Page 38 of Empire of Dark
Something I never would have suspected she was capable of.
That was when it hit me.
An odd energy ebbed out of her, circulated through my body and went back into her. Like our veins had attached, pumping through the same heart, except it was energy that felt like the night sky—like the stars and planets and meteors and galaxies and black holes had merged into one force. A force that came alive with a living, beating pulse between us.
Impossible.
I’d never felt anything like it—and I had felt everything there was to feel in this life.
But this pulsating energy that travelled between us I had no explanation for.
The ongoing sensation of it threatened me—like I would just cease to exist if she took too much of me.
A thought both terrorizing and eerily liberating.
I couldn’t take it anymore.
The whole of her being had sucked me near to dry, until my own guttural instinct demanded I yank myself free.
The kiss broke. And only by my volition.
She wasn’t letting it go.
She stood there with her eyes closed, and through my body pressed against hers, I could feel every sensation coursing through her veins. Her breath ragged and her core not just tingling, but pounding with need. Soaked with desperate want.
Yet her mind railed against it.
I could no longer read what was happening in that skull of hers, but I could see it in her face. Her eyes pinched ever so slightly, like she was chastising herself for feeling something.
She opened her eyes and I could see the split second of wonder in them.
She didn’t understand what had just happened either.
Good. Because I sure as hell hoped she didn’t have some power I’d never seen before that had caused that. For there was no doubt it would consume me whole if I got too close to it.
Our faces were still next to each other, still sharing the same air. One breath and she blinked. The wonder in her eyes disappeared, replaced with ire that looked half-hearted.
Her mouth opened, but I wasn’t ready to hear her tell me how much she hated me. How she would rail at me for doing theobvious thing when our two bodies were drawn to each other like springtime rabbits.
I pressed a finger against her lips to interrupt her. “You told me my body couldn’t press yours into the ground. We’re upright. And you didn’t say anything about my lips.”
Her lips twisted under my forefinger, her look narrowing as defiance took root.
“A mistake I will be sure not to make again.”
With a heave of a sigh, her look dipped down and away from me and she untangled her arm from mine. She stepped away, then turned and stalked toward the castle door.
She would never admit to it. That explosive energy that had just coursed between the two of us.
So she did the only thing she could.
Walk away.
I couldn’t blame her.
Chapter Ten
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