Page 27 of King of Knights

Visions

I’ve flown the skies looking for Venus and her sisters to no avail. I’m being led by my anger when I should be focused on the task. Once I find Venus, then I can find out what this is about and make them pay for what they have done back in that village.

I need to land and gather my thoughts. If she were my true mate, my knights would know how to find her. They would protect her over me.

I would also be able to sense her power as it would be a part of mine. Once we are mated to our fated, our power is no longer our own. I sigh in frustration as I strip my clothes from my body.

I set them aside and dig in my saddlebag for the bar of soap Venus made for me. It’s something to make me feel closer to her. Bringing the bar of soap to my nose, I close my eyes and inhale.

The scent of pear and mint fills my lungs. It goes a long way to calm me. Opening my eyes, I then turn to walk into the still water.

I will bathe here in this lake and take a moment to think. It hasn’t been lost on me that I’m in the vicinity of my brothers’ resting grounds. I and I alone, am the sole being who knows of this place and its location.

“I hope you are resting well, my brothers,” I murmur to the open air.

The cool water is a shock as I step in, but I quickly warm it with my palm above the surface. I move farther in until I am chest-deep.

Using the bar of soap, I bathe and wash away the stench of the day past. Usually, when I return from a trip to the valley, Venus has a warm bath waiting for me. She always holds my attention captive as she steps into the water with all those lush curves.

What I would give to see her saunter toward me as her robe slips to the floor. My muscles relax as I think of the last time we bathed together. I can feel and see it in my mind’s eye as if it were yesterday.

“Welcome home, my love,” Venus purred as her white cotton nightgown slipped from her shoulders.

I watched as the fabric slid slowly down her body, inch by inch, revealing her silky brown skin. I sat back in the steaming water and groaned in relief. My muscles finally settled into the smaller form I walk the earth in.

“Come to me,” I murmured.

She stepped from the garment at her feet and walked up the side of the bath. Her breasts called for my attention. I couldn’t wait to get my hands on her.

Every other muscle had softened in the warmth of the water, but my cock rose, seeking the heat of her body. She continued to move toward me torturously slow.

A grin came to my lips as she stopped before me. Reaching for her waist, I tugged her forward roughly and reached for her thighs to guide her onto my length. She cupped my face as I kissed her passionately. She pushed her fingers into my long, dark locks.

I released a groan as she started to rock her hips on me. I could never get enough of her and her tight heat. I knew Venus was different when she was as drawn to me as I was to her.

Women tend to shy away from me, sensing I’m not human or fearing my kind. Venus, however, had no such fear. Instead, she’d always shown me passion like this.

I grabbed the full globes of her ass beneath the water and guided her against my rough thrusts. Breaking the kiss, she threw her head back and called my name.

“Kendrick,” she gasped loudly.

“Look at me, my love,” I demanded.

She dropped her head and locked her gaze with mine. I reached for one of her breasts and squeezed the large mound in my palm. She tightened her hands in my hair and reconnected our lips.

Lifting to my feet, I moved her to the edge of the bath and placed her upon it. She locked her legs around my waist, sucking at my tongue as I took us both to ecstasy.

I moved my lips to her ear. “Do you see what you do to me? You have so much power over me. I despise the day when time will take you from me. I know I will go mad.”

“Oh gods. Kendrick, I love you so much. If I could stop time for us, I would,” she whimpered.

Suddenly, I’m pulled from the memory, but not into the present. I know not this place of the time in which I stand. Everything is moving so fast. I can’t focus on one thing.

My brothers are awake and surround me. There are other men before us. I can’t see their faces, but they all have on black leather vests. I continue to observe as the scene before me changes.

My brothers all straddle what look to be metal horses. I glance down and one is beneath me. My name is called, causing me to look up.

A woman is running toward me. It’s not Venus, but she, too, has brown skin. Her eyes are glowing and her lips are moving, but I can’t hear what she’s saying.

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