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The room was filled with a cacophony of our moans of pleasure mixed with the slapping of our slippery thrusts and the frantic flapping of his wings. I slid up the wall, his wings lifting us higher and higher as he vigorously pumped into me. When his thick hands dug into my breasts, his fingers pinching and stretching my nipples while he feasted on my neck, I completely lost myself to him, crying out his name as I was finally consumed by the fire racing through my veins, and the pure, maddening pleasure that captured me in its spell. He let out a roar, then stilled, flooding me with his seed.
I clung to him, enjoying the final twitches and spasms of our lingering ecstasy as we slowly slid back down the wall. I hadn’t realized until we’d finally come back down to earth that my winged lover had pushed me so far up the wall, we were almost to the rafters. He moaned into my mouth while I tenderly stroked his wings, the feathers tickling my fingertips.
I would carry you to the bed, my love,he drawled, his deep, rich voice pulsating through me,but I’m afraid we’ll need to change the sheets and air out the room first.
I don’t need a bed,I answered while clinging to him as he began thrusting again, his hips rolling into me like a tempest’s undulating waves.I just need you.
He was alive! My sweet fire mage was alive!
He captured my lips in a tender, heat-searing kiss, one of devotion, and desire, and love.Shiri.
Yes, my darling?I asked, my hands roaming all over him as I plastered his face with kisses.
I love you.
His words rang through me like a gong. The breath expelled from my lungs as I dug my hands into his shoulders, desperately searching his eyes that swirled with passion and fire. He loved me. He loved me!
Oh, Nikkos,I cried, kissing him with more fervor.I love you.
We clung to each other, our bodies feverishly grinding together, two lovers lost in a tempest, desperate not to let the maelstrom tear us apart. I couldn’t get enough of him. I had to feel him everywhere, on me, in me, a reminder that he was alive and whole, that the nightmare of almost losing him was behind us. He took me to heaven again and again, his fire pouring into me, claiming me, and I knew even if the world burned around us, I would always find sanctuary in his arms.
* * *
By the time Nikkosand I had slid to the tile floor, sated and spent, my bones were as limp as noodles, and my stomach growled with intense hunger. After stumbling to our feet and making our way to the bedchamber, I clamped a hand over my mouth, fighting back my nausea when we were hit with the stench of sickness.
I slipped into a clean robe and Nikkos flew us to his bedchamber—which was just a balcony away from mine—a winged shadow in the night, fluttering from one room to another. His room wasn’t as big as mine, but it smelled like him, sage, and sulfur, and most importantly,notlike an outhouse.
I threw off my robe and slipped beneath the covers of his big, soft bed while he lit the hearth and several candles and rung for the servants.
Nikkos climbed into bed beside me, holding me in his arms when a servant wearing a starched black dress came into the room, looking at him as if she’d seen a ghost. It took her a moment to close her mouth and to remember to curtsey.
I had to admit, I was startled by her appearance, too. She looked to be part human and something else. She had hooves like Mrs. Euphemia, but she had two horns that curled out of the top of her head and a bearded face.
“Y-yes, My Lord,” she finally stammered.
“We’re famished.” He gave her an easy smile. “Could you please get us some food?”
“And summon his brothers,” I added.
“Yes, Your Highness,” she said to me, then bowed again and quickly clomped out of the room.
I rested my head against Nikkos’s chest, running my hands over his swirling tattoos while enjoying the steady beating of his heart—and the chaos that erupted outside his bedchamber. Servants shouted through the halls, and wings wildly flapped.
Nikkos kissed the top of my head.Did Drae treat you well?
I tensed at the question, wondering how I should answer. Would Nikkos and Blaze expect me to bond with their brother now that he was being kind?I suppose,I finally answered.
He pulled back, frowning down at me. “If he was unkind, I need to know.”
I shook my head. “He wasn’t unkind.” I looked away, unable to meet his gaze. “He’s been very attentive.”
“But?”
I dragged my hands down my face with a groan. “But how am I supposed to forget how he treated me?”
He grasped my shoulders, his eyes locking with mine. “I’m not asking you to.”
I swallowed, looking down at my hands folded in my lap. I wished I could easily forgive him, that my feelings weren’t so complicated. That his prior cruel treatment hadn’t unearthed dark memories and repressed feelings I’d been trying for two years to forget.
