Page 73 of Shadow Master
They were okay with me going to Hyde, but Orion was here. If I joined Hyde, we’d be playing with fire, and if I didn’t … How much time did we have left? The fir bolg would be on us soon and then … who knew?
I left the camp and followed Hyde. I could see him far ahead, silhouetted by moonlight. It had been a while since I’d used my shadow caster ability, and a mischievous urge gripped me. I stopped following Hyde. Instead, I located the nearest pocket of shadow, visualized the stables, and dove in.
I emerged in Athos’s empty pen, crept to the door, and listened. Boot falls echoed down the corridor between the pens a moment later.
Hyde.
I caught my bottom lip between my teeth. Wait for it. He was almost abreast of the pen. One more second.
I burst out of the pen, arms up, hands made into claws. “Rawr!”
“Fuck!” Hyde clutched at his chest.
It was the first time I’d seen him thrown, the first time he’d been taken by surprise, and the look on his face, part horror, part annoyance, had laughter bubbling up my throat, and then I was in full-blown guffaw mode.
The laughter rolled out of me in uncontrollable waves, forcing me to double over and clutch my stomach. Tears of mirth blurred my vision. A part of me recognized that my reaction was a little extreme—I mean it wasn’tthatfunny—but every time the laughter began to subside, the look on his face played through my mind and I was losing my shit again.
“Fucking hell, Justice.” His tone was laced with amusement.
I straightened and held up a hand. “Just … Just give me a … m-minute.”
His rich chuckle joined my laughter, and then his arm was around my waist, and his mouth was on mine. My mirth was burned away by searing heat as my body caught fire with desire. No armor to get in the way. No injuries to slow us down. I bit his lip, drawing blood and sucking on it. Fuck, so sweet. He grabbed the back of my head and guided my mouth down to his neck.
“Bite me.” He was panting, his arousal pressing against my stomach.
My fangs slid out of my gums, and I obliged, sinking them into his jugular and drinking him in with greedy gulps.
“Fuck.” His back hit the wall between pens, and then his hands were on my hips, holding me tight as he ground against me. “Fuck, Indigo, fuck.”
I was wet and throbbing in time to his pulse. His blood was an aphrodisiac, and the endorphins my bite had introduced into his system were a drug that was making him wild. I slid a hand into his pants and gripped the head of his arousal. It was hot, kinda spongey at the tip, and slick with pre-cum. I traced circles with my thumb, drawing shudders from his body.
He made a growling sound of exasperated need, and then my slacks were being yanked down my legs.
I withdrew my fangs and laved the wound closed just in time to be spun and pressed to the wall in his place. My slacks were off, panties pushed to the side, and then Hyde was inside me.
He swallowed my cries with bruising kisses as he fucked me. No eye contact, no loving looks, no time for that. Instead, we used this opportunity to wring every ounce of pleasure we could from the act, until my body was tightening, ready for an epic release.
We came, bodies fused together, riding the wave and milking the pleasure until there was nothing but our breathless pants and the sweeping heat of post-coital bliss.
Hyde pressed soft kisses to my cheeks before pulling away to look into my eyes.
Now that it was over, now that we’d broken the rules on mortal soil, panic began to seep in.
“We can’t do this again.” I gently extricated myself from him.
He stepped back, watching with dark eyes as I pulled on my slacks.
“I shouldn’t have come to the stables.”
“But you did,” a voice that didn’t belong to Hyde said.
Hyde whipped around to face the speaker, and my fingers fumbled with the buttons to my slacks.
Orion stood at the entrance to the stables, his expression obscured by shadow. “You must want her very much to share her,” Orion said.
Hyde’s hands curled into fists. “I love her.”
Orion walked closer. The shadows melted to reveal his face, stern and cold. “You know what you’ve done, Hyde.”
