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A strangled noise twisted in my throat, and I felt like he dropped me off a cliff. Though I had seen it coming for a long time, known it was there, it still ripped the air from my lungs when I went over it. Death to what was and what could’ve been. My worship of him as a little girl and my respect for him as an adult crumbled under my feet. Replaced with the heartache and shame of hoping I was wrong.
“Go ahead,” he growled, only leaning into the blade more. “End me, Katrina. It’s what you always wanted, right? Take your vengeance. I won’t even fight you.”
The struggle inside, the emotion of everything I felt, leaked tears down my face. The pain. The torment. The battle between what I thought I should do, what I had trained to do, and what my soul screamed out, feeling even more pathetic because I knew what would win out.
Crying out, I shoved away from him, my head falling forward. I let my family down. I was a disgrace to my father.
Turning on my heels, I ran out, needing to get far away from him. And myself.
Outside, the warm air only suffocated my lungs more, my body shaking, my mortification devastating as Croygen’s seed trailed down my leg with every step.
I had spoken of Croygen’s betrayal for so long, spouting how I wouldn’t hesitate to kill him, when in the end, I was the one to betray my father.
Slipping into a side alley, I leaned against the wall, sobs hiccupping up my throat. Sliding down the wall with my father’s dagger clutched in my hand, I experienced every sore muscle, reminding me of what I did and how much I liked it.
My heart shattered into dust.
Small. Lost. Like I no longer had ground beneath my feet. My entire world had been structured around Croygen. Around my revenge.
And now I was nothing. My entire belief system was nothing but a façade.
“Oh look, a stray.” A woman’s voice came from the depths of the alley, jerking my head to the side. I could barely make out her slim silhouette before a handful of figures moved in on me, dressed the same as the men who attacked us in the barn.
I leaped up, the blade in my hand, turning toward them, ready to fight.
Crack!
Something struck the back of my skull, toppling me to the side with a cry. My body and mind instantly retreated, going hazy and useless. I dropped to the ground. Through my hazy vision, she stepped closer, bending down to peer at me, her dark eyes narrowing on me, her nose wrinkling with disgust. Something about her nicked at my mind, but it quickly fled out of reach. “Guess he’ll learn to not let his pets out at night where they can be eaten.” She stood, nodding at the men. “Let’s move.”
The men picked me up, and I tried to fight, to call for him, but only the soft whisper of his name glided from my lips before darkness took me under.
Chapter 26
Croygen
I couldn’t move, my gaze still on the door Katrina escaped from. My voice locked in my throat, her name on my tongue to call her back, the need to run after her burning my spine.
Yet, I couldn’t.
My body reacted like it had been traumatized—sweating, trembling, heart racing, unmoving. But all for the opposite reasons. It wasn’t from a bad experience, but from a phenomenal one, short-circuiting my brain. My head couldn’t catch up with what just happened, the turn of events which went from me almost getting my neck sliced by a ninja, to fucking Katrina over a saddle.
How it felt sinking into her, the magic I could feel as I drove in and out of her. Fuck…
My legs wobbled under me, my dick hardening at the thought. What the hell just happened? It was as if I had no power or control, which had never happened to me. Ever. Sex was fun, but most of the time it was just a game to me. A power play. An amusement for the evening. A competition with myself at how crazed I could get them. And in my time, I’ve had some really kinky and mind-blowing sex. Not much I hadn’t done.
Kat was different.
I never once felt challenged. At one time, I would’ve said Amara had, but really, I was in a fight with myself, going after someone who didn’t want me. We were never on the same playing field.
Kat stood toe to toe with me, gave back just as fiercely, but when her magic wrapped around my cock—shit—I would’ve done anything she asked…anything. I blacked out, my lungs halting for a moment, my body trembling like some cold street urchin. Nothing had ever felt so good. I couldn’t even come up with a word for it, but I could feel it rattling in my bones, braiding in my muscles, and absorbing into my skin.
Her presence was everywhere.
My hand brushed over the throbbing in my neck where she had bitten me, my gaze scanning over the red claw marks carving into my torso and stinging my back. My cock was still covered in her release. My mind echoed with her cries, the way she yowled…
And purred.
Fuck, that sound vibrated through me, cocooning me in such a blissful bubble. It was so content I couldn’t even explain it. Like I could stay there forever. I was torn between wanting to wrap around her and fall asleep or fuck her all over again, slow and deep.
