“Nothing will harm you while I live. Do not doubt that.”
His skin rippled beneath my hand, and his breath warmed my neck when he nuzzled me. He was the most powerful creature I’d ever encountered, a mountain of strength and ferocity that was enticing and sometimes overwhelming.
And he’d claimed me as his.
“I can be myself around you, I never could with any other men,” I murmured and he growled. “I always had to be guarded, I always feared I’d be discovered. I want to be yours.”
“Youaremine, Mah Kush-la.”
My head tilted at his odd words. They sounded so old and beautiful. “What does that mean?”
“It meansmyheartin my language.”
My eyes widened at the sweet endearment. There he went again, digging his way deeper intomyheart. This time I didn’t stop his fingers when they slid over my skin and dipped between my thighs. I whimpered when he stroked around my center before slipping one inside of me.
“Does this hurt?” he inquired.
I was still a little sore but he eased the discomfort with his stimulating touch. “No.”
“Tell me if it does,” he commanded, and I somehow managed to nod.
His mouth slid over my neck; the scrape of his fangs against my flesh caused my breath to catch and my fingers to dig into his arms. “Do it,” I breathed, needing to feel him again.
His four fangs pierced through my skin, causing my entire body to jerk against his. The pain was sharp and fleeting, replaced with a flood of pleasure that caused wetness to spread between my legs as my body readied for him. I felt his claiming of me in the center of my soul. Sparks erupted at the ends of my fingers, licking over the detailed muscles of his thighs and swirling up to encircle my wrists. His free hand slid over mine, pressing it flat against his legs.
“Why does it only do that with you?” I gasped when his tongue licked over my skin. “It’s never been this strong or consistent before.”
He released his hold on my shoulder. “Because even the angel part of you knows you belong with me.”
“Is that true?”
I groaned when his hand fell away from its intimate caress between my legs. He lifted me in his lap, turning me to face him and adjusting me so the throbbing length of him slipped slowly inside of me when he lowered me onto him again.
“So fucking tight,” he bit out, his lips brushing against mine as his fingers curled into my waist. “I believe it’s true.”
I had no argument for him, not when I believed it was true, too.
CHAPTER 38
Kobal
“What did you do, Kobal?” Bale said in our native language when she stepped beside me.
Corson and Shax stood on the other side of her. I knew immediately what she was talking about as she stared at me before looking to River.
“My relationship with her is off limits for discussion,” I replied in our language. We didn’t often speak it around humans, they didn’t like it when they didn’t know what we were talking about, but few of them were paying attention to us right now and this was not a conversation they should overhear.
“How did she manage to survive that?” Corson tilted his head, causing the earrings in the tops of his ears to spin around.
I resisted ripping those hideous things from his ears as he surveyed the marks on River’s neck. Three of my bites were clearly visible on her golden skin, but I knew there were more on her, so many more. Just the thought of it made me shift uncomfortably as blood flooded my cock.
I’d mark her over and over again tonight too.
“She’s stronger than she looks,” I replied blandly.
“She must be as I’m assuming there are more beneath her shirt.”
My fangs burst free as I turned on him. “It’s none of your concern what’s under her shirt!”
