Year of the Inner Goddess

Queen of the Night

A bead of drool caught the light at the corner of my lip. A lover’s malice. A delicious, sadistic deprivation. The sound wrenched from him at that denial fed something ravenous in me, even as I drew my tongue along my lips, even as the Woodsman surged behind.
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Moonlight and Smoke

We moved as one, a tide of bodies, curves, and shadows, entwined in slow, fluid devotion. Kisses devoured and lingered, breaths mingling against skin, Smoke a shadowed current beneath us, Moonlight tracing the arches and hollows of every curve.
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Sheltered in the Underworld

The mortals had it all wrong…twisted, misshapen in their telling. Hades hadn’t stolen her; he had given her refuge. A sanctuary. A place to curl in the penumbral, against the ardent heat of his chest, and breathe. Warded and hidden from the powers and responsibilities of her own divinity.
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Obscene Sovereignty

My vast snowy wings thundered open as though the space itself required conquest, framing us in unquestioned dominion. I took him with a force that startled even me, imposed my need, riding with a ruthless certainty that made him secondary to the command surging through my body.
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