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“Just an ounce?” I ask, lips trying to lift in a nervous smile.

“That’s all I need,” he responds quietly, “because even that tiny amount is enough. It fills the place inside me that’s been empty for so fucking long.”

“Fuck, why are you so good at this?” I breathe as I turn in his arms. Water sloshes up the sides of the tub as I climb into his lap and let my knees fall to bracket his hips. “I love you. You have to know that, right? I’m in love with you, and I don’t know what to do about it.”

He smiles so sweetly as his hands settle on my hips, holding my body flush against his. “You don’t do anything about it, kitten. You just hold on.”

I lick my lips, staring into those intense golden eyes. “Will you… do you…”

Understanding dawns on his face despite my fumbling, and he guides me closer. “I have loved you since the first time I woke up beside you and realized I never wanted you to leave. You are mine, and I am yours.” He leans in until our lips barely brush. “I love you with every beat of my heart and with every breath I take. I’ll love you until my final moment in this life, and then I will love you in the next.”

He kisses me harder, fingers digging into my hips as he urges me to move against him. Fangs scrape against my lower lip as he nips until my mouth parts, and his tongue finds mine. The relief of getting the confession out is quickly replaced by something much hotter and far more urgent.

“Want you,” I murmur as I grip his cock, thumb tracing over the tendrils floating in the water. I wrap my fingers around us both and rock my hips a few more times. He shudders, then stands and drags me up with him.

Water drips everywhere as we stumble into the bedroom, moving from the slick stone floor to the thick padding of the rugs until we’re standing naked in front of the fire. The sun has set since we locked ourselves away in the bathroom, and the only light now is the flickering glow of the flames.

Aryn guides me down onto my back on the soft furs, firelight dancing across his skin. He crawls over me with slow, deliberate movements, golden eyes never leaving mine. His hands slide up my thighs, spreading them wider as he settles between them, then leans in and takes me into his mouth.

The heat is overwhelming. My head falls back against the furs with a loud groan as his tongue swirls around the head. He doesn’t tease this time—doesn’t torture me with that endless patience. Instead, he seals his lips around me and sucks me deep, tonguing along the underside of my cock before circling the head again like he can’t get enough. The wet heat, the gentle suction, and the way his lips stretch around me are almost too much. I try to stay in control, fists clenched in the furs, but I’m already losing it.

Aryn is the only one who’s ever reduced me to nothing but pure need like this.

He pulls off with a wet sound and looks up at me with dark eyes and shiny lips. “You’re eager, aren’t you?”

“Please?” I whine.

“Not yet.” He pushes my thighs further apart with a wicked grin and moves lower. His tongue drags slowly over my balls, then lower still, circling my hole with teasing, wet strokes. I jolt at the sensation, a broken moan escaping me as he licks me open. His tongue presses inside, fucking me with shallow thrusts while he strokes my cock in lazy pulls.

I’m shaking. The combination of his mouth on my ass and his hand on my cock is making me delirious in the best possible way. I try to thrust up into his fist, but he holds me down with a firm grip on my hip, keeping me exactly where he wants me.

“Aryn, please,” I beg, voice wrecked.

He pulls back just enough to speak, lips brushing against my sensitive skin. “Patience, kitten. I’m not done tasting you yet.”

He dives back in, tongue working me deeper. I’m leaking steadily onto my stomach and over his knuckles, and every swipe of his tongue makes my thighs tremble. I’m so close—so fucking close—but he keeps me right on the edge, never letting me tip over.

Spit drips down his chin as he lifts his head, fangs exposed, then kisses my inner thigh and scrapes the tips along my skin. “I could do it,” he murmurs, before sucking the flesh between his lips. “Bite you right here where it would make you mad with want.”

“Gods,” I groan, “you say that like I’m not already losing my mind.”

“Do you want me to mark you? Make it so every Dreven who even looks at you senses my claim on you?”

“Do it,” I plead, craning my head to watch as he drags his fangs along my thigh once more. “I want it… want you… please…”

“So beautiful when you beg,” he murmurs, then sinks his teeth into my thigh.

The same jolt from before hits me, but the intensity is dialed up so high that my spine arches off the furs. His name leaves me again and again, loud enough that my throat aches with it. He grabs my hips and pins me down as the pressure feels like it might rip me apart.

Something slides inside me—fingers, a tail, maybe even his cock. I’m not even sure anymore. All I know is that my body is full and the stretch is perfect. It cracks the last of my weak composure.

I’m floating as I force my eyes open, finding him between my legs, cock buried deep inside me with a drop of my blood dripping down his chin. The realization he’s already fucking me, that I was so lost in the ecstasy of his bite that I didn’t even realize he was inside me, hits like another dose of his venom.

My body clamps around him as I come with a broken sob. Aryn’s hand tightens around my cock as he jerks me through it. My release spills across my belly and slides down my skin, but he doesn’t stop, fucking me through the aftershocks without mercy.

The effect of his bite churns in my veins, crackling with a mind of its own. I’m still hard as stone, still needy, still fucking desperate. If anything, I only want him more, and I whine in protest when he finally releases me. He pulls out and crawls up my body, then leans in to kiss me.

Slick leaks from his hole as he lines us up, so much that it streams down my cock. “Do you feel that?” he murmurs against my lips. “How wet I am for you? How I fucked myself with my tail while I was fucking you?”