Surprised at his manners after dealing with all his aggression, I opened my mouth to tease him but shut it when the peculiarity of his comments dawned.
Things he’d saidwithout speaking out loud.
Have you finally figured it out?The ruby shine in his pupil stopped me cold.
My temples throbbed, and my dry mouth made it difficult to swallow.As if dreams of demons and hearing voices weren’t enough, I’d just made love to a mind reader, one with blazing red eyes that couldn’t possibly be human.
Chapter13
Darius
Icould feel my eyes sparking with heat.Making love to Samantha hadn’t been smart, not at all.It had done nothing to sate me and everything to make me want her again.And now wasn’t a good time, considering what she’d recently been through.
Swearing under my breath, I brought my power under control, enough so that I knew my eyes cooled under the uncomfortable dark contacts I was forced to wear.Samantha continued to stare at me, and I thought maybe I’d pushed her too far.
I took her by the shoulders and looked down into her wide, stunned gaze.“Look, I know all this is hard to believe.Trust me, I know the feeling all too well.”I stepped back and ran a hand through my hair.
Maybe ordering her to come with me had been harsh.My gaze lingered on her vulnerable neck.After what she’d been through, not only with Sin Garu but also with the combustible chemistry we seemed to share, she had a right to be wary.
“Samantha, I’m asking you to please come with me.I promise, once we’re at my house, I’ll answer all your questions and tell you more than you probably ever wanted to know.”
She stared at me, her gaze assessing.“I’ll go with you,” she said slowly.“But I want you to promise you’ll stay out of my mind.”
I agreed with a nod, though it would take no small effort on my part to give her the space she desired.For some reason, my mind tuned to hers naturally, and the more I was around her, the less I was able to remain distant, both mentally and physically.
I didn’t feel comfortable with this sudden need for a constant mental touch, especially because the desire I experienced when around her hadn’t abated.Not at all.The orgasm I’d just had hadn’t sated me.It had only made me hungry for more of Samantha’s delectable body.
As I watched her pull herself together, I wondered at the lack of spark in the crystal embedded in my skin.If Samantha was my true affai, the crystal should have been pulsating or doing, well, something.
But it did nothing, sitting muted, like a scar on my chest.
“Okay, I’m ready.”Samantha nodded to me.
I exited ahead of her, alert and ready to protect.
We walked to my truck in silence, my attention on the dark world around us, too conscious of the Djinn threat.It still annoyed me that we’d spent so much time in this world hiding when the fucking Djinn had been aware of us from the start.
I glanced behind me and thought Samantha had to still be coming to grips with what had happened in her hotel room.Humans in this world weren’t used to magic, from what I gathered.
The magir, as those with magic called themselves here, kept themselves hidden.
I’d run into a few shifters, gargoyles, dour-faced mages, and even a vampire.All of them hailed from different worlds than mine.Even in the fae realm, Tanselm existed in a pocket dimension, a wondrous cosmos apart from all others.
I felt the ache of longing for home, and it kept me company on our drive.
We’d driven halfway to the house before she spoke.“What’s an affai?”
I turned to her in shock.“What?”
“Watch the road!”
I swerved to avoid the car in the other lane.“Where did you hear that?”
“From you.”
“When?”I didn’t remember mentioning anything about an affai to her.Hell, I’d planned to avoid explaining that part of the story until I absolutely had to.The thought of marriage to a human still made my stomach roll.
“When we were making love.You called me affai.”
