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Bane looks like he wants to steal her back from me and run away with her, but Saylor puts her arm out to block him when he takes a step toward me. “That’s her Uncle, Bane. Let her get to know him.”
“I would never hurt her,” I rasp, pressing a kiss to the top of her soft hair.
I’d kill for her.
“Now, are you going to tell me why Astrid had to go calm Rave down?” Saylor finally asks, and my lip twitches.
“Let’s just say I don’t see me getting invited back to the Fae Kingdom anytime soon.”
“Peach?” I call out when I step into the bakery.
“I’m coming!” she yells from the back.
Not yet, but she will be soon.
When she walks out of the kitchen, her eyes are a little red, like she’s been crying.
“What’s wrong?” I ask quickly, frowning as I scoop her up in my arms.
“Nothing, it was just a long day.” She forces a smile, but it doesn’t reach her eyes.
“Was it Anita?” I press, anger filling me at the thought of someone upsetting her.
“No, Anita’s wonderful. We had one customer who became really angry at her when she made a mistake with his order, so I tried to calm him down, but he just kept screaming at me. I told him to leave, and he did, but…” She sighs, tucking her head under my chin. I rub my hand over her head, smoothing back her beautiful hair. “I’m just glad today is over.”
I take a few seconds to process her words, taking in a few deep breaths to try and calm myself down.
Someone raised their voice to my mate. Whoever that was is going to fucking die.
“Who was it who yelled at you, little one?”
“Just some shifter. Don’t worry about it, Salem. It’s a part of dealing with customers sometimes.”
“What shifter?” I ask her, keeping my tone calm, but I must fail because she looks up at me, her brows knitting.
“Salem, it’s fine. Let’s go home. I want a long bath and a glass of wine.” She strokes her hands down my face over my stubble and pulls me in for a kiss, trying to reassure the raging beast inside me.
Home.
She called my house her home.
That calms me down a little.
I decide to get her home and settled, and then I’ll find out who upset her and handle it when she’s asleep.
She doesn’t need to know.
Chapter 10
Peach
I’m sitting on his face, his mouth on my pussy, and his hands gripping the globes of my ass.
How the hell did I get here? I’m meant to be keeping him at a distance, but instead, I’m literally riding his face.
We’ve done this before, but I was facing the headboard and holding on for dear life. This time, I’m facing the other way, my mouth tasting his cock for the first time. I don’t know what I’m doing, but he seems to like it. He’s so hard and so big that it’s challenging to take all of him, but I’m using my hands on him as well and sucking down as much as I can take.
This is definitely making up for my shitty day. Salem cooked dinner, poured me a wine, and even ran a bath. He takes care of me in a way that somehow comes naturally to him, in a way I never thought an assassin would know how to.
