Page 92 of To Crave Deeply
“I willnevercome back to you. You destroyed me.” Every whispered word he uttered caressed my lips. “Goodbye, Sanna. I’ll see you in Hell.”
Pain exploded in my stomach as Cassian thrust his claws deep into my gut. Ice spread through my veins as he poured his venom into my bloodstream.
God, that fucking hurt. Numbness spread through me, starting at my gut, and moving towards my limbs. My dark energy was desperately trying to fight off the cold seeping through my veins, but it was spreading faster than I could stop it.
“Cassian,” I gasped. “Stop… I know you’re… in there.”
He just smirked, still caged in the memories of his past.
“You’re not a monster,” I said breathlessly as I reached up to cup his handsome face. “You’re mine.”
Something flickered in his gaze, and with the last ounce of my strength I leant up and pushed my lips to his. He flinched and froze for a moment, but then, little by little, his mouth softened against mine, and I knew I’d reached him.
Shame I didn’t think about kissing him before he stabbed me with his icy claws. Hindsight really was a bitch.
Cassian pulled back, and I knew he was back. He looked dazed, like he’d just woken from a dream and didn’t know where he was.
“Lori…?”
“Hi,” I breathed.
“Where am I?”
“Your bedroom… but there’s something…”
Realisation hit him like a freight train and his gaze dropped to where his fingers were buried in my abdomen.
“Oh, shit. Lori! What have I done?”
He pulled his hand from my stomach, and it felt like he’d ripped my insides out. “Fuck!”
“Oh, god. Why did I…?” Panic twisted his features as he looked between his hands and the gaping holes he’d left in my stomach.
I grabbed his hand and tugged. I needed to feed to heal this, and I needed his help to do that.
“Cassian, look at me.” His ice blue eyes met mine instantly. “I need your help to… fix this…”
“Yes, I can fix this.”
“I need you… to…”
He grabbed the hem of my tank top and ripped it open to expose the wound.
“What are you—”
He put his hand on my chest and pushed me back into the mattress. “Don’t move. This is going to hurt like a bitch, but it will heal you.”
He positioned himself between my thighs and lowered his head towards my stomach. Tremors instantly swarmed through me. What the Hell was he—
Something wet ran over the wound. Oh, God. He’d licked me. I tried to get my body to move away from him, but his hand pushed me deeper into the mattress. I didn’t get another chance to escape him. His mouth latched onto my stomach and pain exploded through me as he began to suck on the wound.
My blood burned in my veins, hot and unforgiving as my heart pumped it round my body. I could feel Cassian pulling the venom back through my body as his mouth sucked the poison from my bloodstream.
My vision swam in and out as he continued to heal me. Well, at least that’s what I think he was doing. I was struggling to keep hold of my consciousness, so he could have been killing me for all I knew.
Tired… I was so tired.
I let go and surrendered to the pain. It swam over me in waves, and just as it got to the point of being unbearable, the raging inferno dulled to a gentle simmer of pleasurable warmth.
