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He withdrew his fangs and licked his lips before he moved back up my body. He lifted my hips as he tilted his own and slid inside until he was deep within, so deep it hurt. His thrusts were hard and forceful, his breaths stifled with quick moans.
I rocked with him then flung my hair out of the way, exposing my flesh for him.
“Fuck, baby.” His hand dug into my hair, and he closed his lips over my neck, piercing me with the same pain and pleasure again. He continued to move inside me, tilting my hips farther so he could fuck me and feed from me at the same time.
There was nothing else like it. My arms hooked over his shoulders, and I held on as he brought me to heaven with his touch. A rumble started in my stomach then spread to my extremities. Pleasure no other man had ever given me rocked through my body like waves in a violent storm. Tears burned down my cheeks as I was racked with ecstasy. “Cobra…”
8
LARISA
I saw Kingsnake approach the place where he’d ordered me to hide. I knew he was coming because I felt his emotions as he drew closer. My abilities had expanded since I’d become a vampire, and I could feel him the entire time he was gone, feel him locked in the throes of battle.
It was a horrible thing to experience, his potent anger and focus as he cut down his enemies. But it was also welcome, because I always knew that he was alive. I emerged from the tree when he drew near, seeing a powerful king approach me, his armor scuffed from the blades that had tried to reach his flesh.
The second he saw me, I felt it. Searing heat from unbridled flames. A longing that stretched across the seas. A relief like rainfall on a forest fire. His love wasn’t a particular sensation that I could detect, but it was the foundation for all those other emotions he felt. He cupped my cheeks with both palms and kissed me, a gentle kiss full of love instead of lust. He was the one in battle, but he feared for my life instead of his.
Before he pulled away, he kissed my forehead. The first time he’d ever done such a thing. The first time anyone had done such a thing. Engulfing me in the glow of unconditional love. I could feel Elias’s arousal the second his wife entered the room. Knew he wanted to fuck her. But Kingsnake had never felt that way in anyone else’s presence. Even when he spoke with Ellasara, he only emanated rage.
His eyes, his heart, his body…it was all just for me. “I love you.”
His arms were at his sides now, but his eyes hardened more than they ever had. He didn’t take a breath. Still as a statue, he looked as if he felt nothing at all, but underneath that mountain were rivers with infinite depths. Warmth flooded his body like sunlight in his veins, and the depth of that feeling was unlike anything I’d ever felt.
“I’m sorry about before—”
“It’s forgotten.”
“I want to be with you forever—soul or no soul.”
He absorbed that declaration for seconds before he stepped close to me again. His arm hooked around the arch in my back, and he drew me into him, his forehead coming back to mine. “Marry me.”
With my eyes on his lips, I gave a slight nod. “Yes.”
“It wasn’t a question, sweetheart.”
* * *
We sat across the table from each other, sunshine coming through the canopy and the windows. Kingsnake had pushed the table away from the walls so we could be in the shade as much as possible. Now that I was a vampire, I understood the discomfort he mentioned before, the way the rays felt so hot, it was as if they were melting your flesh.
Since the palace had burned to the ground, we didn’t know where to find Cobra. He was shacked up with Clara somewhere, so we’d have to wait for him to come to us. In the meantime, we sat together, enjoying the silent companionship that was born over a lifetime. But for us, it had happened in just a few months.
The door opened, and Viper entered. “Have you heard from him?”
“No.” Kingsnake kept his gaze out the window.
Viper took the chair at the head of the table. “Then I guess we’ll just sit on our hands and wait until his dick is thoroughly satisfied.”
My first breath as a vampire had been full of strength and enhanced abilities. But with every passing day, I started to grow weaker. My stomach began to cramp, and now it gnawed at my insides. I didn’t bother with the food I used to eat, because that wouldn’t satisfy me whatsoever.
I knew I needed blood.
Repulsive. Disgusting. But if I didn’t eat at some point, I would die.
Kingsnake must be hungry too, but he didn’t mention it. His eyes were the dark color of earth now, not the brilliant green they once were.
Minutes later, the door opened again, and Cobra entered. “Morning.”
“Take your morning and fuck right off,” Viper snapped.
