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The second I did, his eyes glowed brighter, his nostrils flared on his tense face, and I sucked in a breath because I knew exactly what that stare meant.
His control had slipped.
“Kai–” I got out before he was shoving me against the wall, lifting my body against his, bringing his lips crashing down on mine.
Any hope I had of escaping dissolved into the heat’s clutches.
18. The Jump
LORELAI
“We should stop,” I said breathily as Kai’s mouth traced down the lines of my neck.
Kai nodded, grunting as he ground his hips against me.
“Seriously, Kai, we have to get out of here,” I said before meeting his mouth, kissing him as feverishly as he kissed me.
I was making no move to stop either. My body was on fire, begging me to sate it, begging me to rip Kai’s clothes off, to mate. I wanted to give in so badly.
The taste of him was intoxicating; it had my head spinning, and I was lost in it.
I moaned against his tongue as he palmed my breasts.
“One more kiss,” he mouthed against me. I knew he didn’t mean it by the way he dragged his hand down my body, squeezing my ass as I rocked against his hard cock that was pressing against my center.
“Just one,” I gasped out, my whispers in the silence making the noises harsher than I intended.
“Or two,” he said, kissing me again.
“We have to get out of here,” I said, running my fingers through his dark hair, my fingers getting caught in the knots. I yanked, and he growled, nipping at my lip with his sharp teeth.
“In a minute,” he said, starting to tug at my clothes.
The heat flared, and I whimpered against him. It was so damn strong–stronger than I had expected, as strong as they had warned me it would be.
“Kai,” I moaned.
Kai pulled back, taking a deep, heavy breath before bringing his eyes up to look at mine.
He was shaking, sweat beading on his forehead.
“I have to get you out of here,” he let out through a clenched jaw.
I breathed hard, my chest rising and falling with an aggression I felt in my soul.
I wanted to touch him again, to have his body against mine. But instead of closing the gap between us, he took another step back.
“Start walking before I rip your clothes off,” Kai growled, shaking as his fists clenched.
I let out a breath and leaned against the wall.
I knew I should be rushing; I should be so damn ready to get out of the hell Silas had put me in. But all my stupid heat-filled brain could think about was how deep Kai’s voice was, how masculine his muscles looked, how low the pants on his hips hung.
“If I risk a step right now, I don’t know what direction I’ll take,” I said, still breathing heavily. And it was the truth. I didn’t feel in control of my body. The heat was.
My shadows were still stretched out of my body, lining our way to the exit they had found. They were more urgent than I was, hissing at me, trying to pull me where I needed to go. But Kai’s mating link was brighter.
My magic swirled inside me. It wasn’t angry; it wasn’t lustful; it was hungry. And its only focus was the vampires at the front of the castle. My magic wanted them, wanted to consume them, take them down. I wanted to take Kai down.
All three parts of me were conflicting, and it was confusing the fuck out of me. I couldn’t think, breathe, or move, and I knew I had to do all three–and fast–or we were definitely going to die.
“Close your eyes, beautiful. Concentrate on your shadows; they’ll lead you out.
Concentrate on your magic; it’ll tell you when the vamps are close. Use those senses, not the ones that let Kai in,” Derik said in my head.
His warmth and comfort filled me as much as his panic did. He needed me. He was losing it, but he was Derik; he would never show it. And he was hiding it as much as he could. I felt it, though, and it was enough to break through the clusterfuck that was happening inside my head.
I did what he said.
I calmed the hell down, made myself concentrate on the power inside me and what they wanted, rather than what I wanted.
Derik was right.
Everything was clearer the longer I connected to my shadows, detaching from myself. I shook with the exertion it took to ignore the heat, but it was worth it because I could step forward–in the right direction.
“Follow me,” I whispered, then used my magic as a vamp detector and followed my shadows.
“Oh sure, you get nice words of encouragement from D, and I get an ear bashing from Brax,” Kai rolled his eyes. I smirked at him. Sometimes being the favorite had its perks.
Or they just knew me well enough not to send Brax in guns blazing when I was fucked up with the heat. Our shadows would connect; the challenge in him ordering me around would set in, and I’d be a goner. It was tempting but stupid.
“Exactly, beautiful, now get out of there. Adrenna and the beast can’t distract them forever, and I need you out of there before I remember the wolf in me is the most starved one you’ll meet,” Derik said, his voice breathy in my head.
“Starved wolf? Aren’t you all during winter?” I teased, but neither Kai nor Derik laughed. I kept my eyes closed, using my shadows to know where I was going. I kept my magic sensing the vampires, promising them kills later so they continued to do what I needed.
“Not like D, Little Luna. He’s an idiot and keeps his wolf on lockdown most of the time, even when it is not winter. He barely runs his wolf, so when he does let his emotions get too much and his wolf feels it, neither of them know how to handle it,”
Kai whispered as we moved through the dark halls, following my trail of shadows.
Derik scoffed in the link. “As opposed to letting the wolf take over rational thought at any time without concern for consequence?” he said.
Kai grinned. “Both fucked up. But we found our center, so while I get her out of this hell hole, go back and look after Brax until I can get her to him,” he said, moving closer to me.
“How is he?” I whispered as we rounded another corner, almost at the room with the window.
“He’s…” Derik hesitated, and I tensed for the answer. ~”He needs you,”~ It was as close to a “he’s doing awful” as I was going to get without him actually saying it. I needed to hurry up.
I tugged on the Brax link in my head, but he shied away from it. So he couldn’t even handle a slight peek?
“He’s trying to keep it together for the twins. He’s doing okay at the moment, beautiful, but don’t test it,” Derik reassured– a much better answer. I nodded, even though he probably couldn’t see it, then darted over to the next hall.
My shadows disappeared into the room with the window.
I looked either side of the hall, then moved through the dark. I kept my eyes trained ahead of me, refusing to look at Kai. I didn’t want to risk the heat taking back control.
Kai stayed behind me, keeping close enough in case anything happened but far enough to keep our scents from triggering the mating link and the heat. It was so much more powerful than the other heats.
I wasn’t sure whether that was because I now had three mates or because I had turned, but whatever the reason, it was super inconvenient.
I went into the room with the window. It was ajar slightly, with a clear view of the black sky. Kai moved behind me and slid the window up, looking out and down.
“A cliff and a drop? Are you serious? That’s too high; you’ll break every bone,” Kai growled.
“Shh,” I snapped back, my magic flaring as vampires started moving around. They were filtering back into the castle, and my heart raced faster than it already was.
I was already damp with sweat; my body ached, and my head throbbed, but I had to get over it until I was out. That was seeming less likely as vampires moved closer.
My magic warned me like an alarm in my head, and I knew we were out of time.
“We have to go; we’re about to get caught,” I urged, and Kai shook his head.
“You won’t make it, Little Luna. You can’t fully turn, and that means you won’t heal as fast as you need to for a jump like that,” he said stubbornly.
I huffed and shoved him out of the way, looking down at the drop he was so worried about.
I gulped.
It was one hell of a drop.
But we didn’t have a choice.
I weighed up the options with my hands set as pretend scales, lifting one then the other.
“Break a few bones that hurt like hell or get captured and tortured again?” I said, and we both knew the second option wasn’t one worth contemplating.
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