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Hope ballooned, but it felt so fragile. Refusing to believe and be hurt again, he begged her with his gaze.
“Em, you have to explain more clearly than that—”
“It means she loves you and came back for you, you bozo,” Erin cut in, sighing loudly. This time, it was Rick who threw her a warning look, but she was unfazed. The other woman let out a delighted sound.
“I like her. Is she your sister?”
Erin nodded. “Princess Erinnala Aviel of the Winter Court. Erin for short. And yes, I’m the sister of this man who still can’t seem to comprehend that you guys are truly here.”
“To be fair, it all happened so fast and we didn’t even plan anything other than restraining that ridiculous man earlier. But we Suttons are used to pressure and acting on instinct.” The woman smirked. “I’m Pearl Sutton of Broom’s Isle, by the way. No court, but it’s Pearl for short. Bozo?”
Erin shrugged. “I learned that from him.”
“Ooh. Cool. I guess I like him now too.”
“Yu!” The pixie, who had been missing in the last few minutes, zipped in excitedly. “Me. Yu of pixie.”
Pearl grinned. “You’re cute. I like you too.”
There was a lot of banter and good humor in that interaction, but Rick couldn’t take his eyes off Emerald. Perhaps he wasn’t the only one as her green eyes took in every inch of him, too, scanning sharply at first before softening to just look. Like a magnet, they were drawn closer and closer until the other three, the melted room, and the dead Bronco faded into the background and his tunnel vision could only see her.
“Is this a short visit?” he asked, needing to be assured again.
“Only if you don’t want me to stay.”
And just like that, all doubts melted off too. His chest rumbled.
“To hell with that. You’re staying for as long as you want. Or need. Or as long as I can keep you.”
Humor danced in her gaze. She tilted her head, her fingers brushing his.
“What if I wanted you to keep me forever?” she challenged.
Jesus, he loved this woman so much.
“I don’t know what books you’ve read, but we do have a timeline with our lives too. We are not immortal. But we can work on the keeping part.” A smile tore from his lips and wouldn’t go away. It brushed against her cheek, her hair, her nose. “I love you, Em. You are so goddamn amazing.”
“So are you. And I love you too,” she said. “I love—”
He cut her off with a kiss, her protest dying a quick death over their joined lips. He basked in her sigh and surrender, then eager participation that took the kiss to another level. It swept them in a tidal wave of desire and bliss, but happiness took the top spot as it shone on them like the sun itself. Ravenous, he cupped her cheek and angled the kiss deeper, sweeping his tongue in her cavern and tasting every bit that he had missed.
She was so delicious and he was shaking with lust and love, unable to control himself and not wanting to. She was everything, and the knowledge that she was willingly his—and vice versa—raged a storm inside him until it felt like he was a man reborn. Perhaps he was. Her moan fluttered into his ragged breath and her body yielded with a force that rattled. He groaned, determined to take it all.
Two throats cleared, then repeated it louder to penetrate his muddled, need-driven senses. Energy followed to tap and Emerald gasped, giving her sister a sheepish look and reluctantly breaking from the kiss. Rick leaned down to capture her mouth again, but she pushed him back and made him whimper from the loss. There was some satisfaction, though, at finding her nipples hard under her clothes and feeling her body pulsing violently against his.
“What a feral animal,” Erin commented, unamused with the display.
“My other sister and her mate are like that too. It’s disgusting,” Pearl agreed. “The guy’s a half-vampire, so it’s weird how animalistic he is for my sister.”
“Fascinating.”
“No, disgusting. Unless, of course, you like it that way.”
Erin smirked. “I’m a Winter Fae through and through. I will always be in control while I turn the man that I’m with out of control with pleasure.”
“Funny, but it’s the same for me. No sappy stuff for me when I can just have sex and fun.”
“Exactly.”
