Chapter 20

A hiss sounded from Conri as he stirred awake, his hands running up my arm. Something told me I was a lunatic for biting the King of Guardians, but my instincts wanted more. They told me to mark every inch of him so everyone would know that he was mine and only mine. I bit his other pectoral, my claws kneading his sides. He groaned and hissed through his teeth as he rolled over on his back. I straddled his waist, sinking my canines into his collarbone. His blood with a perfect concoction of metallic and sweetness that was like a drug to me. I ran my tongue up his throat, and he moaned just before I bit into the junction of his shoulder and collarbone on the other side. “Rieka…” Conri moaned as both his hands grasped my hips.

He was probably going to throw me out. Send me packing. I was biting the King of Guardians, but the harder I tried to stop, the stronger my instinct became to bite him. I did, over and over and over—Conri sat there and took every bite; he let out a mixture of h