Princess of Frost - Mila Young Page 0,35

quick time together.

Or maybe I'm letting myself be swayed by emotions, because in truth, nothing lasts forever. Nothing good, anyway. As he starts to pull away and withdraws himself from inside me, a chill replaces his warmth, and already I start to miss him.

It's wrong, and it’s the first sign of why letting myself fall into his arms was a mistake.

I'll crave him.

Need him.

Miss him.

Eventually I'll lose him, because whatever I think we have here is not possible.

And I don't want to face the heartbreak or the hate I’ll feel toward myself.

My thoughts merge into a great knot, because things ending badly is the story of my life, and I'm tired just thinking of the mess I’ll end up in.

Eryk sits back on his heels and looks down between my thighs, then back up at me, his expression growing deadly serious.

A worried ache surges from the pit of my gut. I know what he's going to say before the words leave his mouth, and so I start to turn away, drawing my legs from around him.

Except, his strong hands grip my waist and keep me in front of him, legs spread, and I stare at him.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he asks.

"What does it matter?" I respond. "It was my decision to make."

He doesn't release me, his fingers digging into my sides, and I witness the struggle on his face of what to say.

"You better go," I remind him, feeling so damn vulnerable I can’t stand it.

"I meant what I said before," he states as he stands from the bed and looms over me, his cock erect and the tip tainted with blood. "You’re mine now. What you’ve given me means more than you’ll ever know." He looks down at his hardness, then at me as I draw my legs together. With a hand dragging through his hair, he collects his clothes and dresses in a whirlwind before marching toward the door. He looks over his shoulder at me. I expect something, but he gives nothing, then vanishes.

I collapse back on the bed and exhale loudly. I keep picturing the way his demeaor changed, how discovering he took my virginity seems to have shaken him. I'm not sure if I ought to be insulted or grateful.

11

Eryk

The meeting with my advisors over the imminent war had taken longer than expected last night, and when I returned to my room, Licia had fallen asleep. So I let her take my room and I spent the night in a spare room.

But trying to get Licia out of my head is a fucking joke. She's in my mind, my nostrils, my cock... She looked so sexy while I fucked her, writhing, moaning for me as her tight pussy squeezed me, but I had no idea I was her first. It bothers me when it shouldn't, because such things are special. And I just took it from her... She may hate me, but I intend to keep her for myself now. After that taste and knowing what she gave me, there is no walking away. I need more of her.

She draws me to her, blurring my focus, when she should have been just a means to an end to deal with the hobgoblins. And I need answers about her powers and what she's really capable of... she has to open up and accept her fate.

Still, all I can think of is the softness of her body, the heat and tightness between her sweet thighs. A single thought and my cock is hard as a rock. Then there’s her kiss... mesmerizing, hypnotic, it fucking undid me. There was something special when our lips connected. A surge of energy coursed through my veins as if the sun beamed inside my chest. Ever since the world had been cursed by the shattered mirror, a freezing blanket smothered all of us and it always felt like we’d forgotten something. But kissing Licia opened up a door to the brightest light I've ever experienced.

I shouldn't have let myself go there, but resisting had been impossible. No one has ever crumbled my walls like that before, and I don't have the first clue on where I went wrong.

None of it makes sense, and I clench my hands, frustrated. But one thing I’m sure of is that my body reacts around her, whether I intend it to or not.

Instead of obsessing about her, I march across the snowy castle yard under the morning sun toward the stables to meet up with Kade.