Oh, he liked this banter. No one had dared speak to him so audaciously with such playfulness before. He smiled with fascination.
He answered her with another passionate kiss traveling slowly from her lips along her jaw to her earlobe where he gave her an impish nip.
“Ooooh,” she shuddered. Trying not to fall over, she put her arms around his neck. Another tingle crawled down her spine. “Oh, my lord, are you trying to persuade me?” Sigyn asked, finding breathing to come harder.
He wrapped his fingers in her locks and made his way back from her earlobe to her lips. He pulled away slightly to look devilishly into her eyes and cocked an eyebrow.
“I’m sure I don’t know what you mean, dear Sigyn… ” he let his voice trail off as her kissed along the other side of her face and administered the same nip to her other earlobe.
Once again she blushed hotly, and damned her fair skin. But this was Asgard’s prince, paying her these attentions, calling her by name, giving her endearments. It was enthralling, but she couldn’t help her hesitations, fearful of making a mistake. Better to be patient.
“D-dare I inquire what you are doing, m—” Her gasp as he nipped her other ear cut off the end of the thought, and she tipped her head back in pleasure.
Loki sat back to take in the sight of her, head back, eyes closed and he smiled. This was a stunning creature, charming with her uncertainty yet capable of witty defiance in the face of royalty. He decided it would be unfair and counter-productive to his newly-formed plans to toy with her in such a way so he stood and again offered her his hand.
“I truly must insist on you taking the bed, Miss Sigyn. It would not do to have a beauty such as yourself debased so by sleeping on a couch…” he tried to look stern and unrelenting but he could feel his eyes smiling and betraying him.
Sigyn looked up at him, towering over her. She swallowed, hard, and said, faintly, “My lord, truly, what if someone were to enter, and find me there, and you here? I cannot.”
A thought darted through her mind — you could share it with me — and her ears went pink again. Determinedly, she tucked her feet up on the couch and gazed at Loki, eyes wide, face set.