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I sensed it.
Maybe it was because I’d asked for a kiss. That shocked me, and I was sure I shocked him, too. I wanted to see him so bad but the risk outweighed the benefit. I still had my daughter and my knights to think of.
His long strides sounded again and within seconds he pressed my back against the wall and pushed his full weight onto me and our mouths crashed together again, this time it wasn’t sweet it was hard, desperate, and more than anything else it was passionate. It was like a fight to get all our future kisses out in one long fiery embrace.
Or as though this would be the one and only time we would do this, and we were both making the most of it. The air seemed to disappear around me. In fact, everything seemed to fade away, but just when I was falling deeper, he pulled away.
His mouth close to my ear, his warm breath panting on my neck. “Can you wait two more years for me? I don’t know about you, but I’m struggling and now you’ve made it worse.”
I laughed lightly. “By kissing you?”
His forehead touched mine. “By wanting to kiss me.”
And I wanted to kiss him. The mate bond we had was kicking in. I felt it. The spell on me to not feel him, not sense him, wasn’t working.
What did that mean?
“I try to see you every day. I want to speak to you every day. Some days are harder than others,” he said, taking my thoughts back to the here and now.
“Where do you see me?” I asked, wondering if he was a professor, maybe a student. Was he able to change his appearance to be whomever he wanted?
“Everywhere.”
I touched his face again as I ran my finger around his sharp jaw, across his lips. His breath stuttered, and he placed one long closed mouth kiss against mine.
Breathing heavily, I closed my eyes despite the blindfold already taking my sight. I could feel myself being drawn to him. My brain was reluctant, but strangely, my body hummed willingly, feeling so close to him.
“I want to keep you forever, take you now and I know I can’t so I need to go,” he said, sitting me on the sofa once more. “But Lacey, I know you feel me already.” He ran his thumb over my bottom lip and every cell in my body sizzled at his touch. “You need to know that you can break the spell,” he whispered in my ear.
“How?” I asked, almost begging him to tell me, the need to know how.
“You’re not ready; believe me, I wish you were, but I wanted you to know. I’ll tell you another time,” he said.
I am.
Why was that?
And without warning, I wasn’t in his arms any longer, and he was opening the creaking door. My body craved to be in his arms again.
“Five minutes, Lacey. I trust you too.”
“I’m afraid of the dark,” I blurted. “And I know you’re the dark to my light.”
“You don’t need to be afraid of me. I’ll always look after you.”
“But I mean, I’m afraid of the dark. I shouldn’t be telling you this because I’m admitting to my weakness, but I can’t live in hell with you. I’m a light person and need light around me.”
“We’ll live on earth. You don’t live in the Upperworld and I don’t live in the Lowerworld. Sometimes Earth is Hell, but I’m saying we would live in the one place we are both happy with.”
I closed my eyes at that. Why did it feel so much better than he wouldn’t take me off to some underworld, some dingy place I would hate?
“You’ll choose,” he said. There weren’t many words to hear for sure, but this time his voice was softer, not as sexy as normal.
And I’d heard that voice before.
“Deven...” It felt so strange to say his name. He seemed... real, like he was no longer the monster in my dreams but a person.
“Yes, Lacey,” he whispered.
