Page 16 of Vampire's Promise
“You feel nothing toward me?” The pain in her eyes looked real. Maybe she too was a victim of Khedeus and made to think she was his fated.
“I won’t lie. I feel desire, but it is what any male would feel for a beautiful female.”
Her brown eyes darkened and sparked with anger. “I see.”
“I understand you’re upset. This situation isn’t ideal, but the alternative is even worse.”
Her hands bunched at her side, and he thought for a moment she might throw a punch his way. He’d allow it. After all, it was his bluntness that had hurt her, but at least she fully understood his position on the matter.
“Why thank you for sparing my life.” She scoffed. “You wouldn’t be the first guy I’ve had to fake my way through sex with.”
A slow, simmering anger churned in his gut at the thought of her with anyone else. “You are not a virgin?”
She doubled over in laughter. “Are you even serious? I am over four hundred years old. I’ve fucked. A lot.” She chuckled. “Virgin. That’s rich.”
Half of him felt the ire of a man filled with a jealous rage and the other part of him wondered at her experience. The jealous rage won out. “You would not wait for your mate and yet you expect him to accept soiled goods?” He’d not meant to refer to her in such a manner, but it seemed his emotions were currently in charge of his mouth. It unsettled him that any female could have such control over him.
“What a pompous asshole you are.” Her mouth pressed into a thin line as she marched toward him. She never made it, though. The ground shook and the Skeletal Moon opened up and swallowed her.
“Gwen!” He yelled above her scream as she fell. Without thinking, he dived into the gaping hole after her. All Kian could hear was Gwen’s petrified cry for help as they fell through the pitch black. He tested his powers and was relieved to find he still had some. Blasting a beam of light, he lit the darkness so he could see Gwen, then he cast a shield around her to stop her mid-fall. Once she was in a stable hover, he made a controlled decent until he was beside her, then pulled her into his arms.
“What the hell happened?” Her voice was still full of panic, even though she tried to act casual.
“I’m not sure, other than a hole opened, and you fell in. I jumped in after you.”
She gave a half-hearted laugh. “Pretty brave of you considering we have no idea where this leads.” Her gaze softened. “Thank you. I really wasn’t looking forward to all the broken bones I was going to have to heal.”
“You are welcome.” He looked above them where they came from, then below, but sensed nothing.
“What do we do now?”
Part of him wanted to respond by kissing her, but this was most definitely not the time or place. Before he could respond, his power glitched, and they fell again. “Son of a bitch,” he muttered as he tried to regain control.
“What’s happening?” She squeezed him tighter.
“My power was disrupted. Hold on,” he replied as they broke into what appeared to be another world and he saw foreign ground coming up fast.
“Oh shit, this is gonna hurt,” Gwen said in his ear.
Kian twisted his body at the last second so he would take the brunt of the impact. The air punched from his lungs as he snapped a thick tree branch with his back. Gwen buried her head into his chest, and he knew he was about to feel solid ground at his backside. He’d not even caught his breath from the tree when he hit, rolled, still keeping Gwen safely tucked to him as his bones snapped. He broke off several small saplings, but he had to hand it to the female snuggled into him. She didn’t utter a sound the entire time. He checked his power and was relieved to find it back, so tossed a shield around them and halted their tumble. They came to a full stop with him on his back and Gwen sitting ever so nicely on his cock.
Mine!
Shut it. She is not yours. Someone planted her to tempt you or whatever.
“Are you okay?” She ran her hands over his chest. “Sure, my brother gets the healing ability and I get visions which certainly didn’t tell me we were going to be swallowed by a big fucking hole in the ground.”
“Y-your brother?”
“Yes. He is a healer.”
He was still sending his own healing cells to his broken bones and tried not to wince as his collar bone knitted back together. It only took seconds before he was back to normal and that was when he realized his hands gripped her hips and kept her planted on his growing erection. He slowly moved his hands to his side so hopefully she wouldn’t notice, but when she just stared at him, he cleared his throat.
“Perhaps we should find out where we have landed.”
“Right. Good idea.” She pushed herself to standing, then stepped away, adjusting her dress. He missed her warmth and had to force his wide-awake dick into submission.
Jumping to his feet, he scanned for life. “I detect life but only animals, no other immortals.” He looked at her. “Are you hurt?”
