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For ten years, I had kept my distance from the Prize Pool.
For ten years, I had seen the Prizes following in the wake of their Champions.
For ten years, I had refused to go anywhere near the fighting pits that allowed sole entry to the Pool.
And now, I saw all that I had been missing.
The sight of her curves and the softness of her skin was intoxicating. And there, the scent of her sex, fresh like the petals of wild kliac berries after an ice-cold squall.
Suddenly, I was no longer at Ikmal prison. I was a million miles away, back home on my parents’ homestead before the Troubles had begun and I’d been forced to steal what little food I could find.
My hunger and my desire were overpowering and I needed to get away from her as quickly as possible. I turned to my books where I often found peace from this metal hell. The books alone could distract my mind from the overpowering throb of desire.
But now, with Lily in my room — naked — I was at risk of losing all control.
Once the shower’s water began to flow, I slumped in my chair, pressing my face to the desktop. Just seven more days, I told myself. Just seven more days and I could find a willing mate who wanted to be with me.
I’d already gotten myself in trouble with the likes of Druin and could have extended the length of my stay in this hellhole an extra month or longer for fighting…
And now I risked breaking my own code of conduct and self-promises by bedding this female.
She wasn’t even truly mine. I hadn’t defeated the other fighters in the pits. Druin had.
I felt the anger rising into my chest again at the sight of him standing over her, belt in hand, welts already decorating her skin…
And I’d lost it.
But I wouldn’t lose it again.
I would control myself.
I sat up.
Yes.
I could do that.
I had done it for ten years, what was so difficult about doing the same for just ten more minutes?
Because a succulent Prize has never been so close before.
Because she was the finest Prize I have seen up close in all my years here.
Because I am desperate for her, and nothing soothed the torrent of adrenaline that coursed through the body after a successful bout than the warmth of a willing female.
I wiped my sweaty palms on my pants and got up and paced back and forth. The bed loomed large even though it was a single-person cot barely even big enough for me. I took deep, calming breaths and glanced toward the bathroom.
Lily had left the door open a crack…
On purpose?
I ran my hands through my hair and continued pacing. The slap of the water as it rolled off her naked body pounded the sterile white tiles beneath her bare feet.
I needed something to distract me, to take my mind off her. The books had failed and I knew all the magazine articles by heart.
Then maybe just a taste…?
It wouldn’t hurt just to peek a little at her naked body, would it?
