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But she understood now. Understood that she couldn’t push the voices away because they were within her. They were the evil—the serpent—and she was lost inside the Holding, with no way out.
She heard a whimper and realized it came from her. She didn’t want to succumb. Didn’t want to stay hidden down here. Didn’t want the beast to feed while she cowered below.
But she didn’t know how to stop it.
He hadn’t told her how to fight.
“Luke!” she cried. “Luke, help me!”
This is all his fault. Stay away. Stay here. Stay down here and punish him for what he did to you. Easier, so much easier, to stay.
“No,” she said, and then with more force. “No.”
Coward.
Bitch.
Liar.
The words came at her like blows, knocking her off her feet. She fell, confused, then found a hand reaching down to help her up. “Luke?” She was safe. He was there. “Is it really you?”
He smiled at her. “I’m here to help you.”
The Numen. It had to be. She nodded and let him draw her up. “YourAzag Mahruis blood and fear,” he said. “Do not give that to her.”
“But I’m so scared. And my body bleeds.”
“Come,” he said, and she melted into his arms. “Do not think about the pain.” He laid her gently on the ground. From his fingertip, he drew blood, then traced it over her wounds. The skin knitted in his wake, leaving her tingling, her body suddenly awake and alive.
She realized with a start that she was naked.
“Pleasure,” the Luke-Numen said, as his hand slipped down to cup her between her thighs. “Take pleasure from me. Take strength from me. And we will fight the serpent together.”
His fingers had found her core, his mouth her breast, and she gasped, focusing only on Luke as the whispers around her grew louder, bolder. “Are you real?”
“I am as real as you need me to be.” He flicked his tongue over her nipple, and a hot thread of desire shot through her, finding the finger that teased her clit.
“Please,” she said, her hips bucking shamelessly. “Please take me.”
“You need to go over,” he said. “Do you see the walls?”
She turned her head, saw the walls of the room and realized that the ceiling had disappeared, replaced by a black sky, twinkling with stars. “Just get over the wall, and you’ll be fine.”
“How?” The walls were steep and slick and seemed to stretch up forever.
“I’ll take you there,” he said, and as he did, he thrust inside her, filling her.
She moaned, her hips rising up to meet him, wanting to take more and more of him in. It was a dream. A fantasy. She knew that. Sheknewit. But it didn’t matter. He was there with her. And with him, she could find that place, that path up to the top.
“That’s it. Yes, yes, that’s it.”
She looked at him above her, the love in his eyes urging her on.
“Please,” she said. “More. Harder.”
“Dear gods, yes,” he said, and took her, slamming into her, battering them both. She arched against him, eyes squeezed shut, desperate, so desperate to climb, to take all of him. To consume him, to be with him, wholly and completely.
She was climbing. So close. So close to the top.
