Page 325 of Venom Sweeter than Honey
I wait to ask another question, and my patience is rewarded with the answer.
“I forgive Azrael. I understand him and his reasoning entirely. I love him more than I love myself... but you chose us. You chose us in favor of liberation, salvation, and a future free from mourning.Youhonored me and Violette by bindingyour soul to ours despite knowing the suffering it would one day bring.”
I have to bite my cheek so hard it bleeds to keep my lips from quivering under the weight of my emotion, and I vow to one day describe to him what it was like returning to Akash’scosmic womb, however briefly, before being called back by his and Violette’s souls, before I even bound us all together.
But at this particular moment, I have one final question dancing in place on the tip of my tongue with its eagerness to be spoken.
Drawing in a deep breath, I straighten and shift to face him, mustering my courage and meeting his gaze. “Would it be... horribly misplaced if I kissed you right now?”
Levi’s mouth curves, cheeks hiking, lips parting to reveal that boyish grin he hides from the world.Fuck, I love this male.
My heart and stomach swoop in unison like the unspoken murmuration of birds in flight.
His gaze briefly lowers to my mouth, and that’s all it takes to draw me into him like the calling of the tide.
Breath held, I lean in, slanting my lips carefully over his, testing.
Like one might dip a toe into a pool of water.
Yearning spreads through my chest like heat over ice. It pulls a groan from my chest. Guided by the same need, we both lean further in to fully capture one another’s lips and I find my hand snaking into the short lengths of his hair.
The first caress of our tongues sends a bolt of arousal straight to my cock.
Mouth hovering over mine, Levi’s voice is little more than a deep husk.“Fuck, Laz..."
Oh my fucking gods.
My lips wander, slowly decorating his jaw, his neck with kisses. “Say my name like that again, and I’ll fuck you on this bench.”
Levi chuckles, warm and resonant. One large hand grips a fistful of my hair to gently angle my head and bare my throat to him.
Grinning, his eyes search mine, a challenge in them as if to say,We’ll see who fucks who.
“Open for me,Lazarus.”
The singular command is as startling as it is arousing.
No male has ever toldme,the god of death and endings, toopen.
And yet, I find myself powerless to deny him.
A half grin skews my lips as I offer him the flat of my tongue. Levi’s eyes grow hooded, summoning a ball of saliva that I greedily swallow.
My cock throbs to the point of pain.
A glance in Violette and Azrael’s direction however reveals that...
We don’t have quite as much of an audience as I’d anticipated.
Instead, I get to watch Azrael receive what, to him, willseemlike his first kiss.
Standing within the halo of Azrael’s arms, Violette reaches up to cradle his jaw as she stands on the tips of her toes, wings fluttering gently behind her to give her that extra boost, to press her lips to his.
It is... heartrendingly sweet, and for a moment, I’m jealous.
Because while I might behealed, I am still possessive and greedy, and don’t want to share.
With pin point precision, Levi targets my right nipple, giving it a tortured pinch that I feel all the way down the tip of my cock.“Fuck.”
