He growled his approval as I met him with the same searing need.
I exploded as I felt him begin to feed. It was like nothing else I’d ever felt in my life. He wasn’t holding back. It felt like I was soaring through the clouds and falling to earth at the same time. My blood pulsed, feeling his need. I could hear it in my ears and feel it running through my veins. Stars were exploding around me as I rode it out and he rode me. He continued to feed until I felt myself sinking. I cried out as yet another orgasm took a hold of me. It continued until he was fully sated, and then I opened my eyes.
“What’s your name?” he asked with a tremor running through his voice, fear shining in his eyes for me.
“Satisfied, by a fucking Fairy.”
His head dropped to my forehead, and he laughed with relief. “You are a fucking Goddess; my fucking Goddess. Gods, I don’t want to let you go, Syn.”
I met his eyes and kissed his lips gently, not wanting this to end.
Chapter Thirty Six
It was early the next morning when the knock I had been dreading came at the door, and with it my heart sank in my chest. Ryder wrapped his magic around me, and cleaned the mess we’d made of each other in the hours we’d been together, and pulled me back against him when I tried to get up.
“Syn, I need to remove the mark.”
I closed my eyes and exhaled. I’d hated his mark at the beginning. Losing it was only proof of what was coming, and that I had no other alternatives except to go with Adam. I felt his fingers flutter over the mark before he turned me in his arms and held me close. “I thought you had to be inside me to remove it?”
“I said I wanted to be inside of you. I played on the words, but we don’t have any more time. I know this isn’t something you should have to do. Hell, I’m no good at this. You’re being asked to save a world you hate, or hated. What you’re doing for us, it’s more than I can ever repay, or thank you for.”
“Wow, you do suck at this,” I said, trying to make light of our goodbye even though my heart was breaking into a million pieces.
“You’ll be the Dark Princess, and then Queen someday.”
“Yup, and if I could get out of it I would, in a fucking heartbeat.”
“Synthia,” he said in a warning tone, and I snickered. I felt his fingers land solidly on the brand as pain shot through me, hot and searing as it had been when it first showed up on my skin. “The necklace?” he asked, and I exhaled.
“I’ll give it to you when you say goodbye,” I whispered, fighting against the slight pain in my stomach.
“I thought we agreed not to say goodbye, Pet.”
“You agreed,” I said, standing up to move away from him as I sent the image of jeans, and an indigo sleeveless cotton dress top to my mind. Black suede boots completed the outfit.
“Syn,” he said, stopping me as I reached the door.
“Ryder,” I whispered without looking back, because if I did I wouldn’t be strong enough to leave him. The knock sounded again, causing me to jump slightly. I quickly opened the door and met Zahruk’s sober expression.
“Its—”
“I’m ready.” I cut his words short.
I felt naked without the stupid brand on my hip. I forced myself out the door, and walked beside Z in miserable silence as we headed to the other room to collect the few things I had left from my house. When I had the single bag that contained my meager possessions, we headed up to the club’s main floor.
I walked in shock as I took in the reality of what was happening; knowing it would most likely be the last time I was ever here. The men sat around the room, and yet no one spoke to break the deafening silence. The stillness was unnerving. Adam and his father stood by the bar waiting. I paused in the archway just outside of the elevator; my strength caving as my legs shook. I wanted to turn around and run back to Ryder.
“Syn, you saved Ryder from spending a lot of time healing, I can’t thank you enough for that, or what you are about to do for our people. You have earned the respect of the men, as well as my own,” Zahruk said quietly.
“I wasn’t looking for thanks. I did it because it was needed.”
“You did it, because you figured out that Ryder has morals and was not the evil Fae you thought he was. You are both driven by a need to fix what other people have done. You’re a good person, Synthia. I hope that you find happiness with the Dark Fae, and I will keep an eye out for the Fae who showed up at the cemetery. He’s made it to the top of my kill list for what he has done to you and our people.”
“You think he is a part of what is happening to Faery as well?”