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“Tonight, we celebrate those who want to be part of this family, of this legion. Let the blood bonding begin!” Zac bellowed.
The crowd erupted again; the music returning with the same heavy beat as before, the beat that shook my bones and jostled my stomach.
The lights went next, dimming to such a level that I could barely see Alek beside me. A few screams rang out in the air, though I hardly heard them over the music. Bodies pulsed, moving together like nothing had changed at all.
Only I could feel it: the deep, lingering heat in the air, the shift between bodies, the pure lust that simmered as newly pledged demons were bit by the Night Ravens.
Natalie included.
I placed my hand on Alek’s thigh and squeezed.
“You’re a demon, too, you know,” he said, once again sliding his lips against me and sending chills down my spine. “Your bite of loyalty would mean just as much as any of ours.”
His words took a second to register. “Bite?” I snapped my attention to him, our faces just inches apart in the darkness of the basement. “I can’t bite. I’m not like you.”
His forehead touched mine, his thumb coming up to brush my bottom lip, lingering there and igniting my entire body with a new fire. One I couldn’t put out if I tried, and one I didn’t want to put out.
“You’re a lot like me, Lyra,” he said. He closed the space between us and slid his tongue against my lower lip, right over the spot his thumb had just left.
In the basement's darkness, this felt sacred. This felt secluded, seductive, secretive.
This time felt like ours. Only ours.
“I’m only half demon,” I whispered, breathless. “I don’t have fangs that protrude from my teeth.”
“You’re half-goddess, too,” he mumbled back, not quite kissing me but not pulling away, either. “Give into your dark side, Lyra Sol. Give into the desires, give into the thrill.”
I barely noticed him moving, sliding that leather jacket from his shoulders and removing that barrier between us. I felt the heat radiating from him, felt it calling to me like a magnet, pulling me to him like he was my home, my safe space.
Give in. I had done that already, hadn’t I? Given into the darkness? Succumbed to temptation? I mean, hell. I was here with him.
Yes, I had given into the darkness. But I felt it now, too, pulling me. Calling to me. My entire body pressed against him now. It would be so easy for me to move across the booth, to straddle him, to press my body against him, to give in just a little more.
Alek’s mouth barely brushed mine—a hint of a kiss—before he lowered his head to my throat, kissing me there deeply, moving his mouth to my jaw, to my neck, kissing me just below my earlobe.
His free hand moved up, coaxing my head to the side so he could control me, could mold me to his desires.
Give in.
That tiny tether of my sanity remained, warning me against it. Against what, though? What if I gave into that small string of heat, that small, unsatisfied, insatiable part of me that wanted more?
I pushed Alek back against the booth, forcing him to straighten, before I kissed him. I took control, holding both of my hands against his hot chest as I devoured him, trying to give that need deep in my soul what it wanted.
But I still needed more.
“You’re a demon,” Alek said against my mouth. I kissed him again, shutting him up, but he paused for one more second to add, “Do what demons do.”
He didn’t have to explain what he meant. I knew. Deep down, I felt the calling, felt myself react to his words in a needy way.
A way that made me want to lose all inhibitions.
Did I… did I want to bite him? Did I want to dominate him, to allow him to show his vulnerability as I bared my teeth at his neck, the most primal and intimate thing a predator could do?
Did I?
Music fueled me, boomed through my bones and shook my core, vibrated through my body and through Alek’s, too. The lights were still dark, the blood bonding only just beginning.
Hell. If I was going to give into that dark tether inside of me, it would be now.
