Page 102 of Bitten By the Fae
When I could properly think again.
“Fuck!” I bellowed, red flames encircling me and spiraling and screeching across the room. A blast of power slammed the door to keep it from spreading through the suite, leaving me trapped inside the raging inferno.
I welcomed the heat.
The punishment for my actions.
And crumpled into a broken pile of guilt and sorrow.
Not just because I’d let the Midnight Fae down, and my parents, but Aflora as well.
I deserved to burn.
I welcomed the pain.
“Destroy me,” I demanded, my forehead meeting the ground. “Just fucking destroy me.”
Hot.
I felt toohot.
Like a volcano on the verge of an eruption.
Heat simmered beneath my skin, inching through my veins, causing me to sweat as I ran aimlessly through the midnight air.
Get out.
Fucking get out.
Kols’s fury pierced my heart, his anger a brand lashing at my heart with each step.
I could feel his ire, his anger, hisblame.
But I hadn’t meant for this to happen, didn’t understand how it was even possible.He’s not an Elemental Fae, I thought for the thousandth time.I can’t bond with him. Yet I felt the unmistakable connection tying us together. We’d skipped levels one and two and blasted straight to the third, our link resolute.
Breaking it would be impossible outside of death.
As if the fae required another reason to kill me.
I need to get out of here, I thought, spinning in a circle somewhere outside of the Academy walls. I’d gone through the open gate, uncertain of my destination, and now I had no clue where I was. A stupid move born of emotional turmoil.
How could a beautiful moment go so wrong?
Kols’s essence still warmed my thighs, his seed dampening my core.
Mother Earth, that man could move. He’d taken me to a state of incomprehension. Only to be destroyed by fate showing her ugly head.
It left me mated totwoMidnight Fae.
I screamed an incoherent word into the void of darkness around me. There wasn’t a curse alive that could express my frustration. Nor one that could help. Not even an enchantment. Unless something existed that could undo time, but I doubted it.
“What the fuck are you doing out here?” a deep voice demanded, sending me in a spin toward a shadow lurking near a tree.
I could hardly see, the moon hidden above the thick branches of the forest I’d entered. “Zeph,” I said, my heart in my throat.
Clove had followed me outside, only to take flight when I started to run, and I had no idea where she went. Probably somewhere with Kols’s crow, as both birds had followed me onmy mad dash outside. At least they were safe from Zeph’s vile snake.
He moved forward, his steps silent over the earth. “Are you all right?”
