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  My face lifted from his torso and my eyes peeked out. The first thing I saw was his glorious golden wings stretching fully against the blue sky. They summoned the wind. They rode the wind. They beat so fast that I could barely see them moving.

  Wasn’t that fascinating?

  No, you don’t get fascinated with your sworn enemy! My logic snapped at me. My look of wonder dropped, and I gazed down.

  There was nothing between my feet and the far ground.

  My heart fell to my stomach. I squeezed my eyes shut and my legs gripped tighter around Seth. One muscular arm was around my waist and his other moved to hold my bottom; the gesture calmed me. His hand was large. I could get used to sitting on it.

  A strange peace washed over me.

  He didn’t intend to send me plummeting to the ground to meet my death. Feeling bolder, I opened my eyes and looked down at Earth again.

  The city was patches of flowing blue, brown, and orange.

  The mountains at the edge of Babylon were like the small sand dunes that children make at the beach.

  I could no longer see the crowd. I didn’t know if Lexa had made for safety. My telepathy couldn’t reach her at this distance, but I chose to believe that she was on the way to Mysth, that she would tell my generals what she had seen in Atlantis and get them into shape for the war.

  Earth looked so different when you observed it from the sky.

  I started searching for the twilight realm, my beloved kingdom, but the angel’s massive wings blocked my view and half the sky.

  Seth kept climbing, and the air became freezing. Even with his heat, I still felt its biting power.

  Fear returned. Did he mean to sentence me to death by turning me into an ice statuette? If he held such vicious intentions, then why had he knifed Victoria’s sentinels to protect me and my secret?

  He hadn’t said a word since we’d left the shop.

  The silence was more unnerving than suspenseful.

  “Prince,” I said softly and I could hear my teeth clattering from the chill. “Don’t you think we fly a bit too high?”

  I wasn’t trying to be critical. Anything could set him off at the moment, and it was unwise to piss him off while I was in the sky.

  “I thought you’d appreciate extreme sports,” he said harshly, “considering what you pulled off today. And it isn’t ‘we fly’: I’m doing the labor and you’re just hitching a joy ride!”

  As if I had begged him to take me for the “joy ride” in the freezing sky.

  What a self-centered, self-absorbed jerk, who never considered others’ feelings.

  But I swallowed my opinion.

  “Seth,” I said, shivering. “I’m cold.”

  He hesitated for a second, then dropped to a lower altitude.

  My stomach turned as he dove speedily.

  Would it kill him to slow down a little?

  I fought not to scream.

  Thank Earth, the angel finally stopped his dramatic descent, and the air no longer felt as frigid as before.

  He flew me horizontally, and I thought wistfully only if he could just fly me home. But I couldn’t go home. Even if I slept with the prince right now and he kept his word and took me back to the twilight realm, I would bring war directly to Mysth before my army was ready.

  “You can return me to the Spring Hall, Prince,” I said. “And I’ll sneak back to my chamber quietly. No one will ever know.”

  “You’re sneaky. I’ll give you that,” he grated. “But you aren’t going to get off so easily.”

  “Then what?” I asked, my voice no longer quiet, but it wasn’t harsh either. “What are you going to do to me?”

  “You tell me.”

  “I don’t play games, Prince.”

  “You don’t play games?” he snorted. “You’re the queen of games! You’ve been playing me from the moment I met you. You’ve been trying to undo me ever since the day I saw you on the bridge!”

  He continued to list my sins—sending my scent his way to muddy his mind, breaking into his library, breaching his vault, having my courtiers seduce him in order to stall him, setting the nasty bats on him, and using him as a cover to go see my former Dragonian lover.

  “In my long existence,” he concluded bitterly, “no other female has ever done even one of those horrible things to me.”

  So I was the evil queen? I thought not!

  “First, it’s not my fault you’re a sucker for my smell! I’ve tried to use a different soap to not inconvenience you,” I said, getting in the mood to counter his accusations one by one. “And I’ve been doing you huge favors. Instead of telling of your infamous hard-on, I chose to preserve your virtue and reputation. I haven’t told a soul about your unspeakable secret, not even to my lady-in-waiting.

  “When you came to watch me bathe, which was very improper, I even let you. I should have informed the king and let him behead you, if I’d known you would have turned out to be such a pain in the butt! Yet I didn’t do it, despite that he would reward me beyond my wildest dreams for giving you up.

  “When you came to my private chamber at midnight to impose on me your indecent proposal and then insulted me, I didn’t shout for the guards, as I should have. For your sake, I agreed to your dark scheme and proposal. I even went so far as to touch—to touch your male member to make you feel better, despite your unlawful demand!”

  He blinked in confusion and shook his head. “I was the one being wronged, and you’re angrier than I?”

  He pulled his wings back, letting the wind sustain them, and hovered in the air. Then he shifted his arm. His large hand palmed between my thighs and his fingers grazed my sex.

  My breath hitched. My cheeks flamed furiously.

  “As for my courtiers,” I continued, determined not to be distracted, “you didn’t need much seducing.”

  “Were you saying I was an easy mark?” he grated.

  “Everyone could see that you enjoyed very much having their ample breasts flashing in your stupid face,” I said. “Why didn’t you go ahead? Why didn’t you take them to your luxury penthouse instead of coming after me?”

  “Do I hear jealousy?”

  “I’m not threatened,” I said. “All you want is a fuck. It doesn’t matter if it’s me or my courtiers who give it to you.”

  “It does matter, Princess. I’ve seen all sorts of beauties across all worlds. They don’t mean much to me. But only you—who found some kind of tethering spell somewhere and flung it in my face—can make my cock hard.”

  “I didn’t cast a spell on you,” I hissed. “Maybe the universe finally decided to punish you for all the wrongs you did! Anyway, you were in heat when I left you, so you should have been able to enjoy other females with that kind of unholy hard-on. My courtiers are most beautiful and talented in the bedroom. I did you a favor.”

  “Another lie!” he said. “I’m curious. The Dragonian called your race liars and manipulators, yet they ally with you. Aren’t they afraid that you’ll stab them in the back when it’s convenient?”

  “We don’t backstab,” I said coldly.

  “You cheated on me and stabbed me in the back,” he said through his clenched teeth. “Yet I still saved your sorry ass.”

  This time he didn’t say pretty.

  I narrowed my eyes. “Cheat on you? With whom? And I’m not even yours to be qualified as a cheater!”

  He threatened. “Maybe I should not bother with you anymore.”

  I quieted and clutched him tighter, and he softened a little.

  “If you’re clever,” he continued, “you’ll stop this whole dumb business. Building an army with the Dragonian is a joke. It’s futile to fight my race. Many species, much more intelligent and advanced than the Dragonian and Mysthians combined, have tried before you and all failed. You think if you know how to throw a chakram and charm a horny rebel Dragonian leader, then you can command soldiers? War is nothing like that, Princess. Also, your Mysthian prophecy was sadly delusional.”
r />   Keep humiliating me and underestimating me, princeling! But when he mentioned the prophecy, my heart skipped a beat.

  “Yeah, I knew about the prophecy.” He dipped his gaze at me with a dark look. “Your earth magic is no match to ours. Your people believe that the great magic is in you. So tell me, Princess. You’ve had quite a few big scares, some of which can be classified as crisis. But where is your great elemental magic? You’re a dud.”

  Oh, that hurt.

  But he didn’t stop there. “You can’t defeat my brother’s troops with your wishful thinking and the weak, pathetic army you try to assemble. Wake up, Rose. I don’t want you getting yourself killed. The only way to save yourself is—”

  “—let you fuck me, and it’s best to let you do it now, and you’ll guarantee my safety,” I said. “Do you really think I’m such a coward?”

  “I get it,” he said. “You’ve been a busy bee for your people. You came to Atlantis and offered yourself as my brother’s bride to save Mysth, but know this: no matter what you do, the magic realm will belong to the angels. You can’t save everyone, but you can spare yourself, and I’ll provide for you.”

  If I wasn’t a dud as he’d called me, I would first blast his ass from the sky.

  But to my dismay, I couldn’t and wouldn’t even let my arms go from around his neck.

  “Do you know how we found your planet?” the Prince of Angels asked viciously.

  “Your race has never stopped searching for new civilizations to colonize and assimilate.”

  “True,” he said, ignoring my biting tone. “But we didn’t search your corner. We didn’t turn our gaze on Earth until the Dragonian sent the beacon. We received their radio signal in deep space.”

  That was how the Dragonian had summoned the angels.

  I would have tried to stop them if I’d known they would bring the deadly predators to Earth. But I also knew my attempt would have been in vain. After the Mysthians had turned down their proposal of joining them in a broader gene pool, the Dragonian had focused on space technology. They had declared that we weren’t alone in the universe and thus sought out other intelligent beings, dreaming of finding another species with superior genes to breed with them.

  Though they had never succeeded in developing a spaceship, they had invented many advanced devices to turn against us, yet our magic walls had held until the angels created a leyline through it.

  So we Mysthians eventually paid the price for laughing at the Dragonian’s obsession with science and technology and us, when the engineering race had brought the savage aliens to our planet.

  “The Dragonian thought they could learn from your benevolent race,” I said, “instead they end up being your slaves.”

  I wouldn’t let my people suffer the same fate.

  I needed to find the Sky Power. My head started spinning just thinking of how I was going to find it, since no one seemed to know a thing about it. Did it even exist? Maybe I should check with the prince, but now wasn’t the best time to probe and poke him. Even when he’d been in a better mood, he’d fended me off and ridiculed me when I had tried to inquire about the Forbidden Glory.

  In the end, all he’d given me was grief.

  “Rose, you can’t trust the Dragonian,” the prince said. “This will be my last warning: no more dumb tricks! And do not test my boundaries again. I especially don’t like this particular Dragonian. The way he looked at you disgusted me.”

  “How do you rate the way you look at me, Prince? Especially when you fully acknowledge that I’ll be your brother’s bride?”

  “You won’t be his bride. It’s been decided.”

  “By whom?”

  “You and me,” he said, pulling me away to look at my face with a roguish smirk, his warm hand on my neck. “When you sealed my indecent proposal by grabbing my cock.”

  What a pompous ass! Yet what he’d said made my blood heat up.

  His cock was too gorgeous for his own good.

  I remembered its smooth crown, silky and hard under my thumb. Its length and size were both impressive. I could form only a half-fist around his shaft. Unending power had sparked off him as he thrust his cock wildly into my palm; his golden wings had brushed against my breasts, drowning me with pleasure.

  I wanted to have his cock in my hand again.

  With that thought, I was instantly wet.

  The angel’s palm must have felt my dampness, even through my pants. He pressed the heel of his palm against my sex harder and rubbed it back and forth.

  I clung to him, my breath rasping as I tried not to moan.

  Stop! I ordered myself. Show some dignity.

  So I pressed my lips tightly and put on an outraged look.

  The angel’s eyes brightened to silver; his eyelids grew heavy with desire.

  “End the torture, Rose,” he said. “Let’s get on with it. Let’s have fun.”

  He wanted to fuck me in the sky.

  That was even more infuriating and obnoxious, but I answered weakly, “No…way.”

  “You want me as I much as want you. What’s stopping us?”

  “I get to choose the time and place,” I said. “And it’s not now.”

  “You’re afraid once I fuck you, I’ll cast you aside, and you’ll have no hold over me. Is that it?”

  “Why do I want to hold you?” Anger made my lust-laden head a little less messy.

  “I told you I’d keep my word,” he said, “and I’ll keep it. I’ll be more obliged and motivated to keep you safe once I have you, because I’ll be grateful.”

  “Sure, you’re an angel. Your word counts.”

  “I’m not like other angels,” he said. “I haven’t broken my word. If you know my history, you’ll trust me. Angels were once an honored race in the old days.”

  “But we live in now instead of the good old days,” I said. “And do you seriously want me to get acquainted with your dating history? Aren’t you famous for breaking every heart?”

  “You defy me at every turn while I just want to fuck you one time,” he said exasperatedly. “It has nothing to do with heart. You don’t want my heart. I’m basically heartless, as everyone says. And you well know that we won’t have a future together.”

  “Wow, I’m so flattered that you thought I would want your heartless heart and a bright future with you.”

  “If you don’t want my commitment, then why is it so hard for you to let me have one night with you? We can do it quickly. Or go slow if you prefer. We can do it now. Don’t you want to know how angels fuck in the air? It’s beyond sensual. It’ll be tons of fun and a new adventure for you to remember for a lifetime.”

  “You really are a charmer, Prince. Anyway, how many females have you… conquered in the sky?” I asked and immediately felt a bad taste in my mouth, picturing another female having been in his arms as I was now; that Seth had stuck his penis into her sex and thrust and enjoyed it to no end.

  “A few,” he said with a shrug. “I tried every sensual thing one could think of. In the end, it was nothing but boredom.”

  And he would feel the same boredom after he fucked me.

  The only difference was, I would never let him have me.

  Not every female would let this asshole treat her like a piece of trash.

  I couldn’t wait to see his look when I told him, straight to his face, to go fuck himself, and fuck himself hard in hell. Of course, that day would be on the battlefield.

  Right now, my sex was soaked wet since my body wanted him, no matter how I resented its reaction.

  “But with you, it can be different,” he coaxed. “I’ve never been so hot for any female before. My cock has been hard for you like this forever. I promise I’ll be both gentle and passionate with you. It’ll be a fantastic for both of us.”

  His finger found the heat of my channel and thrust into it through the soft fabric of my pants.

  I shivered as lust burst in my veins and pleasure spiked on my every nerve.

  “
I’ll show you the angels’ mating style in the sky,” he whispered in my ear, his breath ragged. “Let me—”

  If I kept this up, I would cave in. I would let him fuck me the next heartbeat.

  “I don’t care about angels’ fucking style!” I said with venom in my voice. One hand curved on his neck, my other hand caught his finger that thrust eagerly toward my entrance. With whatever will I had left, I shoved his hand away from my body. “Your sparkling personality might make other females drunk with desire and giddiness, angel, but it doesn’t do a damn thing for me. So save your hot breath and wait for that fuck when I say ‘let’s fuck.’ Now get me to the ground!”

  PRINCE SETH

  The Princess of Mysth shuddered. The cold current didn’t bother my race, but ground species were more fragile. I wrapped my arms around her and generously supplied her with my body heat.

  She was lucky to have an angel like me to protect her.

  I’d hoped she would have learned to appreciate me by now.

  As my heat enveloped her, the princess stopped shaking. When she felt comfortable in my arms, she started to explore.

  Up, she could see the endless blue sky. Down was Earth.

  She twisted her neck around and looked beneath, her hands never loosening around my neck. I was curious what she thought of her first flying experience.

  But I was more distracted by her curvy body. Her soft bosom brushed against my chest as she moved around and turned her torso. Her gorgeous round butt almost sat on my hard shaft.

  Her delicious breath was on my neck, and her arousing scent filled my nostrils.

  My cock throbbed achingly. All I wanted was to tear her pants off and shove my dick inside her warm flesh. But I wouldn’t force her, so I tried to persuade her to have sex with me in the sky. “Don’t you want to know how angels fuck in the air?” I asked enticingly.

  “How many females have you…conquered in the sky?” she asked.

  “A few. I tried every sensual thing one could think of,” I said, intending to make her jealous as she kept driving me mad. “In the end, it was nothing but boredom.”