Page 107 of A Court So Dark
Tapping my chin with her finger, she said, “I think it will be your turn to beg, my king.”
I laughed. “And how do you plan to accomplish that?”
She slipped from my grip and moving faster than I’d ever seen her do, she rushed behind a tree.
“How?” I asked, bewildered.
“Another side effect of your shadowdrifter magic. I discovered it in Nerethien. But that doesn’t matter. What matters is that you’ll have to beg me to let you touch me.”
“You, cunning woman, keeping such a secret from me. I think I need to teach you a lesson.” I darted toward her, using the vastness of my speed, and to my utter surprise, she’d disappeared.
“Hey, over here,” she called from behind the safety of another tree.
I tried again. Once more, she was faster than me.
For five minutes, I attempted to catch her, but every time, she eluded me. I stopped in the middle of the clearing. “I’m getting angry,” I rumbled.
“That is ayouproblem. All his majesty has to do is beg.”
Beg? Beg?! Was she—
KALYLL
I dropped to my knees. “I beg you, melynthi.”
“No. Not you,” she said, “Wölfe.”
WÖLFE
“Oh, what the devil.” I slowly unbuttoned my shirt and let it drop to the ground.
The wicked woman peered at me from behind the tree trunk, her eyes hungry, but her expression just as resolute. The set of her jaw told me she wasn’t going to give me what I wanted until I begged.
Bitting down my pride, I placed my hands together in the gesture that supplicants used in her realm.
“Please, Dani. I beg you.”
Wearing a satisfied smile, she sashayed into the clearing, freeing her hair and letting her dress fall around her ankles.
Her luscious shape made me instantly harder. Walking on my knees, I came to a stop in front of her. She glanced down, her long hair cascading over her breasts.
“Take me then,” she said.
She didn’t have to ask me twice. That night, we fucked and made love, made love and fucked without a care in the world.
The Envoy had been right the first time I visited her.You will travel to Mount Ruin without the aid of a transfer token, and during the journey, you will find what you never thought you would ever possess.
True happiness.
THE SPRITE
SHADOW
Thespritemovedlikea shadow, paying homage to her name.
She was a Sunnarian, born to a warrior clan, bread to kill, and though she hadn’t been in a battle in over a hundred years, her instincts were as sharp as they had ever been. It was in her blood, the hunger to kill when justice needed to be served.
And in this instance, justice was overdue.
