“The Council has quarantined the island and is razing it to the ground. We’ll be wiped off the map tonight. I failed,” I said, my words suddenly thick in my mouth. From the start, this had been about saving him. Twenty-fucking-six and a trash life. I’d tried everything to help him and now none of it mattered.

Lorcan set down his cup and stared at it for a moment.

“Lacey’s luck?” He asked.

“It's not up to this job,” I said, swallowing thickly. I ground my teeth and willed my itchy eyes from watering. Lorcan got up and walked over to me, stepping between my legs.

Suddenly, he dropped between my thighs, going to his knees on the ground in front of me. His hands slid up my thighs.

“What’s this?” I asked.

“Before…I didn’t want to be a demon with you. I just want to be a man.” His fingers brushed over the thick erection in my pants. “So I kept my distance even though I didn’t want to.”

“This is what you want from me then? Are you sure?” I asked, trying to hide the hope in my voice.

“Yes, Dullahan. This is what I want,” he said, looking into my eyes. Then slowly he unzipped my pants and pulled me out, gripping me tightly in his hands.

“Christ,” I hissed.

“I want you,” he said before dragging his tongue obscenely up the side of my shaft. I watched his tongue split and spread out in two directions as he went. “I’ve always wanted you but I didn’t want to lose control.”

“I don’t mind you losing control as long as you know you want this,” I rasped, reaching out to brush my fingers through his silky hair. He stretched his mouth around the tip of my cock and sucked the head into his mouth. I groaned, pleasure burning through my body. He pulled back off.

“You were the only one who treated me like a person instead of a snack. I don’t want to lose control with you, even if you’re okay with it,” he said, bringing his mouth down to my cock again. His tongue slid down the side as he slipped the tip back into his mouth. I felt the split ends of his tongue flick against my piercings. His mouth was hot and wet and my cock pressed against the roof of his mouth as he slid me further back.

A groan rumbled from my throat. Lorcan reached for my pants, tugging them off my hips.

“Alright, alright,” I rasped with a chuckle. He sucked my cock roughly a moment before pulling off, making me shudder. Before I took off my clothes I leaned forward and kissed him, holding his face as my tongue pressed into his mouth. I hummed in pleasure as I tasted him.

Eight long years of burying lust. Eight long years of being in love with this man. And all that time I thought he’d leave eventually. That I was a temporary home he needed only to get on his feet. That once he was stable, he’d go. But here he was, finally stable and he was telling me he wanted me and always had. I didn’t know what to do with the joy that gave me.