Page 67 of To Crave Darkly
“Alright Cassian,” I spat. “You’ve made your point.”
“I haven’t nearly finished making my point, Princess.”
His thighs clenched my ribcage, constricting me like the snake that he was. The hands I had just been admiring found their way to my face. One gripped my chin while the other one covered my nose and mouth.
Adrenaline pumped through my veins. My heart pumped frantically in my chest. I furiously shook my head from side to side to try and loosen Cassian’s grip, but it was unrelenting.
My lungs burned with the lack of oxygen and my heart went from frantic to fucking intense as my body started to let death stake its claim.
I stilled beneath Cassian, drinking in his features, burning them into my memory so I could come back and haunt the fucker. He looked like a glorious angel sent to claim my soul. His bright white hair seemed to glow against his pale skin and his ice blue eyes now shone with disappointment.
Although, I hadn’t a clue what he had to be disappointed about. He was getting what he wanted. Me, gone. Stupid asshole. I hoped this made him happy. I hope he’d skip down the halls with fucking glee now that he’d killed me.
He glared at me with disdain. “Like I said before, Princess, you’re not fucking worthy.”
Wait. Was I really going to let Cassian, of all people, be the one to take me out?
No fucking way.
Anger blossomed in my chest with renewed fury as a new wave of adrenaline surged through me. This was it. My last stand. And if I was going down, so was Cassian.
I threw everything I had at him, my body moving with renewed vigour as I fought with everything I could muster. I wrenched a hand free and a gleam of triumph spurred me on.
I couldn’t move him, but I sure as hell could feed from him. I felt the Sin Reaper claw her way to the surface, wanting to fight tooth and bloody nail alongside me.
I slammed the power at Cassian. There was no finesse to my attack. It was raw and feral. Ruthless.
The shields Cassian so carefully constructed around his mind crumbled in the wake of my brutality and I gorged myself on his dark rage.
Pure energy washed over me, my veins filling with all his pain and anger. I devoured it, his rage so potent, so twisted in fury and suffering, that it gave me the strength to rip his hands away from my face. I had expected surprise to cross his features but all I saw was a gleam of pride.
Sadistic bastard.
He’d deliberately pushed me over the edge to make my demon come out to play. Well, if that’s what he wanted, then I was happy to oblige.
My anger at him was limitless, my fury boosted by the energy I had stolen from him. I threw my hands at his chest, and he catapulted across the room.
So much power. So much glorious power. It tasted fucking delicious.
I could taste all his darkness, all the pain he caused people in the past. The lives he’d taken.
There was so much of it. So much suffering.
I sauntered over to him, rolling my shoulders as I stalked my prey.
“How dare you!” I roared, blasting him with another wave of energy.
His entire body trembled beneath my assault, but he didn’t fight back. There was so much rage and pain buried in his mind that I could have feasted for hours but as I looked down at him, I realised something.
I wasn’t a monster.
This wasn’t me. I didn’t want to become a creature out of a nightmare.
I was better than that.
I shut the connection down immediately and Cassian dropped to the floor like a stone.
My body hummed with everything I’d taken from Cassian. The electricity of it flicked deliciously along my skin and I felt unstoppable. Like I could take on the world and win. But I also felt like a powder keg, seconds away from exploding. Every time I had previously managed to feed my demon I had expended the dark energy. When I fed off Jasper I had used it to fuel my sex drive and when I’d been in the alley and stole Flint’s soul I’d brought Fenris back to life. What would happen if I didn’t expend the dark energy? Even now I couldn’t stand still. I was hopping from foot to foot and shaking my hands. Was my body subconsciously trying to expel the excess energy? Worry scratched at the back of my mind. Perhaps there was a limit to how much energy I could consume from someone. I’d have to ask Levi. He might have some sort of theory. What would happen if I didn’t release the energy? Would it burn through me? God, I still had so many questions it was unreal.
