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I sat for a moment, processing. I wasn’t sure if I believed him or not. “Why does she dislike you so much?”
“She has a number of reasons, but mostly because of our brother.”
“I didn’t know you had a brother. Where is he now?”
Von held my gaze. “He is with the dead, in the Spirit Realm.”
My heart sank. I couldn’t imagine what that loss felt like. Kaleb had been taken, and I had nearly lost my mind. As if it were instinctual, I moved towards him and crouched between his legs, my hands falling on his knees. “I am so sorry.”
He leaned forward, his face inches from mine, his voice softer than usual. “You do not need to give me anymore unnecessary apologies.”
“Yet here I am,” I answered, my lashes flickering as I raised my gaze to his.
“Yet here you are,” he repeated as he leaned back in his chair, his thumb and forefinger rolling thin air. His onyx orbs studied me intently, purposefully. I realized that Von did not lean back to distance himself—no, it was so he could take all of me in, as if I were a painting and he had not made up his mind about some perplexing question I imposed. When he parted his lips and rolled his tongue, I realized it was sexual, too, like he was debatingwherehewanted me.
I had a feeling it wasn’t hung up on a wall but, rather, facedown with my fists in the sheets.
He leaned forward, his mouth beside my ear. “Would you like me to show you just how devout I can be?”
His proximity elicited a shiver to roll down the length of my spine. I licked my lips, knowing full well I was dipping into dangerous, dangerous waters. “Yes.”
A wicked grin.
“I will start by getting down on my knees,” he purred, his voice a sinister thing.
This proud warrior kneeling before me? The thought made me weak.
“Then?” I whispered, my throat bound in thistles.
He pulled back, just enough so I could see his face. His gaze, a scalding black flame, met mine. “I will spread these glorious thighs.”
Slowly, his fingertips slid up my legs. My skin tingled in the wake of his featherlight touch.
I swallowed. “And then?”
He brought his mouth close to mine, close enough I could taste each word. “I will worship you with my tongue.”
My breath caught in my throat.
. . . Was I ready for this?
I took one look at that sinfully built male looking down at me and . . .
I balked. Gods-damnit.
Awkwardly, I shot to my feet. “It’s late,” I stammered, backing up.
“Excuses, excuses.” Von chuckled softly as he stood, a dark king rising from his throne, a predator emerging from the shadows and he was coming straight for me.
Ringed, tattooed fingers grabbed my chin, a hand clutching my hip as he backed me against the wall with athud. My heart echoed the sound.
His lips feathered mine. “I want nothing more than to taste, to fill, to claim every inch of you. To sink myself into you so deeply that you will never get me out. I want to mar you so badly, you will be ruined from ever wanting to kiss another, fuck another,loveanother. I will devour you, Kitten. And when I’m finished, I will do it all over again.”
I let out a shaky, shaky breath, words escaping me.
Von handed me a soul-damning smile. “So you best pray to the Creator, Little Goddess, because the next time we have a moment like this, Iwillcollect what is mine. When I do, there will be no redemption for either of us.”
He pulled away, the shadows parting as he strode towards the door, leaving without saying another word.
