My knees met the ground, and my fingers wrapped around his cock.

His head jerked upward, pain swimming in those gorgeous, bright blue eyes.

“If we create a bond, the pain will disappear,” I whispered to him. “It doesn’t need to be permanent—we can just do it to stop the hurting.”

His jaw tightened.

I waited for him to say no.

To reject me.

To choose pain.

But instead, he jerked his head in a nod and released his grip on his erection, leaving it to me.

His hand on the wooden chest remained in place as I slowly dragged mine down his massive length. I’d never touched a fae cock before, but they weren’t really different from human ones—just bigger.

A low, rumbly groan escaped his chest, and I released him for a moment when I reached the end of his length.

My hand lifted to his mouth, and the look he gave me was a question.

“Your tongue,” I said.

His eyes burned me.

And I’d never felt as powerful as I did when the unseelie king slowly dragged his tongue over my palm.

Or when I wrapped my fingers back around his erection.

Or when I pulled them down in a long, slow stroke.

His other hand was clenched in a tight fist, resting on the ground. The normally-tan skin was pale, because it was clenched so hard.

Naomi wouldn’t have wanted him to touch her, I realized, as I stroked him again.

And again.

And again.

She would’ve wanted him to hold back. To keep his desires in check.

Iwanted him to let go.

So I released his erection again, just long enough to pull my shorts down my thighs and then toss them to the ground, leaving me in just the simple tank top I almost always wore.

His eyes were even hotter than they had been as they took me in while I caught his erection again.

I opened my thighs wider, and as I stroked him, I slid my hand between my legs.

I’d never doneanythinglike this before.

I’d never beenbravelike this before.

But… I’d never feltexcitedlike this before, either.

Orhopefullike this.

I groaned as I felt the swollen flesh between my thighs.