"I won't fight him Syn, but I damn sure not leaving you unprotected in this Fairy cesspool. Don't ask me to," he said taking the place where I had been sitting on the rock.
I stood in the pools cool embrace, letting the soreness from running wash away with the crisp cool water. "What's it like Adrian?" I asked lifting my eyes to meet his.
"Don’t ask me if I sparkle, so fucking tired of being asked that," he smiled but it wasn’t the same as he had when we were together, he now had fangs that took away from it and left it cold, "It's different, I was able to keep the connection I had to you though. I should have let it go, but I couldn’t bring myself to since it would have been felt by the coven. Didn’t want you coming to look for me, wasn’t safe."
"You should have, it left us open Adrian."
He was about to reply when he turned his head and disappeared the same as he had last time. I stood in the water, not daring to move as Ryder walked through the clearing to the ponds edge. "You jumped off a fucking cliff, Syn."
I smiled and nodded my head as he stepped closer, his hounds surrounding us silently. When he reached me and stood inches away he sniffed the air and shook his head, his eyes slowly searching my body for injury.
"I'm an enforcer and oftentimes an assassin Ryder. I free fall from buildings when needed. I jumped, but I'm fine—besides being wet," I said icily. I wouldn’t be in this situation if it wasn’t for him anyways. I gave him my best smile before wading further away from him back into the water.
He followed me in slowly. His boots making the water ripple as he walked up behind me and pulled my body back against his heat. "Decide Syn," he said quietly.
"Either way, I end up with you Ryder. It's not a choice," I spun around in his arms and lifted my face to him. I wrapped my hands through the cloak's soft material and watched him as he lowered his head slowly.
"I need you to say it out loud Syn, I won't force the answer from you," he replied before dropping his lips to fan softly across mine.
I gasped at the connection, it was sizzling. My mind went blank as his arms pulled me in as his kiss deepened until air was insubstantial, everything faded away but him and the need to have him, to allow him to dominate me. He pulled away as I gave in, "Let me have you for one night," his eyes searched mine briefly.
"Yes," I replied with more heat in my tone then I had thought would be there.
His mouth claimed mine in a demanding kiss. When he pulled away dragging me towards his massive stallion, I had to run to keep up for fear of being dragged in his haste. "Where are we going?" I asked taking in the sizes of some of the hounds who now followed us. They were huge and one had emerald green eyes that watched me, intently.
He spun around and smiled victoriously, his hand releasing mine as he reached into the cloak and pulled out the silver chain I'd been relieved of inside the club. His eyes locked with mine as he leaned in to place it over my head and click the clasp back into place, I moaned against him as the pleasurable emotions flooded through me once more. He held me through them. His eyes watching the reaction with pleasure, "I'm taking you some place we can be alone, come."
Alone, with Ryder. I shivered, but managed to hide it from him as he easily jumped up to straddle the horse and offer me his hand. I'd never even been on a horse before, sure I'd seen a few in the sprawling countryside, but riding them was an entirely different thing than looking at them as I passed them in a field.
He pulled me up to sit in front of him, I almost screamed when the horse decided to buck once under the weight. Ryder's boyish laughter was the only thing that kept me on the monsters back. "He can feel your unease Syn, lean back against me," he continued.
I leaned against him and he took off at a slow trot, the hounds easily keeping up with us as he made his way south, down a small trail. It was hard to think of anything else besides Ryder as we made our way through the dense foliage. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the feel of his massive body beneath mine. Like this with him I felt safe, as if I could let go and not worry about protecting everything around me.
I opened them as I felt the air grow thick around us, power radiated from the male behind me as we stepped through one scene into another. I gasped as the sensation of being in two worlds collided through me, intense and overwhelming, yet painless. "You sifted us?"