Page 103 of Autumn Queens & Shadows

“Yes, Thora next,” the little hellion said, grinning as she pressed her cheek on my shoulder and looked up at me, trailing her hands back up my chest, making sure to graze every inch.

This damn girl.

“Your body is hard as a rock,” she said, pressing her lips here and there on my chest. “What did they feed you?”

“This little bird,” I groaned, fucking my fist harder, faster, “If she keeps torturing me like this.”

She smiled up at me, her eyes on my mouth. “Well, I am feeling very sacrificial.”

“Get on your knees.”

Her eyes widened just slightly, but she didn’t even hesitate to do as I had told her. There was certainly something wrong with both me and her. This whole day didn’t feel entirely real.

“You’re going to make my cock shy if you keep looking at it like that,” I said.

“Doesn’t look shy to me.” She pressed her thighs together, her hands clutching the end of her soaked nightgown that hid her so very little from me, the pink of her underwear visible. And my mind kept flashing with an urge to find out if she was needing me just as I was needing her.

My come shot over her chest, marking her skin, and she breathed faster, her teeth digging on her bottom lip as she raised her green round eyes up to me.

What had I done?

“Fuck.” Kneeling before her, I wiped a little come that had fallen on her chin, half tempted to push it between her parted lips. “This was a lesson not to do this again, little bird.”

“Which part?” she asked, watching me intently as I stood to get a cloth.

“You really need to stop that.”

“What?”

“Watching me like that.”

“Mhm,” she hummed, still raking her heated gaze all over my body when I kneeled before her again and starting cleaning her up.

I sighed. “Rora. Enough.”

“Enough what?”

I couldn't help but grin. “Little shit,” I muttered, kissing her cheek and reaching for a towel to wrap around my hips. “Get in the shower and wash me off.”

“What if I don’t want to?”

“Rora, sweetheart, I’m going insane here,” I said, putting my brow to hers and cupping her face in my hands. “Help me out, please?”

“Help you out how? I can think of a few ways.”

My eyes drew shut. “Do what you’re told, you hellion.”

With a sigh, she went under the shower spray and began pulling her soaked nightgown off.

Somehow, my feet managed to carry me out of there in time before I lost my mind entirely.

Chapter twenty-four

Yellow Hyacinths

Thora

I was somewhere. Certainly, standing somewhere and with someone. Maybe a few people. My mind, however, was stuck to last night. Stuck under the shower with him.