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“I am,” Rune agreed, pressing his lips to her fingertips. “How did I wake you?”Give me a hint as to what you are.
“I slept,” Faye’s double absently touched his lips. “Waiting.” Her hand traced down his throat to his collarbone. “I felt you.” She brushed the back of her fingers over his chest. “Always crashing near my shores.”
She spoke in more riddles than Morbid. He needed to coax more information from her. “I do not understand your meaning.”
“I am trapped in the Darkness until you make us whole. But Ifeltyou. Crashing near my shores. For centuries.”
Crashing? She felt his backlash when he failed to unravel The Crumbling. “How can you feel me for centuries? Faye is only twenty-five.” Sadi mentioned previous lives, was this part of her constant?
“I am eternal, sewn into the Darkness itself.”
Hope dug into his chest. It wasn’t ideal, but it would be a type of immortality. Rune’s breath left him. Was he truly gifted with his dark queen? He was left with more questions than answers.
“Where are we?” Rune asked.
“In the portion of the Darkness that is mine. My power grew until I woke. I watched you at my shores. Your blood sings for me.” She leaned forward, kissing Rune.
Her lips moved over his, but Rune remained still. She pulled back with a scowl. “Why do you hold back? You want me.”
Trying to reason with her was like trying to explain patience to the Ra’Voshnik. “I want you whole. What are you? Where is your altar? Tell me anything.”
The winged Faye made a noise that could have been a growl. “Invoke the blood, join the vessel and the power. You talk too much.”
She ran her claw along the length of her collarbone. His fangs lengthened as he breathed in the scent of her dark exquisite blood. It flowed over her breasts, trailing onto her legs and between them.
Rune clenched his jaw, beating down the urge to fuck her while he licked her blood off her body. She collected some of it on her finger. Rune stared transfixed as she brought it to his mouth. He groaned, parting his lips for her.
She pressed her finger into his mouth, his lips closing around it. Darkness save him, he sucked, licking off the blood. The winged double pulled her hand back, laying down as she spread her legs wide for him.
Rune closed his eyes as urges and instincts he’d thought were the Ra’Voshnik’s raged in his mind. He wanted to pin her and stroke into her wet heat as he licked the blood from her body. With great effort he pulled it back, settling himself.
Panting from his efforts he gazed at her. “I cannot use your vessel while she sleeps.”
“Then wake her.” The winged Faye rolled onto her side and drew her foot back. She struck in a motion so fast it blurred, kicking him in the chest.
Rune slammed back into his physical body with enough force to jar his teeth. He and Faye were now in his bed, in his room.
He shut his eyes and grimaced against the screaming and sizzle of magic hitting the shields outside his room.
Stop!Rune growled over a broad mental sending that anyone within the vicinity would hear.
“Rune!” Sadi’s panicked scream sounded from the other side of the door.
He turned his attention to Faye. She slept curled on her side, just as he’d seen her in that place in the Darkness. He brushed her hair away from her face. Her lids fluttered. With a sigh she rolled over to face him and curled into his arm.
He winced as he pulled his sheet up to cover her. Rune stood, his body in fine disagreement. He called a pair of pants, and his magic didn’t answer. Faye’s rite sapped him of every ounce of power he held.
Rune retrieved a robe from his closet. Each step shot searing pain through his chest and back. He sucked a breath and pulled the robe on before slowly making his way to the door. Rune pressed his hand to the wall, opened the door, and stood dumbstruck.
Tears ran down Sadi’s face. The smell of burnt flesh assaulted his senses next. He glanced down at her hands. “What did you—”
“I saw you fall into the Darkness.” Sadi leaped toward him, hugging him tightly. Rune hissed in pain, the only thing saving him from being taken to the ground was his hold on the doorframe.
Rune lightly wrapped an arm around her. Her tears fell on his shoulder. In all the centuries he’d known her he’d never seen her cry.
“Are you injured?” Sadi released him, stepping back as she wiped her tears away.
“How did you burn your hands?” Rune turned his back to Sadi, pulling his hair over his shoulder so she could inspect him for damage. She ran her hand down the length of his spine.
