"Go time, you're on Larissa," I said turning to meet her smiling eyes.
I met the death shining in Ryder's eyes. He'd kill me without thinking twice now. I was technically only fulfilling my contract. It just wasn’t playing out in a way he had expected. His nostrils flared as the tick in his jaw started up. I blew him a kiss and sent my residual magic into Larissa.
The team took over and kept the shield up protecting Adam and Lari as she started moving, sending her power out to flow through the room. She'd caught enough Fae with her seduction spell to ensure only Ryder and the thirteen would be the only obstacle in my way. Only a few of the Fae had begun to follow Larissa's dance steps. The rest were glaring murderous looks at us.
Ryder strode towards us in long angry strides that made him look dark and seductive while showing just how deadly he was. His body sizzled with electrical current.
I faltered briefly. Images of his mouth pleasuring me flooded my mind. The feel of his naked skin touching mine, sweat covering our bodies while we'd fucked like animals. I pushed those memories away, locking them into a box inside my mind, to view when I was alone.
I smiled at him, flashing him my best come and get me smile while I watched his hands from the corner of my eye. Larissa had gotten a better hold on the crowd and some were now following her moves. It was a slight they wouldn’t let go unpunished. While the Fae were big on fucking over each other, they united when fucked with as a whole. This plan had to work, it was the only one we had. If we failed, the entire Guild would suffer Ryder's wrath. I couldn't allow him to hurt them.
"Stupid Synthia, you shouldn’t have come here," Ryder snarled as his hands rested on his hips.
"I didn’t come here for you Ryder," I said meeting his angry glare head on.
"If you leave now, I'll only punish you," he said lower for my ears alone.
"Promises, Ryder? Save them, I'm finishing our deal, when I am done, we're done. Understand?" I challenged him.
"I'm going to tie you to my fucking bed and feed from you until there is no fight left inside of you."
I blinked, my mind shifting from focus. His face changed briefly, shadows moving just beneath the surface of his flesh. His eyes changed, a glimmer of sparks lighting up inside their fiery depths. His teeth sharpened a fracture, something I had never heard of any Fae doing. He wasn't the Dark Prince—he was so much more than he was pretending to be.
"Looks like I'm not the only one keeping secrets Ryder," I whispered as I felt the power shift, Larissa had control of everyone, except Ryder's men and the puppet now watching me intensely.
I sent a silent prayer up as I crouched down low, Ryder did the same matching me move for move. He crouched low, knowing the moment I broke through the shield that he'd have me. I knew it as much as he did. But I would get away from him, as planned.
I'd prepared for it, practicing with Adam. I smiled and lifted slowly, watching his body ripple with power and muscles against his suit. I moved to another spot and watched him follow me, his eyes piercing and beautiful in his anger.
"I'm going to fuck you until you only know the need to please me Syn, until you worship my dick. You'll beg me to fuck you, your mind will belong to me alone," he growled as we mirrored each other’s movements again like some sort of crazy football scrimmage line. He knew my moves before I made them, as if he’d studied me in detail.
"What if I already do worship your dick Ryder?" I said lowering my voice until it sounded seductive.
His eyes narrowed as his mouth shifted into his sexy little smirk. "Pet, if I owned your mind…you'd let me in right now, you'd let me take you right here in front of everyone and not care who watched us. You care, I'll be sure to change that," he whispered icily.
I swallowed and exhaled before I launched myself at him. I was in his arms and on the floor in seconds, his hands biting into my flesh. "Your mine now Synthia," he growled as he rolled me beneath himself which hadn't been in my plans.
I counted inside my head as his eyes stared into mine, ten, nine, eight, I sent my senses out into the room stopping everything and once again everything slowed except Ryder. "Let me go Ryder, I have to prove that you're wrong before you do something stupid."
"I can't let you do that Syn, I have proof that is was the Guild. We have identified most of the people involved," he growled as his thumb trailed down my cheek slowly.