Darius leaned down and brushed his lips across Brisa’s. “Wake up.” She mumbled something incoherent and tried to push him away. He chuckled. “Come on. You can sleep later.” He nibbled on her lips and covered one of her breasts with his hand, giving it a squeeze.
Brisa kissed him back. “Mmm,” she said against his lips. “What a way to wake up. I’d like your kisses to do that every morning.”
He pulled back and smiled. “I think that can be arranged.”
She turned her head and looked at him. “How are you feeling? Did the other spell wear off?”
He nodded. “I’m all better. The wounds have healed. You want to see?” Darius flipped back the covers.
Brisa’s gaze ran down his body and stopped at his cock. He was already aroused, his shaft fully engorged.
She licked her lips. “I can see that you are.”
She rolled to her side and reached for his cock. Her fingers wrapped around it, stroking up and down. Darius gloried in the feel of Brisa touching him, but he knew he had to get her to stop until they’d had a chat.
“That feels good. Too good. I have to tell you something before we go any further,” he told Brisa as he tugged her hand off his erection.
“Tell me what?”
Darius sank fully onto his side so he was on Brisa’s level. “The day you heard me talking to Anubis in the room I set up as a temple to him, he and I spoke about something that concerns you.”
“Was it good or bad?”
He smiled. “I like to think it’s good, but that’s for you to decide.” Darius ran the pad of his thumb along Brisa’s kissable bottom lip. “I’ve never had feelings this strong for a woman as I do you. Even when I was mortal, I had no wife. Back then, I was only interested in finding the next battle to fight. That was part of the reason why I joined the crusade, not because I had a strong religious conviction.”
“So you were a knight who liked to play with his sword,” she said coyly.
Darius understood her double meaning and shook his head with a laugh. “There you go with your mind in the gutter again.”
“Hey, I can’t help it. I have a sexy, naked man in bed next to me. One who also happens to be horny.”
“I’m trying to be serious here.”
“Sorry. I promise to behave.”
“Anyway,” he said with a sigh. “What I’m getting at is that I’ve fallen in love with you, Brisa. I want you to be a part of my life. I’ll always be one of Anubis’ warriors, but if you think you can accept that, and what I have to do, I promise I’ll do everything in my power to keep you happy.”
She gave him a sad look. “I love you as well, Darius. There’s one thing, though. You’re immortal and I’m not. I know I’ll love you when I’m old and gray, but the big question is, will you? You’ll stay looking as you do now forever.”
He put his arm around her waist and tugged her close so their fronts pressed together. “This is where my talk with Anubis comes in. I thought something was wrong with me, because just about every time we’ve made love, right before I come, a change comes over me. My eyeteeth become longer and sharper, as they do when I shift. I also had the urge to bite you.”
Brisa swallowed. “Bite me? You must have hidden this well, because I didn’t have a clue about any of it.”
“I guess I did. Anubis told me there wasn’t anything wrong. That it was something that would happen when I found the woman to be my mate.” He paused. “You’re that woman, Brisa.”
“So you want to bite me since I’m your mate.”
“Yes. I’m giving you the choice, though. Once I bite you, you’ll become immortal like me. Your life force will be tied to mine.”
Brisa cupped the back of his head and brought his lips to hers. Her kiss was hot and demanding. She pushed her tongue inside his mouth before she sucked on his, driving him crazy. Darius rolled them so she was on her back with him on top of her.
As he made a trail of wet kisses along the side of her neck, she said, “Do it, Darius. Bite me. I want to have forever with you. I know you’ve waited a long time to find me, but I’ve waited for you as well, even though I didn’t know it. Make me your mate.”
He nipped her skin where her shoulder and neck met. “Not yet. But I will if this is truly what you want.”
Brisa pulled his head up and met his gaze. “It is. I know what I want, and I want you.”
Capturing her mouth again, Darius kissed her hard and long. He molded one of her breasts with his hand and plucked at the taut nipple under her shirt. Brisa squirmed beneath him, pulling at her clothes. He ended their kiss and quickly stripped her naked. He groaned at the feel of her curves pressing along his naked skin.
He suckled at her breast as he reached between her legs to see how ready she was for him. Darius moaned. Her pussy was wet, and his finger easily slipped inside it. He added a second, pumping in and out, loving the sounds of pleasure Brisa made as he worked her.
His cock aching, wanting to be buried deep inside her, he shifted up higher on her body and pushed the head of his shaft into her pussy. Brisa wrapped her legs around his waist. She rocked with him, matching his strokes, as he pushed deeper until she’d taken his full length. Her warm wetness bathed his cock while he slid in and out.
“Harder, faster,” Brisa moaned.
He set a quicker pace, giving her what she wanted. His cock grew harder. Already he felt an orgasm building, his balls drawing up close to his body. Brisa’s whimpers of passion drove him on. He strained against her, taking her in harder thrusts.
She called out his name when her pussy clamped down around his cock, clutching it, holding it in a tight fist. It had him racing to the point of no return. He felt that now-familiar burning in his gums as his eyeteeth dropped. There was no denying his urge to bite Brisa this time. He bit down where her shoulder and neck met, his teeth sinking beneath the skin. She stiffened under him, then let out another loud moan when she was thrown into another climax. Darius followed her, groaning against her skin, his cock pulsing deep inside her pussy, filling her with his cum. Just before the last wave of pleasure receded, he felt something snap into place between them, like an invisible bond.
He released her neck and looked down at her. “Did you feel that?”
She nodded and looked up at him with the love she had for him showing in her eyes. “I think it worked.”
“It did.” His gaze landed on the spot where he’d bitten her and watched the teeth marks he’d left behind heal and disappear.
Brisa pulled his head down and kissed him. “I love you.”
“I love you too.”
“I hope you weren’t planning on doing anything else but staying in bed today,” she said with a smile. “Since we’re now mates, and I guess technically married, this is our honeymoon. I’m not going to waste any of it.” She rolled him to his back with her ending up on top. “Starting right now.”
Darius surrendered himself to his mate, quite happy to give her all that she wanted.
“I really don’t like this,” Brisa said as she watched Darius pick up his sword off the kitchen table.
“I know, but it’s best if I do it this way.”
It was now night. Darius and she had indeed spent the day making love, only coming down to eat when hunger drove them out of the room. It had been during one of those breaks that Darius had told her his plan to draw the demon out, to fight him.
“What if he stabs you again with a spelled dagger? He got the drop on you the last time.”
“He won’t be able to do so again. I’ll be ready for it. Last night I was distracted by you, worried you wouldn’t accept me. I’m not anymore.”
“You’re still sure he’ll come?”
Darius gave a harsh chuckle. “He’ll come. He won’t resist having me out from under Anubis’ protection. He already thinks he’ll be able to defeat me.”