Page 111 of Gilded Wicked Mirrors
“Will you show me?
“Yes,” he said as his form melted away, leaving a golden peacock in his place. She jumped back, alarmed, and her hand accidentally stroked one of its feathers. The bird tried to nibble at her fingertips, and she stepped back again.
Emrys was before her again in an instant, and the bird was gone.
“I felt it,” she said softly.
“It’s a persuasive illusion. So real it’s nearly impossible to see through.” The smile on his face was brilliant, like looking directly at the sun without protection. It was too much in his shirtless state. She averted her eyes and changed the subject again.
“Do you also control shadows?” she asked.
“Yes.”
“Is that something all vampires can do?”
“No.”
She brought her eyes back up to meet his. “How does that work?”
“Some vampires have special abilities that others do not.” He conjured a shadow tendril from nothing, wrapped it around her wrist, and moved it up her arm, leaving gooseflesh in its wake. “I have shadows, among other things.”
But he didn’t stop there. Quinn shuddered, and her breath hitched because, if it were possible, the shadow felt better than his hands. And for one moment, she didn’t want him to stop. Shewanted to fall into him, and she didn’t care if it was real, if he cared about her, or even if it was their new bond that made it so—although she doubted it was the bond. She had wanted him like this long before, and Quinn knew that if she wanted to, she could say no, she could refuse his touch and push him away, and he’d respect it, but she didn’t want to because she just wanted him for one moment of bliss.
Quinn pinched her eyes shut and let out a sigh as the tendril climbed her shoulder and spread up her neck and into her hair, splitting into more shadows as it went. Quinn grasped the lab table for support and stifled a moan. The sensation was just too powerful. If he wasn’t careful, he was going to make her cum without ever even touching her core. And that was something she’d never experienced before.
“Oh, gods, more,” she whispered, her knees growing weak. “I think I like your shadows.”
One of the shadow tendrils caressed down her chest, stroking along the crests of her breasts and under her corset, and when it reached her nipple, Quinn let out a cry, and her knees buckled. She would have fallen, but Emrys was too fast. With vampire speed, he scooped her up and placed her in his lap. She immediately felt the hardness of his cock against her ass as his shadows continued their ministrations.
Her head fell back into the crook between his neck and shoulder, and her lips parted with a moan as his shadows circled her nipples and moved south. She spread her legs to him, her dress inching up as the shadows roped around them but still never touched her core.
“Emrys, I want . . .”you to touch my clit. I want your full length inside of me. I want all of you.
He let out a low chuckle. “You are a greedy ballerina.”
“Yes.” She sighed.
“I am not going to give you what you want. Not yet, because you’re not done examining me, and therefore, I cannot touch you.”
“It really feels like your touchin—” Quinn released a scream of pleasure as the tension inside her burst. She shook with her orgasm and leaned into him as he held her tight through it. When she finished shaking, she finally opened her eyes. The shadows had disappeared, and she was left in his lap, her head resting on his shoulders and her legs spread wide open to him.
How had he done that without touching her clitoris? Oh, gods, this man had magical abilities.
Embarrassment hit her like a ton of bricks. She’d been wantonagain,and she knew it was all her and not some silly bond because she would have wanted that the night of her rite, and she did get a version of that the night of their kiss. But more than anything, she knew that wasn’t the bond taking over because while she wanted to take orgasms from him, over and over again, she also wanted to punish him for marking her and calling her one of his girls after their first kiss, and a bond of obedience would never allow that.
However, even though that realization happened, she was still utterly embarrassed. Because that was twice now, he made her cum so damn easily. Twice, her body proved she wanted him. And that would not do.
Scrambling off his lap, she placed her feet on the floor and readjusted her dress, which the shadows had crumpled and displaced.
“Um, thank you for that demonstration.” She swallowed hard. “I assume not all vampires have that talent.”
“No.” A way too satisfied smile stretched across his face.
Quinn suddenly understood why he was one of the most sought-after lovers in all of New Swansea. He made her cum without even touching her clitoris.
“So, back to studying me?” He wiggled an eyebrow. “There is one spot on my body you haven’t examined.” His eyes fell to his groin. “Are you sure you don’t want to study that?”
Quinn inhaled sharply.I want more than to study that.Her cheeks warmed. Oh, he was going to be the death of her. Emryswas a dirty, hurtful,talentedflirt. That was it. “Do you want me to examine yourcorpus spongiosum?”
