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Blaise recovered quickly and yelled something unintelligible to Valentina before launching herself at Jillian, knives slashing in righteous fury. Jillian was ready, though, and she dodged the attacks, leaped in the air, and landed neatly on Blaise’s shoulders before tumbling her to the ground in a tangle of laceand heavy skirts. Her fangs flashed, sinking deep into Blaise’s neck as Blaise screamed in rage, fighting to free herself from the clinging fabric.
Kas hissed something at me, digging his fingers into my arm, and I realized I’d nearly jumped into the pit myself. I couldn’t watch Blaise die, not like this.
But the mist made a decision and intervened, flowing quickly between the two vampires and keeping Jillian from draining a second victim. I panted with relief as Blaise stood and shook off the bloodletting. Her searching gaze landed on Valentina, and the electricity between the two of them was tangible even from where I was standing. The hooded vampire holding Valentina was shoved back by a blast of ice magic, and Val wrenched away the garrote, jumping down into the pit and rushing to embrace Blaise.
“It is a draw!” Merden howled into the chaos, and Kas yanked me back from the edge just as a few dozen more vampires tumbled down into the pit. The crowd was pressing forward, more and more vampires struggling to get a better view and toppling right over the chain barrier. Jillian was crowing something up to her supporters, holding her arms up in triumph, and the air was ripe with the promise of more violence.
“Let’s get the fuck out of here. I donotwant to be here for this kind of party,” Kas said, his face grim as he pulled me close against his back and began weaving us through the delirious vampires, all celebrating the drawing of blood and the upset of the first match.
I glimpsed Luca and Vento retreating out a side door too, but I hadn’t seen Rush’s red hair anywhere in the crush of the crowd. Kas hurried us down the halls, straight to my rooms, and we both breathed a sigh of relief when the door closed behind us.
Cade was sleeping peacefully on a cot next to the couch, and Kas pulled me silently into the bedroom. Although the rooms atthe Vault weren’t as nicely furnished and decorated, they were every bit as spacious as the ones we’d been given at the palace.
“I just need to hold you,” Kas murmured, drawing me close to him and burying his face in my hair. I realized he was shaking as he breathed in deeply, his chest tight against mine.
“It won’t be like this for long, Kassian. Just a few more days of this,” I murmured into his shirt. This Trial couldn’t possibly last a whole month - there were only seven of us, including Merden. Even spacing it out to one match per day, it wouldn’t last much longer than a week.
“I know. I just... I just can’t shake this bad feeling I’ve been getting. My mother always had visions. I never did, but I could feel hers. Like the ache of an old wound. And I feel it now, K. I’m fucking terrified for you,” he admitted, staring down at me as I lifted my face to see him.
I swallowed down the words that would have reassured him he was right to be afraid.
“We’re going to make it through this, Kas,” I said instead, willing it to be true even though I knew there was a solid chance we wouldn’t all make it through this whole. Out of the seven competitors left, I loved three of them - Kas, Luca, and Blaise were all dear to me in so many ways.
It was too much to hope that fate would hold us all safely in its palm.
“Make me forget,” I whispered to Kas, offering us both a way out of this hellish limbo. He responded instantly, and I knew how much he’d needed it too. Walking me backward to the bed, Kas stripped off my leathers while I hurriedly undid his armor. Our weapons clattered to the floor, followed by the thud of our boots.
We tumbled onto the bed in a tangle of desperate touches and deep kisses, each of us intent on erasing pain with pleasure as quickly as possible.
Kas hauled me up onto the pillows before diving beneath the covers and spreading my legs with his hands. My head pushed back into the pillow as his lips and tongue devoured me whole, kissing and sucking, licking and biting at my pussy like he was starved for it.
I arched up into him way too soon, coming hard against his mouth while my hands fisted the sheets. I was trying to stay quiet so Cade could sleep, but his touch was too good.
“More, Kas,” I growled, reaching under the covers to pull him up my body. He paused to nuzzle at my breasts, sucking each nipple between his teeth while his fingers continued to stroke the folds between my legs, riding the shockwaves of my orgasm. I wrapped my ankles around his back, nudging him closer until our centers met, his cock pinned like steel between us.
His mouth descended on mine as I reached between us and impatiently adjusted him to slide deep inside me.
“You feel so fucking good, I never want to leave,” Kas murmured against my mouth, his fangs scraping at my bottom lip as he began to thrust lazily inside me. His whole length caressed me as he moved all the way out and back in, claiming me deep.
I let him take his time, riding the high of that first quick orgasm and letting a deeper one build as our bodies locked together. Touch said what we didn’t want to give voice to.
While death had been a very real possibility all along - and had actually come for both of us in the third Trial - something about this final Trial of the Thunder Moon felt very different.
How much longer could our luck hold?
Finally, Kas grew impatient too, and I let him know I was ready with a snap of my fangs and a harsh scrape of my fingernails down his back.
Growling, he slung both of my legs over his shoulders and leaned up, pounding into me with all the force of a manunleashed. I thrashed beneath him, loving the strength he gave me. Loving how much he trusted himself with me, and how much he let me take from him.
And as my back arched again in a deep, powerful orgasm, my eyes slid to the side to see Cade standing silently in the doorway, watching us with his own cock in his hand. His eyes were bright and pale blue, and his lips curved in a smile as he drank in my pleasure. Licking his fangs, he stroked himself harder, coming without a sound as Kas roared his own release, oblivious to us being watched.
Soon. Soon you’ll be mine again, candy girl,Cade whispered through our mind speak, then padded silently back into the main room to wait for that moment.
My body was buzzing with turn-on as Kas collapsed onto me, his fangs seeking my neck. We drank deeply from each other, drawing out the pleasure and building the shared strength that we would both need to survive this Trial.
Together, we would need to create something more powerful than luck.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
