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His hands were gentle, stroking my back, holding me close. It occurred to me that Lucian probably wanted to go to sleep. And I needed to sleep, too, bone-tired, despite the fact that I hadn’t technically moved in three days. It was an exhaustion of the soul rather than the body. But I needed him more. I hungered for his touch, desperately craved it after believing we both would die in that hellish storm.
Lucian generally initiated most touches, his uncanny ability to tell just what I was thinking making him kiss me, hold me, tease me and fuck me just when I wanted, how I wanted. I chased any awkwardness away as I pressed against him, dragging my hips against his groins, my mouth claiming his. He responded immediately, deepening our kiss, the soft touches growing more demanding.
I pulled at my clothes impatiently, annoyed at myself for wearing any, while Lucian had wisely dispensed with all of his.
As I hopped on top of him, straddling his hips, he smiled against my collarbone. “Hungry little witch, huh?”
I rocked against his hard length.
“Uh-huh.” We were both exhausted, but the urge to feel him inside me was so much stronger than any other consideration. “Sorry if you’re too tired.”
“If I ever deny you, you may assume I’ve perished and only a husk of a man remains.” His cock aligned at my entrance, and I sank onto it slowly, feeling every inch.
I didn’t even think sex was going to be good tonight, given that logic dictated we should already both be passed out. But somehow each deliciously languorous stroke of his cock, eachtime my hips moved to meet him, felt better than ever. It shouldn’t have been possible.
Lucian’s mouth greedily closed over my pointed nipple as I clawed at his back, rocking up and down, back and forth, unhurriedly, and taking him so, so deep.
I wanted this now and forever. Witches had urges, and I’d satisfied mine just fine my entire adulthood, but no one had felt so perfect, like our bodies were meant to fit with each other. I was quite certain that there was no one else in the entire cosmos, nothing else in the mess of chaos, which made more sense than Lucian and me.
We came together without warning, silver eyes devouring mine as he grunted my name against my tits. I might have drawn his black blood with my nails.
The next moment, I was cradled against his side, his cock still inside me as we both fell asleep.
42
KLEOS
Everyone was feeling either too lazy or too curious to leave early the next day. Highvale celebrated a minor late-autumn holiday, which meant that Night Academy and the Guard were both shut, so they weren’t in a rush.
Unfortunately, that meant we ended up in Theke.
“It turned out, Poseidon gave birth to shit-tons of daughters,” Lucky proclaimed, shutting yet another book with a frustrated groan.
Having our friends in the library was strange, and if I was entirely honest, I didn’t like it. With the two of us, the comfortable room filled with books felt intimate, private.
Seeing Ronan and Lucky try to order the runes about while Silver and Gideon argued in hushed voices might be amusing, but couldn’t they do it somewhere else? The drawing room, the kitchen, one of the dozens of halls I hadn’t yet visited…even the summoning room came to mind.
Phobos and Zazel must have agreed, because while they usually hung out with us when we were in Theke, today they were nowhere to be seen.
Lucian shot me that smile I knew too well, and I guessed he understood why I was pouting.
“He didn’t say he fathered the first iteration of the goddess, he said hemadeher,” he finally drawled in answer to Lucky’s complaint. “I think that was purposeful. We’re not looking for his biological daughters.”
Lucky groaned. “That makes the research even harder!”
“Indeed. Perhaps we ought to move to the main library. My collection is somewhat lacking about godly spawn, but I’m sure Cassius keeps a fairly comprehensive record.”
I hid a laugh as a cough. Heabsolutelyunderstood my pout. I yet again wondered if he was secretly a mind reader. No one else understood me so easily.
“I’ve never seen the main library,” I replied lightly. “It’ll be nice.”
And you guys can go away fromourspace.
“Well, you can’t see it today,” Gideon said with a deep sigh.
Silver swatted him hard enough to bruise. “Youcan’tbother her with that right now!”
So that was the source of their disagreement. I leaned forward, intrigued. “Am I missing something?”
