A Valkyrie's Apprentice: Book Two

Until Dawn

I pushed her off me and slapped a pillow over her face without hesitation. It made a satisfying poof  along with her protest under the feathers.

"When are you ever going to learn that insulting me never goes your way like it does with your mortals?" I responded, tucking my hands behind my head and looking at the ceiling. 

She sat up, puffing out pieces of dow and hair. When she tried another comment it seemed to die on her lips and I tore my eyes towards her in question. She seemed to be staring at my uncovered body entirely at ease and losing every part of her brain in the process.

"You were saying, Tayah?" I murmured with a slow smirk.

"That your–probably completely right–I totally agree." She got out and met my eyes innocently.

I drew up and leant back on my elbows, continuing to watch her with a challenging look. "So what exactly did I say to you just now?"

Her eyes raked over me again, darkening and losing a battle inside her head. "Something–insult–Tayah, I love you." She finished uncommitted and drawing up to grab my jaw. I laughed as she kissed me intently and we fell back into the pillows.

"Why are you–still such a mortal?"

"Because–you look like–a god." She groaned into my lips.

I pulled her face away enjoying the complaint on her features. She looked far closer to Athena to me with beauty even before immortality. "Seconds ago you were saying how I was stuck with this face–"

"Do they not have sarcasm in eternity?" She demanded, trying and failing to steal my mouth again. I was having too much fun toying with her anyway.

"No but they have patience." I told her with a dark look.

"That sounds great. You exercise that while I go ahead and don't." She finished, pinning both of my arms with immortal strength and meeting my eyes a few inches away. "Before I make you." She whispered, making shivers break out from my skin.

The patience ended pretty quickly after that.

Her lips were invading every inch of my skin and I returned it at every possible moment. Her breathing matched my own and our desire was not something easily contained after so long apart like this.

The feel of her hands running over my hips, my stomach and then my chest was making my mind feel hot and my body like a living torch. I grazed my teeth along her neck and bit down a bit too hard when her fingertips brushed the peaks of my breasts. 

She sucked in a breath but didn't protest when I drew back and saw a mark forming already. I didn't have time to give it more thought because her lips were finding my own and her tongue was running a line over my lower one.

"I thought that felt a little different." She said breathlessly, licking her tongue across the corner of her lip. No doubt tasting a faint drop of blood.

I returned it with a dark look. "No harm done, trust me immortal." 

"Maybe I should return the favour." She whispered, dropping her face down.

"I'm not stopping you–"

The words died and her body met mine in burning perfection. Our legs tangled and her hands now moved through my hair. When I felt her nails drag through it a groan left me. She smiled into our kiss and trailed her lips down my neck. They didn't stop until they reached my chest and she started torturing me with her tongue.

My breathing was more than ragged. "If you–bite me as hard–there–you'll regret it." I got out.

I felt her grin against me and she only continued to run her tongue along my skin and over the peaks of my chest. When her teeth started grazing against it I moved my hands from her waist and raked them down her back making her shudder against me.