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He touches his lips to the underside of my ear.
Fates, this male turns me on.
Abruptly, Nottuza looks up, and as if dazed, I blink, needing a moment to return my attention to the people in the room.
A fae male carries his plate toward our table, and I smile politely, knowing he’s been assigned a seat with me since I uncovered a dagger on his person.
At parties, my brothers always sit with the most dangerous people in the room. This way, they can keep an eye on them.
The male glances at Nottuza, then, as if ordered, spins on his heel and turns away to find a seat elsewhere. Another male, the former clerk of the Winter Court, clearly assigned to the table with me, moves away too. A couple follows.
“What are you doing?” I ask Nottuza.
“Nothing at all.”
“If you wish to dine with me alone, perhaps you want to invite me to dinner. Right now, I must entertain, which means those fae you’re frightening away, I must reinvite to sit with me.”
“They can look at us from afar. Trust me, you’re entertaining enough just by sitting here.”
He picks up the pair oflashisticks, examines them. “These are usually made of wood, aren’t they?”
“They are, but we’re dining with vampires, so glasslashiare more appropriate.”
He smiles. “Only you would consider that.” Using one stick, he pushes around the three items on my plate. A scallop, a piece of white fish, and rice bunched up in a tiny bite-size ball.
“Scallop first,” I tell him.
He stabs it, and I wince at the incorrect etiquette. “We uselashito lift food and place it into our mouths. Gently.”
Evie, after finishing the service, grabs a seat with Winter all the way on the other side of the hall. Gah.
“I’m simply sitting here,” he says in explanation. “It’s not my problem people are scared.”
He stabs the fish and offers me a bite of stacked scallop and fish.
I lean back. “You could help.”
“How?”
“Quit stabbing the food and smile more.”
He bares his teeth, showing them to me no doubt for shock value. And I am shocked indeed, for his fangs are the longest vampire fangs I’ve ever seen. Coupled with his inflamed, red gums, he looks hungry. Is he?
My heart starts drumming, my blood heating up, my magic starting to buzz as if anticipating his bite. I touch the pulse at the side of my neck. “Oh boy.”
Nottuza squeezes my hip, and his thumb starts brushing my skin, making me wetter for him than I already am.
“You smile plenty for the two of us.” He offers me the scallop and the fish piece again.
I hold his wrist, my thumb pressing over his nonexistent pulse.
“Nottuza, are you familiar with the fae customs during the mating season?”
“Some of them, yes.”
“If you feed me and I accept so publicly, I will expect you to court me.”
He sets thelashion the plate. “Ah.”
