Immortal Prince by Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti

Author:Caroline Peckham & Susanne Valenti [Peckham, Caroline & Valenti, Susanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Ink Publishing
Published: 2023-10-23T16:00:00+00:00

It took the entire next day for us to travel the remaining distance to the blood bank, and with the short hours of daylight due to the harsh winter, the sun was already beginning to sink towards the horizon by the time we spotted it through the trees.

Magnar had been quiet once again, though the silence had felt different today, less tense, more…comfortable? No, I wouldn’t have gone that far, but there was a line that had been struck out between us now. I didn’t fight against the feeling of his arms surrounding me where we sat together on the horse, not after having his mouth between my thighs and his fingers inside me. That seemed pretty pointless after what we’d done. There was still tension between us, but it had shifted. Or perhaps it was simply my take on where it would lead that had shifted. Hard to say. Especially when his grip around me tightened and his hands rested on my thighs where he held the reigns.

I stirred uncomfortably as night began to fall around us. I doubted I’d ever be able to feel truly at ease after dark even with Magnar by my side. It was like it was built into my psyche to head inside and stay there once the sunlight faded.

My skin prickled uneasily, and I leaned back against Magnar, stealing some heat from his huge body and fighting off the thoughts of his mouth on my skin, his voice rough with command and my utter complicity with his every order for once.

We hadn’t said a word about what we’d done together since waking this morning, but Magnar was less than subtle in his own smugness. I wanted to call him out on that shit, but honestly, I was just glad my legs had remembered how to move when we’d gotten up to leave at dawn and had chosen to cling to what pride remained to me. Besides, we’d both taken what we wanted from one another, so I wasn’t going to start worrying about it after the fact.

None of that even seemed to matter now anyway.

My breath stalled in my lungs the second I spotted the blood bank through a parting in the trees, my heart thumping harder with every breath as the foul sense of the place crept over me. It was like the air was tainted here, the silence so thick within the forest that I had to assume even the wildlife had decided to vacate this place, wanting nothing to do with the shadows cast by that imposing building.

“You really think we can get my family out of there?” I asked quietly, a mixture of excitement and terror filling me as we found ourselves at our journey’s end. They were so close now, all I loved and cherished in this world. The only things that mattered to me at all.

The stallion’s chest rose and fell steadily beneath us as he cooled off after the long ride, the mare further back carrying our bags, secured to us with a long line of rope.

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