Something Wicked by Kim Knox

Author:Kim Knox [Knox, Kim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kim Knox
Published: 2020-01-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Felix stared at him. Her stomach dropped to somewhere around her knees. “What?” The word was strangled, barely escaping her dried mouth. “Again? I have to do…to do that, again?”

Mael ran an impatient hand over his dark hair. “We have little over an hour.”

She stumbled back, needing to put distance between them. “An hour? For you to what? Make me…come in front of them?”

“No.” He straightened and the dark Provost of the Institute stared back at her, his amber gaze hard and unflinching. She fought the ingrained urge to stand to attention. “That burst of magic will delay them for a short while. A brief feeding.”

Felix pressed her hand to her throat, her mouth. Bile rose. “I fed them?”

“What did you think you were doing?”

Losing myself under your touch. But she could never admit that. “I have no idea. But not feeding them.”

She’d wanted Mael for so long. Even before the disaster that had transformed him. She’d known for too many years that he could never think of her in that way. She was a child in his eyes. An irritant. A bind the Conclave had forced upon him. He had railed against their betrothal, fighting the idea of being bound to the girl for whom he had sacrificed everything.

And now he had to touch her. Again.

She had to get her thoughts back to how they would escape the farmhouse. When she was tucked up in the safety of her room then, then she could curl up into a mortified ball and completely fall apart.

Felix pulled in a steadying breath. “How does feeding them help?”

“You won’t be feeding them.”

Him. He wanted her magic for himself. He’d turned her into nothing more than a Bringer’s treat. Why hadn’t she stayed home? Accepted the Conclave’s decision? Then their binding could’ve had the illusion—all on her part—of desire, of kindness.

Her chest tightened. Was that the reason for the betrothal in the first place? To ensure the Provost was…well maintained? She stared at Mael, unable to speak, her words caught in a tight throat. Now she had to bear his touch with the knowledge of its true reason.

“This was why we were betrothed.”

It was a statement. Felix knew he wouldn’t, couldn’t deny it.

“Option three. To channel into me your ability to convert the earthmade into useable magic.”

“Why didn’t you do that in the cellar?”

He took a step towards her and Felix willed herself not to run. The ghostly shadow of his other form surged around him and she feared the blissful touch of his wings. “I need more than that.” He moved closer still and Felix’s heart thudded. His scent, something rich, earthy, like the air after a storm surrounded her. “Much more.”

Her breath caught. “Sex?”

Mael’s gaze flicked away. “We now have less than an hour. Or should I unward the cellar door and let us take our chances? Or rush out of the front door into yet more of them?” A dark eyebrow lifted. “Perhaps you’ll have the luck I did and survive to become…this.

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