I didn’t dare to breathe as he gazed at me with a look that was becoming increasingly wounded. I couldn’t stand the withdrawal in his eyes or the harshness descending over his chiseled features.
Clasping his cheeks in my hands, I drew him down for another kiss. At first, he resisted, but when my tongue teased his mouth and I lifted my hips, his lips yielded to mine, but he still didn’t move inside me.
I should give in completely. I’d come this far, there was no turning back, but though my body and fangs screamed at me to seal the bond, my brain refused to yield.
When I teased his tongue with mine and nipped his bottom lip, he eased against me. His hands clasped my face, and his thumb stroked my cheek before his fingers slid through my hair. Breaking the kiss, he propped himself up with one hand as he began to move within me again.
He ran his fingers down my throat and between my breasts. The reverence in his touch created a flutter in my belly. He caressed my breasts before his hand slid down my stomach to between our joined bodies.
I traced the ridged muscles of his abdomen as he rubbed my clit. My head tipped back, and a plea for mercy whispered from me as he teased me to higher and higher levels but didn’t give me the release I desperately sought.
His finger stilled against me while he pulled most of the way out before slipping slowly back in. When my eyes met his again, a fire burned hotly in his gaze as he continued his languid, torturous, and oh-so delicious movements within me.
He bent his head again and reclaimed my mouth. His kiss warmed me to my toes before he broke it. His mouth left a searing trail of kisses across my cheek, down my neck, and to my shoulder.
Once there, his fangs pierced my flesh, and he pinned me to the ground as his movements became more demanding, and his finger stroked my clit once more. I drew him closer, but it wasn’t close enough. I needed more, but somehow, my brain stuck stubbornly to resistance.
My fangs throbbed to mark him as I rode out the storm of passion he so easily evoked. My breath came faster, my pulse raced, and this time I felt the pressure building inside me and cresting over into a release that caused me to bow off the floor as tingles swept my spine. He muffled my cry with his hand and his bite on me stifled his shout while his semen branded me deep inside.
I gradually came down from the euphoria created by what transpired between us. I never should have allowed this to happen, but now that it had, I wantedmore. My body had never been this satisfied, this well used, and this deliciously sore in all the right places.
I’d never felt closer to another, yet I still felt so far away from him. I hadn’t known it was possible to feel this whole and empty at the same time. I knew what was missing between us; I hadn’t marked him too, so the bond wasn’t complete.
I hadn’t been able to give him that last little piece of myself. However, the yawning emptiness spreading inside me was growing to the point where I was afraid it would consume me as effectively as the darkness of this place.
Unhappiness swirled like poison in my belly. I was so tired of fighting my Chosen. We’d started as enemies, and I wasn’t sure what we were now, but there was something so right in this that there had to be a little good in it.
Opening my eyes, I was about to bite into his shoulder and ease our misery when I saw a pair of glowing red eyes staring at us from the end of the cave.
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Wrath
I retractedmy bite on Bale’s shoulder. I’d never known what I was missing by not being with my Chosen, but I’d never known such satisfaction before. I never would have considered it possible to be so content in the arms of a woman.
Sex was always a way to get off or pass the time. With Bale, it was a life-altering experience. I couldn’t remember the women before her, and there would never be another after her. It may not be love between us, but I was never letting it go.
I was still shaking as the sperm I’d never released before flowed into her body. The new sensation was more awing than I ever could have imagined. With her, my orgasm was more potent and more prolonged, and though I’d already taken her twice, I was ready to go again.
However, I was acutely aware that while I’d claimed her completely, she hadn’t claimed me. My resentment from earlier started to build inside me again. I’d given her everything, but she hadn’t done the same. Even after what we just experienced, she was still pushing me away.
I wanted to choke her as badly as I wanted to fuck her again. I had to get away from her, but as I started to withdraw from her, she stiffened beneath me. Her hands hit my chest so hard the slap echoed through the cavern as she lifted me and flung me away.
At first, I was so startled by the abrupt rejection and hitting the wall across the way that the word she shouted didn’t sink in. Then I realized that she’d yelled, “Mytaz!” as she threw me.
Rolling to the side, I lifted my head as the demon charged at us from the entrance of the cave. “Shit,” I hissed as the giant raced down the tunnel.
I rolled as one of his enormous hands swung at me. Somehow, I managed to avoid his grasp, but I felt the wind of its passing against my back and realized how close I’d come to becoming one of his trophies.
Mytaz lumbered past me a few steps before skidding to a halt and spinning back.
“Get the sword!” Bale shouted.
Before I could reply, she ran straight at Mytaz. Despite my anger at her, my heart plummeted. She was almost to him when she threw herself down and slid across the floor and between his legs.
Mytaz grabbed for her, but she was already on the other side of him and rising to her feet. I sprinted across the tunnel and snatched up the sword as he turned to face her. The ground vibrated beneath my feet when he went at her again, and I cursed myself for not feeling that movement earlier. I was so lost in her that I put her in jeopardy.
I raced toward the two of them as Mytaz stalked her down the tunnel. He swung his hands at her while she weaved expertly in and out of the way. Growing frustrated, he charged forward. Bale spun and barely managed to avoid connecting with his foot as she flattened herself against the wall and slid past him.
