His mouth on mine is a wildfire—dominant, unyielding, and intoxicating.
Ignis kisses me with a fierce, ravenous hunger that steals every drop of oxygen from my lungs. His tongue parts my lips, tangling with mine, tasting of wild magic, ash, and dark dragon wine. I gasp into his mouth, trying to fight the overwhelming rush of sensation, but the moment our lips meet, the blood-bond between us violently detonates.
A shockwave of blinding heat cascades down my throat, flooding directly into my chest. The crimson runes etched across my collarbone flare with brilliant light, burning straight through the thin fabric of my torn dress.
"Ah... Gods, Vanya," Ignis groans darkly against my lips, his voice raspy and broken by absolute surrender.
His heavy body pins me flat against the soft velvet mattress. He settles his broad weight between my thighs, his knee nudging my legs further apart to lock us flush together. The heat radiating off his bare chest is staggering, but as my body absorbs the blistering surge, it no longer burns. My ancestral blood-magic opens like a thirsty flower, drinking his chaotic fever into my veins and grounding it deep within my soul.
With a single, sharp tug, Ignis tears the remains of my dress away, tossing the ruined linen onto the stone floorboards.
My breath hitches as his bare chest presses directly against my naked skin. The friction is pure electricity. Every nerve ending in my body ignites, a shuddering wave of raw, dark pleasure shooting down my spine into my core. My hands, which had been pressed against his shoulders to push him away, involuntarily slip over his hard muscles, my fingers digging into his back as I arch up to meet his touch.
"Look at me," Ignis growls softly, pulling back just an inch.
His slitted eyes are twin pools of molten metal, burning through the dim moonlight of the bedchamber. His calloused hand slides down my side, his thumb tracing the curve of my waist before hooking into my hip bone, anchoring me against his thick, heavy length. The unmistakable ridge of his desire presses hard against my center, unyielding and hot through his leather pants.
"Tell me to stop, witch," he rasps, his voice dripping with possessive dark intent as his lips trail down my jaw to the sensitive dip of my throat. His teeth graze over my pulse point, nipping lightly, making my hips twitch against his. "Tell me you want to burn. Say the word, and I will pull back."
"You... you beast," I choke out, my chest heaving, my eyes locking onto his. "You forced this bond on me..."
"And yet your body is melting under mine," he purrs, his fingers sliding lower, slipping between my thighs to brush against my slick, swollen flesh.
I gasp sharply, my head snapping back into the velvet pillows as a violent shudder wracks my frame. I am dripping wet for him, my body betraying every ounce of my hatred, completely consumed by the forced magic syncing our heartbeats together. His fingers stroke over my center with slow, deliberate pressure, coaxing a helpless moan from my chest that echoes through the quiet room.
"You are mine, Vanya," Ignis whispers, his voice thick with primal triumph as his fingers part my sensitive lips, driving the sensation deeper until I am squirming beneath his weight. "Bound by blood, claimed by fire."
"Ignis... please..." I moan, the sound escaping my throat before I can stop it. I don't even know if I am begging him to stop or begging him to take me completely.
He doesn't give me time to think. Ignis reaches down, unbuckling his broad leather belt and shoving his pants down his heavy thighs. In one smooth, fluid motion, he aligns himself against my entrance, his thick tip pressing against my slick opening.
He grips my wrists, pinning them flat beside my head on the mattress, locking his golden gaze onto mine.
"Hold onto my magic," he snarls, and drives himself deep inside me in a single, powerful thrust.
A loud, breathless scream tears from my throat as he fills me completely. The sensation is staggering—an explosive combination of intense physical stretch and a blinding surge of raw, draconian power flooding into my womb. The Pyresis in his blood surges through his core into mine, but my magic catches the wild flame, converting his lethal fever into pure, thrumming pleasure that washes through every cell of my body.
Ignis groans, his jaw tightening as his eyes roll back for a second in absolute bliss. The agony that had been tearing his mind apart vanishes instantly, replaced by the profound, grounding relief of our union.
"Gods... you feel so tight... so perfect," he rasps, his hips pulling back before plunging hard back inside me.
He sets a relentless, agonizingly deep rhythm, setting the mattress shaking beneath us. Every stroke of his heavy length sends ripples of white-hot lightning through my abdomen. I wrap my legs around his waist, pulling him deeper, losing my mind to the friction, the heavy thud of his chest against mine, and the dark, possessive ownership of his touch. We move together like two storm elements colliding, skin sliding against skin in a frantic, feverish dance of survival and lust.
"Ignis... I'm... I'm going to—" I cry out, my hands clutching his damp hair, pulling his head down.
"Climb, Vanya," he growls against my lips, increasing his pace, his thrusts becoming wilder, deeper, and punishingly fast. "Take it all. Spill for me!"
My climax hits me like a shattering glass tower. An intense, body-wracking orgasm detonates through my hips, my walls pulsing tightly around his shaft. Ignis roars, his head thrown back as his own release hits him seconds later, pouring his hot seed deep inside me while a blinding flash of crimson light erupts from our joined skin, illuminating the entire bedchamber.
We lie tangled together, breathing heavily, our skin slick with sweat as the chaotic fever finally settles into a calm, gentle warmth within my belly.
Ignis buries his face in my neck, his heavy arm draped possessively over my waist, holding me tightly against his body. For a single, fleeting second, the terrifying King of Obsidian Peak looks peaceful, anchored by my blood.
Suddenly, a strange, low hum echoes from the shadow near the arched balcony windows.
My blood-anchoring magic, still hyper-attuned to the energy in the room, spikes with a sharp, freezing warning. The air grows cold, smelling of crushed nightshade and rancid sulfur.
"Ignis!" I gasp, sitting up abruptly, pulling the silk sheet over my chest. "Someone is in the room!"
Before Ignis can react, the heavy glass of the balcony doors shatters inward with a deafening blast. Three shadowy figures clad in pitch-black sorcerer robes leap through the broken frame, their hands glowing with dark green, venomous magic.
"Die, tyrant!" one of the assassins roars, hurling a blade made of glowing green poison straight toward Ignis’s exposed chest.