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“Can I see you?” I whispered into the darkness, sitting up boldly as I squinted at the shadows.
He paused again, considering my request. “Not tonight, Irina.”
Disappointment filled me. Of course, I wouldn’t force it. I’d wait until he was ready to show me his true form. Instead, I closed my eyes again to be respectful.
“Okay, but promise me you won’t disappear this time. Now that we’ve spoken, I’d like to get to know each other better—I mean,”—I giggled—“better than we just did.”
He chuckled softly. “So, you were awake.”
“Not until the end,” I confirmed.
“Well, there’s no better way to get to know somebody.” His voice turned husky.
A thrill shivered through me to my sopping, aching core. I felt empty, and my longing for him grew exponentially. But I didn’t want this to be about sex. I’d seen his heart, and I wanted more.
“Maybe not,” I agreed, “but lusting after each other is one thing. Getting to know the depths of our souls is a completely different thing. And if I know anything about monsters, it’s that they love at a soul-deep level.”
He was quiet for such a long time that I almost thought he was gone, but then he spoke. “Go back to sleep now, my sweet Irina. We’ll talk in the morning.”
I smiled to myself. “I hope it’s face-to-face.”
The hallway outside the bedroom creaked as he left, and I turned onto my side and fell under the heaviness of sleep.
Jakari
Irina wokethe next morning looking for me, going through every room before heading downstairs to make her breakfast in resignation. Once she settled at the table with a stack of pancakes, she moved several onto another plate and pushed it across the table like bait.
Admittedly, it had been a long time since I’d had pancakes. But they did little to satisfy the insatiable desire inside me. Only she would do.
“Are you not going to join me for breakfast? I know you’re there watching.”
I smiled to myself as an adorable little crease formed between her eyebrows. She was annoyed she hadn’t gotten her way and I hadn’t yet revealed myself.
I waited a fraction longer to see what she might do, and then I spoke.“Did you get your present?”
She laughed and lifted an eyebrow, searching around the room for the source of my voice. “I don’t know. You tell me. Did I?”
It hadn’t been hard for her to miss. I left a paper bag tied with a ribbon on the bed for her to find this morning. After she went back to sleep, I did more shopping for her. This time, I stopped at a lingerie store, picking out something I wanted to see on her but also knew might give her a hint about my identity.
It was a nude mesh bodysuit with four embroidered snakes twisting around her ribcage. Two snakes met below her breasts, their tongues stretching out to meet each other while the other two coiled over her nipples tastefully and met on her collarbone. The bodysuit tied around the neck in a halter style with a big black bow at the back. From there, the suit came together with a medium-sized keyhole across her mid-back before stretching into a thong. And this time, it fit perfectly.
“If you like it, there were matching panties and a bra.” Had she gotten the hint about my identity? It was fairly obvious.
“Didyoulike how it looked on me?”
I let my mind drift back to the image of her standing in front of the mirror, twisting and turning to take in all angles of herself. I suspected she wasted most of that time giving me the eyeful I longed for.
“It looks better on you than the mannequin in the store.”
She smirked and lifted her eyebrow again. “Did you buy it to see it on me, or did you buy it to take it off me?”
I chuckled, letting the sound echo around the room so as not to give away my hiding spot. “We’ll have to see, I suppose.”
I liked how pink her cheeks got as she blushed, the color blooming on the peaks before spreading to the tips of her ears and down her neck. She radiated youth and innocence, but I wouldn’t let that fool me. She wasn’ttotallyinnocent if she was going to bed and dreaming about how good I planned to fuck her.
“Are you afraid of snakes, Irina?” I let out a low hissing noise, hearing the sudden uptick of her heartbeat.
She licked her lips and set down her knife and fork before running her fingers over her breasts, tracing where the snakes lay underneath her clothes.“If I was, would I have put this on?” She teased herself until her nipples were tight and hard, standing erect under her flimsy satin shirt.
