House of Mages and Raven (Shades of Ruin and Magic #4)

Chapter 1

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Barbie

A swirl of dust motes in the golden morning light chased our entwined bodies as Killian’s cousin knocked urgently from the other side of the door. Runes glowed on the walls before fading. Killian warded every inch of his master bedroom.

I heaved up and down his massive length, arching my back and gasping at the wild pleasure as he drove into my molten core.

Shit! This felt good.

A few more rapid thrusts from him, and I’d be in heaven.

“ Mine! ” he growled.

“But are you mine too?” I challenged him, slamming my bare bottom into his heavy balls.

He said I was the first woman who’d ever slept in his bed. Not even his betrothed had spent a night here. I was special, at least according to him. It didn’t cancel out the fact that he was taken, tied to another woman.

Technically, I was the other woman, who had no right to him, but it couldn’t stop me from wanting to taste him again, especially after we fucked for real outside his dream walk. I was conflicted when it came to the chaos prince. This primal need in me demanded I stake my claim on him, making him my man for good, yet the practical part of me told me to let him go.

I had baggage. Not just heavy, but dangerous, the kind that could bring death to everyone around me once my god father caught up with me.

I ran my bottom lip between my teeth. There was no better time than now to lay my darkest secrets bare in front of Killian—if he offered me an honest answer, told me that we belonged together.

“Queen Lilith is waiting downstairs, Your Highness,” Cami called from outside the door. “You’ll want to take care of it to prevent any inconvenience.”

Killian snarled in displeasure, and I ignored the change in mood and rode him harder. His dark gaze slid to me from the closed door.

It had come to this. It would always circle back to this plight.

I dug my fingernails into his shoulders, my body humming with lust and primal power. I didn’t want this to end, didn’t want to give him up, but I knew that it was coming to an end, like all good things.

“You want to know if I’m yours too?” he asked roughly, yet an amused smile tugged up his carnal lips at my display of viciousness and possessiveness. “I’ll tell you when I’m back.”

He lifted me off him reluctantly and kissed my lips. “Everything will be fine, I promise.”

I wanted to believe him, but it felt like the end of whatever this was between us.

Then Cami spoke cautiously against the door, driving the last nail into the coffin. “Queen Lilith brought an oracle, who has been searching for the lost princess, daughter of the God of Ruin.”

My pulse froze. My blood iced over.