Page 20 of The Void

“Okay.” He glanced around. “As much as I want to continue this conversation, it was a very long trip across the red sand.”

“Red sand?” She frowned. “What red sand?”

“Outside the city walls,” he answered. “The Kri.”

“There’s no red sand outside the walls. The city is surrounded by water.” She motioned towards the windows, but it was dark outside, so they wouldn’t be able to see anything.

Instead of responding to that, Lucas ran his eyes over her. “You look happy,” he said a while later.

She thought about it. “I suppose I am. I can’t explain it, but I never felt like I fit in on Earth. I was a nobody. An outcast.”

Lucas surprised her by moving to sit next to her on the bed and taking her hand in his.

“You are exactly the opposite of a nobody,” he said softly, then he shocked her by leaning closer and placing his lips over hers. “Yup, real,” he said before taking the kiss deeper.

At the very moment his lips touched hers, energy built up in her very core. She’d experienced a few moments of intense power in her life. The day she’d gotten her powers, and the day she’d first shifted into her dog form.

This, however, was something altogether different.

Chapter Six

What in the hell was that? Lucas didn’t know what had caused him to kiss Mia. Okay, deep down he knew why he’d done it. He’d wanted to kiss her from the first moment that he’d met her. Plus, he’d been thinking about it since arriving in the Void.

Still, he was too tired to think and had just acted on instinct. If he had been thinking, he would have known it wasn’t a good idea. They were in the lion’s den, in a mess so big that he honestly didn’t know how or if they could ever get out of it.

He was still powerless, and she couldn’t return them to Earth or take them out of this realm. They could be stuck there, indefinitely.

This was not the time to let their guard down.

But feeling the rush of energy pulsing from her, he took the kiss deeper. The taste of her was like a drug. He wanted more. Needed more.

The longer he tasted her, the more powerful he felt. Lying her back on the bed, he slanted his lips over hers as he covered her smaller body with his own.

Her fingers dug into his shoulders, into his hair, pulling, holding him. Even the scrape of her nails on his skin, the little sounds of pleasure escaping her lips each time he dove his tongue into her mouth, were addictive.

“Please,” she said softly when he trailed kisses down her neck. “Lucas, I need you,” she said, as she arched for him.

“Tell me this is real,” he demanded as he nudged the shoulder of the sundress that she was wearing down, exposing more of her soft skin to his view and touch.

“It’s real.” She sighed and wrapped her legs around his hips.

He looked at her under him. Her dark hair was fanned over the bed, her eyes glued to his own. “You’ve said that to me before.” He waited. “Prove it.”

“Do I need to pinch you again?” she said with a smile.

“It’s too good to be real,” he said, running a fingertip over her collarbone, slowly tracing the line. He watched her pulse jump at his touch right there and counted the beats for a moment. “You’re too good to be real.”

“Do you say that to all the girls?” She cupped his face with her hands. “I’m real. We’re really in Atlantis.” She pulled him down until he was a breath away. “Whatever happened to you out there did a number on you.”

He nodded. “Time and reality were skewed. Still…” He trailed a fingertip over her lips. “This, this is real.” He leaned the rest of the way down and kissed her briefly before pulling back again. Then he was lifting the dress up, trailing his fingertips up her legs. “You’re perfection.” He practically groaned it.

She arched for him. When he nudged her legs open so that he could explore her further with his fingertips, she smiled up at him and then pulled him down until their lips met again.

“Touch me,” she whispered against his mouth.

He wanted to go slow. Wished more than anything they had all the time in the world. Instead, the need to have her, to take her, outweighed everything. Especially since she tasted and felt so damned good.

He ran his hands up her thighs and nudged the silk panties she was wearing aside. Finding her wet for him, he played with her clit, rubbing it until she jerked her hips against his hand.