Through the Ether (Force of Nature Book 5) - Amber Lynn Natusch Page 0,51
“Whatever is necessary to bring down the royals and secure Faerie. There will be no rest until we do.”
“And by ‘secure Faerie’, you mean have me rule, don’t you?”
His silence would have been answer enough, but he responded anyway. “I’m sure we can find another way in the long term, Piper, but yes, you will likely have to rule until we can find a more suitable option. One that I’m certain exists.”
How he could be certain of such a thing, I didn’t know, but I chose to believe the potential lie because the thought of ruling a realm I wanted no part of was more than my mind could handle with all the other clusterfucks crowding it. That fate was a long way away; we had many hurdles to overcome before then.
“And Grizz?” I asked. “What about him?”
He pulled me back against him. “We will do whatever is necessary to secure him, as well. We all have a stake in his return, Knox and me included.”
I laughed nervously. “Well, I’m glad you have this all figured out.”
“I have much figured out,” he said, fingertips trailing up my sides, “including how you joke when you’re upset—or anxious.”
“Or awkward, or embarrassed, or—”
“Exactly.” His chest rumbled with laughter, and I couldn’t think of a sweeter sound. “The real question you need to ask yourself at the moment is, what can we do with what precious little time we have before we return to Faerie and the chips fall where they may?”
“Eat our feelings?” I replied. The hungry look in his eyes at my phrasing sent a shiver through my body.
“That depends on what’s on the menu.” My eyes went wide as his fingers slid under the waistband of my pants and wiggled past my underwear. I gasped when they brushed against bare skin, and my knees buckled. Merc pressed me flush against him and trailed the tip of his nose down the side of my face to the corner of my jaw, then, finally, my neck. I tipped my head back to grant him access, and he growled his approval. Soft lips brushed against that vulnerable flesh, stopping to kiss where my carotid artery pulsed wildly.
Then he shifted just beyond that spot and bit.
Sharp fangs pierced my skin in an act that should have been painful but was anything but. My core spasmed and I jolted against his hand, but once again, he held me steady, slowly drawing the very thing that gave me life into him. My head lolled back as his mouth sucked and his fingers teased, and a pressure too great to contain built inside.
“Merc...”
Those fingers slipped inside me in response, and I nearly exploded.
“Just let it go,” he murmured against my neck. “There’s no point in fighting the inevitable…”
How right he was.
I closed my eyes, my breathing erratic, and focused all my energy on the feel of him inside me—the sensation of him coursing through me with every thrust of his hand and every draw of my blood. My body went rigid and my hands clamped down on his shoulders just as the wave of pleasure crashed down on me with brutal force. My body bucked and rocked and shook, but Merc never let me go, just as I knew he wouldn’t. He supported me in every way as an orgasm like nothing I’d ever experienced before took over and rode me hard. I couldn’t think. Couldn’t talk. All I could do was feel that delicious sensation and Merc’s body against mine.
Once he deemed it safe, he set me down on my feet. With sleepy eyes, I looked up to find him smiling down at me. Then he slipped a finger in his mouth and sucked it clean.
“I should eat my feelings more often,” he said with a wicked smile that made my body tense again.
“I think you should do something else instead,” I countered as I unfastened his belt and popped the button on his pants. “And I think you should do it now…”
Not needing to be told twice, Merc lifted me up and hauled me over to the bed. I soon found myself bent over the edge, my pants around my ankles, with a wall of vampire hovering behind me. The wait was agony, and I mewled into the comforter and craned my neck to look back at him. He stood there in all his naked glory, eyeing me like a meal he wanted to devour and savor simultaneously.