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After dragging the boat to shore, Tik-Tok took a steadying breath and shoved all thoughts of the silver-haired female from his mind before marching up to the glass house.

Celyna was sprawled on her back in the sand outside the door, naked, eyes closed. The sun glistened along the planes of her lithe body, her large breasts begging to be touched. “You reallydidcome earlier,” she said with a small curl of her lips.

It took Tik-Tok a moment to remember what she meant.Ah.That was right—she’d told him to come earlier next time and he’d forgotten. He laughed. “I didn’t want to miss out again.”

“Or you hoped to get an extra vision out of me now that you have the female.” Celyna beckoned him closer with the curl of a finger. “Luckily, you’ve caught me in a mood.”

“A mood?” he asked, sauntering nearer.

“Mmm.” She slid her fingers up her sides, arching her back in a stretch, before running them back down the center of her chest.

Tik-Tok took in her hardened nipples, the heavy rise and fall of her chest, and the slickness coating her inner thighs. Amood, if he ever saw one. His cock rose to the occasion and he licked his lips. “Am I interrupting?”

“If that’s what you wish to call it.” Her black eyes opened and the force of her lust washed over him. “Come to me, pirate. Let’s see what the fates have to tell you today.”

Tik-Tok didn’t need to be told twice. She was giving himexactlywhat he wanted—in more ways than one. As he stepped up to the sea witch, she spread her legs wide. He dropped to his knees between them and leaned over her body, a hand on either side of her head.

She flicked her tongue across the seam of his lips and gripped his jacket, tugging him down onto her fully. He opened his mouth, allowing her access and taking the opening she gave. Soft moans of anticipation rose from her as he met her tongue, thrust for thrust, pulling a groan from him.

Beneath him, Celyna circled her hips, grinding her core against his length. He responded by sitting up to shuck off his clothes. If he didn’t get inside her now, he might not last long enough to make her come. Not when he’d been dying to bury himself in someone else for weeks now. Someone who had been pressed against him last night in the most delicious form of torture. His jacket hit the sand and he pulled the white tunic over his head. The scent of sweet vanilla struck his nose.

And he froze.

It smelled like North. His cock throbbed, his pants straining to contain him. Celyna was exquisite and skilled, but North … was different. And he wanted it to beherbeneath him now. Her and no one else.

“Fuck,” he groaned. “I can’t do this.”

Celyna ran a hand down his bare chest before squeezing him through his pants. He shook with desire, wanting desperately to unleash himself. But not with Celyna. “You most certainly can.”

“Celyna…” he said with a hint of warning.

But she was already untying his pants and pulling him free. Her hand wrapped around his length, stroking in a variation of long, hard pulls and soft caresses, precisely as he liked. His head fell back at the sensation. Maybe hecould. The vision she could give him would be worth the guilt, after all.

When his eyes fluttered shut, an image of North sleeping in his bed flashed across his eyelids. The way her hair cascaded over his pillow, the soft breaths escaping her rosy lips, and the gentle sweep of her long lashes. How vulnerable she had appeared, hands tucked beneath her chin. Trusting him explicitly as she slept. He jerked back out of Celyna’s touch. “I can’t,” he insisted, tucking himself away.

“You got what you wanted,” the sea witch seethed, suddenly on her feet. “She’s the key to your portal. Nothing more.”

Tik-Tok pulled his shirt back on. “Sheismore.”

“Oh?” Celyna walked, hips swaying, toward the ocean. “Perhaps I should make sure she knows her place.”

“Don’t.” Tik-Tok’s vision blurred with rage. “Don’t go anywhere near her.”

She stepped into the sea and grinned.

“Stop fucking with me, witch!” He snagged his tunic off the sand and stepped toward her.

But she only grinned wider before swimming directly forThe Temptress.

“Celyna,” he yelled.Shit.There was no telling what she would say to North, what lies she would spew. He raced back to his boat, shoving it into the water. His hands shook as he rowed faster than he’d ever rowed before. “If you touch her, I’ll fucking kill you!Celyna!”

Chapter Fourteen

North

The sea witch?North couldn’t keep the shocked expression from her face as she watched Tik-Tok row toward an aquamarine sandy shore. He’d detoured the ship to have sex with a female? Did this sea witch care that he’d been sleeping beside North in his bed? Why wassheworried about it? Because… Because…

A body pressed up beside her, pulling North from her thoughts. “He goes to visit Celyna every year,” Echo said. “They both get what they want when he sees her, but we were here right before he went to the Emerald City. It’s too soon to be back…”

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