Page 49 of Dark Elf's Good Girl

“Isla.” The word is a deep growl, a warning, and my stomach flips.

“A cabin,” I mutter. It comes out of me unconsciously, my mind too focused on the dark promise swirling between us that I want to draw out of him.

What is happening to me?

But then Aiken’s eyes harden, closing off, and he straightens. His whole body tenses, and anger flashes in place of jealousy. My heart pounds as I take in his sudden shift, and my eyebrows pinch together.

“Aiken?”

“What cabin?”

I shake my head. “I don’t know. He said he’d come back and get me. He has some cabin in the north.”

His body tightens more, to the point that it looks like his jaw is going to break. The air turns cold, icy, and his nostrils flare. It makes my stomach drop.

This is so much worse than I thought.

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AIKEN

The cabin.

Not the fucking cabin.

My entire body flashes cold, and I know that it’s my magic whipping out, looking for a release as anger builds inside of me.

Not the fucking cabin.

I don’t have enough awareness outside of my mind to control the magic lashing at the walls right now. It’s not until Isla's voice cuts through the fog in my brain that I realize there’s a sheet of ice beneath my feet and crystals in the air.

“Aiken, what’s wrong?”

Her arms are clutching her middle, and she hugs herself – from fear or cold I’m not sure – and she’s staring up at me with an expression that shouldn’t rile me up.

She looks terrified.

Her cheeks and the tip of her nose are turning pink, and her lips are parted on an exhale. Her brown eyes are wide, fear dancing in them. I’m not sure if it’s because of my magic or because of the way I’m reacting to what she said.

Either way, I want to throw her on the bed and shove my cock between those lips. I want to see her eyes widen farther in shock of how I treat her. I want her skin red and her heart racing because of me.

But there’s more to worry about that right now.

I shove away the thoughts, focusing on what’s more important. I can’t fuck her breathless if my brother is planning on killing her.

I knew what it was the second she said the cabin. Calix has one cabin and if he doesn’t break a human in the house, he takes them there. They usually don’t come back – but the ones that do are dumped in the servants quarters and don’t last much longer.

As much as I want to break Isla, to see just what her body will give me, I will not allow my brother the same luxury. I will reward her for everything she takes from me.

Calix will kill her for it.

I can’t let him take her alone. I can’t let him take her at all.

“Aiken, what’s wrong?”

I realize that I never answered Isla. One look at the frost gathering on her eyelashes, and I know I have to get a grip on myself.

I focus, sending a tendril of warmth through the room so that she defrosts slowly. Then I crouch so that we’re eye to eye, cupping her face and pressing my thumb underneath her jaw. I can feel her heart racing and it stirs my cock.

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