Total pages in book: 168
Estimated words: 160578 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 803(@200wpm)___ 642(@250wpm)___ 535(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 160578 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 803(@200wpm)___ 642(@250wpm)___ 535(@300wpm)
“Me? From where?” Pulling the brake, I drift my way down the mountain all the way to the main street.
“Everywhere.” I find Evie’s dad’s name and hit the green button. He answers instantly.
I squeeze the steering wheel. “Madrabbit.”
He sighs before things start crashing in the background. “Get Evie home now. We’ll head to the place until it dies off.”
Ending the call, I drive through the streets of Riverside before turning down suburbia. I direct the car around the fountain outside her house as her dad rushes out the door with her mom in tow, carrying bags out to a waiting SUV.
She slams the car door. “Someone tell me what the fuck is going on!” Evie’s eyes swing at both of us, and I grab her quickly before her dad can pull her into the back seat of the SUV.
Placing a kiss on her forehead, I’m quiet with my words. “Don’t answer any calls on your phone. No matter the name that pops up. You understand? Leave and listen to your father.”
“Priest.” She lifts her hand to my arm, but I’m already forcing her into the car. Her heels sink into the ground as she spins back around to me. “Priest, I swe—”
“Evie!” I’d never snapped at her before. “Get the fuck in the car before I show you firsthand what the fuck I do.”
She doesn’t pale or run scared. She flips me off, sliding into the back seat and I watch as their car disappears down the driveway.
I should have done more. Nothing makes sense. Nothing has worked. I’ve been so sure of every damn thing in my life, been careful with how I did it. Yet here I am, the gavel in one hand and the world crumbling apart in my other.
Back in the confinement of my car, I place a cigarette into my mouth and take a second. Another. Beat after beat and minute after minutes.
Had I not known this was going to happen? That eventually, when everything came to an end, she’d be the one who’d come back. Didn’t I want that?
I did.
My jaw tenses.
I do.
I don’t stop driving until I’m idling outside my house. River, Vaden, Stella, War, and Halen all watching me from the patio.
A text vibrates from my phone.
Archer: Sending everything I know.
I don’t wait, because there’s no point. I reach into my pocket and search for the familiar jagged edges of the key.
Am I angry?
No.
Am I intrigued?
Yes.
I force open my car door, bypassing everyone. River’s eyes stay on me a moment too long before I drag myself away from her and head straight for the stairs.
The bedroom door opens slowly. So familiar, yet a stranger. Her touch is still fresh. The way she felt beneath my hand, her laughter, the look in her eyes when I’d touch her. I fell too hard and I’d lost my mind while doing it.
Fingernails slide over the desk in the corner, her hair falling over her shoulders. She has to be something out of a damn novel, your favorite fucking nightmare. I’ve spent years waiting. Praying. Waiting. Wanting and yearning. Now she’s here…I feel…
Lonely.
“Hello, Mad Prince.”
I flick my cigarette into the brittle flowerpot. No one has been in here since Luna. Yet here she is. Back in here.
“What are you doing?” The closer I am to her, the faster blood rushes to my head. I’m simply hardwired by chaos and thirsty for her attention.
My footsteps draw closer, and when I’m an inch away, my hand flies to her throat. “It’s been a while, Darling.”
Fuck but it has. Now what was I going to do? Lock her in the same room I kept Luna in?
Actually…
I force her against my lips. When her tongue slips into my mouth, her desperation reeks in the moan that leaves her.
Buttons fly everywhere when I tear off her dress, laughter dying off in the back of her throat. I catch her thrust with a buck of my hips, shoving her farther into the room while leaving the door wide open.
Her hands find my zipper, and my teeth catch her bottom lip when her fingers wrap around my cock.
The kiss breaks when she falls to her knees, keeping her eyes up on mine. Blood puddles around her knees as she sucks me into her mouth, her tongue flicking over the base of my cock.
I jerk forward, my eyes rolling as I shove myself further down her throat with the grip I have on her hair. Saliva slips over my balls when she gags, the inside of her mouth way too fucking warm. Her eyes water and the first tear drop falls to the ground. Fuck. Blood? What the—
My cock hardens further as her groan vibrates around it. I force her up by her hair and using the grip I have on her ass, I lift her to my shoulders. Her legs cling around the back of my neck as I bury my face in her pussy, my tongue working her clit. I don’t stop. My tongue working the same pattern as her clit swells against my tongue.