His eyes were chips of black ice when they met mine. I’d seen them burn with fire when we battled each other in the minotaur’s cave, but there was no fire now. His stance remained casual, but I sensed the underlying tension in him.
When he stalked toward me, I turned from the darkness and edged away from him. “Are you going to enter the darkness, Bale?”
He grasped my wrist and pulled me closer to him. I twisted to break free of his grasp, but he refused to release me. When I took another step back, my foot connected with a wall that didn’t exist only seconds ago.
Stupid dream.
I attempted to slap him with my free hand, but he caught my wrist and smiled as he dragged me closer while leaning over me. His smile revealed all his perfect, white teeth and a dimple that should never exist on a man as wicked as this one. With his lethal good looks, chiseled body, and vast amount of power, it wasn’t fair he could be adorable while being an asshole.
His black hair fell onto his forehead when he leaned closer to me. This close, I could see the straight blade of his nose, high cheekbones, and the pure black of his eyes.
He released my wrist and rested his hand on my hip. When his fingers slid around the button of my pants, I placed my hand against his chest to shove him away, but it was like trying to move a mountain. He didn’t budge. However, even as I continued to push against him, I couldn’t help wondering if I really wanted him away from me.
“What’s in the darkness, Bale?”
“I don’t know.”
“Are you going to find out?”
“I’m not going anywhere.”
I was as tempted to punch the smile off his face as I was to kiss it away.
“You’re right,” he murmured as he lowered his face closer to mine. “You’re not going anywhere right now. But soon”—he slid my button free—“you’re going to come for me, in more ways than one.”
My breath sucked in, and my skin prickled as the image of spreading my legs and letting this man inside me burst inside my head like a bomb going off. My nipples hardened as the wants of my body and common sense tore me in two.
“I’m going to hunt you down,” I vowed.
“What will you do when you find me?”
“Kill you.”
His laughter irritated me. I tried to slug him, but he ducked the blow and caught my other wrist. He pushed me against the rough, cool surface of the wall behind me and pinned both of my wrists. For a dream, the imagery was extremely vivid as the rock bit into my flesh.
Before I could react, he pressed his body against mine. The rigid evidence of his erection prodded my belly as his gaze fastened on my lips. The hunger he radiated only enflamed my own.
It took everything I had not to melt, and somehow, I managed to keep glowering at him. I was aware I wasn’t putting up much of a fight, but it was so damn difficult when he was so close, and it wasn’t like any of this was real.
When he released my wrists, my hands fell to his shoulders, but instead of pushing him away, my traitorous fingers dug into his bronzed skin, which was darker than my reddish-hued skin. The fire demon part of me had shown itself in this way, though I was nowhere near as red as a full-blooded fire demon. I was more like a human who had spent too much time in the sun.
I started to push him away again, but to my horror, my hands had a mind of their own and were drawing him closer.It’s only a dream,I reminded myself.
But Ihadto resist.
Why? In real life, nothing will ever happen between you, but this isn’t real life, and no one else will know.
I’ll know!
It’s only one tiny moment you’ll never have again.
Then my traitorous fingers uncurled from his flesh to stroke his smooth-as-glass skin. And like glass, this man would cut me deep if I played with him for too long.
He would probably cut me open and kill me the next time we met, but I couldn’t stop exploring the wall of muscle flexing beneath my touch. He was the mostmagnificentbeing I’d ever encountered, and some sick twist of fate had decided he was my Chosen.
When next we met, we would probably kill each other. That was the only way our story could end. But for now, I allowed myself the simple pleasure of him.
Chapter Two
