Page 88 of Decadence

That she could lose him.

“Don’t be afraid, Sienna,” he murmured, his lips grazing her ear. She felt the sharp-yet-soft caress of his fangs. He wrapped his arms around her, holding her in an unbreakable embrace.

I’m scared, she wanted to say, but she didn’t want to spoil this sublime moment. What if the procedure doesn’t work out?

All those things Zharek had spoken of… growing a new heart and lungs, returning Ikriss back to peak physical condition in an instant, using her own serum to help heal him.

Human medicine couldn’t do half of that. Even with modern organ-growing techniques, it took years to grow a new heart or lungs for transplant, and it was horrendously expensive.

Kordolian medicine was as alien to her as the silver guys themselves.

What if something went wrong?

Ikriss started to tremble. He cupped her face with his hands. He gently kissed her earlobe, her cheek, her lips…

His hands glided down her body, over her exposed breasts, down her belly, between her legs, finding the exquisitely sensitive nub of her clit.

He inhaled deeply. “Your scent drives me wild, my amina. If I drowned in it, I would die happy.”

“Don’t you dare say that,” she gasped. “Not even as a joke. You’re not going to die. You aren’t allowed to, Commander.”

“As you command.” His kisses became rougher, hungrier. Strong hands spun her around and pulled her the right way up, into his powerful arms. He slid one of his fingers between the soft folds of her pussy.

Warmth surged through her core. She wrapped her legs around him, using his hard, solid frame as an anchor.

“We should stop,” she whimpered, afraid and exhilarated, unable to stop herself from grinding her hips back and forth as he slipped yet another finger inside her, gently stretching her. “I don’t want you to—”

“I know when to stop,” he growled, before capturing her lips once again. This time, his fangs broke through the skin of her lower lip, eliciting a tiny pinprick of pain amidst all the bliss.

She tasted her own coppery blood.

He tasted it too, and for the first time, he moaned, a deep, guttural, primal sound that made the fine hairs on the back of her neck stand on end.

“Oh fuuck,” she gasped.

“Yes,” he agreed.

She reached down and curled her fingers around his cock, feeling its thickness, feeling the raised ridge, imagining what it would be like to have him inside her.

She wanted him in her now.

“What the fuck are we doing?” she groaned. “Just getting to know each other?”

“Savoring,” he growled, his voice cracking. “The first time will be the sweetest. I will make it perfect for you, my amina.”

Suddenly, his arms relaxed. A great shudder racked his body, and he closed his eyes.

He let her go…

And slipped beneath the surface of the water, his pale hair becoming an ethereal swirl.

His arms went limp.

His entire body went limp.

He started to drift away.

“Ikriss!” Struck with horror, Sienna glanced around. She opened her mouth, a scream about to erupt from her lips, but before it could arrive, the General appeared at the water’s edge.

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