“This was already the plan for a romantic weekend,” I explained when I realized he wasn’t going to budge. “And then I heard something in some exchange students minds that got me fucking hot.”
He groaned, totally busted and burying his face against my neck. “I didn’t want you to find out.”
“Which I find ridiculously hot. You know I can fight my own battles, but you’re still my hero who would fight for me.” I ducked my head and kissed him. “Fuck me, Darby. Claim your prize for being the hero, my knight in shining armor, and make me scream your name.”
“Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, agra,” he groaned, letting me hear his Irish accent deeper and saying that, as supes didn’t believe in the Christian god. He caved, shoving his fingers inside of me as he attacked my mouth. “Glad you’re not pissed at what I said.”
“No, be possessive like that,” I moaned as he kissed down my neck to my breasts. “Tell those assholes I’m yours and you’ll fucking gut them if they touch your woman. You scared them, and it was hot how much you cared they might hurt me. You—I got so fucking turned on seeing it in their heads. And gods, were they jealous. They wanted your agra like you have me, Darby.”
“Fuck they did. The fuckers wanted you more than they wanted to know what you are for their councils,” he growled as his fingers moved faster. “But you’re my agra. Aren’t ya? Ya bloody fucking mine, aren’t ya, Tamsin?”
“Yeah, yeah, I’m yours,” I mewled before orgasming, digging my nails into his skin. I could only have imagined his back if he didn’t have the rapid healing of a vampire.
“I cannot believe how hot this got you,” he murmured when I finished. “I was so fucking possessive and—I was a dick. It’s just…”
“We’ve had a rough time,” I panted, knowing exactly what had been going on with him. Those guys hadn’t been able to read the facial expressions of my prickly pear, but I had. I knew what had been going on with him, so this wasn’t only my being turned on.
Darby needed this. He was all… This wasn’t only my issues and problems. We needed this.
I pressed my lips to his ear and bit the lobe hard. “Fuck me, Darby. Fuck me like they’re here and show them I’m yours. Fuck me, and then fuck me again. Fuck me as many times as you can because your agra wants you that much.” I swallowed a yelp as he lifted me out of the pool faster than I could jump out and then was hopping out and picking me up again.
A moment later, we were on one of the daybeds, and he was checking I was stretched enough. Mostly. Enough for when we were this wound up and we had healing runes, no matter how big he was.
Which he seemed to remember as he hurried to thrust in me. I arched my back, feeling completely full and aching with it at the same time. He loved that, groaning as one of his hands came off my hips to play with my breast.
“Yeah, ya fucked now, and mine, agra,” he warned.
I did not have a problem with that. Darby put his hand back on my hip and absolutely drilled me while standing, taking me on a ride with his strength and speed that drove me insane. I came twice, to the point I thought my head might pop off, before he finished as well.
“That was not the gentle and loving first time I should have given you,” he panted when we were done.
I tried to burst out laughing, but couldn’t get enough air. I simply shook my head. “We’ve had as much normal as we could. We tried, we really did. That was amazing, and please just do it again and again.”
He smirked down at me. “That good?” He groaned when I tightened my body around him. “Yeah, for me too. Best sex I’ve ever had. By far.” He leaned over and kissed me. “It must be because I’m in love with you.”
“Me too,” I murmured, my face flushing. “Thanks for fighting for me, and that we reconciled.”
“Thanks for working past your trauma enough to hear me, loving me enough to listen,” he whispered, tears filling his eyes. “Thank you for fighting so hard that night so I didn’t lose you.”
I raised my head so our foreheads touched as tears filled my eyes as well. “Thanks for wanting to be my knight and save me that time as well. I know it was already over, but I never thanked you for coming there to take on your own family to rescue me.”
“You’re my family now, Tamsin. You, Mel, Izzy—this whole group is my family. Those people were just how I was born and not my people anymore. You are.”
I kissed him with all I had, hoping he knew how much that meant to me.
We had his slow and loving time next before actually lounging in the pool. Then we hopped out and found towels, heading to the kitchen for grub. Darby let out one of his rare, full laughs when he saw the fridge and freezers completely stocked with prepped everything for us.
“They really know your appetite,” he teased me.
I simply rolled my eyes and brought him to the basement to see all the other industrial freezers everyone had wanted. He couldn’t even try to curb it after that.
“That should last you a week?”
My response was less than flattering, and he started laughing all over again. Jerk.
“Fine, but I asked Irma to make sure your favorite pie with fae fruit was here and got the ice cream you like.” I turned on my heel and headed for the kitchen… Because I was hungry, but I wasn’t going
