Page 29 of The Rose (The Godwicks 2)

“Who didn’t want their husbands,” she said.

“And you do?”

She dropped her gaze to the floor, embarrassed.

“Speak true,” he said. “Do you?”

“I think I do.”

“The place between your legs, does it ever ache?” he asked.

“Ache?”

“To be touched? Do you touch it yourself?”

“My lord?”

He grinned. “Do you ache now?”

“I...”

“I want you to ache,” he said. “And the gods do say women feel more pleasure in the act than men. When there is pleasure, that is, women have the better time of it.”

“Do we?”

“You will see. I will make certain you see.”

She squeezed him tighter in her fingers and pulled a little. A small tug, but it did something to him. A few drops of wetness emerged from the slit at the end. Her lips parted in a silent gasp.

“Seed,” he said. He wrapped his hand around the back of her neck, his other hand on her shoulder. His hips moved forward, and his face changed. Eyes fluttered and closed, eyes fluttered and opened again. Lips parted. Quick breaths followed by another smile, a smile to make her drip onto the bed.

“Seed...” she said, and touched the wetness.

“Taste it.”

Her gaze flashed upward.

“It’s all right. Taste it. It is done, I promise. Wives taste their husbands. Husbands taste their brides. You should know me, the feel and taste of me, as I will know you.”

She raised her fingertips to her lips.

“Salt,” she said when it touched her tongue.

“Ah, it pleases me to the ends of the earth to see you taste me.”

“What else would please you, my lord?”

“To kiss you,” he said. “To enter you. To fill you.”

“I am yours,” she said. “I cannot refuse anything you ask of me.”

He lowered his head to kiss her lips. She gasped and laughed when he nipped her bottom lip with his teeth. Her fingers flew to her mouth in shock.

“You bit me,” she said. Luckily her lip wasn’t bleeding, but the surprise had certainly made her squeal.

“I’m trying to confuse everyone listening outside,” he said. “I’m so tempted to make bird noises.”

Lia laughed so hard she fell back in bed. Perseus laughed, too, even as he jumped onto the bed and pulled her into his arms.

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