Page 21 of Hunted By Darkness

Rubbing myself over his cock, I made sure he knew just how wet I was for him. How much being in control had turned me on. His little groan and twisted expression suggested he got the message loud and clear. And for a second, I lost myself to the incredible sensation of riding on top of him. I forgot the ominous future waiting for us outside this room. I escaped it all with this dangerous man and his pleasurable torment.

A sizzling crackle of magic snapped me out of my head. I was still sliding back and forth on top of him, my head dropped back, but after a second crackle and loud snap, Silas’s hands were on my waist, holding tight.

“Fucking sod it,” he cursed angrily as his cock slammed into me. I didn’t have time to gasp. His pace was brutal from the start. He drove into me hard enough to send my body into a violent bounce, angling so his hips did all the work, not mine.

“Oh, fuck!” I cried out, his dick burying deep inside and hitting all the right places.

His breathing was rough as he drove into me without waiting and without mercy. My mercenary had lost it. I’d won. His thrusts were frantic and forceful. I might be moving, but it was his powerful upward lunges that made it so. I came down on him several times, on the edge of something violent and world-shattering.

My fingernails cut into his flesh as I tried to anchor myself to something solid. “Wait, Silas—”

But it was too late.

My orgasm crashed into me, nearly sending me flying back, but Silas had already wrapped his arms around me. I was crushed against his chest as his cock pushed in so deep I worried it’d destroy my insides. My arms clung to his head as I rode out the intense flood. A little growl was smothered into my shoulder, and then his cock pulsed several times as he came.

I tried to crawl off, but Silas’s hold tightened, a wild gleam in his eye. “And where do you think you’re going, love?”

“Lev will be back soon,” I argued, trying to disentangle myself.

Silas had me off the bed in his arms, cock still buried inside. “Oh, the lad can wait. My insatiable rebel couldn’t possibly be satisfied with just that, yeah? What kind of bloke would I be if I left my bird unsatisfied?”

A sharp breath caught in my throat as he dropped me down on his already hard length several times. Sadly, the pleasure was enough of a distraction that he got what he wanted before I managed to get my thoughts together. And when I finally did, I was already too deep into it to let go.

“You better be quick, asshole,” I threatened, my arms wrapped around his neck.

He kissed me roughly before winking. “You can’t rush perfection, love, but I’ll do my best.”

After dropping a claiming kiss on my mouth, Silas fitted the usual mask over his face and pulled his hood to hide his silver hair. “No funny business, lad. Anything happens to her, and it’s me you’ll have to answer to, yeah?”

Lev scoffed and crossed his arms, several weapons visible along his belt. “As if I’d ever let anything happen to her. You must be joking.” The muscles in his arms flexed as green magic danced around his body in growing agitation. “I’ve been by her side for decades, you forget.”

Silas revealed the list he kept tucked inside his pocket—the one he’d written after dragging names out of my best friend. “This list wouldn’t exist if you’d been doing your bleeding job, lad. These numpties would’ve already been dead and buried.”

Lev’s jaw ticked.

I pressed a hand on my friend’s shoulder and leveled a glare on Silas. “That’s not fair, and you know it.” Silas deflated a little at the scolding. It didn’t take a genius to know he’d crossed a line. “Lev was the reason I stayed alive a lot of those times. You can’t possibly know what he risked by staying by my side all these years. What he gave up by choosing me over her that night. Lev has sacrificed more for me than anyone else.” I paused, the next words punctuated. “And that includes you.”

Silence fell over the three of us. The evening wind swept the grass around our feet, and the moon beamed down from a cloudless sky speckled with stars. We were only a short walk from Dark Fae Society territory, and once we crossed over, we’d need to be swift and silent. Our squabbles had to be left here on this grassy hill, or we’d risk everything that brought us here.

“My mistake, lad,” the mercenary finally mumbled.

Lev brushed back his hair and nodded, the moonlight hitting his eyes in a way that made them beam several ethereal shades of green. “It’s fine.”

“No.” Silas blew out a sigh from behind his mask. “She’s right. You’ve more than proven to be my bird’s greatest ally and friend. We’re lucky to have you on our side.”

Lev seemed impressed by the big oaf’s apology, but I’d seen this side enough to know it was coming.

Silas walked around like he was the biggest and meanest mercenary that ever lived. Like nothing and no one could ever touch him. And yes, he might be an arrogant asshole who was all jokes and perversion, but he knew how to admit when he was wrong.

It might take me reminding him every now and again, but at his core, Silas was a good man who’d spent his life living in the dark while pining for the light. He wanted to be better than he was. Most of all, he respected Lev. He knew better than anyone Lev would protect me, or he would’ve dragged me along with him to carry out his revenge.

I put on the mask Lev had commissioned a few days ago. It was modeled after the ones the Dark Fae wore for missions. Lifting my hood, I covered my purple hair like the mercenary in front of me. “Besides…sheis plenty capable of taking care of herself, thank you both very much.” Blue met silver, and without seeing it, I knew the mercenary was smirking in that obnoxious way of his. “You get as long as it takes us to get the book, or we’ll leave you behind.”

Turning, I watched Lev put on his own mask and cover his blue hair with the hood of his cloak. “Fine by me. I doubt he’d have any trouble escaping without us, and if he gets captured, it’d be his own damn fault.”

“A compliment from the lad? Is it my birthday?” Silas taunted, but the inflection in his voice suggested he was, in fact, flattered.

“Only you would hear that as a compliment,” Lev complained. After a little shake of his head, he gestured the direction we had to go. “Let’s stop wasting time. Our window is short, and the longer we linger, the more we risk arousing suspicion.”

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