“Dez,” Kaiden warned quietly.
“She’s fine.” I had to catch my breath a little without letting him know the real reason my body was so flustered. “Just… fucking turn around or something. I don’t want to see your face right now.”
“See my face?” He paused, then his expression stiffened, and I had to swallow down the laugh in my throat. “Are you serious right now?Now? You’re over three hundred years old, Dez!”
“Hey! I can’t stop my body’s reactions?—”
I stopped talking when I noticed the pulling had stopped. Morrigan stared at my wrist, but I couldn’t see her face at my angle. Kaiden, however, gaped at her. In his eyes, I saw the reflection of the glow burning in her irises.
Suddenly, a white light outlined the veins beneath her skin, sliding down to her hands that still held my arm. They crept toward her fingers, and I felt aslight shock as it seeped into my wrist, just below the wound she had opened even more. It tingled as it began lighting the bite mark before I watched the light physically stitch my skin back together.
“Morrigan?” Kaiden said breathlessly.
She didn’t answer him. Instead, she started shifting her body to turn around. “More,” she whispered, but her voice had such an ethereal resonance to it that I didn’t even believe that it washerat first. When she finally faced me, I saw the bright white ring of light that threaded itself through her blue irises. “More.”
“Take it, princess,” I whispered.
In a quick motion, her head snapped toward my neck, but something stopped her before she could bite down. I turned to find Kaiden holding her back, and a look of fury crossed over Morrigan’s face.
“You took enough,” he told her.
“Not enough,” she answered him through clenched teeth.
“Then, you can take it from me.”
Morrigan stared at him for a couple of moments. The look she gave him was that of a stranger, almost. For a good few seconds, I was scared that maybe itwasn’tMorrigan. Perhaps something else had come back in her place.
But the look of fury slowly subsided, and a softness crept over her eyes that I recognized all too well. It was a softness she only ever graced Kaiden with, but it didn’t upset me. If anything, it warmed my heart in ways I couldn’t even understand.
“Come on, little dove,” he goaded her. “Is my blood not good enough for you?”
Her lips twitched back a little, and she reached over to grab his shirt, pulling him toward her. A string of light poured from her arm and made a quick swipe at Kaiden’s neck, causing him to wince in pain. Then, her lips latched onto the wound.
Kaiden was forced to move closer to the bed in order to get comfortable, and Morrigan shifted her legs so that they straddled my hips. When I stole a glance at Kaiden’s face, I saw the blush creeping into his cheeks and smiled to myself.
A better man would have kept his mouth shut.
I amnota better man.
“You’re looking a little flushed, Kaiden,” I teased him.
When his eyes opened, they were black as night, consumed in his shadows as he glared at me. “Watch it,” he warned.
He didn’t scare me.
“More,” she whimpered into his neck, with the same glow to her face that matched the one in her veins. “More.”
Each time she spoke, she sounded more and more like…her.
“We’ve got you, princess,” I told her, sitting up and wrapping my arms around her. “Take what you need.”
I heard a moan escape her lips, and even Kaiden seemed to twitch at the sound of it. “M-More…” It washerthis time. “Dez…”
One of her hands wrapped around my arm and pulled it from behind her. She placed my fingers on her thigh, and all I could do was stare at it.
“Morrigan,” I breathed out nervously. “I’m not sure you know what you’re asking for right now.”
Instead of speaking, she moved her hips against me, and I dug my fingers into her thigh to stop her, but the sound that vibrated through her sounded like pleasure. Suddenly, her body stilled, and I looked up to see Kaiden’s hand wrapped around her throat. Her eyes shone so brightly that it lit his entire face. But neither of them spoke first. Instead, it felt like a conversation was passing through them that I couldn’t hear.
