Page 195 of Crown of Briars
“I—I need you,” I panted. “Varius?—”
“Mmm,” he purred against me, then sucked on the tenderest parts of me. I let out a whimper, a plea. “So much to worship… I don’t think I’m quite finished, my queen.” His lips pressed into me, his tongue tracing circles as he licked and sucked.
When the edge of his fangs brushed against me, I shattered completely. My hips rolled, and I thrust against him. Hecontinued to feast on me, chasing me over that edge, drawing out the sensations that fired through me.
He withdrew, his arms coming around me and sitting me atop his lap. He righted the crown, which had fallen sideways on my head. “Eyes on me,dannahla. I want to look at you when I come.”
My eyelids fluttered open, my body molten from his efforts. I didn’t have my diamond dagger this time, but we had conducted plenty of experiments in bed, both with and without the help of diamonds. It turned out my fae blood granted me more strength than I realized.
And my body was growing accustomed to fitting Varius’s length inside me.
He spread my legs again, and I wrapped them around his middle, my heels digging into his back.
“Take me, Shadow King,” I commanded.
He kissed me, hard and bruising, his fangs digging into my lip just before he plunged into me with a singular powerful thrust. I cried out, but he silenced me with his tongue, claiming my mouth again and again. He slid out, then drove back into me, harder this time. My fingernails dug into the skin of his back, and I buried my face in his shoulder.
“No,” he growled. “Lookat me.”
I leaned back, my eyes fixed on him. His pupils flared as he thrust again, a deep and rasping groan tearing from his throat. He set a hard pace, pushing deeper and deeper, his hips lifting with each movement. Still, I held his gaze, watching the way his eyes grew wilder. Shadows poured around us, framing the bed like a curtain.
“Sybelle,” he moaned, slamming into me. The bed creaked loudly from our frantic movements. The sound of his animalistic grunts mingled with our skin slapping together. My legs tightened around him. He shifted, lifting me higher so he couldbury himself at a sharper angle. My throat was raw from my guttural cries.
He filled me so completely. The friction of his skin grinding against mine was so potent, so intoxicating. Stars danced in my vision, and my own shadows exploded around us, tinting the darkness with midnight blue.
Our powers collided, and I cried out his name. His teeth scraped my bare shoulder, my throat, before he drew back to look at me again, to pin me with that feral gaze. I felt him everywhere. Our bodies were one.
He pounded into me, holding nothing back. I screamed again and again, unable to contain myself. With one more violent thrust, he spilled inside me, his cock quivering from the force of it. I followed soon after, my mind spiraling, my body dissolving from his touch. I was nowhere and everywhere. Nothing and everything.
Time stopped. The world ceased to exist.
It was only me and Varius and the thrashing intensity that burned between us.
Varius shuddered against me, leaning his head against my shoulder as we caught our breath. My legs were still wrapped around him, our bodies slick with sweat.
Slowly, he lowered us down until we were reclined on the bed, still entangled in one another. Our crowns fell against the pillows, and we both chuckled.
“Are you all right?” he whispered, leaning back to look at me, his eyes full of concern. “I didn’t hurt you, did I?”
I smiled, tucking his sweaty hair behind his ear. “No. That was… perfection.”
He kissed me, long and slow, so unlike the desperate and wild kisses from before. This one was deliberate, as if we had all the time in the world.
And perhaps we did.
“You deserve nothing less than perfection,” he said against my lips. “My Shadow Queen.”
He rolled us so I lay atop him, my arms around his neck as he kissed me fully. Our legs were still intertwined, the sheets bunching around us. My sighs mingled with his deep voice as he murmured promises of the eternity we would spend together.
An eternity with my husband. My king.
My beautiful, monstrousdannahla.
