Page 118 of His Darkest Desire

“All must be—”

The bathing chamber door opened; he spun about and looked upon his mate.

Kinsley stood in the doorframe with her honey brown hair cascading over her shoulders, clad in a light green gossamer robe that concealed naught of her lush body.

“—perfect,” he rasped.

Holding the robe closed just beneath her breasts, Kinsley smiled and stepped toward him. The fabric parted and flowed around her legs, and the firelight mingled with the moonlight to lend unique vibrancy to her pale skin.

The fire in his belly spread, blazing outward to set his body alight. His cock stirred beneath his trousers, thrumming with the ache she’d awoken in him. It was all he could do not to stalk across the chamber and take her right then.

“This is beautiful,” she said as she glanced around the room.

“You outshine it all, my moonlight.” Vex beckoned her closer. “Come. I am eager to see the light caress you.”

Her eyes returned to Vex and brightened with a mischievous gleam. Stopping in front of him, she lifted her hands and lightly ran her fingertips down his bare chest. “I would rather your hands caress me.”

Vex shuddered at the sensation—and at the implication and invitation in her words. His back itched with the urge to release his wings, and he didn’t fight it. They formed already spread, their muscles taut, and cast large, shifting shadows across the floor.

Kinsley’s hands dipped lower.

He growled and caught her wrists, halting her teasing fingers before they could reach the lacing of his pants. “Not yet, Kinsley. A hunt requires patience. Disrobe.”

“Is that an order?”

“Now.”

She chuckled and took a step back. He released her wrists, and she moved her hands to the front of her garment. “I love it when you’re bossy.”

Taking hold of the lapels, Kinsley parted the robe and let it fall from her shoulders. The fabric whispered down her body to pool at her feet. Vex groaned. All was revealed to him—her beautiful, supple skin, her glorious curves, and the subtle silvery marks upon her belly.

Her pink nipples hardened, tempting him to take her breasts into his hands, to caress them, worship them.

Soon. Soon, her body would be his for taking. But not yet.

“Sit,” he said, voice low and husky, as he nodded toward the bed.

Keeping her eyes locked with his, Kinsley retreated a couple more steps and sat on the bed. She scooted back just enough for her legs to hang over the edge before reclining, propping herself up with her arms behind her. Smiling, she parted her knees—and her cunt.

The moonlight shone upon the slick coating her inner thighs and glistening upon the small patch of short curls above her sex. He stared at the pink flesh of her cunt, his restricted cock twitching uncomfortably as seed seeped from its tip.

A growl reverberated in Vex’s chest as he planted his hands to either side of her thighs and leaned over her. The heady scent of her arousal filled his nose. “By silver and starlight, female, you tempt me.”

Kinsley shifted a leg between them, pressed her toes to his belly, and gently urged him back. “Patience Vex, remember?” She twirled a finger around one of her nipples as she ran her gaze down his body, settling it on his groin. “Shouldn’t you remove those? It’d only be fair.”

He hissed through bared teeth. Unbearable pressure pulsed within him, already threatening to burst. “That would risk ending the hunt before ever it began.”

Her toes slid farther down to rub along the length of his shaft. “What better way of practicing restraint?”

A tremor coursed through him, and his cock throbbed. His discomfort had escalated to pain, and there was only one way to relieve it.

It would’ve been so easy to give in. So easy to succumb to his appetite.

Vex shoved away from the bed, breaking that maddening contact with Kinsley. “My little seductress.” He drew in a deep breath, seeking clarity, strength, resolve. But his need only deepened, growing ever vaster as he beheld his mate with her legs spread before him. “When you are pinned beneath me tonight, I shall make you beg for every flicker of pleasure I lavish upon you.”

His eyes fell to her sex, and hunger yawned within him, immense and insatiable. But he would not be outplayed by his alluring mate, not tonight. He lifted a hand, and with a casual flick of his wrist, set his magic to work. His pants dissipated thread by thread, the arcane energy casting a faint green glow upon Kinsley.

The touch of cool air against his cock nearly made him shiver, but he held his composure.

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