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His hands still in the air, his lips curved up into a slow, wicked grin. “You have nothing to be afraid of. I thought we were equals?”
Her jaw clenched and her fingers tightened on her dagger. He was taunting her, throwing her own words back at her. “I’m not scared of you.”
“Then come with me.”
Could she trust him? If he tried anything untoward, her decision would be easier. She wouldn’t feel like she was stretched in two different directions.
“Fine, but you go first,” she said.
“As you wish.”
Felix turned his back to her and led the way while she watched for any signs of treachery.
“That dagger, do you always have it on you?” Felix asked, not phased at all that she was behind him with a weapon.
“Yes.”
“It’s beautiful. Where did you get it?”
She spared a glance at the dagger, which only had a five-inch blade. Tiny red rubies were embedded in the gold cross-guard, matching the larger ruby in the pommel. The leather in the hilt was worn down from use. It might be time to replace it.
“Nikolas gave it to me when I completed my training.”
Her grip tightened when his shoulders tensed. “Your training?” His voice deepened, the hint of a growl emerging.
“Yes, he taught me how to fight, how to survive. Things you refused to teach me.”
As they arrived at the elevators, Felix’s body was rigid with tension. For a second she debated if it was a good idea to be stuck in a metal box with him, but based on her few experiences in an elevator, they wouldn’t be in there long.
She could take him. A part of her wished he’d give her a reason to release the simmering violence within.
He spoke again once the elevator began its descent, his voice low with suppressed rage. “Did he teach you anything else?”
She hissed, her vision going red at the implication. Her body moved on its own. Teeth bared, her dagger across his throat, she snarled, “He never touched me. Nobody did.” Not that she hadn’t tried, not with Nikolas, but others. Humans and vampires and one time, even a shifter, but she’d felt nothing except coldness and disgust at their touch. “Can you say the same?”
In the blink of an eye, he overpowered her, his larger male body covering hers. Her nerves came alive, desire overshadowing fury. He inhaled, long and deep, and his eyes glittered with suppressed lust. “I never wanted anyone else.”
Had he been as alone as she had been? Had he really not touched another? If touching another had brought him the same nothingness she’d experienced, it was easy to believe him.
They stood there, toe to toe, hovering at the edge of a cliff. When he was so close, it was near impossible to resist the urge to kiss him, to satiate the physical hunger again. She couldn’t allow desire to cloud her thinking and influence her decision.
The elevator stopped, the doors sliding open. Felix released her and sprinted away, stopping when he was a few feet away from her in the lobby.
The unbridled lust sharpened his features, made him more of a predator, but his tone was curt when he said, “Come.”
Gabby’s heart attempted its hardest to jump out of her chest as her blood roared in her ears. The wide space in the lobby and the distance helped her reign in the hunger, but it was only temporary. She should leave, go anywhere else as long as it was far away from Felix, but her feet had a mind of their own and followed him.
Hot, arid air swamped her the second she stepped outside. The slight breeze was no relief against the unrelenting heat and only brought the scent of too many sweat-soaked humans and dry baked earth mixed with unpleasant chemicals.
Felix halted next to an unfamiliar vehicle, or at least she thought it was a vehicle with the two black rubber wheels. Red metal, shining under the streetlight, formed its sleek body. Its curves and lines reminded her of a crouching wolf about to pounce on its prey.
“Is that the surprise? What is it?” Her hands stroked the smooth metal, which was warm to the touch.
“It’s called a motorcycle.”
She stepped back when he swung his legs over the vehicle as though it was a horse and patted the area behind him. “Get on behind me.”
She didn’t budge. “Why can’t we fly?”
