The Crown of Gilded Bones (Blood and..

lines of his chest, the wickedness of the length of him, to
the life he’d lived that played out across his bronzed skin in
a smattering of pale scars.
His body was…gods, it was a masterpiece of perfection
and flaws. Not even the Royal Crest brand—the circle with
the arrow piercing the middle—on his right upper thigh
detracted from the raw beauty of him.
“When you look at me like that, every good intention I
had of letting you enjoy your first shower disappears with
each passing second,” he said, water sluicing over his
shoulders as he crossed under the rain shower. “And is
replaced by very inappropriate intentions.”
Heat flushed my veins as I toyed with the hem of my
slip. My gaze dipped below the tight muscles of his
abdominals, lower than his navel. He’d hardened, the skin
there a deeper hue. A curling motion was sharp and sudden
in the pit of my stomach and then between my thighs.
His chest rose sharply. “I think you’re interested in those
inappropriate intentions.”
“And what if I am?”
“I would find it very hard not to cave to them.” His eyes
brightened. “And that would be a problem.”
My pulse was a heady thrum. “I’m not sure how that
could be problematic.”
“The problem? If I get inside of you right now, I don’t
think I can control myself.” He stopped in front of me and
dipped his head. His lips brushed the shell of my ear as he
slipped a finger under the strap of the slip. “I’d have you up
against that wall, my cock and fangs so deep inside you that
neither of us would know where one began and the other
ended.”
An intense, aching pulse washed through me in tight
waves. The memory of the scrape of his fangs against my
skin, the bite, and the brief pain that gave way to pleasure
took center stage in my mind. “I still don’t see how that is a
problem.”