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“As much as I love hearing what I do to you. I don’t want others to hear what belongs to me,” he whispered against my ear as he held his hand firmly across my mouth. “So be a good fucking girl and keep quiet.”
I groaned and squeezed my eyes shut tightly with every thrust of his hips. My hands tried to grip the pillar, but it was pointless. Cassius turned me so my back was against the pillar. His hand wrapped around my leg and lifted it around his waist before sinking back into me. His thumb ran over my lips, smearing my red lipstick intentionally.
“Fuck.” He hissed, and his mouth descended on mine immediately as he swallowed all of my moans. My arms wrapped around him and pulled him so close that he couldn’t leave. I tried to pull away as my orgasm tilted on the edge of a breakthrough, but he pinned me by my throat to the pillar and didn’t let me move.
“Not too loud, My Love,” he growled before his lips found mine again. I tried but nothing would have tamed the orgasm that ripped through me. He didn’t mind as he muffled my noises and kept them for himself. Cassius kissed my neck, his stubble skimming my skin, and groaned his release so softly that I knew no one could hear but me.
We stayed against the pillar for a long moment before he gave me a soft kiss and wiped my smeared lipstick off of both of us. I gave him a lazy smile that he returned.
“I do love this dress." He chuckled softly.
My eyes looked at the crown that still sat on his head. It was weird to see him with it on. He was the next King of the Crimson Kingdom. My eyes traced over his handsome face. Everything about Cassius drew me to him. I was like a moth to a flame. An overwhelming urge to tell him how much I loved him hit me like a tidal wave.
“I lo—” I was cut off by the huge explosion in front of us. We both tumbled onto the floor of the room. My ears rang at the force of whatever hit the castle.
“Thea!” My eyes met Cassius as he pulled me up to him. His crown was gone. I could feel my head bleeding as I tried to make sense of what had just happened. Ringing filled my ears making it impossible to think clearly.
“What’s happening?” I spoke frantically as the loud screaming and chaos erupted at the celebration.
“We’re under attack.” His black shadows swirled around him and when they disappeared, he was in his armor. Cassius grabbed me by the shoulders so that I was facing him. I didn’t like the worried expression on his face. “Listen to me, Thea. You need to go get changed, get weapons, and you need to take the others to Cerithia now.”
“What?” I shook my head no. “I don’t want to leave you yet.”
Cassius’s face twisted in pain at my frantic words, but they were true. I didn’t want to leave him. I thought we would have days.
“You have to. Cerithia probably got word that you survived the trials and are attacking us to prevent you from coming. If you can sneak out and get there, you’ll have a higher chance of getting the stone and coming back to us sooner. We will have a lifetime together after that.”
I stared at his terrifyingly handsome face for a long moment before giving him a lingering kiss. He held me tightly as chunks of rubble and castle flew around us. The screaming of other guests increased. Cassius kissed me once more before pulling back.
“How am I supposed to concentrate on my task if I’m worried about you?”
“I’ll visit when you sleep.”
“That might not happen at all.” I complained, knowing that sleep would be a luxury in the coming days. After a resigned frown, he grabbed my wrist before his finger came up to my hairline where blood seeped from a wound. Confusion filled me as he wiped it on the inside of my left wrist. Then he wiped blood from himself and smeared it with mine.
A hot searing pain had me ripping my arm from him with a pained sob. Red and black mists swirled over my wrist before vanishing, revealing a mark in the shape of a crown where our blood had mixed. The crown glowed slightly like the swirls on my skin that appeared. It was a vibrant red as if it had been burned into my flesh, but it no longer hurt. My eyebrows knitted together as I tried to understand the marking. The base of the crown wrapped around my wrist and the points of the crown moved up my forearm toward my elbow.
“It’s a blood mark. It will link us together. I’m not entirely sure how to communicate through it or how much we can. Although I can feel how much you don’t want to leave me right now.” He frowned.
“How did you know how to do this?” I traced the raised burn of the crown.
“A blood witch showed me once.” He spoke so casually, so simply, but I had so many questions that I didn’t have time to ask. Blood witches had become extinct with the humans, or at least that was what I had heard before.
Glancing at his wrist, I noticed he didn't have one. “What about you?”
“I can feel it without the brand because our blood is sealed together in the mark.
“How?” I asked, confused. Another explosion interrupted my questioning. Fae screamed all around us. I gave him one last kiss instead of waiting for an answer.
“Be safe,” I demanded.
“I’ll see you soon, my love.”
Then he was gone, and I was running through the rubble of the celebration. Dead fae littered the ground, but I couldn’t linger to see who was lying there. I headed up the stairs and changed into my clothing as quickly as I could. I twisted my hair into a braid before getting my daggers and bow but paused so I could scribble a note for Cassius down just in case.
My heart will remember you, seek you, love you even if my mind cannot remember. My soul will always seek its other half.
Love,
