Page 161 of The Stars are Dying

His irises were alive again, near glowing, and something thrilled me within at seeing the effects of my blood. Trailing fingers over his neck, I noticed the raw marks were gone. The relief I felt was immeasurable, but it didn’t erase the memory of it that gripped me with a vengeance.

Nyte kissed my jaw. “You are so brave. So magnificent. But I hope this isn’t end of your desires tonight.”

I shook my head. It wasn’t even close to enough. I needed so much more from him I couldn’t even form a sentence with the scattered words in my mind.

“May I…?” Nyte’s fingers lingered on the hem of the nightgown clinging to my skin.

My chest ached at his tenderness, not used to this kind of attention. It flooded me suddenly, and once again all I could give was a silent nod.

I raised my arms as he peeled the material away, but he locked eyes with me even when I was finally naked before him. He shook his head, scanning every inch of my face, and my gut twisted at the anger and disappointment locking his jaw. My barriers rose until Nyte moved so abruptly I yelped, clinging to his neck, my legs clamped around his waist as he stood from the water.

Nyte carried me to the bed, and my heart slammed. It felt as if my skin were the only thing stopping it from breaking free.

“I was going to list all the things you deserve, but fuck that—it’s not good enough. So here are my promises instead.” The black silk bedsheets clung to our skin, but all I could focus on was the fiery passion in his eyes. “I’m going to kill him. I will never say his name because I plan to wipe it from existence on this realm so you may never hear it again.” His cock slid against me, and his hand hooked my thigh around him to bring us closer. “I’m going to right everything he wronged. Give you everything he denied you. Worship every inch of the goddess you are, starting right now. Do you believe that?”

My brow pinched with every press of the tip of his cock against my apex. “I believe you.”

“Good. Now I’m going fuck you, if that’s what you want. This night won’t end with once or twice if you tell me yes. There won’t be enough time to fulfill every promise I make to pleasure you either. But this night is yours. I am yours.”

“I want this,” I said. “I want you.”

Nyte had been a pain in my ass but a longing I’d always reached for. Even the night I’d stumbled into the dance room and discovered him there I’d wanted him.

He wasn’t just a lustful craving. Never had that been all I wanted, but I couldn’t place what it was. Something our language didn’t know, that didn’t begin and end with our time. And I wanted to take it slow to figure it out so I wouldn’t miss a thing of what was unraveling between us.

“Just know this ends any second you say. You are in control.” His lips on my jaw scattered everything, and I arched into him. “Say it.”

“I am in control.”

His tongue trailed over the bite mark he’d made, and my legs tightened around him. My whole body surged with a current of pleasure, and he smiled, heading lower.

“Your blood is incredible. But I’ve dreamed far more of tasting you in other places.”

Teeth nipped over my peaked breast, and I inhaled sharply. My fingers tugged his hair when he sucked instead. Every lap of his tongue and placement of his lips was so precise, leaving nothing of me untouched. Nyte trailed torturous kisses over my ribs, down my navel. Realizing where he was headed, my eyes opened, but my head tipped back. My blood was roaring. I’d never had someone—

My hands grappled the sheets tightly as his tongue slid slowly through my folds. He gave a groan of pure gratification that vibrated over my core, and I was in a state of utter pleasure. He licked again and again, so slow my teeth dragged over my lower lip, wanting to beg formore.I didn’t know what to ask for, only that this was bliss and torture combined.

“Watch me as I pleasure you,” he purred.

Stars above.

I wasn’t prepared. Nothing could have braced me for the surge of dominance I felt witnessing Nyte on his knees off the bed, hands curled around my thighs as he gave a dark smile of satisfaction between my legs. He locked my stare, planting a kiss to my inner thigh as he said, “Good girl.”

Then he devoured.

I didn’t know what I expected, but Nyte knew how to unravel me. He touched and licked and sucked so meticulously every movement raced me toward a high edge.

“Are you going to come for me, Starlight?” The rumble of his voice over my apex accelerated my sprint. My hand unfurled from the sheets to slip into his hair, my hips rocking against his mouth, and he chuckled with satisfaction. “You feel like you are. You taste…fucking incredible.”

I couldn’t watch anymore, throwing my head back at the finger he slipped into me. My body curved, and I moaned when he added a second. He worked them with a slow hook, building speed, until I teetered on the edge of something so euphoric.

“That’s it,” he praised, and those final vibrations threw me over.

I cried out with the climax that shattered me. He kept devouring, and I was helpless against the grip of his hands digging into the flesh of my thighs. I hoped it would mark. I wanted him imprinted on every part of me.

This experience would never compare to anything I’d done before with Hektor. Nyte was taking every memory of him and setting it ablaze so I would never think of it again.

Only this.

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