Eternal Darkness (The Amagarians 1)

Let me in, a deadly hiss that scraped at the walls of her mind.

“No!” a strong shout from her.

Drac twisted, tumbling her to the bed. He loomed over her, dark and menacing. He slashed his lips on hers kissing her mouth dominantly. She tried to twist her head away but the snarl that echoed from him froze her limbs. Her powers hummed beneath her skin, and she sent it deep, calling for the water beneath his chambers. Wind howled in the room, slamming the windows with enough force to crack them.

Saieke, an aching growl filled with longing slid and confusion into her mind. Let me in. It was the confusion that made her halt her instinctive attack. She parted her lips and tentatively twined her tongue with his.

Mine, this time only Drac’s voice probed at her mind—entreating and commanding at the same time.

Confusion mingled with desire and Saieke reached out to him hesitantly with her mind.

Yours? She asked unsure if he would hear her.

She absorbed the stillness that gripped him. She felt it through his body and the mental link they had somehow formed. She whimpered as darkness like oil slowly pervaded her mind.

Breathe.

Saieke coiled her muscles to struggle and became still herself.

Breathe. It came again. A soft command in her mind—tender, intimate.

She felt uncertainty, and a desire to be gentle with her amongst the treachery and cruelty.

We would never hurt you, the distorted voice was from beast and man.

The tenderness beguiled her like nothing else could. Saieke was not sure what they wanted from her exactly and how she would let them in. She relaxed her limbs, her mind, and tried to understand why the beast was trying to reach out to her. She felt a stretch in her mind as her vision tunneled inward to encounter blackness.

She groaned and closed her eyes as an abyss dominated her consciousness. Raw noises of disbelief echoed in the chamber from Saieke as glowing eyes snapped open in her mind. The malevolence from the beast was overwhelming. Black chakra coiled around a massive winged monster. Drac was draped in its chakra and image, and they both stared at her through the psychic connection.

Ours. Satisfaction blazed from them to her mind until they melded as one feeling, and she could not separate their essence anymore.

“How is this possible?”

Our blood …Mate

“Mate!?” She wrenched her mind out of the abyss and opened her eyes to look directly into Drac’s.

“‘Mate?’ What are you suggesting?”

He flew away from her, and panic rose because her vision was becoming sharper.

Saieke leapt from the bed and walked around the room in a daze. She paused, she could actually see clearer than what she was used to before. She saw the fine layer of dust on the stone floor and she swore she could hear footsteps some distance away from the chambers. She could see the bronze glow of her skin clearly. Stained glass encased a full wall. It was stained with a golden outline of massive wings and tails, and what appeared to be white light.

It was breathtaking. She used her wind and flung the massive windows open and stepped out. The courtyard spread before her like a wild jungle. Steam seemed to rise from its depth, and trees and flowers she had never before seen were laid out wildly and exotically before her. She heard great cries, roars and snarls echoing for miles and miles.

Her hearing was also enhanced.

An animal prowled with deadly grace across the yard and leapt into one of the trees and crouched. It was massive. More than five feet tall on its feet. Razor sharp claws extended from its eight feet and its fangs were visible. It was sleek and powerful and Saieke cringed at the thought that they roamed the dark forest.

“Your keep is teeming with more wildlife than the Ricarkri castle.”

“My keep borders Moiré—the dark forest and jungles. Animals that are only found there roam freely in the Northern Keep.”

She felt him moved closer.

“Look at me. I can feel the fear beating in your heart.”

She turned. The sleekness of his body never failed to take her breath away “I cannot be your mate.”