A Dark Collection by Emma V. Leech

Author:Emma V. Leech [Leech, Emma V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-02-28T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 4

They sat together, not moving and then listened as the duke’s footsteps faded away.

“There goes your rescue party,” Corin said, his mouth brushing her cheek. “Last chance to leave.”

She turned to look at him, touching his lips with her fingertips. “I don’t ever want to leave.”

He smiled at her and shook his head. “You will leave, my dear, either now or in a few hours. It is your choice, but you will go and you will not come back.” His voice had an edge which she knew she shouldn’t ignore. He meant it. “Which of those choices, however, is up to you.”

She looked at him, at those extraordinary eyes, slanted and watchful, his gaze curious but untroubled. Whatever she decided, he would accept, except it wasn’t a choice at all. It hadn’t been a choice for ten years past - but something she had to do.

“You were behind the apple tree,” he said with a sudden exclamation and Yvette started in surprise.

“What?”

“That is when you saw me, when Sindaline followed me through the gate and couldn’t get back.” He laughed and it was a joyous sound, infectious and carefree and she smiled at him. “Gods, I was angry with her, such a naughty child.” He reached out and touched her hair, twining one thick, golden lock around his fingers. “She has been visiting you ever since?” Yvette stayed silent, not wanting to get her friend into trouble. “Hmm, still a naughty child I see,” he murmured. “I'm afraid she will not come again, my dear.”

“Why don’t you look any different?” she asked. “That was ten years ago and you haven’t changed at all.”

He smiled. “I am not human, remember.”

She frowned at him, puzzled. “But Sindaline was the same age as me and she’s aged as I have.”

“Yes.” He bent his head and kissed her neck. “But now she is an adult she will stop. She will still look very much the same when you are a very old lady.” She tried to understand what he was saying to her but then he pulled down on the hair still laced between his fingers so that her head was drawn backwards and kissed his way down her neck, and then she couldn’t think at all. He followed the curve of her shoulder, kissing a path along the low neck of her dress, his lips soft on the curve of her breast as her breathing quickened. He lingered there, his tongue trailing a path that cooled on the night air, dipping down into her cleavage as her hand grasped the back of his neck, slid into his hair, clenching and releasing like the claws of an ecstatic cat as her body came alive.

His head came up and he sat back and surveyed her, satisfied as he looked her over. She could imagine what he saw, was only too aware of the flush to her skin that felt like it was stretched too tight, trying as it was to contain the violence of her desire, her blue eyes dark with need as her chest heaved.

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