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“Not my body?” I gasped jokingly.
“Of course I love your body.” His hands ran down my sides as he stared at me reverently. “But have I really loved you withmybody before now?”
He slid into me in one fluid stroke, clutching my hair in his fist to keep our gazes locked. All the air felt shoved out of my lungs as my head leaned back, my hips raised up for more.
“You know why I love making you come so much?” Reaper locked both hands in my hair, his body rolling over me with the slow, intentional penetration I’d been craving.
“Because…you love me?” I was half joking, half unable to form a coherent string of words.
He was right. I never felt him like this before either—stretching and filling me with such relentless care.
“Because I’m selfish.” His forehead lowered to mine, lips hovering a hair’s breadth away from a kiss. “I want to please you so fucking good, you’ll never have a reason to leave me.”
Noelle’s premonition crackled through my head like lightning, just as his mouth fell to mine, and his cock hit new depths within me. Reaper’s lips dragged to my neck with a groan, his shoulders flexing with restraint. He wanted to unleash that dominance, that strength and power he usually fucked me with. But he kept his thrusts slow, pressing all the way into me before slowly withdrawing.
He can’t be,I thought, a cry on my lips as he filled me up again, lingering there before pulling his hips back. He couldn’t be the one to break my heart. Everything he did was for me—my happiness, my safety. But if not him, then that meant…
I pushed the thought away, turning my hand so his mother’s stone in my ring caressed his cheek.
“I’ll never leave you,” I panted in his ear. “Even if you don’t give me ten orgasms a day, this ring is never coming off.”
“Mmm.” His mouth found mine for another kiss. “What’s a good number then? Eight? Nine? How much slack are you willing to give me?” His serious face morphed into a devilish smile as he cupped one side of my ass, angling my hip higher.
“I mean... fuck!” He kept up the deep, slow tempo, but my clit was buzzing from the new friction. “Don’t make me think of numbers right now.”
“What would you rather think about while I’m so deep inside you?” he grunted out. “Christ, you feel so good. I need to love you like this more often.”
My reply was a mix of wordless moans, gasps, and whimpers as the pleasure built, coiling like a spring where our bodies conjoined. Fingers dug into hard muscle. Flesh and heat collided and broke apart, again and again.
“What was that?” Reaper chuckled into my ear, his voice raspy and ragged. “Do you want more of this from me, sugar?”
He swelled inside me, pulling a scream from my throat.
“Worshipping you,” he groaned, his control unraveling with every breath. “Revering you. Loving you. With every inch of me.”
My climax crashed over me, sending ripples of shivers from my head to my toes. Reaper did the opposite, his body stiff as he held me twitching in his arms, until his release spilled with a heavy groan. He melted over me, a heavy blanket of heat with a rapid pulse that matched mine.
I licked a bead of sweat from his neck. “That,” I panted, “is definitely worth repeating.”
Eighteen
SHADOW
Why do you do this to yourself, my son?
“…what…?” I rolled over in bed, not ready to wake up. Sleep had become so pleasant now, and I wanted to stay there for a little bit longer.
I showed you the sky. I gave you my sight. Why do you continue to shroud yourself in darkness?
I cracked an eyelid open, squinting against the tiny strip of sunlight peeking through my blackout curtains. It was so reminiscent of my only view of the outside world from my tiny dungeon years ago.
No, the light wasn’t coming from that. Someone was in my room. A tall figure, with wings spreading out to either side of him. The light was a glare reflecting off of something gold he wore, some kind of collar or chest plate.
I couldn’t make out details, like his face or clothing. Sleep still held me in a warm embrace, my vision murky through slitted eyelids.
“Who’s there?”
Hades will not take you prematurely, so there’s no need to lock yourself in a dark coffin every night.The figure sounded like he was sneering.You have as much right to the sky and sunlight as anyone else. You didn’t know when I gave you my gift, but you must know it now.
