Steal the Sun (Thieves #4)(141)

Chapter Thirty-Five





“What do you think it does?” Dev stared at the Blood Stone. It was strangely beautiful in the midday light. He lay on his stomach and I stared at his completely perfect ass.

“I have no freaking idea, man,” Daniel admitted, kissing the back of my neck as he let his hands wander across my breasts. Even though he’d just come, he was already getting hard again.

I lay back against Daniel’s chest, fairly exhausted. It had been hard keeping up with the two of them since we’d been safely ensconced in the Unseelie temple. We’d tried our hardest to bring Bris back to us but so far we’d had no luck. However, despite Declan’s dark warnings, our fertility rituals had seemed plenty powerful. We’d performed several over the last two weeks and Angus had been pleased. Our volume might not be at a hundred and fifty like it had with Bris, but we were a solid ninety-five, and the Unseelie seemed thrilled with their priest. Tomorrow we would be heading home. I was going to miss this big, comfy bed we had barely left for two weeks.

“Goddess, Daniel,” Dev said with an admiring smile. “I thought I was insatiable.”

Daniel didn’t stop his gentle assault. “Tell me you don’t want to go again.”

Dev set the Blood Stone aside and got up on all fours. I could see plainly he wanted to go again. His cock was standing at full attention.

“Hey,” I said, pushing away just a little because I still hadn’t recovered. “Nobody asked if I was ready to go again.”

Spreading my knees and laying a little kiss on my stomach, Dev settled himself between my legs. “I’m not concerned with that, sweet wife. We can get you ready.”

Daniel chuckled in my ear as he held a breast, offering it to Dev’s mouth. He made sure my nipple was a ripe berry for Dev to suck on. “We can definitely get you ready.”

A feminine voice interrupted us. “Hey, naked people, you have incoming,” Sarah yelled from behind the door to the bedroom.

“Tell ’em to go away,” Daniel growled.

Sarah opened the door slightly. “I already tried that. It’s the king, Chima, and Nim. They’re insistent about coming in. Just to warn you, the brat is with them.”

Dev groaned and got on his knees. Declan had been hanging around the Unseelie sithein, getting to know his son and trying to talk to his brother. Apparently Miria had ordered Declan to make up with his brother and Declan wasn’t going to let it go. Dev had ignored him so far.

“We’re getting dressed,” Dev yelled back. He sighed and we all got up to make ourselves ready.

Ten minutes later, we met with the king and the others in the parlor of the temple. Albert had set out a tempting little buffet and, after the morning’s play, I was feeling hungry. Daniel held out a mini cookie for me and I playfully ate it from his fingers. Albert smiled at me as he poured my tea. Of all of us, Albert was probably the happiest with our new faery home. The cooks here came to him for advice and he reveled in the teaching opportunities.

“Well, we know you’ve been busy, brother,” Declan said. “What you lost in power you have more than made up for in sheer volume.”

Dev communicated with his brother in the only way he spoke to him anymore—with his happy middle finger.

The king shook his head. “Well, we’ll be sorry to see you go. We look forward to your next visit. Nim tells us she is going to be journeying with you.”

Chima frowned. She wasn’t happy about losing her friend.

Dev inclined his head. “She’s welcome to.”

Nim smiled and clapped her hands. “I’m so excited. When Arawn used to take me back to the Earth plane, we spent a lot of time in nursing homes and retirement communities. He just felt more comfortable around the nearly dead. Sarah and Neil said they would take me clubbing.”

“They would be the ones to do it.” I was sure Nim would be a popular fixture at Ether.

Nim took a deep breath. “So, I wanted to talk to the three of you about something. I made a big decision. It happened when I saw Daniel on the battlefield.”

I felt Daniel tense beside me.

“I think it was fate that brought you to me, Zoey,” Nim said. “I think it was fate’s way of reminding me that I have a job to do. You see, a long, long time ago I was tasked with protecting a special weapon. I was supposed to hold it until the right person came along and when he was done with it, I would hold it again until it was time for the next king to rise.” Nim’s eyes were cloudy with memory. “The last time kind of sucked because I had to wait around in this lake for four hundred years before the little bugger showed up.”

Daniel sat up beside me, giving Nim his complete attention. “Nim, what’s your full name?”

Nim smiled slyly. “I have been called by many names, Daniel. Nim is short for Nimue, but you might have heard me called Vivienne.”

“You’re the Lady of the Lake?” Daniel breathed the question with a reverence I hadn’t known he was capable of.

Nim stood and walked behind the couch. She reached down where she’d placed something. “Yeah, like I said, hanging around in a cold-ass British lake kind of sucked, but it was where I met Arawn and a boy named Arthur.”

Daniel stood up. He was slightly breathless. “Is that what I think it is?”