So freaking hot...
The world shifted, and the palace disappeared, in its place a small room with a velvet couch, a mirror in the corner, and a mantle full of dead, wilted plants.
Bane’s wings wrapped around me, sending a fresh bolt of desire straight to my groin.
The fire burned around me in his hold, and I was so very hot.
“I’m burning up,” I said, my voice full of desperation.
I needed to put this fire out, but how?
Images filled my psyche of fangs, of stone gray skin and burning red eyes, and I could feel him—his hardness pressing against my arse like a lightning rod.
“Do you trust me?” he asked, his voice deep like the call of the woods.
“Yes,” I said even though I knew it wasn’t logical.
I’d only known the man for barely a week, and...
Bane’s hand slid over my abdomen, eliciting goosebumps along my skin as he did so.
“Then let go,” he purred in my ear.
“But... what if...” my voice was full of something I’d never heard before.
Lust.
A deep, undulating current swirled in my stomach, fire spreading within me faster than I could comprehend.
I wanted to feel the power at my fingertips.
I wanted what had been taken from me.
I wanted what I was destined for.
I craved it all.
“What if I fall?” I asked, worried that these things weren’t trulymine.
That I didn’t deserve them.
I may have beenFae, and I knew that now in my bones like I know the sun rises and sets every day, but I was still lost.
I was so far from home, in so many ways...
“Then I will catch you, myanam cara,” he said as his lips brushed my neck, his fangs sinking into my flesh.
I cried out, not in pain, butrelief.
My entire body melted from that touch, my legs turning to Jello as warmth and wetness spread like a damn between my legs, lulling me deeper into this fire-driven, probably insane fantasy.
“Violet, wake the fuck up!” A terrified voice called, shattering my world to smithereens around me. Palaces and forests dispersed, diminished into fog and energy, as the world around me took hold once more.
I was so close, but yet still so far away from...
Home.
“Violet!” the voice echoed above me, as the darkness threatened to swallow me whole.
