her again, never escaping his prison and the sickening grasp of the demigoddess.
“Do not fight me on this, little goddess,” he whispered, voice thick with the emotions running rampant inside him, unleashed by the drug as it ravaged his defences, stripping down his walls and his inhibitions. Before long, it would transform him, would attempt to make him a mindless slave to lust, and he didn’t want Calindria around when that happened. He didn’t want her to see him like that. “Go. Run as soon as you have the chance.”
He tried to smile for her as tears filled her eyes, clung to the tattered shreds of his hope as he formed a plan and delivered a message he hoped she would figure out, because this time, he needed her to rescue him.
“I will meet you at the castle.”
Chapter 26
Calindria could only stare at Thanatos as two brutes approached her, seized her arms and pulled her away from the silver-haired female. She kept her gaze locked on Thanatos as they marched her away from the demigoddess, as he approached the female, his eyes fixed on her. She willed him to look at her instead, but his silver gaze refused to leave the demigoddess.
“Thanatos,” she whispered, shaking her head. “Do not do this.”
He had hated it when this female had held him captive, and the thought of him subjecting himself to it again had an ache blooming in her chest and fire blazing through her veins. She would rather the demigoddess placed her back in a cage. She was used to that life, had experienced a taste of freedom, and it would be enough to get her through the coming months or years, however long it took for him to find her again. Thanatos had a life out there, beyond this realm.
But that wasn’t the only reason she didn’t want him to subject himself to this for her sake.
She had seen the fear in his eyes, had sensed the panic in him.
He was afraid of what would happen to him once he was within the grasp of this female.
“Thanatos, look at me.” She tried to break free of the two males holding her in vice-like grips, lunged a few inches towards Thanatos before they pulled her back and shoved her forwards, away from him.
He still refused to look at her.
The second he was within reach of the demigoddess, the silver-haired female was all over him, cuddling up close to him.
Thanatos didn’t push her away.
He stood there, gazing down at the female as she stroked her palms over his chest, as she smiled up at him.
Some of the fire burning in Calindria’s veins turned to ice. He had hated it when the demigoddess had held him, hadn’t he? There was no trace of loathing in his eyes though, no anger as the female caressed his bare skin, as she pressed close to him.
The silver-haired female angled her head towards Calindria and rubbed her cheek against his chest, her violet eyes flashing wickedly as they locked with Calindria’s.
“Oh, how I have ached for you, my lover.” The demigoddess leaned back slightly and looked up at Thanatos as he lowered his head towards her. She reached up and framed his face with her palms, ran her hands down his strong neck and squeezed his shoulders. “There is no male in this world who fucks like you do. I still tremble when I recall how hard you took me… how you gave me everything you had.”
Calindria frowned at that, aware of what the female meant by it, and that she had said it on purpose, knew that Thanatos had been with her but had held part of himself back from her, denying her his seed. Because of this female?
“Look at me,” she snapped, her eyes locked on Thanatos as she lunged towards him again, wrestling against the firm hold of the two brutes. “Look at me, godsdammit!”
He didn’t take his eyes off the beautiful female as she rubbed herself against him.
“Take her away and do not disturb us. We have a lot of lost time to make up for.” The demigoddess’s hand drifted lower to cup Thanatos’s backside through his leathers. “I bet you will be even rougher with me this time.”
She looked as if she liked the thought of that.
Calindria didn’t. The thought of Thanatos with this female shattered something inside her, snapped the tethers on her rage and had her fighting to reach him. She spat curses at him when he still refused to