Page 3 of The Dark Elf's Surprise Baby

“Well how can I possibly compete with such a man!” he says, squeezing me harder to him. “I’ll just have to seduce you away from this other man.”

“No, you must get off me,” I insist. He ignores me, nuzzling my neck and planting brain-melting kisses along it.

I shouldn’t be doing this but it feels so good. Indulging him for another moment, I take a beat before forcefully extracting his hand. “Someone might see us!” I hiss.

He pulls away, facing me. Demethys’ handsome face is exaggerated in mock horror. He puts a hand to his chest. “Oh! You wound me!” he cries out. “It’s as though you’re ashamed of me!”

Demethys pinches my cheeks and I bite my lip, feeling so much affection towards him that it’s almost maddening.

Of course I missed him. He was gone for so many days. And now he’s back and everything is perfect once more.

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DEMETHYS

Istare at the beautiful human woman in front of me, my heart racing as I gaze upon her perfect face. No matter how long I’m away, I never get tired of seeing her the minute I can.

Even if I’m only in my own room for the night, I still get so excited to see her in the morning. I love this woman. To me, she’s the entire world.

She rolls her eyes and grins at me, shoving me lightly with her shoulder. “Demethys!”

“I’m kidding,” I tease her. I reach out, pulling her towards me and caress her soft skin, running my finger along her jaw. Leaning in, I pepper kisses along her throat and her jawline, gripping her by the shoulders.

“Master,” she scolds me in a whisper. Gods I love it when she calls me that. It gets me going like no other. “This isn’t the place for public displays of affection.”

She has to know what she’s doing to me. There’s no way she doesn’t know that by spurning my advances. It makes me want her even more. My eyes pierce through her, pinning her in place as I stalk forward, making her take several steps back.

Harper’s back hits the wall and I throw my arm up, caging her in. My smile is predatory, excited. I missed this little suru. “Perhaps we ought to go somewhere more private, like my room then?” I offer.

Harper’s smile nearly melts me into a puddle. She shakes her head and ducks under my arms, escaping my hold.

“You are such a harem chaser,” she says, flicking her eyes up and down my body.

“Yes I am,” I tell her. “I want a harem of one, and you’re it.” Her eyes lock on mine and the tension between us is so thick the air nearly crackles with the force of our charge.

The groan that escapes me has Harper shivering. “Don’t move,” I order her. “I’ve missed you so much, little suru.”

Her chest is rising and falling as though it’s becoming harder for her to breathe, visible through her blouse. “Do you haveanyidea how hard it is to get through a single day without you?”

“It’s only been a few days,” Harper points out, her eyes still locked on mine.

“Fourteen days!” I growl out. “Fourteen days is fifteen days too many to be separated from you.”

“Oh Demethys,” Harper breathes out. She’s been only in my bed and my arms for three months but every day I grow more madly in love with this woman.

“I know,” she smiles, though it doesn’t quite reach her eyes. “I missed you too, so terribly.”

I let out a low groan and reach out, pulling her to me and crushing her to my chest. I will never let this woman out of my sight ever again if I can help it. All I want to do is chain her to my side so we never have to be apart.

She hugs me back, letting me inhale her sweet, floral scent. Her scent reminds me so much of theiljanosblossoms. It’s why I gave her the flower, trying to court her. Thankfully she sawmy clumsy attempts at seduction as charming and fell for my inelegant grace.

But right now all I want to do is drag her off to my bedroom and do unspeakably sinful things to her until she’s forgotten everything but my name.

“My little surri, if you don’t want everyone to seeexactlyhow much I missed you then we really should go to my room,” I tell her.

“Demethys!” she squeals, playfully smacking my arm to warn me off. She all but leaps into the air when I start tickling her and she squirms in my hold, twisting this way and that. Her face is beet red but she looks utterly radiant. I can’t help myself from grabbing her to kiss her all over her face once more.

“Oh Demethys!” she moans, simultaneously trying to push me away while she kisses me back. “You are such an impossible man!”

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