Monster's Heart (Blackthorn Academy for Supernaturals Book 13)

Chapter 14

Sten/Menon

Owningwho I really was in front of the entire festival earned us some strange and curious looks as we headed back to my room deep in the forest. Then again, maybe it wasn’t me at all who drew eyes and tentative smiles from our peers.

Maybe it was the radiant, powerful, and practically glowing Witch beside me.

I watched as a million emotions passed over Amrin’s precious face. I couldn’t be sure what she was thinking or how she felt, our matebond was still too new for that, so I waited. Patience was not a virtue I possessed in abundance, but for my Luna, I could certainly try.

We walked in silence, my mate stopping to admire night blooming flowers and chittering insects as we went. I simply watched and admired her, loving her the only way I knew how—with all of me.

She seemed to take it all in stride. Me. My identity. Her magic. Everything that had happened over the last few hours. I’d taken her virginity. Claimed her as my own without telling her who I was. And she’d been fighting her own fight with her family.

Guilt assailed me as I thought of those hours I’d been away when she had to face her mother alone. Sure, they parted on better ground than they’d begun, but still. I never wanted to cause her harm or grief in any way.

“Luna, I must apologize for tonight,” I began, and she paused in her study of a bleeding blue bonnet, a rare flower that gave off a luminescent glow under the full moon.

“Apologize? For what?”

“For leaving you earlier to deal with your mother—”

“Don’t be sorry for that, Menon. I mean, if anything, I am grateful to you,” she said.

“What? Why would you be grateful?”

I cocked my head, body humming in pleasure as she glided toward me. Amrin lifted her hands and placed them on my chest. She hummed in contentment, making the cutest fucking sound in the back of her throat. I wanted to savor it, but it was important we talked first.

“My whole life no one ever thought I was strong enough, smart enough, or just enough, not until you. You make me feel like I am enough, and you gave me the strength to face my demons, or in this case, my mother,” she said, grinning up at me.

“You are enough, Amrin. You are everything,” I said, bending my head to kiss her.

She moaned so sweetly, I knew I could not wait another minute to be inside her. I kissed her harder, sliding my tongue into her mouth and cupping one hand around her neck and the other hand over, then under her ass cheek. I moved lower still, till I was sliding my fingers between her legs from behind. Her panties were soaked. The heat from her slit warmed my hand as I hoisted her up and into my arms.

This incredible fucking woman. She was my undoing.

My life.

My reason.

Gods, I loved her.

Her soft breasts and belly squashed against my chest and abs.

Fuck.

I loved the feeling of her weight in my arms. Her heat. Her smooth skin. Her deliciously curved body. So plush and ripe.

“Need you,” she whimpered when I finally let her up for air.

But it was short-lived. I claimed her mouth again, cloaking us both in shadow as I raced until I couldn’t stand it anymore. Her back was against my front door, and that was fucking close enough to home.

Growling, I allowed her to slide down my body, spinning her till she faced the door, hands holding her up.

“Menon,” she moaned, and I swayed on my feet.

Fucking swayed.

If I didn’t know she was a Witch already, I’d have suspected as much just from the spell she wove around me.

I grabbed her skirts, lifting them up and revealing her gorgeous ass in ridiculously tiny, barely-there panties.

Fuck.

Had she been walking around in those beneath her dress?

“Dammit, Luna, you’ve been traipsing around with your ass in these all night?” I growled.

She nodded, whimpering a sound of assent, and I saw white.

I grabbed the tiny scrap of fabric and shredding it from her body. I lifted the ruined thing to my face and inhaled, running my tongue along the lace, wanting to consume every drop of her arousal. Snarling, an inhuman sound, I pushed her panties into my pocket and dropped to my knees.

“Spread your legs, Luna. Open for me,” I said, taking her cheeks in my hand and revealing her tight, puckered hole to my watchful gaze.

“Oh gods, Menon!”

She was so wet for me. My sweet Luna was dripping with it. Ever the covetous Monster, I used my tongue to lap her up, swallowing down every drop before I even started licking her from slit to asshole. She cried out, legs shaking like thunder, but I couldn’t stop yet. Not until she was coming. She moaned, head leaning on her hands, but I couldn’t see her face and I needed to know.

“Talk to me, Luna. Tell me how it feels when I do this.”

She whimpered, but I stopped. I dropped my hands to my buckle, and I unfastened it, freeing my cock so I could squeeze it as I watched her wiggle her fine ass in front of me.

“Please,” she begged.

“Please what?”

“Don’t stop. Touch me. Lick me,” she said.

“I will, Luna. But you must tell me how it feels.”

She bobbed her head, nodding at me.

I released myself, using my hands to spread her apart once again. Her taste was like manna from the heavens, exploding on my tongue as I swiped it across her folds, reaching farther each time so I could get her clit with every long, hard stroke. The need to please her was building rapidly, but my naughty mate needed to follow the rules. I lifted my head.

“Tell me,” I growled.

“Fuck, it feels so good. When you l-lick me, it feels so fucking good.”

“When I lick you where?” I asked, deliberately slowing my pace.

“There,” she whimpered when I skated the tip of my tongue across her clit.

“Oh gods, fuck, there, there! Yes, everywhere! Menon, please yes, do that. I don’t know why, and I know it’s dirty, but that feels so good,” she confessed when my tongue teased around her forbidden hole.

I couldn’t help myself, I stroked my cock, using precum to lube up my fingers before I started teasing her with them. More moisture dripped down her thighs, and we really should have moved inside already. But I needed her to come at least once.

“Wanna fuck you so bad, mate. Wanna claim you with my cock, but I need you to come for me, Luna. Want that?”

“Yes, please, yes,” she moaned, and I pressed my finger into her ass, gently, taking the greatest of care.

Fuck, she was so tight. She squeezed my digit as I lapped at her core, sliding my tongue into her slick entrance and strumming my other hand over her swollen nubbin. Her pussy clenched around me, and I groaned. Using two fingers, I tapped her clit, fuck yes, she liked that. Her pussy and her tight asshole squeezed me hard, one more tap and I knew she would fall apart.

I was ready, and judging from the sounds she was making, my Luna was ready, too. A few more commands, a few more swipes, and my pretty little butterfly, my delicious mate, was going to come all over me. Then, I would fuck her on my cock, and claim her in the most primal way.

All my life, I’d been searching for something and never finding it, never even getting close, but this little Witch did the impossible in a matter of weeks. She entered my life, taking away the loneliness I thought was my destiny, and giving me more than I ever expected.

Now, it was my turn to show her what she meant to me and I would not stop until I achieved my goal.

Mate.