“You’re housing his essence,” he called over his shoulder. “Trust me, I would know.”
“How?”
“Because.” His face was shadowed as he turned back around. “I was part of the army that failed at destroying him, and then everything went painfully dark.”
“When?”
He smirked. “You weren’t even a flicker in the Creator’s eye.”
“How old are you?”
He didn’t turn around just whispered, “I wish I actually knew.”
TIMBER
I could have sworn that her blood mocked me when I tasted her and then it changed altogether, I needed more, craved it, felt like I had been imprisoned for millennia waiting for a taste.
My thoughts were dark as I waited for Cassius, and turned even darker when he entered the room with purple spiked feathers pointed at me and a grim expression on his face when he took in the tattoo covering part of my face.
“So, it’s spread has it?” He stated the obvious.
“No.” I deadpanned. “I just wanted the top to match the bottom. Yes it spread, after we—”
I cleared my throat, Cassius’s eyebrows shot up. “Do continue.”
I shifted in my leather chair. “After we—”
“Midnight snacks!” Tarek and Mason stumbled through my front door followed by Alex and Ethan.
“I called you, not the council,” I pointed out in an irritated voice.
“It’s ladies’ night.” Ethan plopped down on my couch, grabbed my remote, turned on my TV. “Plus you look like hell, thought you could use some cheering up.”
“Do I get to kill you?” I asked innocently.
“Nope.”
“Then consider me less than cheered.”
Alex gave me a wave and sniffed the air, then looked at me, then sniffed again, followed by Mason and Tarek. It wasn’t convenient that I forgot they could smell lust in the air.
And I was doing a shit job at controlling mine.
Any sane being would have trouble doing so under these circumstances!
She’d responded.
No human woman responded in that way, least of all to me. They felt the danger, and once the haze lifted, they screamed.
She’d kissed me back.
I shifted in my seat and looked up.
Every single male was waiting in silence.
“I bit her,” I admitted in a surly tone. “In my defense I was trying to see if I could gain some information, and if you must know there was a kiss.” Several kisses, but they didn’t need to know that.
“It smells like sex.” Alex pointed out.