Page 16 of Embers in the Wind

No matter what she thinks, it is going to be a problem. They are pesky little creatures full of surprises, but the witch may be able to give us information that we don’t already know.

Embry squeezes my hand. “You’ll really help me?”

“You’re not going alone.” Deep in the Mystic Forest full of an academy of wild witches, we’ll find the one who steps lightly and disappears the minute we see her among the trees, not wanting to be found.

Sure, we’ll find her, and then what?

Chapter 14

Embry

His evil laugh has invaded my dreams sleep after sleep since that deadly night when I learned for certain that he was the ultimate traitor. Lucas, the right hand to the powerful vampire overlord for centuries, the very vampire who helped Descallia build a world where pureblooded vampires are now respected and powerful in their own right. Risen to a species that controls the underworld but no longer seeks out blood from unsuspecting victims like it did centuries ago.

Even accepted by the humans as partners in business, heads of corporations, and even by the most notorious criminals of all. No, now they all want to partner with us. Because of Descallia and Lucas, who worked diligently to change the fate of the vampires.

Only Lucas changed, and when he stares at me faced off in the cavern after leaving the safety of the others to find him, that evil laugh and not the steel of his blade that threatens to slice me in two is what I fear the most.

Someone has taken Lucas’s soul. He is no longer the vampire he used to be. The one who would have done anything for Overmaster Descallia, any of the master vampires, lords,warriors or anyone without an official title. He loved them all equally, and would have killed, did kill, in cold blood for them many times.

To support a cause, the one he now rails against as he screams at me in my dream, in a fit of rage. “Do you know what we do to traitors of the rogues, Embry? We kill them. Burn them at the stake or run them through with a stake to the heart.” His eyes flare red. “But that’s not what I’m going to do with you. No, we’re going to wait until the masters arrive, and then I’ll kill you right before their very eyes. They will see what their actions have caused.”

I try to run but he transports across the cavern sealing me into the cave. His hand grabs my neck and squeezes so tight that I’m losing air fast. “No,” I yell as loudly as I can knowing that in minutes my voice will be completely gone.

A rough shake to my shoulders and a deep voice calling my name drag me from the terror of my dream. “Embry, look at me.”

My eyes are like weights, and it takes effort to open them. “Come here.” Corvinus drags me into his arms, stroking my hair, kissing the top of my head, and rubbing my back until I begin to calm. “A bad dream? Your skin is damp, and your heart is racing. Tell me.”

I swallow through the emotion, barely able to choke the words out. “Lucas. Same thing, it happens the same way every single time. I can’t get it out of my mind. And every time one of those gossiping vamps in the community begin running their mouth about things they’ll never know, about what happened that night, about what I tried to do, it just brings all the injustice and hurt I feel raining down on me all over again. I went after him, thought I could find him where others had failed, but they don’t believe that. They think I went to be with him.”

“The important people don’t believe it.”

I swipe at a tear, furious with myself for letting this ruin our perfect night. “I’m sorry. I’m trying to get a handle on the dreams. They don’t happen every night now, maybe a couple times a week, which is a hell of a lot better than before, but still, they feel so real. I’m glad you were here tonight,” I tell him, because it’s the truth. The protection of his arms is comforting. “Just because I sob in your arms does not make us in a relationship, vampire.”

He turns my face to him, and his dark eyes meet mine. “We’re sure as hell caught up in something but I haven’t been able to put a name to it myself yet.”

My eyebrows arch. “Secret bed buddies. That’s what we’ll be.”

The devil smirks. “Because you think it will happen again?”

I slide my leg against his, and roll on top of him, pressing my pert nipples against the tattoos on his chest, so close that our lips are almost touching. “Don’t tease me. This thing, it’s not going to run its course until we’ve completely sated our desire, vampire. And I’m hardly sated at all.”

The power-hungry beast rolls me in one flip, caging me beneath him, crushing his lips to mine while parting my thighs with his leg. “Open,” he growls.

A take charge alpha in and out of the bedroom is exactly what I like. I’ll do whatever the beast wants me to do because I know exactly what it’s going to feel like when he drives that massive cock deep inside. There is no need for foreplay or games for us. Our chemistry is always on ready. And when it flares to life, we do not hold back. My pussy is already wet for his cock and the carnality that joining will bring.

We know what we want, and we want it now, intense gratification, and that deep cock of his drives home, straight to the end of me while his finger and a thumb toy with my tips, first one and then the other, rolling them, first gently and then withmore pressure, finding just that right spot between pleasure and pain, the one that sends streaks of pleasure all the way south.

But the sexy vampire lord is not ready for me to come. “Not yet, love, you’ll spill your juices when I allow it and only while I drink my fill.”

Corvinus drives harder and harder, my legs wrapping around his waist tight as he lifts me from the bed, and into his lap while his lips find my neck. “When I pierce your flesh, then you’re ready, love,” he growls, teasing me unmercifully before taking what he needs and exactly what I crave. The minute his fangs sink deep into that vein, lightening washes over me, heat and energy, and a flood of lust spills from my center over the top of his rod.

When he’s had his fill and emptied all of his load, he cradles the back of my neck, kissing me with blood-soaked lips, the taste of my blood mingling between us, sweet and forbidden, just like us and this relationship.

We both know the rules about masters and lords taking protégés or lesser positioned vampires in their employ as mates, but yet, destiny has put us together for a reason. And rules be damned.I don’t want this to end. We’ll keep it under wraps, and no one will be the wiser.

He strokes my face. “They’ll know love. Anyone will be able to tell the moment we walk into a room. The chemistry will give us away.”

I swallow through the lump in my throat. “Then we won’t walk into a room together around the vampires.”

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