so I called upon my dragon for some help. My fingers lengthened into claws, and I used the sharp tips to shred the sides. With the denim in tatters, it was easy to yank them down her legs and toss the material over my shoulder.

She was sprawled on the mattress in her panties and bra, and I’d never seen a sexier sight. “You’re so damn beautiful. Not sure what I did to deserve you, but thank fuck fate smiled down on me.”

“I need to send up extra thanks to the Goddess for finding me the perfect consort.”

“Glad you think so, baby. Because I’m never letting you go.” There was more than a hint of my inner beast in my voice as I growled, “Waited so long to find you. Not gonna waste another minute to make you mine.”

She lifted her arms to twine them around my neck, pulling me down for a kiss that quickly became heated. While our tongues tangled, my hands drifted over her curves, exploring her full breasts and hard nipples before stroking down her thighs to cup her pussy. “So damn wet.”

A pretty pink blush spread across her cheeks and neck, dipping down to the tops of her breasts as she confessed, “Because I have so much need built up inside me. I’ve been waiting forever for this moment with you.”

My breath caught in my lungs as a possibility crossed my mind. “You’re a virgin?”

“Yes,” she whispered.

“How is that possible? Just look at you.” My cock pushed against the confines of my boxer briefs as my gaze swept down her body, taking in her luscious curves. “Are all of the warlocks in your coven blind?”

My gaze dropped to her chest when she laughed and shook her head, her breasts bouncing with the movement. “No, but they were probably afraid that Blake would do something worse than strike them blind if they messed with me. I moved in with him when I was sixteen, and that pretty much ruined all of my chances at having a normal dating life. You’d have to be pretty bold to go up against the highest-ranking fire witch in the country.”

I’d be forever grateful that they’d stayed away from my woman. My fated mate was going to be mine and mine alone. No other man would know her taste or how she sounded when she screamed out her release. Only me. And soon. Very, very soon. “It’s a damn good thing that bold is my middle name.”

I followed my boast up by yanking her bra off and sucking her pebbled nipples against the roof of my mouth. I didn’t stop lavishing attention on the generous mounds until she was writhing beneath me. Only then did I kiss my way down her body, using my fingers to part her pussy lips so my tongue could lap up her drenched center. Her flavor bursting against my taste buds, I knew I’d never be able to get enough. I’d always be starved for her pussy, ready to drop to my knees and devour her at any given moment.

Ember thrashed her head back and forth as she cried, “Yes! Oh, my goddess, yes. Please.”

I flicked my tongue and teased her center, her fingers threading through my hair to pull my face closer. I tortured her with light licks that made her tremble and broad swipes of my tongue that had her begging for more. Her body tightened beneath my hands, and I knew she was close to the edge. “Come for me, baby. Don’t hold back. Give it to me.”

I pinched her clit, and she tumbled out of control, her body shuddering as she screamed my name. I’d never heard or tasted anything as sweet, but it wasn’t enough. I needed more. “Want another one before I sink my cock into this perfect pussy.”

“Oh, my goddess,” she breathed as I began to work a finger into her tight channel.