Braving Fate (The Mythean Arcana 1)

“You know what I mean.” She looked down at him uncertainly.

Ah, his lassie needed reassurance. As much as he knew he shouldn’t admit it, that he should be cruel to end this game, he couldn’t bear to see the hesitant smile slip off her face. His brain had flown straight out of his head.

Knowing that he would regret it, he said, “Aye, lassie, I do. There’s no’ another like you.”

Her smile brightened. “Likewise.”

“Now tell me what this is about.” He had a pretty good idea, even though it shocked the hell out of him.

“You know who I was in a past life. I don’t. And I really, really need to know. I’ve run out of time and options, so I think you should tell me.”

Shite. That wasn’t what he was expecting. “And how do you plan for that to happen?”

“I think you know.” She smiled. “Have you ever been tortured, Cadan?”

His jaw clenched when she rubbed her sex against him. “No’ like this.”

She smiled. “Well, you get the gist of it anyway. I’m going to bring you to the brink so many times your eyes will cross. When you tell me who I was, you can have anything you want.”

She reached behind her and grasped his cock in her small hand. He nearly shouted with pleasure, then desperately clenched his teeth to stifle himself.

“I doona want you.” Gods, he was lying. He wanted her more than anything in the world. He wanted her in every way possible

, pinned beneath him, his to take.

But more than anything, he wanted her now, this way. With him tied to the bed and her on top of him, taking whatever she wanted from his body. Use me. Take your pleasure from me. His hips jerked at the thought and she ran her soft palm up and down his length.

“You, Cadan, are a terrible liar. And you’re my terrible liar.”

Aye, yours. As you are mine. He wanted her to take her pleasure from him, untie him, and then he would show her what it meant to be his. But he couldn’t, could never, and for everything in the past and future, he had to resist. But how?

And where had this temptress come from?

When Diana laughed he realized he’d spoken aloud. “I was always here. You saw me—young and a professor, reserved in my manners—and drew your own conclusions. They just weren’t necessarily true. You’re dating yourself again, Cadan. True, I’ve never tied up a man and had my way with him before, so I’m no expert, but I think I can figure it out.”

With those words, she bent down and began to kiss his neck, her soft, hot tongue running across the tendons as he strained. Only now did he realize that the room was lit by dozens of candles.

She rubbed her breasts against his chest and he strained at the bonds. He wanted just one touch. To put his hands on her smooth skin and run them over the curves and hollows of her body.

She ran her warm lips down his chest, rising up on all fours as she did so, curved and soft in the light. She was careful not to touch his cock now, though it desperately reached for her.

“You have the most amazing muscles,” she murmured against his clenched abs.

With a lick, she continued to kiss her way down his body, her mouth hot and avid on him. He tensed as she neared his cock, but she skipped over, raining soft kisses over his thighs and within inches of his balls. He groaned when he felt her breath feather over him and looked down to see her staring up at him.

Take me in your mouth. He wanted to see his cock slide between her pink lips.

She hovered just over his shaft, her face all but glowing in the candlelight. She knelt on all fours with her head bent down to his cock and the curve of her ass rising above her head. Her eyes burned into his and there was nothing but desire in them.

“I’ve been wanting this for a long time.” She licked her lips and looked down with heat in her gaze.

He couldn’t take his eyes off her. She was a vision of innocence and sin. Her pink tongue sneaked out of her mouth and licked the bottom of his crown. He groaned low in his throat, and when she opened her mouth and enveloped him, he jerked as the heat and softness closed around him. She sucked once, lightly, then took him deeper inside of her mouth.

His hips jerked. She began to work her hand up and down his shaft in time with her mouth. He wasn’t going to last. His body tightened and tension coiled within him.

So close. He was so bloody close he was shaking with it.

She raised her head and licked her lips, then crawled back up his body and kissed him full on the mouth. “That was fun. But if I do too much of that now, we might be moving a bit fast for my end goal.”