I cried out as his lips found my scar. Fire struck my body alight. With that, fulfillment crashed upon me and I climaxed. Wave after wave rose, each building on the one before. Kisten shuddered, his motion under me ceasing as his passions crested an instant after my own. My breath came in a pained sound and I trembled, unable to move, fearing and wanting the last tingling jolts. “Kisten?” I managed as they faded to nothing and I found myself panting against him.

His grip about me hesitated and his hands fell away. My forehead dropped to his chest, and I took a shaking breath, exhausted and spent. I could do nothing as I lay atop him, my eyes half closed. Slowly I realized my back was cold and that Kisten’s hand was tracing a warm path up and down my spine. I could hear his heartbeat and smell our scents mingling. Muscles trembling with fatigue, I pulled my head up to find his eyes shut and a contented smile on him.

My breath caught. Holy shit. What had I just done?

Kisten’s eyes opened, finding mine. They were clear and blue, the black of his pupil normal and calming. “Now you’re afraid?” he said. “It’s a little late for that.”

His gaze lingered on my black eye—only now seeing it with my amulets on the floor. I pulled myself up from him, immediately falling back as it was cold. My limbs started shaking. “Um, that was fun,” I said, and he laughed.

“Fun,” he said, running a finger down my jawline. “My wicked witch thought that was fun.” His smile wouldn’t leave him. “Nick was a fool to let you go.”

“What do you mean?” I said, shifting to move, but his hands held me to him.

“I mean,” he said softly, “that you are the most erotic woman I’ve ever touched. That you’re both a wide-eyed innocent and an experienced slut all at the same time.”

I stiffened. “If this is your attempt at pillow talk, it sucks eggs.”

“Rachel,” he cajoled, the heavy look of satisfied tenderness the only thing keeping me where I was. That and I didn’t think I could stand up quite yet. “You have no idea how arousing it is to have your tiny little teeth on me, struggling to break through, tasting without tasting. An innocent, experienced and hungry all at the same time.”

I raised my eyebrows, blowing a strand of hair out of my eyes. “You had this all planned, didn’t you?” I accused. “Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?” It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.