"Aren't you afraid of betrayal?" My gaze softened as I stared into his furious eyes.
"He wouldn't betray us. He can't." His voice broke on the last word, and he shook his head. "Emperor Lloyd has been like a father to me. I know him. I can't imagine him doing something like that."
"Betrayal happens all the time. If he did, then he sucks. But we would figure it out." My chest heaved as I sucked in lungfuls of air. "I'm not saying for a fact that Emperor Lloyd is conspiring against anything. The only thing that I am saying is that you need to keep an open mind just in case he is because I do not trust Matthieu. I 100% believe that Matthieu is part of something bigger. Spirits, Silas, he might be the bone mage responsible for all of this!"
Warm lips slammed against mine as he surged forward, kissing me with complete and utter desperation. His tongue slid against mine as his hands wandered down my waist.
I responded immediately, my hands threading through his hair and pulling him closer.
He slipped his hands down and grabbed my ass, picking me up as I wrapped my legs around him. My back hit the wall as he pinned me to it, and I gasped.
"You are so frustrating," he snarled between kisses, his hand sliding my dress up to my neck before he grasped my breast.
I moaned and arched into him. "You're the frustrating one."
"Bless, muse."He moved a hand to his pants and pulled out his dick, lining it up with my entrance and slamming inside with one hard thrust. "You're frustrating because most of the time you're right," he growled out, breaking the kiss and skimming his teeth across my jawline down to my neck, where he bit hard.
I cried out in a mixture of pain and surprise, but the pain quickly turned into pleasure as ecstasy spiraled through me."Spirits, Silas. What are you doing to me?"
"I'm fucking you, muse." He pounded into me, his hips smacking roughly into mine.
"I know that!" My head fell back with a low moan.
"I don't want to fall in love." He trailed bites down my neck before sucking on my collarbone. "You're the most dangerous distraction of my life, and even though you can't get me killed now, you can cause me pain."
"Are you saying you're in love with me?" I choked out the words as he kept hitting a sweet spot deep inside me on every stroke.
I remembered Bastian saying something about Silas having runes on his cock, but I couldn't remember what he said they did. But each time he slammed into me, a wave of pleasure and ecstasy washed over me, leaving me in a state of blissful oblivion.
It was safe to say it didn't matter what they did. They worked phenomenally.
"Silas!" I screamed out his name, and he growled, moving up and smashing his lips to mine again, fucking me with feral abandon. Tension built as he thrust into me, and my back scraped against the wooden sides of the cottage.
"I'm not in love with you," he snarled as he spilled into me, and the tension finally released in my lower abdomen.
My pussy squeezed him tight as I shattered around him, the orgasm rolling through me deliciously slow.
Finally, we stared at each other for a few minutes, catching our breaths as the rain poured down on us.
He pulled out of me, set me down, and tucked himself back in his pants. He raked both hands through his soaking hair and cursed under his breath. "Oh, fuck."
"So you're not in love with me, that's fine," I murmured, hating the way that my chest ached with that information. "Why did you do that then? You fucked me withemotion."
"I'mnotin love with you though, muse, not yet, but I am falling for you. It's fucking terrifying. Finding love is what got my mother into the situation she was in, and I never wanted to fall."
"Silas..." I pushed off the side of the cottage and threw my arms around his neck, pulling him into a tight embrace.
He carefully wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me closer, and the way he held me made my heart burst with happiness.
"I never wanted to fall for the guys," I admitted softly. "But I did, and if it counts for anything, I'm falling for you, too."
"It counts for a lot," he croaked as lightning struck overhead and thunder rolled through the sky. "Can we just stay like this for a few minutes?" His body trembled.
"Of course."
I continued to hold him, knowing that was exactly what he needed and some part of me needed it too. Silas had been through a lot, but he needed to learn how to communicate better. I was more than ready to help him do that because I was falling for him.
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