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While I didn’t like keeping the orb in the inner pocket of my magic, I didn’t have anywhere else to hide it.
“No.” He looked down and shook his head. “I’m not sure I could look another mage in the eye, knowing I helped kill my sister.” He was silent for a few beats. “I think maybe I’d like to try living outside the boundaries of Niev, where the hydras, lirio, and nyxx reside. You know, the hydras decided not to fight. My sister killed many of them for their defiance, but a few are still outside your borders. In her death, my sister's hold on all those fae and the hydras transferred to me. I could ensure they stay within their boundaries and not cause any more harm to your people.”
“Will you visit us?” Teddy asked.
When he peered up, a look of peace crossed his features. “I think I’d like that.” He turned to me. “If you approve.”
“You are free to live wherever you wish and visit as often as you’d like,” I replied, hoping he heard the sincerity in my voice.
Teddy had been right in wanting him to have a second chance at life, and I only hoped life would be kinder to him this time around.
He nodded, and this time it was he who rose to grab another marshmallow, roasting it with that same quietness.
“What do you say we entertain your father with his favorite song?” Brenton asked.
I barked out a laugh, remembering the many times we’d played for him and my mother when we were younger. The way my father cringed when we learned a tavern song about harlots and bastard lords. He always threatened us when we’d play it, but the amusement that lit his eyes said otherwise.
“I don’t think the ladies’ fair ears would mind,” George said with his own grin.
“Oh, I hope it’s all sorts of risqué,” Ryenne said.
“Worse,” Everly said.
Teddy patted my leg before she stood. “Let’s hear it, then.”
When I stood, I took a moment to kiss her and press her body against me. She was breathless by the time I pulled away. I took her hand that she’d used to grip my shirt and kissed the palm.
I pulled out my guitar while Brenton pulled out his bongos and George his harmonica. With a glance at the sky, where I found my father’s star beaming, I started to play my guitar. And when George sang the first verse, I could’ve sworn I heard my father laugh.
Chapter
Thirty-Five
TEDDY
I woke up slowly,with Elias’s fingers running sweetly through my hair and his breaths on my forehead. My hand, already on his back, stroked his warm skin while his muscles twitched in reply. He kissed my temple, pulling me closer to him.
“Do I get to keep you here, or do I have to hold you down before you rush off to brush your teeth?” His voice was gravelly from lack of use.
In answer, I trailed kisses down his neck to his chest and stomach. I brushed my hand down, enjoying the way his muscles shuddered at my touch. With one swift movement, I reached under his underwear and cupped his straining length. He hissed, arching his hips up when I pumped him, his considerable shaft thick and long.
I wanted to taste him, to see if his length and width fit in my mouth. As if he’d heard my thoughts, his chest heaved. He sank his fingers into my hair and tugged, making me ache in the center of my core. When I kissed him, it was a wild merge of our lips and tongue. He bucked again when I strokedhim harder, faster. He turned his face to kiss and nip at my chin and ear, his soft pants nuzzling my singed skin.
On a pant, I leaned toward his large cock. I swirled my tongue around the tip, letting his moan ricochet inside me. I slid my tongue down the side of him and licked my way up again.
The taste of him made my core throb in pain, so when his fingers slid my panties to the side and he plunged his fingers inside me, I let out a grateful moan. I slid him inside my mouth, pumping him rougher, harder as I swirled my tongue around him. He pumped his fingers inside me just as hard, just as rough. Even with him filling my mouth, there was still enough room to pump him with my hand too. When I did, he jerked his hips up, thrusting himself deeper into my throat.
“Teddy,” he begged.
This time, when I pumped him, I grazed my teeth over him gently as I squeezed my hand around the base. He hissed out a curse, and when I skimmed his cock with my teeth again, he moaned so loudly it seemed to bounce off the tent walls and crash back into me.
He pierced his fingers in me before he thrust again in my mouth. I moaned, moving my mouth and hand in unison. I nearly whined when he took his fingers out, but then he gripped my ass and his thrusts became wilder, and I worked to suck him in deeper. I cupped his balls and squeezed one ever so lightly as I took him in even deeper.
Elias came undone, screaming his pleasure so loud I was sure everyone had heard him. He arched into my mouth, his whole body shuddering as he repeated my name over and over again. Only when his trembles subsided did I let him go. He watched me as I swallowed, lips parted, his pants making his chest rise and fall quickly.
I smiled. That smile quickly faded when he lunged toward me, ripping off my panties. His lips crashed against mine, and as I lay on the sheets we’d slept on, he slipped inside me. He felt so good, so right.
I whimpered when he pulled his cock out, but then he slipped my knees over his shoulders. He was inside me again, deeper. So much deeper.
