Corbin chuckled. “Oh, Dani. You have no idea how close to death you humans really are.” He flipped her over then, entering her pussy from behind on a heated thrust. Dani cried out, throwing her head back with the pleasure of it.

Moving them once more, Corbin gripped hold of her hair, arching her back until she was nearly riding him whilst standing, his other hand in control of her hips. Dani’s hands fell to her breasts, clutching and kneading greedily, as she took her pleasure.

“Say you’re mine,” Corbin whispered against her throat. “I wish to hear it.”

“I’m yours,” Dani panted.

He tugged her hair, arching her back further. “Louder.”

“I’m yours!” Dani practically shouted.

Anything to please him.

“Good girl,” he praised her. “Now, stay still for a bit.”

Corbin bit into her, thrusting in time along with it. His mouth sucking, and his cock pumping until both of them were nearly crazed with it.

“Come for me, Dani,” he hissed, releasing her from his blood-stained lips. “Come for me and tell me this was never just for show.”

“It isn’t,” she cried. “It wasn’t.”

“It was real,” he admitted. “It was real for us both.”

Dani cried out then, clenching around him for several thrusts until a moment later, he spent himself in her, his cum trickling down her legs, same as the blood which coated her throat.

He laid her down on the bed then, drawing her against him as he sealed her wounds.

Fuck, she was beautiful, far more delicate and fragile than he’d ever envisioned, her pulse fluttering like a butterfly he could crush in his hands.

“What happens now, Dani? What happens after this?”

She didn’t answer him for a long time, instead choosing only to cuddle against him. Until finally, she rose. “You owe me a blood oath,” she said, climbing on top of him to straddle his hips. She offered him her wrist then, allowing him to bite her there once more. Eagerly, he sucked from her, greedy, harsh pulls that made him hard in an instant, ready for her again.

Pulling back her wrist once more, she sank down onto his cock with a delicious, throaty groan. “A blood oath that says the next time you take your revenge against Lucien, thatweshall share it, that his life will be mine to claim alongside you and yours, and that you will never lie to me again.” She lifted herself up, swirling her hips, teasing him with whether she would sink down and put him out of his misery. “No more lies. No more secrets.”

He could be inside her for centuries and never tire of it.

But they only had a few decades more, at most.

“Swear it,” she whispered harshly. Pure harpy once more. “Swear it and I’m forever yours.”

Corbin chuckled, shaking his head. What could a human possibly know of forever?

But damn it, if she didn’t already have him wrapped around her finger already.

“You have my word,” he swore, bringing his wrist to his lips.

He bit down, drawing blood before offering it to her, encouraging her to drink. “What’s mine is yours, darling,” he said, lifting his wrist to her lips, “and what’s yours is mine.”

Dani placed her mouth on his wrist, tasting him as he had her.

“Drink deep,” he growled, and to his satisfaction, she did.

Corbin lay awake longinto the midnight hours, until it became sunrise and then dusk again, his body unmoving, whilst Dani lay tucked into his side, sleeping. Time often passed for him in a blur like this. Little more than a brief flash of memory, the years speeding by with ever-increasing speed. Eternity was truly endless.

Eventually, he rose, padding naked from his room and down the abandoned penthouse corridor. Only to find Kharis alone, smoking a cigarette in his living room.

“So, you fucked her.”