Page 54 of Claiming Sarah

The rest of the supper went the same way. Rex treaded dangerously close to my secret without giving it away, Jac confronted him about whatever came to mind, while Sarah was drunken and let him touch and flirt with her. Every moment grated on me.

After dessert, I had enough of his seductive tactics, and in spite of my own self-interest, I asked, “How is it that you can touch her?”

“I can touch the living, but the living cannot touchmeunless I allow it. A useful trick for the dead,” he said, and I didn’t miss the wicked light in his eyes. “I’m not sure how to explain it. Conduits are good with the magic tricks of the dead. Perhaps you should ask your consort.”

“I will.” Beyond irritated, I got up, took Sarah’s hand, and helped her to her feet. “Come with me. Say goodnight to Rex.”

She wobbled and giggled, something I would have found adorable had we not been in this tense situation.

“Goodnight to Rex,” she parroted, and gave him a little wave with her fingers.

Once we were in the hall, I picked her up and carried her toward my room, which was far faster than her stumbling about. I wanted nothing more than to put distance between us and Rex and whatever machinations he was conjuring up in that evil mind of his.

A moment later, I heard Jac say, “Wait up.”

He quickly caught up, and I said nothing until Jac closed my door behind us. I set Sarah back on her feet and the pure anger and frustration I’d been holding back finally erupted out of me.

“What the fuck is going on with you and Rex Terian?”

She didn’t even flinch at my harsh tone. “Relax—”

My hands balled into fists at my sides. “I will relax when you tell me what is going on!”

Jac touched my shoulder and I wheeled on him, snarling, “What?”

“Calm down,” he said evenly, even though his own anger blazed in his eyes, probably because of my uncharacteristic behavior toward Sarah. “Now.”

But I was equally furious for other reasons. “Our consort is drunk and flirting with our enemy, and you want me tocalm down?” My voice was so strained in my throat that it hurt.

“Iwant you naked, do I get a vote?” Sarah said in an amorous tone to diffuse the situation as she wrapped her arms around my waist and pressed her cheek against my back.

I peeled her arms away and turned, lifting them over her head and pinning them to the door before pressing my body hard against hers. “Tell meright now, Sarah.” I sounded unreasonable, unhinged even, and I didn’t care. I needed this answer from her.

“Stop it!” Jac barked, before he tried to pry me away from her.

“Don’t stop,” Sarah countered huskily, her lips curving into a bewitching smile as she lifted her legs up and around my hips, turning this fight into something far more arousing.

“Release me,” I growled at her, in no mood to fuck. Or at least that’s what I told myself, but my thickening cock had a mind of its own.

“You’re jealous of him?” she asked, sounding…pleased?

“What were you doing with him?” I demanded to know.

She shrugged too enticingly. “Toying with him.”

“Why?” I grated out.

A sultry look glimmered in her eyes while she gyrated against my body, not at all fearful of my rising temper. “Because Rexthinkshe can use me to get what he wants, but I will use him to get whatIwant.”

Though I was overflowing with outrage, and lust surged through my cock in response to her ministrations, I had questions. “And what do you want?”

She gave me a coy smile that worked like sorcery on my libido. “You. And Jac. Right now.”

I struggled to stay focused. “What do you want fromRex?”

“The end of Faithless.”

My mind reached out to a thousand answers she could have said, but none of them were that. In my confusion, my grip loosened, and she took the opportunity to latch her arms around my neck. Our passion took over as she climbed up my torso, meeting my lips with hers, her soft tongue sliding into my mouth.

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