She’s never seen me like this. Not clearly.
Her eyes track the pattern that marks me. The lines scorched into my skin when the darkness finally settled. When I became immortal.
In the centre of my sternum, a mass of dark lines forming a circle. Spidery limbs burst from it, reaching across my chest, to my shoulders, along my ribs, the tips ending at my pelvic bone.
I rarely look at it—rarely let anyone else see.
But she stares at it, studies it, and then gazes up at me with those burning eyes burnt with black, swollen lips parted on a breath she never quite managed, and I devour her.
Her eyes, her face, her throat, her legs, revealing more of those thighs I’m desperate to touch, to lick, to bite, as when she shifts—
She’s shuffling back. Away from me.
Like she’s trying to… run.
Like she’s… scared.
My darkness purrs deep inside my chest, it sounds like a growl but I know the difference. She doesn’t. And that only makes her eyes grow wider. Darker.
And I smile.
Chapter 46: Jasmine
Oh shit.
My eyes dart around the room, which is much darker and quieter. Colder.
Kane’s put us in the Dark Realm.
My gaze snaps to him. He’s… I swallow hard.
I remember when I saw him in the daylight of this district for the first time, how it revealed him so clearly, every hard line and deep shadow. I thought he was beautiful then.
But now…
Now the darkness moulds to him, sharpening every angle, drawing out something more. Something dangerous. Something Iwant.
This is where he belongs.
And Goddesses help me, I don’t want to be anywhere else.
There’s a wicked glint in his eyes, almost reflective even with little light. A deeper, hungrier flicker that sends a cutting chill along my spine.
And the way he’s looking at me, like I’m a threat wrapped in temptation.
I swallow again, shifting back on the bed to give myself more time to think and—
He smiles.
Oh. Fuck.
Everything inside me tightens at the sight of Kanesmilingat me.
“Scared, immaru?” His voice is a smooth, dark,deeptease.
Oh. Fuck. Off.
Fuck me.
