Page 23 of Vicar
Chapter Eleven
WHILE TRINITY DREADEDevery step up the stairs to Vicar’s chamber, she’d also never been so eager. And it had nothing to do with him. Or so she kept telling herself as they climbed stairs that magically got them close to the top despite only going up a few flights.
Vicar’s vast, cave-like chamber was as familiar to her as the Keep from afar. How, though, if she’d never breached the Keep’s dome as a little dragon? She was still reeling from seeing another memory of them, plus all the havoc she had caused. Because she remembered every last bit of it. Remembered it because somehow, despite it not being her at all, ithadbeen.
She’d been in there relishing every minute even as she felt mortified.
Though she would never admit it, there had been something gratifying about living outside her boundaries. Not worrying about balancing her sisters or keeping her own energy balanced but letting loose and teetering one way entirely. Embracing a side of her she’d had no idea existed but felt sinfully good. Responsibility free and dangerous. There was no fixing others in that mode. Only a sense of being carefree in an unfamiliar way.
“Why do I remember this place?” she murmured before she could stop herself. Vicar’s fur-covered bed was ridiculously large and his décor abominable.
“I dunno, sis,” Jade drawled, chuckling. She eyed Vicar with approval and rolled her eyes at Trinity before admiring the various sexual contraptions hanging alongside his weapons. “But this all fits with the kind of naughty I sensed off you before you traveled back in time.”
“I wouldnever,” she swore, not about to justify a single chain or any other awful device designed for pleasurable pain. The kind of bondage paraphernalia she wouldn’t dream of using. Well,dreammight be a stretch. Theremighthave been a fantasy or two over the years.
“Yeah, yeah,” Jade replied, sensing Trinity’s thoughts every bit as much as Vicar. He, however, seemed out of sorts the moment they entered the room.
“What is it?” Evidently sensing it too, Thorulf frowned at him. “You feel off in the last place you should feel that way.”
No doubt. This was clearly Vicar’s sexual oasis.
“Not off.” Vicar shook his head and glanced at Trinity in shock. “Just back to my Sigdir self.” His brows pulled together. “What did you do?”
“Nothing that I know of.” She shook her head, relieved his better half had returned.Mostlyrelieved anyway. God, what was happening that a teensy tiny naughty part of her hated to see his Múspellsheimr side go? Hated to see the side go who would force her to feel pleasure?
Unfortunately, when his brows perked with surprise, she realized he’d caught that. Fortunately, he didn’t make a big deal out of it but kept the conversation on track.
“You must have done something, Trinity,” Vicar said. The four of them headed onto a spacious rock ledge overlooking an angry sea beneath an equally turbulent sky. “You’re the only one who can do that so easily.”
She warmed at the feel of his strong hand on her lower back when he steered her to the right away from a much narrower path along the rock wall. Despite her reservations, she couldn’t help but wonder how his hand would feel elsewhere. What it would feel like sliding along her skin in the heat of passion.
Embarrassed by the unwanted thoughts and once again overwhelmed by his scent, she shifted away but feared it was too late. Her body had responded, and arousal flared. The sort of arousal his dragon couldn't miss. She could only be grateful he was his Sigdir self at the moment because his Múspellsheimr side had been waiting for this moment.
Waiting for her body to defy her and give in to his allure.
When he inhaled sharply, she nearly leapt over the edge and shifted to get away from the embarrassing moment, but Jade put a hand on her arm and shook her head. “Don’t you dare.” She waved Trinity’s arousal away, yet again, way oversharing. “It’s perfectly natural and doesn’t do a thing for Thorulf, so all’s good. As to this version of Vicar, he’d never take you against your will.” She winked at Trinity. “But then, based on the thoughts I just caught, when it comes to him, your will’s fair game.”
