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Sout, daiven me

I wouldn’t need to search anywhere outside the relationship if Benedict was mine—not that he ever could be Forbidden and all that But Goddess, I’d never come like that before Never felt so…alive before And I loved sex With the right being? It was a fun way to expel pent-up energy, but it’d always been like dancing to me A fun way to pass the tiht need before

Until tonight

Because there was no other way to describe it Tonight I’d needed Benedict in a way I’d never experienced before As if some inner power inside me simply had to be satiated and hi to satisfy that hunger

And now that I’d gotten that taste? Fuck, I only wanted more

“Are you listening to me, Jocelyn?” My mother barked, and I flinched back to the present I hated it when she said my name like that—like it was an insult, an annoyance, and a command all in one

“Yes,” I said, trying not to let my labored breath shake my tone “But why do you care if I take a consort now, anyway? Why the big push? You were a hundred years older than I a had to be ht? Or was it a way to keep me in check since I loved to stray past all those ancient lines?

“Solidifying the bond between covens is crucial right now,” she said the words as if I were five years old again and co “We’ve had numerous run-ins with the Sons of Honor, there have been increased attacks against supernaturals, and the va upon a great change, Jocelyn We need to be a strong, united force Taking a consort and producing an heir will only aid in that endeavor

Ice crystalized in my stomach, and I shifted off the bed, her words too ings, only then realizing I was still bare “I’ as if ht around my throat

“Oh please,” she snapped “None of us ever are”

I furrowed th of my borrowed room I didn’t believe her words Couldn’t Because I’d seen beings blessed with younglings after years of trying, I’d seen the joy in their eyes Sos Soether and live and laugh and grow together

But that wasn’t how my mother worked She’d had us for no other reason than to add to her already wealth of power and Luna and I felt the lack of coenuine interest every day of our lives I would not put a youngling through that