Page 178 of Smoke and Lure

Chapter Twenty-Six

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“I’m proud of you, mate.”He glided a hand over the ombre, pixie style of his mate's hair, brushing back the damp strands from her face.

Michaela and her Prime, Juli, had worked as a team against Kenia and Amdis in a one-on-one combat match that followed the evening meal.It had been two weeks, or a little over a week, since the council meeting.All the leaders, and the senior Prime, were working long hours to ensure that Michaela and the new Prime were also trained for the battle to come.Everyone in the territories had a specific part to play.These were some preliminary details they sorted out during the last preternatural council meeting.

There were a little under two weeks remaining before the set deadline to return Michaela and Avalore to the scientists, for the Great Spirit only knew what plans the insane medical staff still had for the two women.Hell, or if the human government had tricked more women intovolunteeringfor the greater good.

Amaros wondered why the North American human government couldn't have been like other continents.Aodh had informed them that when he spoke with the Crane-shifter leader over the new Asian continent, they’d been able to negotiate an altered agreement that gave the humans more space for their growing population and set forth a screening system that would help the shifters find mates.

There had been some covert things happening on the other side of the Great Heaths, but nothing like what Amaros and the others were dealing with—no fucking mutant army.

Because that’s what the preternatural council had determined the human government was devising.

The cunning movement of Michaela's hand on him pulled him back to what was important: his mate.

He continued, “You have come a long way.Your fighting tactics and speed have advanced swiftly.Even if you could not beat Kenia, you caught her off guard a few times.”

Her gaze rose to his face with exquisite, crimson ringlets circling her eyes.Thank you.I’ve had a very attentive instructor, Sire.

Amaros growled.His mate loved to tease him with his title.They both knew when she said it, she was inciting the Prince of Darkness to come out and play.

However, they both knew his dark lust for her was never far below the surface.

“Enough,” he groaned as a frisson of heat spiraled up from his cock and into his core with each pull of her mouth.He buried his fingers in her hair, gathering the straight locks in his fist, not to pull her mouth off him, but needing something to hold on to as he reveled in the hot pleasure.

Obeying him, Michaela stopped.Instead, she forced in a few droplets of her venom.

He hissed.The sting of the serum that could be deadly to humans was like an aphrodisiac to a Vampire, heightening their arousal.

“Fuck, little angel.”He thrust his hips toward her avaricious mouth—the things his mate had learned to do with her mouth.

You’re the one who told me I needed to feed after an intense battle, mate.Michaela released a moanish-giggle that sent vibrations through his dick even as she continued to work him with her soft, deft hands.

The deep water around her hips rippled, proof that her seduction of him was having the same effect on her.If not for the waist-high water she kneeled in, the room would be filled with her musk's piquant, sweet scent.

He couldn’t wait to slide into her wetness.

She palmed his balls with one hand, her fingers delicately manipulating his balls and purposely brushing against the sensitive skin directly behind his sac.While her other hand stroked the top half of his shaft above her hungry mouth.Her teasing hand, pumped up and down, pausing frequently to rotate around his cock’s crown smearing the precum, allowing it to assist her glide.

The tip of her agile tongue swirled around between the punctures, teasing him briefly before she laved the wounds that were almost closed on their own.

He was an old Vampire.His healing was almost instantaneous.But he would never deny himself the feel of his mate's tongue on him.

“Yes, I did.I like how your mind works.”He released her hair, then lowered his hand to her mouth, brushing his thumb over her pouty lips, flushed and full from her wicked actions.

“I have more ideas, mate.”She wrapped both her hands around his length, leaned forward, prepared to take him in her mouth and suck him off.

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