A Kingdom of Stars and Shadows

His fingers spasmed against my thigh, and he rose them higher and higher as my breath rushed out of me and into him.

“Tell me that you’re mine, princess. Even if it isn’t true, I need to hear you say it.”

My stomach fluttered, and I knew this was dangerous. The way I craved Evren wasn’t simply going to go away after he touched me. I feared that it would only make everything worse. But still I did as he asked. “I’m yours.”

His fingers slid over my undergarment, a whisper of a touch, but it was enough to make my knees feel like they may buckle beneath me. He ran his fingers up and down, barely grazing over the fabric, and I lifted my hand behind me and buried it in his hair to keep him against me.

His mouth pressed against my shoulder, just at the base of my neck, and his fingers toyed with the top of my undergarment. “Gods, I’m dying to taste you.” His teeth grazed over my skin just as his fingers sank beneath the fabric.

His teeth felt sharp and lethal, like the vampyre I knew him to be, but I was far too lost in my lust to have any room for fear. I held my breath as his fingers slid against my wetness, and a shock wave of pleasure shot through me as he pressed harder against my flesh.

“Oh gods.” I tightened my hand in his hair, and Evren only took the sound for encouragement.

His fingers moved faster against me as his mouth continued to lick, suck, and graze over my skin. He pushed two fingers inside me, and I whimpered as his palm continued to work against the spot that was begging for him.

My legs trembled beneath me, but Evren’s hold on my neck refused to let me fall. There was a deep ache building and building in my lower stomach, and I felt like I was about to lose myself in him. My hand tightened against him, and I clamped my thighs down around his hand.

“Let go, princess,” he growled against me before his fingers curled inside me and his teeth scraped over my spine.

I had no choice after that, no control left in my body. I was thrown over the edge, pleasure unlike anything I had ever known surging through me, and Evren held me against him as I fell apart.

It took me long moments to catch my breath and for the reality of what we had just done to truly hit me. Evren slid his hand away from my body before he pressed a gentle kiss against my spine, and I tensed beneath his touch.

He felt it, of course he had, and as if it were possible, the room seemed to darken even more.

“Adara,” he called my name, but I stepped out of his touch before I could let myself get lost in him again.

He chuckled soft yet deafening, and I blinked when the shroud of darkness lifted and my room appeared as if the light had been there all along.

I looked to the door, and I knew that my next words were the wrong thing to say the moment they passed through my lips. “You should leave.”

“Of course, Starblessed.” Evren bowed deeply before standing back to his full height and sinking two of his dark fingers into his mouth. Two fingers that had just been buried inside of me. I watched as his tongue lapped at the evidence of me on his skin, and I couldn’t look away from his canine teeth that gleamed on either side of his fingers.

“Your dark magic has a cost.” I nodded toward his hands that were far darker than they had been earlier just as he let his fingers slip from his mouth.

“That it does.” He nodded before slipping his hands into his pockets. “As it appears, so does your loyalty.”

“Evren, please.” I shook my head, but I didn’t truly know what to say. I felt so confused, so lost in between what I wanted and what was demanded of me.

“No need to beg now, princess.” He grinned, and I could see the darkness hiding behind his smile. “You’ve already got what you needed from me.”

“You know that this is dangerous,” I whispered, but he was already passing me by and heading toward the door.

“Don’t worry, Starblessed. My magic-stained fingers didn’t leave a single trace between your thighs. My brother will never know that you just came so hard for me while not even thinking once about him.”

“Is this a game to you?”

My question caused him to stop with his hand already resting on my door handle. He didn’t turn back to face me, and I hated that he didn’t. He spoke as if what had just happened didn’t matter at all. “Of course it’s a fucking game. Now maybe you should think twice before you tell the queen how pure you are for my brother.”

He opened the door and disappeared before I had a chance to answer. Before I even had a chance to catch my breath from the impact of his words.