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CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
KANA
A few months or even a few weeks ago, if someone had asked me what my natural instinct was around men I liked, I would have said it was to withhold trust.
To build walls around my heart to protect from being hurt when they left, even if it wasn’t through their own actions.
But curled in Rush’s arms beneath the canopy of ivy he’d created to shelter us, I felt my true instinct calling to him. I wanted to trust him. I wanted to let him take care of me, even when I knew I was more capable in a physical fight.
That wasn’t the only way to be taken care of.
My body craved his - for everything from sex to comfort. And even blood, although my mind knew that was impossible. Rush wasn’t a weapon like Kassian or Luca, but as my prophet, he could show me the way. If I trusted him, he could help me figure out this mess.
And as he tightened his arms around me and murmured to me in a language more ancient than either of us, I understood.
Not the words, since I didn’t speak fae. But I understood how much he cared for me as a person, not just a mission for his people or a hope against the gobbelin invasion.
I didn’t know what would happen between us after the Trials, but I was surprised to find that I was absolutely willing to stick around and find out.
As the night deepened around us, my body began to feel calmer and more balanced. I raised my head to see him watching me in the darkness, only the whites of his eyes visible beneath the ivy. He was still in his fae form, his dusky forest green skin blending right in with the plants. Without the moonlight, his silvery tattoos were nothing more than shadows on his skin.
“Feeling better, love?” he asked, and I nodded, still soaking up his natural warmth.
“You can sense my emotions, can’t you? More than just desire?”
“Yes, to an extent. I sense your desire and your happiness, which means I can also sense the absence of those.”
I shifted my head back to look up at him, feeling like we were in our own little pocket of timelessness, protected from the labyrinth and the rest of the world, if only for a few short hours.
“Rush...” I whispered, not wanting to say the words to ask for what I wanted. I was worried he’d think it was the wrong time or place.
He understood, though, and his hands slid down my body slowly. His touch was reverent, as though he’d missed me but wasn’t quite sure I was real yet.
I undulated into him, rolling my hips against his and running my fingers up his jaw before caressing the point of his ear. He shuddered, his mouth opening in a gasp as I stroked that sensitive fae spot.
“Kana, love... you are... the most beautiful creature I’ve seen,” he murmured, leaning in to kiss me with careful lips.
I ignored my aching fangs and rolled harder into him, slipping my hands beneath his shirt and smoothing them over his warm skin. He tugged up the hem of my ragged tunic, palming one of my breasts with a groan that sent my insides vibrating with need.
But... even though I wanted this, I needed more answers.
“Tell me about the gobbelins,” I rasped as he pinched my nipples, rolling them between his fingers as we kissed.
He leaned his head back to look at me, his eyes wide with confusion at the request, but I nodded. I needed to know. And I figured that if he told me while we were chasing our pleasure, that was better for both of our energies than yet another serious conversation.
I tossed a leg over his hips, pinning him to me as I flicked my tongue across the tip of his ear. Fae were so easy to turn on if you knew where to place your attention.
