I’d been wrong that day. Because though we’d shared glory, Devina and I, we hadn’t shared death. She’d gone ahead of me. Left me behind.
I made a sound in the back of my throat as her fingers trailed down the scar on my cheek. Her touch was still gentle but Ineededit to be rough. Ineededit to hurt.
My jaw tightened.
“I need you,kalles,” I rasped, my brow furrowed, my lips turned down into a scowl. “Right now.”
Her breath hitched at whatever she heard in my words. She knew what I meant.
“Davik,” she whispered, unsure of my mood, hesitant.
With a growl, I pulled her into my naked lap, my cock thickening, readying. She gasped when I suckled her nipples between my lips, through the thin material of the tunic she’d stolen from my chests. Her hands trembled before they rested along my shoulders, before she stroked her fingertips along a slab of muscle there.
Still so fucking gentle.
Frustration and want and need and lust and anger built up in my chest.
Still, I suckled on her nipples, wetting the material until it was transparent, until she was panting from it. After a moment, when I pushed up the hem, when I swiped my finger across her slit and found her wet, I didn’t want to wait anymore.
I froze when she reached between us and took my cock in one of her soft hands. Tingles exploded up my spine as she stroked once, from the root to my very tip, where the beginnings of my seed had begun to pool.
My back arched against the pole I was leaning on, a rough cry tearing from my throat.
She was biting her lip, her eyes half-lidded. She wanted this just as much as I did, this sensual little creature who terrified me, whoenthralledme.
“Get me in younow,” I growled roughly when she stroked again. “Or I will come all over your thighs.”
My grip on her waist tightened, half-afraid she’d pull away, and Ineededthis.
“Hanniva,” I rasped, my eyes catching on hers. Begging now. “Please.”
Vienne took a shuddering breath before I felt her shift. She might have been inexperienced with sex but she was curious. About me. Aboutthis.
My cock slipped between her lips and it took a few swipes against her before her body gave…and I sunk inside.
“Lysi,” I hissed, even when I felt her tense around me. Still tender?
But she didn’t pause. She rocked her hips over me steadily and slowly.Maddeningly. A constant growl had risen from my throat by the time I was seated all the way inside her cunt.
“Ahh,” she cried when I lifted her slightly, when I slid out and then thrust back inside, hard enough that her breasts bobbed underneath her tunic.
Lysi.
Thiswas what I needed, what Icraved. A distraction. A moment away from old memories.
And yet, sex brings old memories too, I knew.Memories best left forgotten.
I could not win either way.
And yet…
Vienne’s moans and hitched breaths filled my ears…and they were like a balm on the ragged edges of those memories, dulling them until I felt more confident that I could keep them at bay. Her grey eyes were luminous and wide as they stared into mine.
The longer I looked into them, however, the more panic began to rise.
Something was happening between us, something I didn’t think I could stop, something that had sparked from the first moment I’d seen her—covered in filth and frightened inDothik.
Nik, nik, nik.
