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CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE

FRANKIE

The next thing I knew we were inside a room underground. This room was twice the size of mine with its own hearth on one wall and another wall lined with books. The sound of a lock clicking into place behind me made me turn but it was just Everest.

We were alone.

I rushed up to him, gripping the lapels of his coat as I pushed up on my tiptoes. His lips crashed against mine, his tongue plunging inside my mouth. I moaned — he pushed me back. His cheeks were flushed and his lips were already puffy. He shook his head, took my hand, then led me to the wall on the left. He knocked on the stone and a piece of the wall slid away. It was just like in the cliff wall outside our oasis. Before I could ask, he pulled me through the opening then closed it tight behind us.

The second we were drenched in darkness his lips found mine again. We both moaned. I gripped his coat, pulling him down onto me but gravity took over and we toppled over. Pain speared through my back and my hips as I hit stone stairs but the pain wasn’t enough to break this kiss. I didn’t have vampire sense of sight to see him in this dark room but I knew his body. I didn’t need my eyes for this. I licked the roof of his mouth as I shoved his coat off his shoulders and down his arms.

Knock.

Knock.

Knock.

“Lord Everest?” Someone yelled through his door, the main one to the hallway. “Everest?”

He growled a curse and pushed off me. I couldn’t see his face or what he was doing until that secret door slid open and light from the hearth flickered into this stone stairwell. He stopped in the doorway and looked me up and down then he pressed one finger to his lips. “ Go upstairs and wait for me.”

Then the door slid shut and I was in the dark again.

But I just reached into my magic bag and pulled out my cellphone. Somehow it hadn’t lost battery yet. I clicked on the flashlight and made my way up the stairs. At the top, I found a room with a circular shape like we were in one of the towers. There were big open arched windows on the far side with the lightening sky in perfect view. I clicked my flashlight off then turned my phone off. I needed to make sure there was battery left when I got home in case shit went wrong. And I could not risk Sweyn finding pictures of Auryn, Akecheta, and Rae in it. Off was safer. Once that was in my bag I walked over to the windows and peered out.

The sun was rising in the distance, turning the sky a pretty bright blue the same color as the blue in Everest’s eyes. The stars were getting their last twinkles in for the night before daylight washed them away. The snow down below looked like pale blue glitter. This is the skin of a killer, Bella. I giggled at my own joke. Then I turned to face the rest of the room and realized this room had no other doors. There wasn’t much furniture in here, either, except for some kind of a bed that sat flat on the ground. There was also a smaller hearth located directly above where the one in the lower room was. It wasn’t lit.

It should’ve been cold in here, freezing even. But that kiss on the stairs had turned my blood to molten lava. I was burning. Any second steam would billow from my skin. I didn’t need a fireplace if I had Everest.

And I wanted him.

The other times I’d seen him in my time traveling had been full of emotion, lots of sadness and pain. He hadn’t tried to touch me, he’d barely kissed me with passion. But that kiss a minute ago was a volcano ready to erupt.

He hadn’t had me in five hundred years.

I was going to change that right now.

My fancy red gown was far too much fabric, I needed it out of the way so I carefully peeled myself out of it. Once it was off, I tossed it to the top of the stairs so it would be the first thing he saw. I reached under my dress and slid off my stretchy shorts, he didn’t need to see another sneak peak at the future. Those got shoved into my magic bag, which I sat at the edge of the bed close to the hearth.

I’d just started to unlace my corset thingy when I heard the rumble of that secret door sliding. So I stopped and struck a pose at the window farthest from the stairs. Just to make him work for it a little. I wanted to watch the hunger in his eyes. His steps were silent but I felt his aura pulsing stronger in the air with every second. A pale hand poked out and snagged my gown off the floor.

There was a beat of silence then he leapt into view. His gaze swept the room slowly, searching for me until he spotted me across the room. His fangs sank into his bottom lip. His pulse beat in the vein in his throat. There was just enough light from the sky to see his cheeks flush and his eyes flash like a predator’s.

I propped one foot on the wall behind me and hiked my skirt up so my whole, bare leg was visible. His gaze drank in every inch of my skin. He let out a growl that made my toes curl. I dragged my teeth over my bottom lip. He took a step forward and reached to the side – and slid a curtain I hadn’t seen over the open window.

Then over the next.

And the next.

There were only three windows left, with me in the last one. But he kept dragging this giant curtain over each window. With each one, the room fell darker and darker until I couldn’t see him at all. My pulse quickened. Goosebumps covered my skin.

I was being hunted.

I was prey.

He was playing with his food when I wanted to be devoured. I ran my tongue over my fangs – and then he was on me, his hips pinning mine against the windowsill. His body straining against his velvet pants. He gripped my hips and lifted me onto the window then slid his hands down my thighs to force my legs around his hips. I wrapped my arms around his neck and slid my tongue into his mouth. I licked hard and rough so he’d know I didn’t want to be delicate.

My body was lifted off the window so I tightened my grip around his hips and it forced our bodies to roll together in a delicious way. We both moaned. I broke our kiss to sink my teeth into his bottom lip and pull. He groaned. I heard the sound of the curtain sliding and then the room was cast in darkness.

I saw nothing.

But I felt everything.

He spun me around and then my back hit that bed on the floor. His body pressed into mine with all of his body weight. I gripped his jaw, dragged his mouth back to mine, and rolled my hips. He hissed. His hands became frantic as he tugged at the laces on the corset, or whatever it was called. There was too much clothing between us. I couldn’t handle it. I didn’t want to wait. He didn’t want to wait.

So I jumped up onto my knees and reached forward until I found the waistband of his pants. I tugged them down then gripped his cock with both of my hands. The moan that came out of him nearly made me climax.

“ Everest,” I begged against his mouth.

I felt his fingers slide across my bare thigh as he pulled my dress up over my hips. His touch sent a shiver through my body. He groaned then gripped my hips, lifted me up, then yanked me down onto his cock. I threw my head back and screamed as he slammed all the way into me in one thrust.

Then his fangs sank into my throat.

My whole body trembled. I moaned his name over and over. I dug my hands into his hair and held on. His fingers buried into my skin so hard I was going to have bruises for days but I didn’t care. Mark me. Claim me. Just don’t stop. He sucked on my throat as he pulled out and it made me hiss and shake. But then his hips rolled, sliding his cock back all the way in. My eyes rolled. He continued this suck and slide in the perfect combination that had my body quaking. He wrapped his arms around my waist and squeezed me tight. His tongue slid over the bite on my skin and then his hips crashed into me over and over and over faster and harder than I could get a breath in. The windows could’ve been open to mid-day sunlight and I would have been in the dark.

My body was pulsing as my climax consumed me.

Pure and total ecstasy.

Five hundred years of waiting. Just as my lungs caught their first breath in a minute I felt his cock twitch as his release found him. His breath was hot and ragged on my skin. His hands trembled as he lifted me off of him then gently lowered me to the bed. But I wasn’t done. Not far from it. I threw my hands up to reach for his vest but my fingers grazed over the muscles on his abs. With a moan, I dragged my nails down his skin. His muscles twitched under my touch.

And then his lips were on mine. I moaned against his mouth then took his face between my hands. He fucked my mouth with his tongue and it had me squirming beneath him. I wrapped my arms around his neck, pulling his body flush against mine. He braced his hands on the bed on either side of my head then rolled his hips, thrusting deep inside me. We both groaned. I hooked my legs around his hips and dug my heels into his back to keep him where I wanted him. The way his moans cracked and his breaths grew short and ragged was sending me to another realm.

His hands buried in my hair. His mouth pressed against my throat, his breath burning hot on my skin. I dug my nails into his back and threw my head back, arching my body into him. His thrusts swung with blinding speed. When we hit that climax together we were both trembling and panting, sweat covering our bodies.

This was the most delicious form of Heaven on Earth. We probably had things to discuss, strategies to plan, but I had every intention of keeping him right where he was until that sun sank beneath the horizon again.