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“Yes,” I agreed, picking up the pace. She went quiet, but the scent of her arousal remained, and I could feel her heart beating hard in her chest.

She wanted me.

Me!

And I was going to have her.

Chapter Thirteen

Susara

Caivid made it to the shelter so quickly it was like he’d traveled there a million times already.

I couldn’t see the grazing land that was now a pond in the darkness, and I was glad for it. The shelter itself was just a bunch of sticks and downed logs piled on top of a few boulders, with a narrow opening at the front. From most sides, it would look like nothing more than a bramble bush, but inside, it was large enough for my father and me to sleep side by side.

My eyes had more or less adjusted to the darkness by the time Caivid set me down in front of the shelter, but the interior was so dark I couldn’t help feeling nervous. Usually, I would check each part of it with my crook tomake sure no animals had bedded down before trying to enter.

Then it occurred to me. “We left my crook behind.”

Caivid was a dark, looming shadow next to me with only the glowing of his eyes to see by, and after that last kiss, I was having a hard time meeting them. Fades, he’d queued me up so strong and swift I still felt damp between my legs. My longing for him was thick in the back of my throat and my stomach quivered with want to yank him into the shelter and. . . and. . .

My cheeks were so hot they may as well be on fire.

“Would you like me to go back for it?” Caivid’s voice was a husky rumble. Wool and wails! Eventhatwas making me squirm. “Will the humans find it?”

My breath caught. “Oh. Perhaps they will. . .” They’d know immediately it was mine, too. “Maybe I should send a message to my father and the headman. If those villagers go back and report me missing, he’ll be so worried.”

Caivid nodded and whistled low into the night. I waited for the flapping of bird wings to sound. But there was nothing.

He whistled again, this time more sharply, and it was then that I remembered. “I tried this before. For somereason, the birds wouldn’t come here. It’s odd for them to ignore our calls, isn’t it? My father and I have sent messages to the headman from this shelter in the past.”

Caivid’s brow furrowed in confusion. “This. . . is an oddity I should report to Sythcol.”

Disappointment made me go cold. “I suppose we should go back then.”

Caivid was silent for a long moment before finally murmuring, “Do you want to go back?”

I absolutely didnotwant to go back. Not even in the slightest. What I wanted was for Caivid to kiss me again, to pull him into the shelter and forget anyone else in the world even existed.

A rumble sounded from deep in Caivid’s chest. A warm, rich sound that made me gasp. “All right then, sunshine. How about we linger for just a few moments? Just long enough to. . . sate you.”

Tosateme? “Are we really doing this?” My voice came out so breathless I could barely hear it. “We both know it’s not a good idea for me to play conquest for you right now.”

Caivid’s eyes went soft in a way that made me melt. “Begetting you with child is the very last thing I have on my mind rightnow, sunshine.”

It was? Disappointment hollowed out my chest. “Then what did all those kisses mean?”

I could hear the smile in his tone as he said, “I’m not going to get you pregnant, Susara, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have plans for you. Should you consent, of course.”

Oh Fades,yes, I was consenting! “What exactly is your plan?” My voice was far too eager, but I couldn’t help it.

He hummed under his breath. “You told me that my tongue was only good for speaking.”

I blinked as he leaned down close to me. All the way until I could feel his hot breath curling around my ear.

He whispered, “Let me prove to you it’s good for more than that.”

A full-body shiver coursed all the way through me and my pussy throbbed.

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