“Bondage?” I joked, but he didn’t smile. Instead his heated gaze met and held mine and melted my bones.
I swallowed and stepped forward, closer to him. “Kiss me first, Fairy, and I’ll do anything you want me to.”
“Remember those words,” he replied.
“I remember everything I’ve ever said to you, and everything you’ve said to me,” I answered him and lifted my mouth to his as my hands caressed the hard muscles of his chest. His mouth lowered to mine, and I closed my eyes as the heat of his mouth swept away everything from my mind.
His mouth was hungry and demanding at first as his tongue pushed past the seal of my lips and met, warring with mine. I gasped hungrily as my body responded to his touch instantly, as if his tongue was pressing some magical button that turned every part of me on.
His hands captured and cupped my face as if he was afraid I’d escape his kiss. That wasn’t likely. I was right where I wanted to be; with him. His hand that held the silk left my face, and then I felt it as it covered my eyes, and then was tightened behind my head.
His teeth captured the plumpness of my bottom lip and bit softly until I cried out as pain lingered with pleasure. “I planned to bring you here a month ago, but then the Mages grew bolder, and I couldn’t chance the babes or you being hurt by them,” he said softly as he turned me around in his arms until my back was pressed against his chest, and my ass against his hard erection. “Do you trust me, Pet?”
“Yes,” I said without hesitation.
“Good,” he growled as he trailed his fingers down the inside of my arms, creating a whirlwind of sensations that made my nipples harden with need.
I’d felt the world change beneath my sandals. Gone was the soft moss and in its place was rougher terrain that crunched beneath my feet, along with warm winds that sent my hair flying. My heart pounded, and I smiled as I knew it was only because I thought it’s what it should do and not really because it was beating that hard.
I wasn’t ready when Ryder removed the blindfold, and beautiful ruins were revealed. I gasped in delight as I took in the thousands of candles which were lit around them. An entire rock face stood before us, with huge rock pillars that went into the earth.
“Wow,” I said in a breathless whisper.
“This place was built by the ancient race of these lands. The ones Danu first created. Now all that is left is where they came to worship their mates.”
“Danu made another race before the Fae?” I asked curiously.
He grunted. “Bilé and Danu made them together, but he created a rift in them that ripped them apart, because he thought they should be made in his image, but the scrolls say she was torn by them and unhappy with the outcome, so much so that she left Bilé soon after they’d created them, and then one by one, she destroyed the entire race. Centuries would pass before she would try again, and that’s when she made our race.”
I could feel the power radiating from inside the gigantic earthen dwelling. There were huge horned statues, which I could have sworn moved as I watched them. They looked like gargoyles, only more dangerous with their long talons and needle teeth.
“They are dead,” he said as if he was reading my mind.
I continued to peer up into the pieces of history Dristan and Ristan had seemed to have left out of our lessons, or hadn’t gotten to yet. Around us was night, dark and eerie, but thousands of candles lit up the area so that it looked like day, but only if you stayed close to the stones.