Page 22 of Loki's Enemy Mate

“You’re going to hold onto me as tight as you can, alright?”

I nodded. Afraid to open my mouth this close to his cock. It seemed being in a life-or-death situation wasn’t distracting me from the fact that I still wanted himbadly.I wanted to know what it felt like to have his body in my hands, to feel his lips around mine, and to feel his tight ass wrapped about my cock.

“Mm-hmm,” I said, trying to stop myself from fantasizing too much. Getting hard wasn’t gonna help me get free of this tunnel any easier.

“Alright,” he said. “On the count of three, okay?”

I nodded again, taking a deep breath before blowing it all out until my lungs were empty.

“One… two… three!”

Pressing his feet against the stone above me, Loki wrapped his arms under mine and pulled with all his might. At the same time, I felt myself budge a few inches and I inhaled sharply, surprised this weird horizontal squat thing he was doing was working.

“Breathe out again,” he hissed through gritted teeth, not allowing himself to stop.

I forced all the air out of my lungs and wrapped my arms around his waist, pulling myself up as he pushed against the wall. I clenched my teeth, forcing the rest of my body to relax as I breathed him in. Loki strained, the veins in his neck popping as he pushed and pushed against the wall. The pressure exerted against my body made me feel like I was being torn in two. But I screwed my eyes shut and forced myself to bear the excruciating pain.

In my moment of desperation, I made a deal with myself. Should I get free of this tunnel, I wouldn’t hold back my feelings for Loki anymore. Already I’d wasted far too much time. He was my mate, I knew that. But I’d been too afraid to say anything and too afraid of the consequences. And there was a very real possibility that I’d missed my only chance to be with him.

Should I get free, I wouldn’t waste that chance again. I’d tell him.

The moment the thought passed through my mind, I felt my body shift again. Loki cried out, giving me one last tug before I finally came free. I cried out for joy as we both tumbled backward. But just when I’d managed to get a full breath into my lungs, my body was suddenly enveloped in mind-numbing cold. Air rushed out of me once more as I realized we’d both fallen into the river.

I pushed myself up, the water only a couple of feet deep, and gasped. I could feel Loki’s arms still wrapped around me, but I couldn’t see him. The current was swift, carrying us both away at a speed I could only guess. I tried to dig my feet in or grab something but the stone beneath us was as smooth as glass. I glanced over my shoulder to see the light of his phone growing further and further away, still sitting on the edge of the river where he’d propped it up. In a matter of seconds, it was gone, and we were plunged into complete darkness.

And that’s when we were suddenly airborne.

We fell through open air, holding tightly to one another until we crashed into water once more. I hadn’t even heard the waterfall coming thanks to the terror of getting stuck and the shock of the cold water. But I heard it as I resurfaced. And from what I could tell, we still had another couple of falls before we were done.

I wasalmostright. By the time we stopped crashing into stone and over waterfalls, we’d been through three. I’d struckthe bottom every single time, my body crashing against the rock. The cold numbed the pain, but I knew the moment we were out, I was going to feel like one giant bruise.

If we ever got out, that was.

“Grab for something!” Loki cried. “Anything!”

“I can’t see!”

“Just keep trying!”

Another thirty seconds went by of being carried away by the current. But then, much to our surprise, the current slowed and the stone under our feet fell away. Suddenly we were treading water in a much deeper pool. And that brought with it a new fear. The cold was setting in and my muscles were already exhausted and beaten from the events of the last twenty minutes. I needed to find land or my legs were going to give out.

“Do you see it?!” Loki cried, grabbing at my shoulder in the dark.

“What?!”

His hand searched until it found my face. With a hand on my cheek, he pointed me the opposite direction. My heart gave a little leap as there, in the darkness, was a shaft of sunlight illuminating a dry piece of rock. It was some distance away, and it wasn’t very big, but it wassomething. And it meant our survival. We just had to swim to it first.

“Come on,” I said, pulling my way through the water. “Swim!”

Both of us panted and splashed as we worked our way across the pool. More than once I had to grab Loki and pull him back above the water. The poor guy was exhausted after having freed me. Not to mention, he was much smaller than me, so the cold was probably sinking into his system faster. Considering my teeth were already chattering, and I found it hard to breathe, I was surprised he’d lasted this long.

Still, I didn’t leave his side. Even when my feet finally touched ground once more, I made sure to haul him up and out of the water. Both of us crawled up onto the stone until we were completely free of it. However, even when we reached the ten-foot circle of sunlight, it held no warmth. Autumn in the Appalachian Mountains was cold, and winter was close at hand. We’d have to find a different way to get warm.

“I’m s-s-so c-cold,” I chattered, sitting up and pulling my knees to my chest.

“W-We need t-t-to get out of th-these w-wet clothes,” Loki replied, his voice weak. “It’s s-sapping our h-h-heat.”

I was past the point of arguing with Loki. I was too cold and too tired for that. So, without hesitation, I began to strip my clothing off, dropping it on a wet heap on the stone next to me. I took off my shirt, pants, shoes, and socks. But after a moment of hesitation, decided to keep my briefs on. However, when I turned back to Loki, he hadn’t even managed to get his shirt off yet. In fact, he was shivering so much, he could barely breathe, much less pull his shirt over his head.

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