I’m desperate and you have answers I need.
There was only one thing I could think of that Navya would be interested in. My role in pulling Ahrun back from the brink of madness.
If Ahrun had been willing to share the secret to his good fortune, I wouldn’t have needed to go to these lengths. Blame him for your predicament.
I tried to lean back as Navya came closer. “This isn’t going to work out the way you want.”
In my mind, her voice echoed.If you won’t willingly give me the answers I seek, I have no choice but to tear them out of you myself.
Her gaze caught mine, her pupils slitted like a snake’s. For a moment, a single instant, she held me spellbound.
Her mouth opened wide, exposing slender fangs that were obscenely long. The length of a human pointer finger. Tips as sharp as needles.
She struck, burying her fangs in the side of my throat.
I jerked. Lassitude stole over my limbs and mind, blissful as the pain receded for a moment and Navya’s venom worked through my bloodstream.
It was hard to think, my thoughts growing tired and sluggish.
For the first time in a long time, I felt like a victim. Helpless as the predator with her teeth buried in my throat took whatever she wanted.
It was a terrible feeling. The absolute loathing it spawned helped me push away the haze that stole over my thoughts as she fed from my throat.
She was inside me. In my head. Invading the mental forest that I used to protect my mind from telepaths and other mental attacks. Tainting my inner world with specks of black lacquer that flaked off during her passage.
Deeper, she traveled.
As if sensing the interloper, my darkness roiled, turning over and inside itself, rearing back as if poised to strike.
From the depths of my mind, something surged. My connection to Liam lit up. For a brief second, I had a dizzying image of him traveling at high speed through a dense forest, his rage a thunderous tattoo in his chest. A stag ran beside him, its coat the silver white of moonlight.
Before I could make sense of what I was seeing, darkness coated my vision. Ahrun’s presence blanketing everything.
It’s not time yet.
The voice in my head was so faint that I thought I’d imagined it.
Navya jerked back with a stricken expression. For a moment, she stared at me with wide eyes.
“Impossible,” she whispered.
Her gaze searched mine. Dismay warred with despair in her features. Navya closed her eyes to compose herself, but not before I saw her devastation.
I didn’t know what she’d found in my blood, but it was obviously not what she was expecting.
Good.
I hoped she choked on that knowledge.
“I’m not the only one who has seen my last sunrise,” I hissed.
Ahrun was going to eviscerate her for this.
I’ll do more than that, my darling. Your blood and life are mine.
I think Liam would disagree with that sentiment. Though it was good to know I hadn’t imagined Ahrun’s voice earlier.
There was a warm chuckle in my head, the brush of a velvet darkness sliding through my mind.My son is ever the possessive lover. Also, good job in whatever you did. We were having trouble feeling you before.
