Page 61 of One Last Promise
“I thought they were meant to be solitary animals?”
“The males are.This pack is likely to be some females with almost fully grown young.”
“How do you defend yourself with a pack of them?How many are we talking about?”
“Lito thinks five to seven with the destruction they are causing.Xavier has lost some very strong warriors.Nell and Uri are considering stopping pilgrimages until the pack has been destroyed.”Fear for Darce suddenly entered my mind.He had farther to travel across the Barren Lands than me.What if he ran into the pack?My route was a lot safer.There wasn’t much open land for the pack to follow, and a lot of the secret tunnels Darce had shown me were too small for them.“You need to consider your bi-weekly adventures, too.It’s not worth risking your life, Alora.”
“I’m not seeing him for another few weeks.”
“You’re only seeing himoncethis month?”
“Don’t look so surprised.I told you it was just a bit of fun.”
“You forget, I knowyou!You can’t hide anything from me.”Noor was wrong, though.I was hiding everything from her.All in the name of love.
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“YOU DOUBT MY SKILLSagainstsevennoc beasts?”Darce teased as I kissed up his chest.“You remember how easily I killedoneto save you, right?”
“Seven is a little different.What would you do if they all attacked you at once?”
“Blind them with shadows,” he replied as a matter of fact.“I’m more concerned that you haven’t thought of your own safety in this.What would you do if they had tracked your scent?”
“You know my journey here is safer.”
“You still have to cross part of the Barren Land.If this pack is as dangerous as you say, I might have to hunt them myself.I can’t have you in danger trying to get here.”
“No!My kind will find the pack.Don’t put yourself in harm’s way like that.”
“You seem rather worried about me.You’re not catching feelings are you, Starshine?”Darce teased, running his hand down my bare back.A month apart had made us feral.Both of us began ripping each other’s clothes the moment we saw each other.
“The only thing I’m catching feelings for are your mouth and fingers.”
“What about my cock?”
“If you deflowered me, I’d have a better answer.It’s hard to fall for something that only goes in my mouth when my warm, wet core craves youdeep,deepinside me.”
“That fucking mouth,” Darce gasped, crashing his lips against mine.“If you want me to fuck you, I’ll fuck you...ifyou run away with me.”
“You know I can’t do that.”We rolled so Darce was on top.He bit my bottom lip slightly before pulling back to gaze at me.
“Fuckthe princess, Alora.I can give you a better life.I will always keep you safe.Run away with me and I’ll claim this.”His fingers slipped inside my waiting sex.“The sex might drain us both, but I’m willing to sacrifice all my power to be able to call you mine.”
“You would do that forme?Sacrifice yourpower?” Darce removed his fingers from my core.I pouted a little in protest.
“Yes.”He spoke without a shred of doubt.“You don’t know what your power is capable of yet, though.Do you really want to risk losing it before you even see its full potential?”
“From what you’ve seen of my power, do you think I’ll even be that powerful?”
“It’s hard to tell.Your power forms very differently from my kind, but the strength of the light I feel against my shadows it’s immense.It’s something I wouldn’t feel easy about you losing.”
“Would you ever consider stealing my power?”It was wrong of me to ask him.I was comparing him to Xavier, but I was still searching for a fault in those beautiful, star-specked eyes of his.
“Why would you ask that?”He searched my features, sorrow framing his face.“Alora, I wouldneversteal your power.Is that what your kind tells you?That we take Dylin power?We havenodesire for light.Our dark power ismorethan enough for my kind.It’s your kind who are trying to extinguish the darkness, not the other way around.”No!Darce couldn’t be telling the truth.We were the peaceful race, not them.“You don’t believe me, do you?”
“I don’t know what to believe anymore,” I muttered, tracing his lips with my fingertips.“You walked into my life and turned everything upside down.”
“It wasn’t done intentionally.”He smirked, moving to kiss down my neck to my breasts.“If there was a way we could be sure that us having sex wouldn’t risk you, I would be sticking my cock here right now.”His hand cupped my sex again, putting a little pressure against my entrance.“You have no idea the longing I have to claim you, Alora.I want to possess every hole, every whimper, every arch of your beautiful body while I make you climax.The heights I could take you to with my cock...you have no idea how deep inside I would be.”As Darce spoke, he began to rub my bundle of nerves.My hips rocked against his hand, needing all the friction they could get.“Run away with me and I’ll take this.Fuck, please be mine.”He licked over my breast and then pulled on my nipples with his teeth, making me cry out as he set a quicker tempo with his fingers in my core.“We’ll have forever.It will be just you and me enjoying each other’s bodies and fucking morning until night.”He was painting the most glorious picture, and his fingers were already starting to bring me to the brink.“We could start jumping veils as early as tomorrow.”I was on the edge of my climax and Darce could sense it.Twisting his fingers, he began to hit that sweet spot inside me.“Give yourself fully to me.You don’t owe your race a damn thing.All they’ve done is lie to you.”Crying out, my climax rippled through my body as Darce clamped his mouth over my right nipple.He bit down roughly, making my orgasm shoot through every vein in my body.“Give it all to me, Alora.”My body convulsed over and over.When I finally came down, Darce was watching me intently.
