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When I just stare at him, he shakes his head in pain. “It’s feed me or fuck me, London. It’s the only way to strengthen my power right now.”
I nod, opening my palm. Before I can try to find something to cut it with, a root spurts from the ground, falling limp into my hand. For whatever reason,I know what to do, closing my palm around it as it whips itself free.
When I open my palm, blood drips from my hand.I lift it to his lips as he runs his tongue along the cut and his eyes flash white.
He grunts, teeth clenching and gleaming red as small snaps and cracks sound.
The shield around us cracks and we jolt.
“Ready?” he wheezes.
I nod, and we jump to our feet, the shield moving with us as we dash for the giant wall of angry thorns.
“Fuck!” he shouts, head whipping from one side to the other, but I keep going.
“London, wait!”
The shield sparks angrily as it meets the protective wall, but I move closer anyway.
“We have to try another way!” he screams.
“Wait!” I shout back and he freezes. “It’s...”
“Opening,” he mutters in disbelief, looking at me curiously.
Ice absorbs the vines, dying and breaking into small snowflakes that melt before they touch the ground, and then the stone wall does the same.
We shove through the second it opens enough, falling to the grass.
When we look back at the wall, it’s already sealed, the beast left crying on the other side.
I fall to my back, Zeke beside me, and we look up into the dark skies.After a moment, I turn my head and we look to each other at the same time. Our skin bruised and bloody, soaking wet from the golden pond.
Laughter bubbles from my chest as we both burst out laughing, rolling onto our sides as it takes us over.
A menacing growl rattles behind us and I freeze, worried we let the beast in, but when I snap my head up over my shoulder, the air seizes in my lungs for a very different reason.
Knight Deveraux, the future fucking King, stands behind us, shirtless, bloody and completely enraged.
Shit.
I scamper to my feet, just as he reaches me.
“It was my idea,” I rush out.
Knight’s hand shoots out, wrapping around my neck. He slams me into the wall, and I cry out as my shoulder is forced back into place from the impact.
“Well, this position is familiar, isn’t it?” I spit, remembering how he grabbed me at the diner.
His body shakes as he gazes down at me. “Why are you—”
He cuts off short, his nostrils flaring, but then my wrist is in his free one. He glares at the small cut, but then he brings it to his nose, inhaling, and while his eyes close for a split second, they fly open in the next.
His pupils blow wide, rage whirling within him as his chest begins to rumble. It’s as if a caged animal lives inside it, begging to be freed so it can eat me alive.
I shrink at the sound, and I hate it, but it’s deeper than my will. Something inside me submits to him in that moment, some weird future King, all mightily powerful asshole type shit, I’m sure.
“String him up,” Knight rumbles, eyes holding strong on me.
