Page 141 of A Soul to Guide

He gave her another growl, and her nipples hardened against her thin dress. Just as she brought her hands down to palm his chest, he pushed her head back while rearing back his own.

“Look at me, Raewyn,” he darkly rumbled, and her eyelids flickered when the world began to open before her eyes. Within seconds, the fog cleared, and she was looking up at his bony face and horns. “Just because you don’t stare at it every day doesn’t change the fact that this is what I look like. You can pretend as much as you want that I’m not a Duskwalker, but I will not allow you to drag me into your delusions. So, say it again, while actually staring at my face.”

Like a snake striking before its victim could notice, Raewyn bounced forward and pressed her lips against his sharp fangs. She also placed her hands on the cheeks of his bear skull.

“I know what you look like,” she said softly as she pulled back from her kiss. The vision of him faded like a swallowing pit of darkness, as though he was so shocked that he took back his sight. “And it doesn’t bother me.”

His hand loosened, and it gave her the opportunity to start giving the tip of his snout and his front fangs little kisses.

“It doesn’t bother me that you have a skull for a face, Merikh. Or that you have horns, fur, or claws.” Then, she laughed against his fangs as she said, “Actually, I kind of like it.”

For Raewyn, it had never been about overcoming his exterior. She didn’t like himdespiteit. She didn’t consider him ugly, or monstrous. He was just... Merikh, who may look a little different to her, but was pretty in his own way.

“I... don’t understand,” was all he could say, but he’d stopped growling, stopped holding her throat so aggressively.

“You don’t have to understand it,” she answered as she continued to rain slow but deliberate kisses to his bony face. He’d backed his head up as if to escape, but the wall behind him didn’t let him flee far. “I wanted you in the cave, and then again in the forest. I was just... nervous, and uncertain, like I was a few minutes ago.”

“I’m not interested in being an experiment for you, little Elf,” he bit out, throwing another pathetic wall between them.

He even tightened his hand, and she pulled on it so it was more forceful.

“Do I smell turned on enough for you now?”

She sincerely felt it, even more so when she clenched her thighs, and it pressed the lips of her dampening pussy together. As if mentioning it made him finally take it in, his breaths grew slightly shallower.

“I won’t let you use me as a masturbation tool again.” Then he leaned forward, breaking away from her kisses to utter right next to her ear. “If you start this, it will end with my cock inside your ripe little cunt.”

If it was meant to be a warning, it was a terrible one. Instead of inciting fear, it only heated her further. Desire coiled in her belly and pooled at the entrance to her core, and she nibbled at her bottom lip.

“That was kind of the point,” she said in a raspy voice.

Merikh backed up with a grunt, and she wasn’t sure if it was because of her words or her deepening arousal.

“Fine. Prove to me that you want me.” His hand slowly dropped, and the points of his claws slipping against the bare skin of her exposed sternum had her shivering in delight. It fell away completely. “Seduce me then.”

Her brows twitched. “P-pardon?”

She thought she was already doing that!

“I want you to initiate.Lead, rather than make me take over so you can ride out any uncertainty in my control. Make me want you, despite my doubts.”

Raewyn froze when understanding dawned. She’d been hoping he’d take over to make this easier for her. Usually, men helped to strip so they could get to sex and feel good.

He was telling her he wouldn’t be doing any of that, and instead, she would have to do it all.

Honestly, if it were anyone else, this might have been the moment she’d bow out and say they were being too difficult. She’d question if they wanted her at all.

But this was Merikh.

After what she’d learned, she knew why he was doing this. It was because he didn’t believe she could desire him. He was unsure, didn’t know if he could trust her, and maybe it was even his own way of showing he was... scared?

Lucky for him, Raewyn was determined. She’d made her mind up today, and she wanted to finally find out if his weird cock felt just as good inside her as it did rubbing against her clit.

If seducing the big Duskwalker was what it would take for her to show him she desired him, then she would gladly do so.

Merikh stared down at the scantily dressed female before him and waited to see what she’d do.

The moment he’d seen her in a cut-up nightgown that had revealed far too much of her long, shapely legs, his sight had wanted to shift to purple. She’d cut the neckline too, so it sat lower, threatening to spill the cleavage she was incidentally highlighting as her breasts squeezed against his torso.

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