Page 29 of Hearts of Stone

Her mouth formed a perfect O as she panted quickly, brow creasing, trying to process what she was feeling, but I didn’t give her time. I began to move in earnest now, rubbing the pearls back and forth over a place that made her squeal.

“You… I…”

“I know, Jade, I fucking know,” I said, staring into her eyes, willing her to feel it.

I’d spent an innumerable amount of hours studying humans. I’d had little choice in it due to my servitude, but I had learned this. While humans might feel serendipitous connections with others, they weren’t like us. They needed time to develop a bond with another, but right now I felt like one was slotting in place. It didn’t make sense, didn’t jibe with what I’d been told about the way we found our mates, but still. When she stared into my eyes, as her body flexed around mine, clamping down tight, then urging me forward as she relaxed again.

Goddess…

“Carrick…” Her expression was one of wide-eyed wonder, her little nails doing their level best to score my stony flesh.

“That’s it, lass, just a little more.”

I rubbed back and forth, feeling the spot inside her bloom under my pearls’ ministrations, and when I felt her whole body convulse again, I stabbed deeper. Her moan was choked off, her hands clapping down on my shoulders, trying to hold me off and bring me closer, all at once.

I wasn’t going anywhere.

She’d always have me by her side, no matter whether or not she decided to accept the mate bond. As her servant or as her mate, I’d be there to serve her to the end of her days. I held that vow inside my heart, letting it warm me all the way through in a way I rarely felt when awake, and then I shifted angle.

“Oh my god, Carrick!” she gasped as I pulled her into my arms.

We’d hold this position as we fucked amongst the stars, my wings pulling us higher and higher. She’d ride me like this when she finally accepted all of my pearls and then my claiming bite, but right now she squirmed experimentally, some instinct kicking in, telling her exactly what she needed to do. As her hips flexed, my claws sank into that ripe arse of hers, the plushness there making my cock jump inside her. She let out a little cry at that, then moved faster.

I was thrusting up into her as she was slamming down, another pearl forced in at that, but I wouldn’t get much more. She was stretched to her limits and she seemed to relish in that.

“So full…” she moaned, wrapping her hands around my neck and using that as a tether to lean back. “Oh god… Oh god…”

At this angle my pearls would’ve been pressing all the harder against her sweet spot and, sure enough, slick ran down my shaft to bathe my balls, and that had me grinning fiercely.

“Your god isn’t here to help you,” I replied when her eyes met mine. “But I am.”

I took over then, gripping her hips tight and began to thrust faster and faster, a red flush spreading across her wholedecolletage. She was glorious as she took her pleasure. No more words now, she wasn’t capable of them, only small little desperate sounds. My fangs locked together as I forced out each one, striving like I would when flying into an incoming storm, every muscle working, right up until this.

“I’m coming!”

My wings snapped tight around her, locking her in my grip, and, at the first flex of her cunt, I came undone.Goddess of love, thy name is Jade, I thought dimly as my seed was wrung from me.

Her cunt was like a velvet vice, dragging every drop of pleasure out of me, the way the pearls were now crushed into my shaft helping milk out all of my seed. My body burned with a feeling I’d so rarely had before. Bliss. I felt like I wasn’t in this damn bed, in Master fucking Luther’s playground, but… in heaven. What else could it be, this terrible feeling of lightness that seemed to wash away everything else but this. My head dropped down and I gazed into her eyes to see that she was just as overcome. I stroked her through the last of her shudders, my own following hers, before I dared to lay her down.

“Tired…”

She was nestled into my chest now, lying sprawled across the bed. I could’ve loosened my wings’ hold on her, but I didn’t want to. If I did I’d see Graven’s disapproving face and right now I didn’t want that, just her. My fingers found her hair, and I pushed it back behind her ears in long strokes.

“This was the best dream ever.” Her words sent a chill through me, forcing my eyes to open fully and stare down at her. “Will you come to my dreams every night?”

“Every night,” I promised, “tonight and every one going forward.”

When she was asleep I released my wings to find Graven sitting there, but not with a look of anger on his face, but concern.

“She believes we are but a figment of her imagination?” I whispered fiercely.

“Perhaps,” he replied. She stirred slightly against me, but I stroked her back until she settled again. “But come tomorrow night, we’ll show her just how real we are.”

Chapter 18

Jade

I woke up to the worst sound, that of my phone ringing. The buzz… buzz… buzz… made clear I needed to get up, but I just curled up tighter in bed. I knew what was coming as I returned to reality. At first it’d be the couch, the cushions pressed into my face, then the irritated sound of my ex in the kitchen, then when I picked up the phone, it’d be Jackie, calling me back into work because they were short-staffed and, as I had no other job to go to, I’d end up going in. I grabbed handfuls of the bed coverings and pulled them over my head and that was enough for me to realise none of what I’d assumed was true. Not today.

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