Nectar of the Wicked (Deadly Divine Book 1) by Ella Fields

Author:Ella Fields [Fields, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Deadly Divine Duet, Book One
Publisher: Ella Fields
Published: 2023-07-11T18:30:00+00:00

Dinner was eaten in the kitchen while Kreed cleaned in a tense silence I assumed had nothing to do with me.

I wasn’t hungry. Food wouldn’t help to alleviate the tension in my head and muscles. The aches unsettling my flesh and bones. I ate what I could anyway, knowing I needed to and not wishing to offend Kreed.

Upon returning to my quarters, I found them empty of my wolf.

“Snow?” I called, inspecting the bathing and dressing chambers.

About to charge out into the hall and back downstairs in search of ghastly Olin, I stopped dead in my tracks.

The door connecting my rooms to the king’s was wide open.

Beyond it was a dark and narrow hall squashed between his bathing and dressing room.

He’d taken her as bait. Yet I still walked toward the dim light of his bedchamber. To get her back, I had to, and I’d grown fond of having her comforting weight at my feet while I lost sleep in this manor filled with serpents.

Florian sat shirtless on his bed with a glass of whiskey in hand. My wolf dozed at his side, the novel he’d evidently stolen from my nightstand in his lap.

“I see what you mean,” he said by way of greeting. “Though the descriptions do leave a lot to be desired.”

Snow’s ears pricked when I told her to come with me, but otherwise, she didn’t move at all.

Traitor.

Florian smirked and ran a long finger over Snow’s head. “She would make a lovely—”

“Do not finish that sentence.”

His eyes flashed. “Pet.”

I gritted my teeth, growling as I spun to leave.

His chuckle quickened my heartbeat. “I do not intend to harm your wolf, butterfly, or she would already be dead.” There was a pause, then threateningly soft, “Come to me.”

The command lashed at my skin with caressing fingers. My own curled into my palms, temptation mixing with hatred and a myriad of other warm and cold feelings. It should not be a hard thing, ignoring this king after learning his true motives.

Yet it was.

Even without the needy changes occurring within my body, it was nearly painful to ignore a being so overflowing with wretched power. A being with a presence so commanding, it had rendered me submissive from the moment I’d first laid eyes on him.

It went beyond mere attraction.

The sound of his voice stirred more than the acute and growing want inside me. Florian Hellebore evoked a violent blend of hunger and curiosity. An unquenchable need to get as close as possible and burrow deep beneath his skin.

But surrendering would only give him what he wanted.

And I was now all too aware that his wants were not the same as my own, and that he’d tricked me with honest lies.

Kreed’s earlier warning lingered. But it couldn’t stop me from saying, “I’d rather not.”

Though the words had been more gentle than I’d intended, they still created a silence that felt like a heartbeat thudding closer to my back.

The heat of his gaze was a winter breeze, and I swore some of my hair shifted over my shoulder before he made a sound of amusement.

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