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We both began walking, him forward and me backward, until my back hit the cavern wall. He towered over me by a good two feet to my five-feet-six inch height. When he leaned in, I shut my eyes and bit my lip, readying myself for whatever he had in store for me.
What I wasn’t ready for was the way his warm breath caressed my cheek toward my ear, sending a different kind of shiver down my spine.
“Make no mistake, Fenella, you were mine the moment I obtained the first piece of you.”
What?!
He shifted and my heart sped up, sure again it was the final move before my death. Instead, I felt the tip of his cold nose softly grazing across my skin. I let out a stuttering breath, one I didn’t know I was holding.
“It still calls to me,” he voice lowered.
“What?” It was the only word that constantly ran through my mind in a loop.
“Your scent.”
“I need to get back. Someone is waiting for me. I can’t worry—”
He slammed his fist into the wall beside my head and I screamed, covering my face with my hands.
“I will hunt him down and leave his entrails back to his residence to warn the others never to look for you again.”
Him?This guy was crazy.
“My aunt is waiting for me, you lunatic!”
He slowly peeled my fingers away and brought his face close to mine. “And what of me? I’ve waited for you for decades and you wish to leave me the moment I’ve only found you?”
He tilted his head in curiosity, his eyes scanning my face again. I felt myself flush from his perusal and his nostrils flared in response.
He brought up his hand to trace my ear and pull one of my curls onto his finger. He was feral, barbaric, otherworldly. How does one escape the grasp of something that wasn’t supposed to exist?
The laughter of faeries floated at the mouth of the cave, taunting me.
“They will live, for now.” He was talking in circles, never addressing the situation at hand.
“I need to go. I’ve been gone too long.”
“You’ve been away from me much longer. Your kin will survive a day without you.”
I looked at him aghast. Was he serious?
“You can’t keep me here.” My confidence was returning. He hadn’t killed me by now, meaning he probably never planned to. That was what I told myself.
“I already am.”
“No.”
He stopped playing with my hair and stared into my eyes. At least, I thought he was. He didn’t have any pupils. “You wish to strike a bargain for your freedom, Fenella?”
It was the branch I needed. This was it. This was how I was going to escape.
Morel
She was gullible.That was why she needed a protector, a male to claim her. Didn’t she know she should never bargain with the fae?
I waited with bated breath for the terms of her barter. I could use this moment to my advantage in so many ways, make the price of this bargain high but I wouldn’t.
I had waited lifetimes for her to come to me. The seer from my youth, while I was still a will-o'-the-wisp, a mere spark of fire, spoke of a dark female who would be my downfall. It was said she would put an end to my carnage. They were all lies. Little did they know that it was because of her, the moment I was trapped by her scent, my destruction grew as well as my form with each bone I devoured of my enemies.
