Total pages in book: 96
Estimated words: 92232 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 461(@200wpm)___ 369(@250wpm)___ 307(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 92232 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 461(@200wpm)___ 369(@250wpm)___ 307(@300wpm)
“Place your feet on my thighs,” I breathe in her ear, then suck on her neck.
Squeezing her mounds, I position her so I can thrust into her. The sound of her wet pussy and her calling my name is music to my ears. Releasing her breasts, I reach for her arms and pin them behind her back as I bounce her with each of my thrusts.
I allow a current to pulse through me, sending a buzz through her body. She looks back over her shoulder at me as she bites down on her lip. The look of love and ecstasy in her gaze tugs at something in me.
“Is this what you wanted? Am I fucking you the way you want?” I growl.
“Oh, God, yes. Please don’t stop.”
“Your pussy is the only one I want, but I’m fucking you to remind you. You’re still not running things. I’m in control.”
“I love you,” she cries.
“I love you too. Now come so I can put you to bed.”
Memory Glitch
I stand in the training gym, blocking punch after punch. When it’s my turn to counter, I deliver with precision. A smile comes to my lips.
“That was good, Ray. Much better. You’re picking up speed too. Do you want to try with weapons this time?” Jewel asks.
“Yeah, I think I might be ready,” I say with a smile.
Training has been going well today. I can’t say what has changed, but I’m moving through sequences much faster and with more fluidity. I’m determined to form a weapon today.
“Venus, are you all right? Do you see this? I’m getting the hang of it,” I say excitedly.
She’s been so quiet all morning. I’m starting to worry about her. She doesn’t respond, causing me to really get concerned.
“Venus?”
“I’m here,” she says weakly.
“What’s wrong?”
“I don’t know. My head hurts and it’s like I keep seeing things from the past.”
“Like what?”
“It’s nothing. Focus. You’re doing so well. I’ll be fine.”
I want to talk more, but she’s right. I need to focus. Jewel backs me down and I see an opening to form a weapon and attack.
I go to do just that, but she knocks me on my butt before I can. I punch the floor in frustration. I don’t understand why I’m struggling so much.
“Again,” I growl and stand.
“Gah,” Venus cries out.
“Venus, what is it? What’s wrong?”
Venus
It feels like I’m being split in two. Since Ray woke this morning, I’ve been flashing back to the past, then back so fast I feel like I have whiplash.
I want to call them visions, but I can feel when I leave Ray’s body and then when I return. It’s giving me vertigo. One minute, I’m here, and the next, I’m back in my time.
I think I’m going to be sick. I don’t want to bother Ray. She has enough on her plate. Besides, I don’t think she can help me.
I hear the panic in her voice, but I can’t respond. That feeling of being pulled through time comes back and my stomach rolls. I grasp my head and close my eyes.
“Venus, I just felt you put a wall up. He will sense this, you know?” Yanique scolds me as we approach my home.
“I’m tired, too tired to keep my guard up. I have to do this, just for tonight. I don’t want him to be able to search my aura,” I whisper.
“He will know. You have never hidden yourself from him. He will know what you’re doing.”
“Then I will tell him we were training and I forgot to bring the walls back down,” I say.
“Venus. I’m warning you. None of this will end well,” my sister says.
I gasp as I’m snapped back into the future. I feel the moment I’m back inside of Ray. The difference between her power and mine registers right away.
I groan and try not to whimper. She’s still calling my name. Once I’m able to gather my thoughts, I respond.
“I know why Kendrick can’t hear me,” I whisper.
“What?”
“I know why you are the only one who can hear me in your head,” I say this time.
“Why?”
“He can’t hear me because I shut him out. It was a spell I didn’t correct before entering this one. I’ve made so many mistakes. I don’t belong here and I think my time is running out. I may never get to meet my son.”
“Oh, Venus, don’t say that. We’re still going to find him. Hang in there, okay?”
“Okay,” I reply, but I’m no longer hopeful.
Ray is becoming stronger. She may not feel it, but I can. I’m not going to last here for much longer.
Ray
I can feel Venus’s anxiety as if it were my own. Or it might just be my own. I stare down at the phone Ember said came for me this afternoon.
She couldn’t tell me from whom or where. Only that it was delivered and I was to get it. Now, I’ve been staring at the thing like it’s going to bite me.