The perfect taste of her flooded my senses.
The tug in my soul grew worse, urging me to hurry,hurry,before it was too late.
Rook cried out as I bit her bottom lip.
I waited for the silvery splash of her medicinal blood—
And wasn’t prepared for her response.
Chapter Thirteen
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I SNAPPED.
The fragile thread of control I’d been clinging to shredded. Who cared about where we were or what this meant?
We weredying.
A raw, starving sound tore from my throat as I launched myself at him.
Lucien staggered back as I crashed into his chest, my hands fisting his open shirt. I yanked him down and kissed him like I was trying to devour him whole.
He grunted in surprise, but I didn’t give him time to recover.
I bit his bottom lip like he’d bitten mine, then soothed it with my tongue before plunging back into his mouth. My fingers clawed at his shoulders, nails digging deliberately hard as I pushed him backward through the swirling mist.
“Rook—” he gasped against my mouth.
“Shut up.” I shoved him harder. The moment his back hit something solid—an invisible wall, a tree, I didn’t care—I climbed him. Literally. Legs wrapping around his waist, arms locking behind his neck.
I kissed him deeper, hungrier, grinding myself against the hard length of him.
He groaned, the sound vibrating through my chest as his hands instinctively gripped my ass, holding me up.
I rocked against him, rolling my hips with shameless need,feeling his cock throb between us through the thin fabric of his trousers. Heat flooded between my legs, slick and aching.
“Fuck.” His fingers dug harder into my flesh. “Rook—”
I silenced him again with another bruising kiss, sucking on his tongue, biting, claiming. My hands slid into his hair and yanked, forcing his head back so I could drag my mouth down the column of his throat. I licked the salt from his skin, then sank my teeth in just below his jaw.
A deep, guttural growl ripped out of him.
His hips jerked up against me, grinding his hardness right where I needed it most.
Power crackled between us—silver frost racing over my skin, golden fire licking across his.
I pulled back just enough to look him in the eyes. “I want you inside me. Right now.”
A wicked smile curved his lips as I tightened my legs around him.
In one powerful movement, he flipped our positions, slamming my back against the invisible wall. Mist swirled around us as he pinned me there, his body hard and unyielding.
“Careful what you ask for, Rook,” he growled against my ear, his hand bunching my nightgown up to my waist. Cool air kissed my bare skin before two thick fingers dragged through my wetness, testing me, teasing me, then plunged deep without warning.
I cried out, back arching.
I wanted him.
