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Before I could make up my mind on whether my prior kiss with Cass had been a good idea, his lips were on mine.
At first, I was hesitant. Cass and I had always just been friends. But that was then, and this was now, and my body was telling me that I very much wanted to explore new territory with Cass. I pushed myself up to meet his embrace. Our kiss dragged on until my panties, which the sun had almost dried from my swim, were drenched for a different reason. Cass broke away from my mouth, a devilish grin on his face.
“Man, I can’t tell you how long I have wanted to do that,” he said.
“Justthat?” I teased, the ache between my thighs vehemently disagreeing with him not touching me.
He looked at me, amused.
“I don’t know how they do things here at the High Court, but back where we come from, you at least have to take a girl to a proper meal first,” he replied, raising his eyebrows at me suggestively.
“Cass, I’ve known you almost my entire life. And I’m not hungry right now,” I retorted flatly.
I propped myself up on my elbows under him, my nipples poking through my translucent white bra. He set his jaw, contemplating.
“Well, lucky for you, I’m starving,” he joked, but his eyes blazed with a hunger that was anything but jovial.
He rose to his knees, and his large body cast a shadow over me as I looked up into his brown eyes, noting the gold that traced through them, just like mine. He pressed his hulking mass against my small frame, pushing me to the grass. He reached a hand between my legs, pushing my panties to the side, and found me soaked in anticipation for him. He hovered his mouth over mine as he slid a finger into my core.
I gasped, trying to close the gap between our mouths, but he pulled back, keeping just enough distance so that I breathed into his mouth but could not touch his lips. He brought his finger to his lips and licked at it, showing me with his eyes how much he enjoyed it. He relieved me of my bra before he went back to working his two fingers in and out of me. He inhaled my breathy moans.
“At night, sometimes after a battle, I lay in my tent and dreamed of this. Dreamed of you,” he whispered.
He looked at me like I was everything he had ever wanted in life materialized before him. I pushed myself up, closing the distance between our lips and kissed him, stopping him from spilling any more of his secrets.
“This is real, Cass. This is me and you, right now.”
“Then make my dreams come true. Come on my fingers, Mandy,” he growled.
He stroked the same knot inside of me over and over again. I clung to his back, my hands clawing at the outlines of tattooed wings I knew were there, imaging what it would be like if I clung to real wings instead. I closed my eyes as I opened myself to him and allowed my climax to crash over me. The pleasure washed over my body, and I loosened my grip on Cass, lying on my back with my eyes still closed.
I felt Cass rise to his knees and then a shadow settled over us like something large was standing over us. Startled, I popped my eyes open, but it was still just the two of us in the alcove. The shadow I felt settle over us came from Cass.
Large, feathered onyx and charcoal wings now protruded from his back. I was too shocked to say anything. He rose to his feet and pulled me up to him. He wrapped his arms around me, holding me to his chest like I was something to be cherished, and his wings closed over us like a cocoon.
“Better than a dream,” he murmured, kissing the top of my head.
And then, the next thing I knew, we were in the air, his wings beating around us. Before I could find my words, we were above the tops of the trees. I should have been terrified that I was naked and flying above the city. But wrapped in Cass’s arms, I felt as safe as I had ever been. He was laughing as subtle tears of happiness streamed down his face.
“Wha—How?” I managed to gasp out.
“You,” he replied simply, laughing and smiling down at me.
I began to protest before I remembered Luke moving inside of me in the ocean and the blinding ball of the light surrounding us. Cass flew toward the High Court.
“What about our stuff? I’m naked, Cass!” I protested, remembering myself.
“Fuck our clothes and fuck them,” he said, flying over the parapets and rooftops of the Court.
We landed on the balcony to his room at the Dumont manor. Cass encircled me in his wings, leaning his head down and gently bestowing a kiss upon my lips before letting go of me for the first time since we lay in the alcove. I followed him inside as he walked toward his closet.
“It might be a little big,” he joked, tossing me one of his white undershirts.
15
Alarie
Ihad not expected Rhett and Luke to be waiting for me when I finally made my way back to the Rein manor that afternoon. I was cutting it close—I had not planned for our hike and other things to take quite as long as they had—but I’d still make it on time to the Fall Ball if I started getting ready now. I would have to skip Rhett’s pre-party festivities and meet Cass at the Ball, however.
