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“I allowed Ember to be kidnapped and taken to Hell, and I allowed my Coven to be overtaken by my demons. We lost three witches that night and nearly lost Rosemary. I should have stopped Ember or seen the signs. I should have been there when Carreau came for my parents. And now I’ve ruined everything once again.” She let out a humorless laugh, resentment cooling her skin. “Grandmother was right. I am a failure.”
Lifting her body to mine, I grasped her face with a gentle but firm hold so she couldn’t escape my words. “You could never be a failure, Jade. You are the most beautiful, compassionate, generous person I've ever met in my century of living. Everything you’ve done has been for your sisters. How can Rebecca not see that?”
She scoffed, shifting to move from my embrace, but I only held her tighter.
“Truly, Jade. If you want to see a true failure, look no further. The Prince of Pleasure. Exiled son. All I’ve done during my ninety-six years on Gaia is waste away my potential and hurt others with my selfish callousness.”
Her pert nose crinkled with skepticism.
“Don’t believe me?” I asked. “You may have cracked under the immense weight hefted onto your shoulders, but you didn’t break. You’ve spent the last year healing and rebuilding your confidence. Don’t think I haven’t seen how diligently you’ve worked to understand the dark magick within the talismans, despite me keeping much of their history from you. Or how you’re accepting your great aunt’s help to further study your spirit affinity, whether Rebecca ordered you to or not.Thatis not failure.”
Jade lifted her arms around my neck, her hands gripping my hair as she wrapped her legs around my hips. “And yet, you don’t offer yourself the same courtesy? That you struggle at all with your past choices shows me just how strong you are. You don’t take it lightly, the things you’ve done. You suffer with your conscience. You just need to have faith in yourself and courage to see through what needs to be done.”
My desires felt too close to the surface, my want for her heart, her body and her blood blinding me to anything else. We both trailed teasing touches along wet skin until our breaths were the only sounds in the clearing.
“Is this okay? You have to tell me to stop if you don’t want this,” I pleaded desperately into the crux of her neck, my lips vibrating with the need to take her.
She nodded, and the movement pressed my mouth along her skin, finally giving me a taste of her sweetness. “Yes, Alexei. I want this.”
The night took on a dreamlike edge as the celestial light above sent a shimmer across the forest. I felt lost in the spell she put me under.
When Jade pulled on the strands of my hair, yanking me to her lips, a groan of surrender escaped my throat. Her tongue tasted hot and sweet in my mouth. On a gasp, she pressed her face into my neck. “Why do you have to smell so Goddess-damn good all the time? So many times in my office, I would catch a whiff of your scent. It would linger on my clothes whenever you brushed against me. It was—is—infuriating!”
I flashed her my fangs in a broad smile. “Been thinking about it often, have you? I think about your sweet, earthy scent too, as you no doubt languish in the cotton sheets of your childhood bed, desperate for what I’ve been so willing to give you.”
Her breath hitched as I nipped the skin behind her ear.
“I’ve come countless times with my hand fisted around my cock, imagining the look you’re giving me now nearly as much as I’ve fantasized about hearing my name fall from your panting lips as I make you detonate with pleasure.”
Leaning forward to lick and suck at her pulse, I shook with need as a helpless moan fell from her open lips.
“Alexei.”
“Yes,” I hummed. “Just like that.”
Her breaths turned hectic as she writhed in my lap. With shaking hands, she grasped my length and teased the head before gripping hard. “I didn’t touch you the other night. Your cock is so hard. So big. Will you show me how to bring you pleasure like you did for me?”
Vixen!My hand covered hers, fearing I would erupt at her throaty purrs and the sweet, filthy words that fed every morsel of my soul. Her every sound, movement, and touch were my religion. But more than I wanted the dizzying relief of my climax, I wanted to taste her on my tongue.
With a gravelly groan trapped in my throat, I hoisted her up into my arms, biting on her lip when she squeezed those slippery, sexy legs around my waist. I tangled my tongue with hers as I lifted us out of the tub.
“We’re going back to the cabin,” I said, forcing my body to relax. When she opened her mouth to argue with me, I nipped at her nose. “Not a word, witch. I’m going to have you before the fire, where I can give your body the attention it deserves.”
She shivered in the cold air, and I snagged a towel from a crate and wrapped it around her shoulders.
“Hold on tight,” I whispered into her ear before I took off down the path.
It took seconds and by the time we reached the door, Jade lifted glassy eyes up at me with lust and a tinge of annoyance. “Gah! That’s no better than portaling.”
The warmth of the cabin sent goosebumps over her skin.
My bedroom lay on the opposite wall of the living room with the fireplace connecting them together. I brought my lips back to Jade’s and kissed away her irritation as I walked us to the fur rug before the flames.
Staring down at her pale flesh, I purred devilishly. “Now it’s my turn to savor mydessert. You remember what I said about my sweet tooth, don’t you, darling?”
I settled between her legs, pushing her thighs apart to reveal her wet center. When she stiffened, I glanced up to find her covering her breasts with a flush of embarrassment.
“I’m not used to being soopen,” she murmured when she met my eyes.
