My knees met the ground, and my fingers wrapped around his cock.
 
 His head jerked upward, pain swimming in those gorgeous, bright blue eyes.
 
 “If we create a bond, the pain will disappear,” I whispered to him. “It doesn’t need to be permanent—we can just do it to stop the hurting.”
 
 His jaw tightened.
 
 I waited for him to say no.
 
 To reject me.
 
 To choose pain.
 
 But instead, he jerked his head in a nod and released his grip on his erection, leaving it to me.
 
 His hand on the wooden chest remained in place as I slowly dragged mine down his massive length. I’d never touched a fae cock before, but they weren’t really different from human ones—just bigger.
 
 A low, rumbly groan escaped his chest, and I released him for a moment when I reached the end of his length.
 
 My hand lifted to his mouth, and the look he gave me was a question.
 
 “Your tongue,” I said.
 
 His eyes burned me.
 
 And I’d never felt as powerful as I did when the unseelie king slowly dragged his tongue over my palm.
 
 Or when I wrapped my fingers back around his erection.
 
 Or when I pulled them down in a long, slow stroke.
 
 His other hand was clenched in a tight fist, resting on the ground. The normally-tan skin was pale, because it was clenched so hard.
 
 Naomi wouldn’t have wanted him to touch her, I realized, as I stroked him again.
 
 And again.
 
 And again.
 
 She would’ve wanted him to hold back. To keep his desires in check.
 
 Iwanted him to let go.
 
 So I released his erection again, just long enough to pull my shorts down my thighs and then toss them to the ground, leaving me in just the simple tank top I almost always wore.
 
 His eyes were even hotter than they had been as they took me in while I caught his erection again.
 
 I opened my thighs wider, and as I stroked him, I slid my hand between my legs.
 
 I’d never doneanythinglike this before.
 
 I’d never beenbravelike this before.
 
 But… I’d never feltexcitedlike this before, either.
 
 Orhopefullike this.
 
 I groaned as I felt the swollen flesh between my thighs.