Chapter Ten
Zaldi
Her eyes were closed, and I begged my heart to slow down. To let her realize what I’d always known. We were tied together.
That I wasn’t a monster. At least, not exactly. I was simply hers.
Her eyes fluttered open, the pupils instantly blowing black as she stared up at me, her pretty mouth hanging wide. “Wow,” she breathed and I felt like electricity burned through my veins. She was seeing me, just as I was made.
No magic.
No glamour.
My mouth quirked. Her eyes, still glued to my face as one of her hands reached up, brushing over my loosened hair to the tip of one horn.
“An incubus,” Lulu whispered, awe ringing in her voice. “You’re real. I know you, I met you in my dreams and you never told me.”
“I wasn’t sure, not until my brother found his mate in a similar way.”
Lulu nodded, but I wasn’t sure my words were registering. Her other hand had joined in, letting my grip on her support us as she ran fingers over the ridge of my brow down to my lips, where her fingertips lingered.
“And fangs?”
“Both ornamental and necessary,” I answered, my cock throbbing at the thought of my teeth against her skin.
Her head cocked as I opened my mouth slightly to let her see. “Do you bite?” Her words were serious at first, but I could see the flash of humor tweak her smile just after. “I mean…”
“We don’t really settle disagreements like that anymore, but they are necessary for other things,” I leaned in, pushing past her hands to run my nose up the column of her throat.
Her pulse skipped, the blood rushing just under my lips. “Like–like what?”
“How we mark our mates, how we share venom.”
Her muscles twitched, “Venom?”
I hummed against her skin, my tongue slipping out for the smallest taste.
“Not dangerous, it’s an aphrodisiac, designed to be shared and enjoyed together.
” I parted my mouth, her taste drugging as I skimmed the sharp edge of one fang down her throat.
“It’s why I had to be careful about kissing you. ”
“What, why?”
“It’s in our saliva too,” I planted a gentle kiss against her skin and sat back. “I wanted you to want me without the venom, to know if it was real.”
Her hair swung forward, as she put a hand over her mouth, eyes dropping to her lap. “I guess I made that pretty clear.” The words were muffled by her own hand, but still, I could see the pink hue of her cheeks.
I chuckled, “I loved every second.”
Her eyes jumped back to mine, “You aren’t mad though? I don’t know why you aren’t upset I didn’t recognize you?”
I shrugged, “The glamour is very good, and honestly, I wasn’t sure what any of it meant. If I couldn’t stay, then I didn’t want to push anything between us.”
Her entire body tensed, “What? You were going to leave?”
“I’m not supposed to be here. The bond pulled me through and I’ve managed to convince Lord Arafel to let me stay. At least for now. Traum and Bailey are here, so that helped my case. “
Lulu’s jaw dropped, “Your brother, he’s an incubus too?” Her hand immediately slapped her forehead, “Oh God, of course he is. He’s your brother and–oh my gosh–are they–?”
I leaned in, pressing the softest kiss to her lips again. I felt her lips slowly close, then part again, a smile curving the bow of them.
I pulled away, “I love that mind of yours.”
Lulu’s eyes sparkled, and her teeth bit into her lower lip with a quick little sigh. “Did you just poison me with more of your sex-inducing saliva?”
I flushed, “Oh, Hades, I didn’t mean, I just like kissing you.”
Her mouth found mine, a hard kiss that let me rock back on my heels. “Lulu….your head.”
“-Is fine. I feel fine, better than fine. I feel…God, is it weird to say I’m relieved. I was so worried that you didn’t feel the same way, and all this time, you’ve been waiting.” Her hands sunk into my hair, tugging slightly until I met her gaze. “I don’t want to wait any more.”
I blinked, my body strung tight as her hands continued to play along the edges of my horns. “What are you saying?”
“I want you,” Lulu said, “I’ve wanted you since I met you, but I’m not waiting a moment longer.”
“Fuck, Lu, you’re asking a lot of me.”
Her brows lowered and I chuckled, grunting as I pushed to my feet. “What do you mean?”
I reached down, pulling her first to stand and then tucking her arms around my neck, I gripped the backs of her thighs. “Jump.”
She obeyed, now looking down into my eyes as I walked us from the living room towards her bedroom.
I didn’t need to ask, I could smell the sweetness of her scent leading the way.
My foot kicked the door shut behind me, never losing my hold on the woman in my arms. I could sense the questions lurking again, the way she squirmed ever so slightly against my hold. “What did you mean, Zaldi?”
“I meant, mate, that you’re asking me, who has been waiting to have you since I first met you, to take you for the first time here?”
She looked around, and I leaned over, letting her fall lightly onto the comforter of the bed. “Uh…”
“Which is why I can’t fuck you here. Because once I start, I won’t be able to stop. And I don’t think your family is ready to come home to me fixing this bed after we break it.”
Lulu’s mouth dropped open and I couldn’t stop imagining how those pretty lips would feel around my cock someday. But, not today. I press my thumb against her lower lip, groaning when her tongue pressed against the pad of my finger.
Today will be something even better.
“Which is why, you’re going to spread those legs and let me finally get a taste of what I’ve been dreaming about.”
***
Lulu
I shook my head. “Men don’t say those kinds of things.”
Zaldi’s mouth, slightly swollen from our kisses, smiled, “Good thing I’m not a man, then.”
I gaped at him as he shrugged out of the jacket he’d still been in and tossed it behind him on the floor.
My mouth watered as more of that brilliantly colored skin came into view, wrapped around biceps that flexed and shifted under delicate lines of ink.
I was so distracted I almost didn’t realize he was folding, falling to his knees at the foot of my bed.
“Zaldi…”
His head cocked, those dark, dark eyes shimmering up at me, “Whatever you are thinking, please, understand that the idea of tasting you,” he swallowed, the sound loud in the quiet of the room, “Feeling you against my tongue, has driven me to near madness.”
There was a pinch against my thigh and I looked down, staring at the way his claws were biting into my thighs, even through my jeans.
Slowly, inch by inch, his claws moved up my thighs until they could cross over to the button of my jeans. My skin burned under my clothes, my mouth dry as I considered those long, deadly fingers touching me.
And yet, there was no fear. Only a throbbing anticipation as I leaned back from him and let my head fall back.
I stared at the ceiling, heat pooling in my belly as I felt those claws slip under my shirt.
They were delicate at first, sweeping across the soft skin there, before deftly unbuttoning my jeans.
My lungs were working overtime, my chest rising and falling as those same claws curled around my waistband so they could work my jeans over my hips and down my thighs. He paused for a moment, his ragged breathing almost as loud as mine.
“Lulu, I need to hear it from your lips,” I watched as Zaldi licked his own, wetting them, “We don’t have to do–”
“Are you kidding?” I squeaked out, “I want you. I want anything you will give me.”
His smile was dark and beautiful, making the muscles in my thigh clench hard, “Do you have a safe word?”
“A safe word for oral?”
“The venom can be overwhelming, you should feel in control of this, at all times.”
I considered him, the heat in my pelvis ratcheting up at the realization of how serious he was taking this. “Macha.”
Zaldi huffed a short laugh, but when he looked at me again, there was nothing but longing and heat in his face. His claws grazed my belly again as they hooked into the edges of my lacy underwear. “Lay back, beautiful. Let me see how pretty and pink you are.”
I moaned, “Oh God, Zaldi.” But, my body moved on its own, leaning back until it was my elbows supporting me against the blanket.
“Such a good girl,” Zaldi said, his tone distracted as I felt the lace dragging down my thighs. As soon as he reached my jeans, he tugged everything off, casting them to join his jacket before raising the panties to his nose.
“Oh God, Z.” I couldn’t decide if I was shocked or desperate, but the way his eyes fluttered shut when he inhaled me, it drove a spike of need straight through me.
“Fuck, the smell of you makes me crazy.” He breathed in again, his shirt pressing against every long, slender muscle in his upper body.
My body started quivering as I waited on his next move.
When those black eyes snapped open, I actually gasped.
They couldn’t be real, they were too dark, too wide.
I felt completely exposed, and yet completely safe.
The torment in that thought was enough to make me whimper.
The good, sweet personality of the man–well–male I knew clashing with this sexually charged partner who was setting my blood on fire. “So quiet, Lulu, I never would’ve guessed.”
He leaned in, pressing a kiss against my thigh. “I have some ideas on how to get you to loosen up.”
My lips parted, a smile beginning on my mouth before his hands were back on my inner thigh, pressing my them wide. “Let me see, pretty mate, what I’ve been craving.”
My knees clenched for only a moment before I shuddered, letting my legs fall wide as his torso shifted between my legs. After a hard breath, I feel a pinprick of claws once again. This time, he hauled me closer to the edge of the bed.
Softly, so much so that I barely felt him, he brushed a claw down the center of me. “Beautiful,” he whispered, “Everything I’d dreamed of and more.”
Before I could react, he was suddenly there, pressing his nose against the line of hair that I kept there.
“What’s your word, sweet girl?” He rasped, his body suddenly too big for the small room, his presence making me shake as I wished desperately for him to do something.
I could feel the hot breath of him against my core, and I couldn’t stop the arch of my hips as I begged for more.
“It’s–matcha.”
He nuzzled me again, “And who is in control here?”
“Oh God, I have no idea.”
“You, Lulu,” he answered, his tongue darting out tentatively to touch my clit. I almost came out of my skin, my body humming as I tried to focus on what he wanted from me.
“Me, I’m in charge.”
“Good girl,” he said again, still doing those absolutely torturous taps with his tongue.
“Fuck, then get on with it, Zaldi. I can’t wait any longer!”
My words freed him, and as soon as they left my lips, I had the smallest moment of clarity that this was the beginning of something all new for us. And that this was no longer simple. Or easy. And I didn’t fucking care.
And then, I thought of nothing but the slick slide of his tongue as he flattened and drugged it up and down the line of my body, ending his lick with a hard press of his tongue against my already eager clit.
I shouted, my body tensed as I freed one hand to reach down and press into his hair. Because I was so worried he would hear my shout and stop. And, that was the last thing I wanted. I wanted–no I needed more from this male. And I wanted it right now.
Zaldi was gentler now, tracing the lines of my pussy, teasing and tasting as if I was his final meal.
And if the sounds from his mouth are anything to go from, he was thrilled with the entree.
I moaned again, his whole mouth on me now, feasting, driving his stiffened tongue into my body with firm, measured thrusts.
“What–there’s no way?” my words stumbled over each other as pleasure assaulted me from every angle. He had not been lying about the saliva. I could feel it now, the heavy way my blood hummed in my veins as I arched in his arms.
Zaldi straightened slightly, only enough to press kisses against the shaking line of my thigh. “You’re going to give me this first one, right now, Lulu. And then, I’m going to show you just how easy two and three will be.”
“No, there’s no way I can’t do that.”
Zaldi snorted into my thigh, brushing the barest of bites across my electrified skin. “Maybe with someone else. But, I’m here to bring every fantasy to life. Your every dream is my command.”
I stared into those dark eyes, my entire body pulsing with the need to do exactly what he’d just said. Then, my body already clenching, I nodded.
“Make me cum.”
His smile was devilish. “As you wish, mate.”