Page 84 of Awakening their Goddess

“Look at me Lacey,” I said, slow and firm, but my voice raised.

She shook her head. I left go of her wrists and grabbed her chin to look at me.

My beast was getting angry, knowing she was refusing to look at me. She was trying to protect me when I needed this.

I turned her head once more. I needed to see her eyes, needing the full bind for this to work. Wanting the full bind before I could do as my father asked and mark the queen as my mate and finally take over my father’s position.

My fangs lengthened and as I swiped my tongue over them, I could taste the serum which would help to pierce her skin.

I lowered my mouth into the crook of her neck and sank my teeth into her neck.

“Fuck, Ryan,” she screamed and whipped her hand across my head. It was an instant reaction from her and I should have restrained her more. I knew she’d fight back against being bitten. “Oh shit, you’re a vampire.”

“I’m not, it was just a hickey,” I lied as I willed my teeth to retract, hoping the bite was enough. I shook my head. She glanced over her shoulder and glared at me. I stared at her and I couldn’t stop staring into her eyes. The pain I felt was too much to ignore, but I couldn't look away.

I fell onto her back and she turned away from me and collapsed onto her chest, as I struggled to my catch breath.

“I’m sorry for hitting you, but you can’t bite my neck like that and not have me try to stop you,” she said, anger laced her voice, but it morphed into the distance.

I groaned.

“We should sleep it off,” she demanded.

I looked through half-opened eyes at her and there was an intensity in her gaze, but she was impossible to read. Like she was trying to tell me something without the words.

Once my knot deflated, I pulled out of her and climbed out of the bed and staggered to the door. “I’m going to sleep in my room.”

Lacey didn’t stop me. She gave a nod, and that was when it hit me.

She knew.

What exactly... I didn’t know.

But she knew I wasn’t who I claimed to be.

Chapter 28

Lacey

Iwokefromthefog of sleep slowly. It was like climbing my way out of a thick, heavy cloud. But the cloud moved as the dazzling sunlight peeked through the side of the curtain, blinding me for a second. I rolled onto my back and stared at the ceiling.

Lunging an arm over to my bedside cabinet where I grabbed my mobile phone. It was just before six in the morning, and I was feeling overjoyed I’d bound with another knight.

Though the events of the night before were not quite as I planned, my magic was still stronger again and I hoped that soon I’d have superior magic to the dark king in what he could do, because I knew now he was stronger than me. The least I’d need was to hold enough magic to bring forward the war or entice him from his lair and kill him with the help of my knights.

Get rid of him for good.

Once and for all.

I feared the war at one point, but now I had Aria. It was all I wanted. Needing to get it over with, kill the dark king and live my happily ever after with my knights and my daughter.

But how many knights?

I knew Carter wouldn’t come back. He still wasn’t himself. Still avoiding me if he could get away with it. Though some days I needed to see him, even he didn’t want to see me.

Ryan, I didn’t know any longer exactly who he was, and I was sure I didn’t imagine those teeth in my lust filled haze.

Hickey or not. It still pissed me off for biting me when I was unaware. At least when Seb gave me love bites, he tells me and gives me the chance to say no. There was no warning, nothing.

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