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“Because we have no need of it.”He captured my hand as I started to step down toward the water.“Be careful. I don’t want you bleeding again.”
“Why don’t you need your magic?”
“Ice magic is death personified,”Kierden said, stepping into the water after me and wincing at the heat. As I sank further into the warm bliss of it, he remained standing on one of the steps, adjusting to the temperature the way I would’ve needed to adjust to cold water before I was bonded with him.“It’s not a magic that can help someone. Ice is hard and cruel. It asks no questions and gives no answers. Even if we were to create our city with it, like our ancestors did in Ravv’s, it wouldn’t feel alive the way our jungle does.”
“Ice can be beautiful, I’d imagine,”I countered.
“Of course. There’s something beautifully final about death, isn’t there? Even knowing that life continues beyond the veil, the permanence of it is still poetic.”
I eyed him with distaste as I settled down on the deepest seat beneath the water.“Maybe you’re the killer.”
He chuckled, finally sitting down beside me.“I am far from innocent, little human. They didn’t choose me to be king for my gentleness.”My hair moved around me in the water, and Kierden snagged a few strands, rubbing them softly between his fingers.“You, on the other hand…”
“The picture of innocence?”I drawled back.
He dragged me onto his lap, wrapping a possessive arm around my waist and placing the other on my thigh.“Oh, yes.”
“You’ll ruin me, though.”I leaned my head back against his shoulder.“As long as I don’t drink ale.”
His chest rumbled against me as he chuckled again, his hand sliding further up my thigh.“In every way there is, Nissa.”
Veil, I loved the sound of that.
His erection throbbed against my ass, and his hand slid higher, until his knuckles brushed my clit through the fabric covering me.
I inhaled sharply, my gaze snapping to the warriors on the far side of the room. They were pretty far away, and completely focused on their fighting, but there were at least fifteen of them over there. Maybe even more.
“They could see us,”I hissed at him, as his fingers brushed my clit again and desire swelled in my lower belly.
Veil, I wanted him to keep going.
“Only from the waist up. Stay still and quiet, and they won’t notice,”Kierden said, his tone almost wicked.
I started to protest—but then his fingers brushed my core again, and I had to clamp my mouth down to stop myself from crying out.
“Kierden,”I growled into his mind.
“You wanted to distract me, Nissa. This is the only distraction I want.”
Damn him.
And damn me for wanting him.
I clenched my jaw tighter as he hooked a finger in the top of my scanties and pulled. The thin triangle of it rolled up and rubbed against my clit as he pulled it higher and higher.
My breathing hitched at the pressure, and my fingers dug into his arms as he lazily dragged a finger down my clit, pressing on the tight fabric.
One of the pairs of warriors strode toward us.
My body tensed, but Kierden’s fingers continued slowly stroking my core over the thin roll of fabric, and the tension in my shoulders relaxed even as my lower body clenched tighter.
The warriors nodded at Kierden without stopping to chat, and I felt him nod back.
“You are dead to me,”I hissed into his mind.
“You’ll change your tune when you’re unraveling on my fingers.”He kissed my shoulder lightly as he finally eased the fabric away from my core.
“You’re supposed to be territorial,”I shot back, trying to ignore the short-circuiting in my brain as he slid the cloth down to my knees.
