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I hadn’t made any choice, not when I had so many other things to think about. I could live a short life and keep my soul…or I could live forever as a hollow vessel. It was obvious what Cobra wanted me to choose. “I don’t know.”
He did his best to hide his disappointment, but it flashed across his eyes like a meteor in the sky. “If you become a vampire and live forever, your life would be exactly as it is now. You planned on living forever—and now you can.”
“But if I die—”
“Now that a truce has been granted between our people, there would be no reason to die.”
“I’m not arrogant enough to assume I’m invincible.”
“You’re invincible with me.” His confident eyes stared into mine. “You think I’d ever let anything happen to my queen?”
It happened again, my heart clenching painfully. “We hardly know each other—”
“I know you better than anyone else. And you know me better than anyone else.” He said it so confidently, with eyes that were bright with power. “I’ve lived a long time and bedded a lot of women. None of them has ever meant a damn thing to me—except you.”
I could feel the pulse in my neck, feel it race in both excitement and fear, and that meant he could hear it. The last time someone professed their love to me, it was a lie. But I knew it wasn’t a lie with Cobra. The only thing he wanted was me. “Why me?”
There was a long pause, like he didn’t have an answer. “I don’t know.”
“You don’t know…?”
“I know that’s not the romantic answer. But whatever we have between us is deeper than logic. It’s chemistry, the way our bodies hum to life when we’re in the same room together. It’s the way I love talking to you as much as I love fucking you. After I bedded you once or twice, I should have been bored and ready for the next thing, but I wanted more. I still want more.” His eyes looked so beautiful when he spoke with such sincerity. “It’s more than physical. It’s emotional too, because when you left, I was an utter mess. Ask my brothers, and they’ll tell you.”
“I was a mess too.”
A ghost of a smile moved across his lips. “If you choose to remain mortal, we’ll have our time together, but it’ll be brief, and then I’ll be inconsolable once it’s over. Or you can join me, and we can take our sweet-ass time. I know there’s an issue of children…because that’s important to most women—”
“I’m not sure if I want them. I always assumed when I found the right person, I would have them, but that’s just because of my duty to reproduce and continue the family line. Now that my father is gone and my sister isn’t speaking to me and the Ethereal are essentially no more…it doesn’t matter.”
“Then it makes even more sense.”
I felt his presence push into me, asking for the answer he wanted to hear. “I pledged myself to someone before, and it ended up being the biggest mistake of my life. Now you’re asking me to sacrifice my soul when we haven’t had much time together—”
“First of all, don’t compare me to that asshole who used you. Don’t pretend you don’t realize you’ve got me wrapped around your finger and pinned under your thumb. I’m so fucking hard for you—all the time. And secondly, I’m not asking you to decide this very moment. We have time. I just want to know you’re open to it.”
“I am open to it.” I said it without thinking. Before Cobra, I never would have even considered it, considered sacrificing my soul for a guy after the last man in my life had stabbed me in the back. But I considered it because something about him felt right—even when I was locked in that cell and he was bringing me food, it felt right.
He stared at me with a hard expression, his eyes slowly shifting back and forth between mine. I’d give anything to know his thoughts the way he could hear my heartbeat, but I suspected he felt a dip of pleasure when he heard me say that. “Let’s go to bed.”
* * *
He rested his blade against the nightstand and placed his dagger on top. Piece by piece, his armor and clothing were removed, revealing the chiseled muscle underneath tight skin with corded veins. He was the one nearly naked, but he looked at me like I was wearing nothing. He dropped everything until he was fully naked, his hard cock anxious.
I swallowed, having never seen a man so gorgeous. I still wore my dress with the flowers in my hair, but I felt paralyzed by that hungry stare. Today had been the worst of my life, but he somehow made it seem like a distant memory.
He came around the bed toward me, eyes locked on mine, and once he reached me, his hand gripped my back and tugged me close. The zipper came down, and the dress came loose, exposing my tits to the cool air. It slipped to my ankles, and then his big thumbs hooked into my panties and pulled them down. Once I was buck naked, he lifted me to his body then adjusted me onto his length. He pulled me down over his cock like he slid his hand into a glove.
I breathed out as my arms circled his neck. I expected him to lay me down on the bed and dominate me, but he held me with his strong arms and started to guide me up and down, strong enough to hold my weight like it was nothing.
Fuck, that was hot.
With minimal effort, he continued to move me, sliding me down his length over and over, his eyes locked on mine with our lips close together. Our breaths started to deepen, started to grow louder. Soon, we panted for each other, our wet bodies moving together perfectly.
I squeezed him as I came, turned on by his strength, the way he made me feel lighter than a feather, when I had muscles in both my arms and legs. I clung to him and sliced his skin with my nails, my tits dragging against his chest as I moved. “Cobra…” My hand cupped his face, and I kissed him as I finished, feeling more pleasure between my legs than I ever had before.
He carried me to the bed and dropped me on the sheets before he moved over me. He folded me into a ball and planted one of my feet against his chest before he ravished me, banging the headboard against the wall, making my toes curl because the pleasure continued. “Be my baby.”
My eyes found his, the possessive need in his stare.
