but we are in need of your services now,” Athropos said sadly.
“A necessity for whom? You? The queen? I tried to tell her and she wouldn’t listen to me.
My family would be alive today if she had gotten her head out of her ass and did what she promised. But she was too in love with that mate of hers to listen. Now look, they’re all dead.”
“So is her child, her daughter. She was tricked like all the others. You were not. That is why we need you. Black magic doesn’t touch you. And because of that, you will lead our army of warriors. The Black Knights.”
“No. I have things I want to do. I’ve been a guard for too long and I want to live my life for a change.”
“I’m afraid you have no choice in the matter, Tess. You have been chosen,” Athropos said just before she had touched Tess and burned the mark into her arm.
That had been fifteen years ago. Fifteen years of fighting wars with other beings, fifteen years of strife and death. Fifteen years of bringing order to the realm she had once vowed to detest. Tess had been working to keep the peace in Melody’s realm and the queen was not aware of who it was that kept her safe.
The Fairy Queen, the bar she worked, was busy for a Wednesday night. Tess mixed drinks from five o’clock until eleven without stopping. She decided she needed a breath of fresh air and walked outside to get it.
Tess felt him the moment she shut the door behind her. Damn it all to hell and back, she thought. Why did this man keep showing up when she had no way to run?
“Whatever you want, I don’t want it, I can’t afford it, and it’s too fattening anyway. Go away,” she said to Nathaniel as she turned to go back inside.
“We never finished our talk. You…sidetracked us. I wanted to know what you knew about
the men in the bank.” He stepped out of the shadows and began walking toward her. He was so beautiful.
Nathaniel’s light hair looked bright in the moonlight, highlighting the streaks of gold and red. His eyes looked black in the night until he got closer, then they became as brilliant and bright as a summer sky. Looking into them sent shivers down her spine. When he smiled—which had not been much when she was around—his teeth gleamed brightly in the moonlight. His mouth, she knew, was not as soft as it looked, but it was no less delicious tasting. His full lips were sensual and fit nicely over hers when he had kissed her. The width of his shoulders was wide and she could see herself hanging onto them when he took her.
Even at her height he still towered over her a good four inches, making her feel delicate and tiny when he was standing close. His cock was long and thick and her mouth watered when she thought of it pressed against her again as he had done this morning. Need rippled through her and she did not want to think about what they could do to one another if they were to let loose.
As much as she wanted to tease him again she knew that doing so now would not end with just a kiss, but with him taking her, taking her hard against the wall, on the ground, and against any surface that would hold them. Drawing in a shaky breath she realized that he was standing a mere foot away from her and she wanted him as badly as he wanted her.
“You should go. I have to work and you are…you’re a distraction I don’t need right now,”
she said, and hated the way her voice sounded breathy and soft.
“You’ve been a distraction to me since I inhaled your scent again a few days ago. I can’t think about anything but having you. I want to be inside of you, deep and hard. I want to fuck you until neither of us can walk then lay you down and fuck you again. No amount of jerking off has relived the thought of you taking me into your mouth, my coming down the back of your throat while you swallow every drop of me. I want to pull your nipples into my mouth and suckle them until you come, then I want to lick your clitoris over and over until you have filled me
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