Total pages in book: 105
Estimated words: 99485 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 497(@200wpm)___ 398(@250wpm)___ 332(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 99485 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 497(@200wpm)___ 398(@250wpm)___ 332(@300wpm)
The flavor of her juices still lingered on my lips from sucking my fingers after I’d touched her the night before. For a moment, The Thirst blazed up inside me, like a fire that’s been poked by a stick. I did my best to tamp it down. I could handle it, I told myself—I was used to dealing with unruly forces inside me that wanted to come out at the wrong time—like the Darkness that lived in my soul.
But Goddess, I hoped she didn’t make me wait too much longer to give her what she truly needed—what we both needed so fucking badly. The minute she let me, I was going to be on my knees with my face between her gorgeous, thick thighs, tonguing her pussy until she pulled my horns and cried my name!
I pushed my desire aside reluctantly and got out of bed, being careful not to wake Aurora. She’d had a fucking long day yesterday—I wanted her to get as much rest as she needed. Besides, she didn’t need to hear the conversation I was about to have with Drake.
I pulled a pair of lounging trousers out of my drawer and slipped them on. It was better to get the Clan business out of the way before she woke up. I was pretty sure that until she let me go down on her and lick her soft pussy really long and thoroughly, she was going to be needing a lot of my attention to deal with the new sexual urges being with her Fated Mate had unlocked inside her.
I wanted to be free to help her in any and every way she would let me but for now, I had to take care of business.
22
AURORA
I was having the strangest dream…I was out in the cold, shivering, and knocking on a door, begging someone to let me in. I knew in the dream that if they would only open the door, I would find warmth and safety behind it. But I couldn’t get it and I was getting colder and colder…
I woke up with my teeth chattering, wondering where I was and why I was so cold. I blinked and looked around—where was Pansy? She usually came in early and brought a breakfast tray with her. We would have breakfast together and gossip about what was going on in the Court before the day really started. But my maid—who was also my best friend—was nowhere to be seen.
Instead I found myself in a sleek, luxurious room on an expensive floating mattress covered in silk sheets. There was a strange scent in the room I didn’t recognize at first—a warm, spicy fragrance that was somehow masculine and deeply appealing for reasons I didn’t understand.
The scent seemed to be coming from the pillow beside my head. I pressed my face to it and breathed in deeply. At once, my teeth stopped chattering. Whatever this scent was, it seemed to be helping to ease the cold chill that racked my body.
Mmm, smells so good…whoever was using this pillow must wear the best cologne, I thought.
An image flashed through my mind—a huge, muscular form in the bed beside me…glowing golden eyes in the dark…a deep rumbling voice…long arms wrapped around me as he touched me and gave me pleasure like I’d never felt before…
Suddenly everything came rushing back—all the memories my mind had been trying to suppress rolled over me like a tidal wave.
“Oh my Goddess—Slade! I’m married to Slade!” I whispered to myself. “And last night he…he…”
But it was too embarrassing to admit to myself what he’d done to me—what I had all but begged him to do. To my shame, I could still remember the feeling of his hot mouth on my tender nipples…his long fingers exploring my cunny…his deep voice in my ear telling me to come for him…
The cold chill was abruptly gone and my body was suddenly flushed with heat. My nipples throbbed and the V between my legs ached with unfulfilled longing.
“The Need,” I murmured to myself. Wasn’t that what Slade had called it? He’d said it had something to do with us being Fated Mates—a concept I still didn’t fully believe in. And he had insisted that he needed to lick me between my legs to help me feel better.
I shivered with a mixture of shame and desire at the thought. I couldn’t let him do that to me! It was dirty…but why did my mind keep returning to it? Imagining it?
Get up and get dressed, I scolded myself. Put it out of your head.
I found the white silk robe Slade had pulled off me the night before and wrapped it firmly around myself. Someone had placed my luggage at the foot of the bed. I rummaged inside it, looking for an outfit to wear…and my fingers happened upon the little tray filled with baby-stopper pills.