My vision swam as I held onto him. Heat poured from me into him and then from him into me. Magic, I realized. Fae magic.
Orion's fingers stole beneath my gown and found the little bundle of nerves above where we were connected. I gasped and arched up as his hips lifted and pounded against me with more force even as his fingers pinched and rolled that bundle. Stars danced before my eyes—little flashes of light. My air sawed in and out of my throat as my nails sank into the skin of his back and dragged downward.
He groaned and fucked into me even harder. Our heads tilted and our lips connected. Tongues tangled. Breaths mixed. And on the next shift of his cock into me, he pinched my clit again and I exploded. Fire raced through my mind, burning away all clear or logical thought until there was nothing but him. Nothing but us. Nothing but the magic.
Chapter Fifteen
Sorrell
"What do you think you're doing?" Roan's quiet but firm question made me turn back towards him as the door to the library closed behind us. Across the room, Groffet bustled between rows and stacks of books, seeking an answer to all of our problems—as if it could be found in a mere dusty volume.
"What do you mean?" I inquired absently, wiping a bit of dust from my shirt as I brushed against one of the towers of books Groffet refused to find a new place for. The crazy, old man.
"Cress," Roan stated, catching me off guard.
I paused and looked back. "I will repeat," I said slowly. "What do you mean?"
His fiery gaze locked onto my face. Then he shook his head. "I've seen the way you look at her, Sorrell," he said. "You pretend like you don't feel it, like you don't see how you feel—but it's obvious."
With careful movements, I pivoted my body so that instead of looking at him from over my shoulder, I was facing him fully. "I don't know what you're talking about," I stated.
"That," he snapped, gesturing towards me. "It's that right there—you're refusal to admit it. Willful ignorance. You know, but you don't want to know. You feel it, but you don't want to feel it. You're drawn to her."
"I am not drawn to the Changeling," I sneered, working to put a little disgust into my tone.
Roan's gaze, however, remained steady—unimpressed and no doubt, unconvinced. "Why do you fight it?" he asked.
"There's nothing to fight." I sniffed and turned away, moving across the room until I reached the platform that held Groffet's workspace. I sought him out, but the damn troll had disappeared on us. I growled in irritation. "Where is that old man?" I snapped.
"You can't walk away from this." Roan's voice lifted and floated to me from across the room.
I sighed and spun to face him once more as he approached at a much slower pace. "I'm not walking away from anything," I said. "I do not feel the same way that you feel towards your little Changeling."
"You were worried for her," he pointed out.
I gritted my teeth and cursed my powers as ice began to form along my fingertips. Anger always came out as cold—always cold. Whereas she was anything but. The Changeling—Cressida—she was like a ray of sunshine, warm, life giving, beautiful. I shook my head, warding away those unwelcome thoughts.
"What do you want from me?" I asked, fixing Roan with a dark glare. "What is it that you hope to get from me by trying to convince me that I care for the Changeling the same way you and Orion do? I'll allow that the two of you care for her. I'll even step back and let the two of you keep her. You still plan to marry her; I'm no idiot. You meant every word you said at the Court of Frost. You intend to make her your Crimson Princess."
"She could be yours as well."
Shock ricocheted through me. Was he ... offering the girl to me? A deep yearning awoke within me. The desire to feel her golden locks across my chest, stroking down my abdomen. Her mouth around my cock. Her body in my bed.
With a croak, I responded. "She wouldn't want me." I meant it. She was smart enough to realize that I was no good for her. I had been nothing but cruel to her since the moment she'd fallen into our laps and there was nothing in me that wanted to stop now. She responded