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I was facing a powerful warlock who led a horde of demon army to hunt me.
“To get a kiss,” he said, his eyebrow arched elegantly. “Like everyone else.”
I blinked.
“The messenger sent by the queen of the jungle…” He paused. “You’re the queen, right? I don’t want to get the wrong girl. You fit the profile—sunset-red hair, porcelain skin, pink lips, and deep blue eyes that can shift colors. The rogue messenger mentioned you also possess a beautiful, feminine figure with powerful legs, and I think his description doesn’t do you the slightest justice.” His smile warmed the starlight in his eyes.
I flushed. I hadn’t heard such flattery for centuries. Everyone always called me the beasts of nightmare. Even the dragon princes I’d kissed hadn’t bothered to shower me with compliments, though their actions implied they thought I was attractive enough.
Did I actually crave such sweet words?
“The messenger said everyone will get a kiss if he comes to you,” he continued, “And the kiss he received was like a blessing from a goddess. That’s the prize I’m seeking now, even at the risk of the heat and the danger of the jungle.”
My gaze involuntarily fell on his sculpted lips.
He was even more sensual than the dragon princes. They were royalty, but they hadn’t honed what the warlock had honed. I didn’t know his true age, but I could sense that he was definitely much older than me and had seen all and done all.
The dragon princes, however, felt younger than me.
I was nearly a thousand years old, but I wouldn’t call myself experienced in life. The curse had teleported me here when I was only fifteen. For nine centuries after that, I’d been a slave, a killer, and a freak show, bound to Akem and his jungle.
But I’d watched the aliens in the City of Nine closely, especially after the Archangel had arrived and tangled with his witch mate, so I knew what wild passion was.
The warlock in front of me carried an air of noble elegance, more than anyone I’d seen, but appearances could always be misguiding. My gaze flicked away before returning to his enticing lips again.
How would it feel to kiss such a dangerous man?
I studied him warily.
I set out to kiss every man to weed out the toads, but when one man had come alone and so eagerly for a kiss, it threw me off balance. I knew he didn’t just come for a kiss. It wasn’t that simple. This man—no, this powerful warlock in front of me—could turn to a killer in an instant and snap my neck while I collected the kiss.
By demanding a kiss from me in such fashion, though he’d done it charmingly, he took the reins that I should be holding. Suddenly I felt I wasn’t in his league, and that humbled and infuriated me at once.
“Did I tease you too much, milady?” he asked. “If I did, I apologize. I meant well. I hurried here for a spectacular kiss as soon as I could.”
“I don’t know you!” I blurted out.
His both eyebrows climbed up. “That didn’t stop you from kissing all the other strangers. You even lined them up around a huge tree and graced their uncouth mouths with your queenly one.” His gaze dropped to my lips with heat in it, and I involuntarily parted mine.
Encouraged, he stalked toward me, his immense power, ancient and new at once, rippled in the air. And his magic drew me in, like wild, delicious danger and aged fine wine.
Both the Fury beasts and the sleeping dragon beast in me liked it, wanting to be tamed.
My pulse raced; my blood heated up.
Could he be one of the true loves to me? My body responded to him, as strongly as it had reacted to the dragon princes, though in a different way.
I had kissed two princes and had encountered the third. If Elvey was also my true love, then the lightning prince would be out of the picture.
A shame.Rai had saved me, and he’d smelled like home and storms, which I fancied.
Elvey headed straight toward me with a confident gait, coming to claim the kiss.
“Stay where you are, Lord Elvey,” I said, putting up a hand in front of me.
He halted, a half smile dancing like dark stars in his eyes.
How could he get my emotions all riled up like this at first sight?
