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“That’s not what I was going to say,” I admitted, my blood growing warmer with each step.
My back hit a birch trunk.
“But I like studying with you.” Deus caught both my hands in one of his and lifted my arms above my head.
Up close, I could see the stubble that had grown on Deus’s jaw since he’d shaved this morning, and it was silly how sexy I was finding it.
“I like studying you.” Deus nuzzled my neck. “For example, did you know you have a freckle righthere?” He moved to place a sensuous kiss right under my ear, sending a wave of desire rolling through me.
Mine.
I let my eyes flutter closed as Deus began kissing his way down my neck, his tongue flicking at my skin.
“Wait,” I gasped, and he froze. As much as I wanted this to be something more, I just couldn’t allow myself to go down that road. “Deus, are you sure you’re okay with the whole ‘casual’ thing?”
He was motionless, and my stomach quivered.
Finally, Deus spoke. “If that is what you want, then yes, I can do casual.”
If his voice seemed a little off its usual happy lilt, I didn’t have time to analyze it before his mouth began to move.
Deus released my hands, and I brought my arms around his shoulders. My shirt rode up, and he quickly took advantage of it. His hands slipped beneath my top, moving up my stomach and toward my breasts.
I tangled my fingers in his hair, my lips kissing whatever I could reach—his jaw, his neck, his ear.
Deus’s breathing grew rough, and I took that as encouragement. I wrapped one leg around his waist, then the other. One of his hands moved to cup my butt while the other brushed across the bottom of my breast.
“Is this all right?” he breathed.
“No.” I squirmed against him. “You’re teasing me.”
When his eyes met mine, they were feverish, and his smile was wild. “I don’t mind that.”
Then, our mouths clashed together. I clung to him, my tongue dancing with his. Deus groaned, and I could feel his hardness pressing against me. I loved knowingIhad done that… I’d stirred desire and lust in him.
My thong was growing wet, and an ache was growing between my thighs. I squeezed my legs tighter around him.
“You’ve one heck of a grip,” Deus whispered against my mouth.
“Sorry.” I loosened my hold.
From the corner of my eye, I caught the blue glow of my cuff. The magic was working overtime to keep me from shifting, and I hadn’t even been aware of wanting to release my tentacles. It must have been a side effect of my arousal.
“Don’t be sorry. I’m into it.” He shifted me against the tree.
And then he was kissing me again, and I forgot to worry about anything. About my alchemy grade, about my tentacles, about what we were or why I thought he was mine, and about what we were doing.
Nothing mattered except living in this moment with Amadeus.
When Deus’s thumb brushed my nipple, I gasped, my body automatically arching into him—
Sound exploded above us, the scent of hot sap and smoke filling my nose. A jolt of adrenaline shot through my body, and I screamed in surprise.
A second later, it began to rain.
I looked up through the tree canopy above us. The sky had gone from gray to black over our heads, and the downpour seemed focused on us. It soaked my hair, clothes and the birch tree behind us, but I could see dry ground just ten feet away.
Twisting my neck, I studied the birch’s bark above us. It was black and smoldering. My mouth fell open, and I turned to ask Deus what was going on, only to find he was smoldering, too.
