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But my eyes are set on the river so far below.
Soft hands touch mine as I hold on to the rope with a death grip.
“Listen to me.” She yanks me by the hand. “Look at me. You need to move, and now, orIwill be the one to push you over the edge.”
When I meet her gaze, I believe she means every damn word. “Is that how you help someone off a ledge?”
“Well, it got you moving, didn’t it?”
Only then do I realize I’ve taken steps forward.
“Don’t look down. Seriously,” she says. “Just focus on my voice and travel fast. They’re right behind us.”
I don’t look back. I do exactly as she says. I shake all over, one hand holding on to Meira’s and the other on the rope. Step after step, we’re closing the distance.
With a sudden sway, the whole bridge shifts beneath us. I latch on to the rope harder and look back to find three undead stumbling onto the damn thing. There are half a dozen more on their heels. Will the bridge even take all our weight?
“Hurry up,” Meira ushers me. “Let’s go. You can do this, Bardhyl.”
Focusing on her voice, I do just that. Quickly, I step after her, the bridge swinging, my stomach lurching with each movement. With only a third of the distance left, we start rushing.
My heart slams ferociously in my chest.
Don’t look. Don’t look the hell down.
Meira pushes ahead of me and is waving me to hurry, and in seconds, I’m alongside her on the other side. I could kiss the damn soil beneath my feet.
I seize the blade from my belt and turn around as the creatures stumble wildly toward us. I lunge to the edges of the rope and in one swipe, I cut the top rope on one side, then I crouch down and draw my blade through the cord tying the bridge to the timber pole near me.
The bridge suddenly collapses on its side, sending the undead hurtling down to their final deaths in the valley. They fall like blobs, smacking into the river and the overgrown banks.
One of the suckers is hanging on to the bridge, while others are still climbing on.
I cut the ropes attached to the stakes on the other side, and the whole thing collapses away, taking with it the last undead.
There’s another bridge closer to the pack fortress. Getting home is going to take longer than I want, which fucking sucks.
“Okay, we need to go.” I’m on my feet and spin around as I catch Meira going in the opposite direction.
I snatch her wrist and haul her toward me. She spins in my direction, her hands slapping against my chest as we collide. All I see are those eyes, those bronze irises, and I don’t know what comes over me, but I’m leaning down and kissing her before I can find my senses.
She freezes at first, taken aback by my kiss. Fuck, I am too, and I start to pull away just as she kisses me back, parting that delicious mouth. Her small hands curl around the back of my neck, pulling me closer, pressing her gorgeous breasts against my chest.
Fuck me!
I shouldn’t be doing this. But my cock twitches and I hold her tightly, against my better judgement. It’s she who finally pulls away. When I let her go, I’m short of breath, and my head fogs with what I’ve just done.
“We leave now!” I grab her hand and start marching. My heart hammers in my chest and my dick presses against my jeans. What the fuck is wrong with me? I freak out about dying on the bridge, so my response is to kiss her?
The woods grow denser as we follow the line of the gorge while I try to get my head straight. To remind myself whom Meira belongs to. And it sure as fuck isn’t me. No matter how much I want to rip off her clothes and claim her right now, to make her scream my name.
Hell. Those images in my head of me taking her aren’t helping. Just need to clear my mind, that’s all.
“I’m surprised the big bad and powerful Bardhyl is afraid of heights. I thought you were indestructible,” she jokes and half-laughs, but I hear the strain behind her voice. She kissed me back, so I’m not alone in this sudden awkwardness. But if the only way to deal with our mistake is to pretend it didn’t happen, then I’ll play along.
“Baby cheeks, everyone in this world is flawed, and I never said I was perfect.” Case in point, right now I want to swing her in my arms and kiss her, no matter the cost.
I am completely flawed.
