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He smiled sweetly at me through the same reflection. “I want you any way you’re willing,” he whispered, turning to look at my real face. His hand cupped my cheek, and the moment was almost too tender for me to bear. I was better able to handle teasing, or battle, or the rough push and pull of what Cade gave me.
“You’re a good man, Kassian Kingston. You may not want the title, but you’ll be an amazing King,” I said, needing to see his reaction. To his credit, he nodded.
“I accept it. And I can say it right back to you. I know you never wanted to rule Saori Sang. I know you had different dreams, once. But you were made for this, Kana. Not because you were trained up as a princess. Because the mist knit youtogether precisely to make all of this happen. I’m no fae prophet, but I feel the truth of it. You were meant to be here. Now.”
“Then I guess you were meant to be mine,” I said, grinning up at him to lighten the mood a little. Claiming anaimawas certainly serious business, but I wanted every part of this man before me. The playful thief, too.
“You know, I almost killed you. That first night in the bar. I heard the word princess, and I pictured you bleeding out, right on those fucking nasty tavern stairs,” Kas said, dropping to sit next to the water and tugging me down with him.
I laughed. “It would have been your blood, thief.”
“Yeah, I know that now. You have a way of creating a reality I never saw coming.”
His black eyes locked on mine, and I found I had no words to answer that claim. So I went with what I knew better - action. Tackling him to his back in one smooth movement, I straddled his slim hips and smirked down at him. Reaching a finger to his handsome face, I traced the scar that ran from eyebrow to chin.
The single flaw in what would otherwise be an illegally gorgeous man.
“I like this,” I said, bending down to trace the scar with my lips. “It suits you.”
He growled and yanked me tighter to him, pressing our mouths together as he consumed all of my scattered, nervous attention with a breathless kiss. Running his hands up and down my body, he ground his hips up into me. I moaned against his mouth, my tongue dragging against his fangs and opening a line of blood for him to suck.
“I want you, Kassian Kingston. I know you wondered if I was rushing into it, but I want you to be myaima. Mine, forever.” There was no church to gather in for vampires. No vows to be repeated in front of family and friends.
Claiming was for the people becomingaima. Forever lovers.
The magic swelled in me, wrapping us in the kind of ice that only a vampire can love, and Kas tore at my clothing. My body was soon exposed to the starlight and the chill, and I leaned my head back, letting the stars soak in my nakedness.
I felt wild and untamed, powerful and true.
With a snarl of need, I scrambled to undress Kas, sinking to my knees between his legs as I took his cock in my mouth. I sucked greedily at his shaft, pulling him hard and deep as he shuddered. A growl built in his chest as he shoved me off and rolled us, pinning my back down in the fresh snow.
“And I’ve wanted you as long as I care to remember, Kana. My life before you is nothing but dust now, and I’m not too proud to admit it. I’ll be your King or your thief, your servant or your master. I’ll shapeshift for you and shape reality any way you want me to. Be myaima, and let us live forever in each other’s blood,” he said, his voice husky with the traditional words of the commoner vampires.
I arched into him as he drove his cock into me, our mouths clashing in a brutal kiss before we latched onto each other’s necks. The magic of our blood sharing circled our bodies like a whirlwind, weaving our lives together in an irrevocable bond as we moved together in a frantic rhythm.
I tossed him over, topping him again, and together we writhed and bit and fucked each other raw, the snow staining red from our feral need. We both came with grinding screams of pleasure, but our bodies refused to unlock. The blood sharing kept him fierce and hard inside of me, and our mating began again.
“This is what it feels like to be mine,” Kas growled, pounding me down into the ground with a show of dominance I hadn’t seen from him in a long while, and I took and took and took from him until he had nothing left. Then I flipped him and climbedinto his lap, our chests pressing together as I ground against him, rubbing my clit hard against his skin.
Finally crying out again to the three silver knife blades of moon above, I let go, my body sucking and pulling as I came, dragging him along with me into the deepest orgasm we’d shared together. It felt like the world had ended quietly around us, and there was nothing left but the panting of our breaths and the beating of a single heart in the woods.
We were one. His blood flowed in my veins, and mine in his.
“I love you,” we both whispered, our lips moving in tandem against each other.
Tenderness took the moment over, and Kas stroked down my back as we untangled our aching limbs. We curled into one another on the snow, and I watched the stars in his eyes until I slept, dreaming of a reality where I could claim every one of my men and spend each night like this, without the threat of blood spilling unless it was for our own pleasure.
When the early sun cracked open the night around us, we woke with nearly the same breath. Our bodies were still curled together, and a dusting of new snow covered our nakedness. I’d never felt so much freedom and power in being a vampire, as though I could withstand anything the world gave me.
“Good morning,aima,” Kas whispered, trying out the word with a soft smile. I kissed him back, but my heart was already pounding a staccato rhythm for the new day, and the darker reality the sunlight threatened to bring.
Last night had been a glimpse of a beautiful future that would be ours, if we did everything right.
But we weren’t there yet.
“It’s going to be me today,” I warned him as we sat and stretched cramped, chilled muscles, shaking snow off of our clothing. Kas sighed, propping himself against a nearby tree as he tugged on his boots. Neither of us really wanted to break thespell of the night, but the sun was here, whether we were ready or not.
“You’re the only one the mist hasn’t called yet, I know. I don’t think I can fight you, Kana.”
