Too many clothes.
My wrists were caught in one of his hands and hoisted above my head. “Not yet,” he breathed. “Not here.”
“Not what?” I replied, dazed.
“Shh,” he hushed, his refreshing scent surrounding me in a jungle of sensation.
Trees.
Water.
Flowers in full bloom.
The familiarity of the aromas had me sighing in contentment while my body hummed to life with renewed passion.
I kissed him with all of my being, gifting him with the life thriving in my soul, only to be ensnared in his dark web in return. He tugged me under, filling me with a venomous energy that felt wrong beneath my skin.
“Shade,” I whimpered, writhing against him.
“I’ve got you,” he promised.
But I didn’t believe him.
I couldn’t trust him.
Just as Zephyrus said—I’d be wise to develop a similar armor. One outlined in distrust.
My limbs began to shake.
Tears slid from my eyes.
The world rumbled around me, and I couldn’t make it stop, even while an inferno built inside me, begging to be released.
It terrified me.
Enthralled me.
Owned me.
Shade’s tongue dominated mine, his cock a thick presence against my core, pushing me to the precipice of something terrifying. I clung to him with all my strength, horrified and captivated at the same time. Nothing I could do would stop this. I felt it in my very blood, an unerring compulsion to give in to Shade’s ministrations.
A part of me rebelled.
The other part… rejoiced.
I hated him more in that moment than anyone else in my entire existence. Yet my craving for him won.
Ecstasy erupted inside me, drawing a scream from my throat that was filled with self-loathing and pain. And also represented the most powerful orgasm of my life.
I wasn’t a complete innocent.
I’d played with Glacier countless times, and while the Water Fae was good in bed, henevermade me feel quite like this.
Like liquid ice.
Hot on the inside, frozen on the outside.
A tremor rocked me from head to toe, my rapture subsiding beneath a fresh wave of horror.
