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“I want you to make me feel good. I want to make you feel even better.”
His hand slipped beneath the fabric of her pants and panties, his fingers brushing her sensitive flesh. Her heart pounded in anticipation as he rubbed her clit, dipping his digits inside of her heat.
Her breaths came out ragged as she pressed her forehead to his. “Are you still thinking about ending my life?”
“At this moment? No,” he breathed. “I only desperately want to be inside you. I want to feel you grind against me. I want your heart beating in sync with mine, my sweet nightmare.” And then he captured her mouth in a fierce kiss.
“I want you to take me like you did that second time in Salem when neither of us wanted to think.”
An impish smile played across his lips. “That I can do.”
Sadie lifted so he could yank down her pants, allowing her easy access to peel his shirt from him. She unbuttoned his jeans, and he kicked them off until no barriers were left between them—only bare skin.
No more secrets were locked away. The good, the wicked—it was all there, alight within them.
As River’s mouth claimed hers once more, she reached down to his length and gripped it. He groaned as she circled the head with her thumb, then stroked him using firm pressure.
Their kiss deepened, his tongue licking seductively across hers before he nipped her lower lip.
River’s tongue then drifted down to her neck as he lay her against the feathered mattress. “I want to taste you first,” he said in a gruff voice. She didn’t deny his demand, allowing him to trail kisses of heated flames down her body, taking a peaked nipple into his mouth, flicking his tongue across it.
Sadie’s heart pounded with desire as he settled his head between her legs. With one long, slow and delicious stroke, he carried his tongue up her center. And then his tongue played, feasted, and drank her in. When he plunged it inside of her, she tugged his hair, bringing him even closer.
“I need more,” she begged.
River crawled up her until they were aligned, his mouth returning to hers. “In all my lives, I’ve loved you stronger than the last. Through your darkness, through your lightness, through every fucking thing.” And then he buried himself inside her with a single thrust. Sadie gasped in pleasure at the same time he growled.
He slammed into her, giving her what she needed, taking the focus away from any pain. She dug her fingers into his back, then he rolled them over, sitting them both up so she was in his lap. River gripped her hips, urging her to move faster. Sadie tightened her hold on his shoulders, her nails biting into him, and she knew marks would be left behind in their wake. She pressed her mouth to his as she rode him, ground into him harder. One of her hands drifted to his hair and grasped it just as hard. They weren’t tender like the last time they’d been together after the Halloween party, but more raw, needful, as if the world might collapse on them at any moment.
And then a tickling sensation stirred, taking root, spreading. The blissful feeling erupted, crashing through her as she continued to roll her hips, yearning for him to feel just as good. A deep and guttural sound ripped from his throat as he growled her name.
Their chests heaved, and he kissed her lips with a smile, the animalistic side of him hiding for now, while he carefully lowered her to the bed, then settled beside her.
They studied one another, their eyes, their lips, and he pushed a lock of hair behind her ear. “I love you,” he whispered. “I love that your heart isn’t perfect.” He placed one more soft kiss to her lips—as if he might never get to do it again.
Sadie wrapped an arm around his waist, and he draped his over hers, her thoughts leaving the bliss they’d both experienced and turning to something much darker.
She bit the inside of her cheek to bring her pain somewhere else. “After the coven, I shouldn’t have asked you to follow me into the darkness due to my fear. I should’ve faced my fear another way.”
“I wouldn’t have followed unless I’d wanted to.”
Sadie remembered the fear he’d had back then, too—the fear he’d tried not to show. Witch hunts had begun long ago, even before they’d been at fault for some of the accused. So the fiends would watch over them at night in the woods to warn them if anyone discovered their location, while the moths would let them know if anyone found out Ada was a witch.
“Now we just need—” Sadie’s words were cut off by heinous screeching, reverberating, rattling the walls.
Chapter Twenty
“You could shatter the darkness if you wished.”
Sadie jerked forward at the terrifying sound, knowing the malevolent spirits were below ground, trying to get past the wards and through the walls. But she was no longer in a bed beside River—she was back inside the cabin, fully dressed. Awake. Staring at animal skulls and framed moths along her walls.
She knew why she’d had the urge to collect them. And she still remembered everything.
“No, no, no,” Sadie whispered, bringing a hand to her mouth. She shoved off the futon and bolted outside into the morning light. The fiends’ silhouettes swarmed toward her, but it wasn’t them that halted her in place—it was the trees. This time, not only were they in different positions, but they were entwined with one another, creating an impenetrable barrier around the woods that cut off the outside road, only the sky high above them exposed, a mirror image of her underground home.
Sadie should’ve suspected something worse would happen after the trees had swapped places. She felt some measure of relief at the presence of shadows swirling around her, drifting across the cabin to protect her. They hadn’t been broken apart—yet. But the moths…
Fighting tears, she studied the trees, knowing the spirits were back inside of them, trapped for now. As she moved toward them, they edged backward, making it seem as though she was in the same place and would never catch up. It had to be the hex doing it, but she wouldn’t leave River here anyway—not now.
