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I took the pendant and lifted it up over my head, pulling it into place around my throat. It sat heavy against my chest, but it felt like it was supposed to be there.
Deep inside my belly, my own magic swelled to life for the very first time. It was as if the emerald had awakened it. A scroll appeared on the pedestal before me, the words of the spoken prophecy etching onto the paper right before my eyes. I watched in silence as it finished before I hazarded reaching for it.
I needed to get out of here.Now.
I wound the scroll closed and pressed it into my pack before I turned around and left the room. I sprinted up the stairs to the top, where the door lay open for me.
When I exited the stone building, I turned back around to see the greenery of nature overtake it once again. Vines curled up over it, hiding every inch of the white marble surface until it was completely masked from view.
I knew now that I couldn’t leave Roken. Not only did he need my help, but his realm did, too.
I just hoped that my help wouldn’t come too late.
CHAPTER10
Roken
The tear in the rift was getting worse day by day, as was my curse. With more monsters came more battle, so much so that I fell prey to their wretched claws over and over in order to keep the people of my realm safe.
Each day when I left my home, the fraying of my sanity grew worse. It was taking far longer for me to pull myself back, and some days it seemed that the only thing that worked was returning to Sophia. Just her presence was enough to keep the beast at bay, and sometimes it was even enough to bring me back from the brink.
I kept telling myself I needed to stay away from her, but I kept coming back again and again.
The sight of her naked body flashed before my eyes, a distant, cherished memory that ravaged my vision again and again. I slammed my palm against the trunk of a tree, the thunderous boom reverberating through the forest as it cracked under my strength.
My cock was so hard it hurt. Why was she having this effect on me? Why couldn’t I stop this rabid desire for her bare flesh from surging through me, even at just the thought of her?
I’d felt her gaze on me many times in the past several days, but I’d kept my distance from her because I didn’t want to lose control again. I didn’t want to hurt her. I couldn’t risk it.
Worse than that, however, I didn’t want to make the mistake of actually caring about her. The last time I’d allowed myself to do that, I’d had my heart torn out. The memory of Elenwen’s face flashed before my eyes and I gritted my teeth, immediately replacing it with Sophia’s.
Maybe she was different.
I pushed away the thought immediately. She was a woman, and I was a man. It was as simple as that.
I leaned forward, grazing my fingers against the turgid steel of my erection, shuddering with desire. I was wearing a pair of leather trousers, but my dick was so hard that even just the confinement of the thin hide was too much for me to bear. With a snarl, I leaned back against the trunk and freed my cock.
Without pause, I took it into my hand and let myself fall back into the fantasy of Sophia’s beautiful body. I’d enjoyed it once and I would have to settle on never enjoying it again, for her sake more than mine. She deserved that.
She deserved a better life than the sheltered one I was giving her.
Already, the thought of losing her was too much to bear. I should bring her to one of the settlements on the fringes of the forest, but I couldn’t imagine life without her.
I was going to keep her, at least for now.
I would need to guard my heart against her, but it couldn’t hurt to fantasize about her beneath me, right?
I stroked my hand up and down my cock, slowly working myself faster and faster as I envisioned her lying flat on her back, her legs spread wide and her tiny little fingers playing with her cunt as she showed me just how ready she was for a fucking.
Not wanting to come too quickly, I slowed down, teasing and edging myself until my body started to tremble. The moment I thought about sinking into her sweet, tight depth, pleasure welled from the base of my spine, surging up the length of my cock and shooting straight out of me onto the forest floor. With a roar, I watched as my come coated the mossy ground.
A part of me was disappointed that it wasn’t deep in her womb,breedingher.
I shook my head. I couldn’t allow myself to think such things. I stroked my cock a few more times, enjoying the sensitive touch of pain that came right after an orgasm, imagining it was her tight sheath gripping every inch of me.
Finally, feeling much more sated than before, I sighed and tucked my cock back into my pants. I lay against that tree for several minutes, enjoying the brief clarity that was becoming harder to come by.
A shrill scream cut through the air, and I started.
