by Eve Newton
“No, of course not. I am just mad. Flaming mad,” I say, scratching my head vigorously.
“Why?”
“I don’t know. Someone has done something to piss me off, I just don’t know who or what.” I flop back on the bed and fling my arm dramatically over my eyes.
“Me?” he asks as he kneels on the floor in front of me and trails his hands up my thighs.
I smile. “No, not you.”
“Are you sure? Because I will make it up to you if I have.” His hands reach my knickers and he tugs gently on them pulling them down. “I preferred it when you didn’t wear these,” he says.
“Maybe it was you,” I say, lifting my hips to help him pull them off. “I wear them for you.”
“Why?” he asks puzzled.
“So that you know I am not wandering around our little group knickerless.”
“Ah. I see. In that case, I definitely prefer that you wear them now. Less chance of an accident occurring when you bend over,” he says it with all seriousness. I lift my arm from my eyes and look at him to see if he is joking. I see the smile in his eyes and prop myself up on my elbows. He has reached my ankles now. He stops and takes my shoes off. Then he removes my knickers and holds the lacy black material up to me.
“I had a notion that you might want to twist these around someone’s neck,” he says with a wicked laugh.
I let out a loud unattractive snort as I grab them. “You’d be right. You know me so well.” He beams at that. “But that can wait, weren’t you making it up to me for maybe pissing me off?”
“Oh, yes. Where was I?” he says as he ducks his head, pushing my legs further apart. He gives me a little lick and I wiggle closer to his mouth.
“Don’t tease me,” I complain. He licks me again and I wiggle closer. “Cole, don’t tease me.”
A third lick and he inserts his tongue into me. “That’s better,” I say, now happy, and relax under his touch. “I’m a little less mad.” He adds his fingers, circling them against my clit. “Oh, yes, baby,” I whisper, pushing my hand into his hair. He swaps his tongue for his fingers and he gently moves them inside me as his tongue takes over on my clit. He sucks me hard and I feel the first spark of pleasure shoot through me.
“That’s it, baby,” he says to me, “Feel what I’m doing to you.”
Oh, gods, I feel it all right. In every nerve ending, I feel it. I bunch my fingers into the coverlet as I come soundlessly. I don’t usually care if people hear me, or even see me, but sometimes it’s private. Sometimes it has to be just about the two people engaging in the act and no one else.
“I love you,” I say breathlessly.
He rises up and kisses me. “I love you,” he breathes.
I fumble to get his cock out of his pants and into me. A quick shove and he is inside, driving into me quickly as he needs his own release. I pull his mouth to mine and we come together, our mouths muffling the moans of pleasure.
“Are you still maybe mad with me?” he asks.
“Definitely not,” I say with a smile. “It’s definitely not you.”
“Well, I’m not sending anyone else in here to make it up to you, so you will have to figure it out another way.”
“Fair enough. I can live with that. Although, I have a pretty good idea who has annoyed me.”
“Your overbearing, control freak, pain in my ass sire?”
“How did you guess? He’s up to something. I don’t know what.”
“Hmm,” he says non-committal, having the sense not saying anything.
“Well, whatever it is, it will have to wait. I want my wicked way with you again and this time, I get to play,” I say and roll us over so that I’m on top. I don’t care who hears us now, as Cole tickles me. I shriek with laughter and tickle him back, overpowering him with my superior strength.
“God, I love it when you do that,” he says, laughing himself now.
“Do what? Tickle you?” I say, doing it again.
“No,” he manages to get out through his laughter, “When you overpower me.”
“Really?” I stop what I’m doing. “You like that I am stronger than you?”
“Hell, yeah,” he says. “It’s fucking sexy.”
I am thrilled with his admission and I proceed to show him just how much.
CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX
Several hours later, we are called to land by Devon, who has probably drawn the short straw to come and tell us.
“Landing time,” he says as he knocks on the door and pushes it open, not really caring that we are naked and twined around each other on the floor. “I suggest you clothe yourselves and prepare for the face of thunder that will greet you as you return to your seats.” We chuckle at him as he turns to leave. “Which by the way, not cool leaving the rest of us with an ancient Vampire in the worst mood ever to deal with while you two have all the fun. Lincoln is about ready to Wolf out.”
“You could have joined us,” Cole says as if it was obvious.
“Oh, now you tell me,” he grouses but with a smile tugging at his lips. “I will take you up on that later. I have missed our little rendezvous.”
“So have I,” Cole says, his adoring eyes on me.
“Oh, and Grayson will definitely be needed to watch Jess. Hope you gave him a heads up.”
I nod reluctantly. Although deep down, I’m glad.
Devon wasn’t kidding about the face of thunder that is directed our way as we sit. How Cole isn’t cowering in his seat is beyond me. Maybe he knows that I will protect him from my sire. As for me, well, I could kick his arse and he knows it.
He continues to glare at me. “Have fun?” he snarls.
“Yes,” Cole says. “As a matter of fact, we did.”
I squeeze his fingers tightly. Provoking CK when he is in a mood like this is suicidal.
CK shifts his gaze from me to Cole and I jump in before things get nasty. “CK, you have been in a foul mood since the pool. Please can you tell me why and I can fix it,” I say sweetly.
Cold eyes flick back to mine. “You know why.”
“I apologized already for that.”
“Not good enough,” he says shortly.
“So, you are going to rake me over the coals about it until doomsday?” I snap at him. “Why am I not surprised? Seems I have the capacity to disappoint you with just about everything I do, so much that you feel the need to punish me for months on end, whereas your golden boy over here,” I indicate to Sebastian, who has taken over Devon’s seat, to his utter annoyance, “gets a slap on the wrist for his misdemeanors.”
“Hey, don’t pull me into this,” Sebastian says, holding his hands up. “Your issues are nothing to do with me.”
“Liv,” Cole says quietly. “Don’t do this now.”
“You should listen to your husband,” CK says. “Don’t. Don’t provoke me, Aefre. I’m in no mood for your histrionics.”
“Histrionics? How dare you,” I hiss at him. “And Cole is worried about me provoking you. He is worried about me going all Dragon on your arse in this tiny aircraft. But you know what? I have had enough.” I stand and he does too, knowing something big and hurtful is about to come flying out of my mouth. He puts his hand on my arm, as I declare to the astounded faces of everyone on board, “I rue the day I ever met you, Constantine. I wish I could go back in time and run as far away from you as possible!”
There is a silence after the sharp intake of breath and then there is noise. The noise of a bustling, busy 11th century marketplace.
EPILOGUE
London, England, 1012 – Liv/Constantine
We stare at each other for a few moments, before we tear our heated gaze apart and look around us.
“What the fuck?” I ask in horror.
“What the fuck, indeed,” he says. “What the fuck have you done now, Aefre?”
“Me?” I squeak. “Why do you automatically blame me?”
“I wasn’t the one who wished to be back in time,” he snaps at
me. He grabs my hand and we both turn towards the bell tower.
“Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck,” I breathe as he sighs.
“I don’t think they can see us. At least I hope not with you dressed like that,” he says with a quick glance at my very tight, very mini dress and Louboutins. “Come, we need to figure out how the Hell we are going to get back.”
“Wait,” I say, holding him back and he follows my gaze to where I’m standing, talking to Annis – at least the me from this time. I really have somehow brought us back to 1012, to the day that Constantine and I first met. I am gazing over her shoulder at him. We look at each other – the time traveling us, that is – and then back through the crowds at our past selves. Or is it our present selves? We watch as Annis pulls me away, berating me. We watch as he follows us, and I wander off on my own.
“I look a fright.” I mutter to myself.
CK snickers. “Vain fool,” he says. “You are beautiful.”
“I’m a mess,” I say forlornly. “Look at my hair! And my clothes!”
“Shh,” he says, watching the scene intently, waiting to see what will happen, like we didn’t already live it.
We watch as he – past ‘he’ – comes up behind past ‘me’ and I turn into him.
I apologize.
“Always apologizing,” he mutters next to me. “I don’t think that there is much you can do to change what happens next, my sweet, but if you meant what you said, now is your chance,” he says with a sidelong glance.
“Of course, I didn’t mean it, you idiot,” I mutter back as I watch us introduce ourselves. “Christ, I remember wanting to touch you so badly. I thought it was your whole reason for being there, was so I could.”
“It was,” he says with a soft smile, which I return, and he puts his arm around me, giving me a quick squeeze. He lets me go, as our past selves part ways and he steps forward. “Where are you going?”
“If past me can hear current me, I am going to tell him what I should have done in the first place.” I follow that with a bit of a drag, getting confused and race after him as he stalks off in the direction of himself. My heels not made for these blasted cobbled streets, I am several feet behind him.
“You can’t interfere,” I call to him. “No one can see or hear us, obviously. And what should you have done in the first place?”
“Gone after you, kidnapped you and taken you to Normandy where I could have turned you properly,” he says back to me over his shoulder.
He stops in front of his past self, who peers at him curiously. Oh, fuck. It seems our past selves can see us.
“CK, no!” I say to him as he opens his mouth to speak. “You cannot change the past,” I reiterate.
He looks at me blandly as his past self looks at me with suspicion, his eyes lingering on the expanse of my bare legs in my heels and up to the low-cut top of my slip of a dress.
“I can if it gets me what I want. What I should have had. What I was denied.”
“CK, no,” I plead with him. “If you do this, I will lose Devon. I will lose Cole.”
“Maybe not. Maybe you will still sire them, who knows? It might still happen. All I care about is being with you.”
“What is this?” past CK demands of us. “Explain yourselves.”
My CK turns to face himself. “You have to make this right. It isn’t the way it was supposed to be. Go after her. Take her, take her and run!” he yells as I launch myself at him, wishing with every ounce of my being that I am back on the jet in 2013, outside of Toronto, with everybody who means something to me on board as they should be.
We land in a heap on the floor of the G6 with everyone staring at us.
“Where the fuck did you go?” Cole asks.
I push my hair out of my face and scramble to my feet. I turn to CK, who is looking mighty pissed off with me. I take in the rest of the passengers on board. Everyone is accounted for.
Devon is glaring at me. “Liz?” he asks.
I ignore him and turn to Cole and ask desperately, “Cole? What are you? What are you to me?”
He stares at me quizzically. “Livvie, are you okay?”
Livvie?
“Cole!” I snap at him, “Answer me.”
I fall into his arms as he says, “Charge, lover, best friend…”
“Thank the gods,” I whisper. “Wait? What?”
I pull away, turn to Devon and ask, the feeling of dread welling up inside me as he glares at me with his hands on his hips, “Dev? What are you to me?”
He looks at me as if I have lost my senses and says pointedly as he holds up his left hand, “Your husband.”
The End
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The Forever Series:
Forever & The Power of One: Double Edition
Revelations
Choices
The Ties That Bind
Trials
Switch & The Other Switch
Secrets
Betrayal
Sacrifice
Conflict & Obsession: Double Edition
Wrath
Revenge
Changes & Forever After: Double Edition
Arathia
Constantine
The Dragon Heiress (Delinda's Story)
The Dark Fae Princess (Savannah's Story)
The Dragon Realms Series:
The Dragon Heiress
Claiming the Throne
A Baby Dragon for Christmas
The Dark Fae Kingdom Series:
The Dark Fae Princess
Dark Fae's Desires
Dark Fae's Secrets
Enchained Hearts Series:
Lives Entwined
Lives Entangled
Lives Endangered
The Bound Series:
Demon Bound
Demon Freed
Demon Returned
Demon Queen Series:
Hell's Belle
Pandora’s Box
Circle of Darkness:
Wild Hearts: Book One
Savage Love: Book Two
Tainted Blood: Book Three
Dark Hearts - A Prequel
Darkest Desires: Book Four
The Early Years Series:
Aefre & Constantine 1 & 2
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Eve is a British novelist with a specialty for paranormal romance, with strong female leads, causing her to develop a Reverse Harem Fantasy series, several years ago: The Forever Series.
She lives in the UK, with her husband and four kids, so finding the time to write is short, but definitely sweet. She currently has two on-going series, with a number of spin-offs in the making. Eve hopes to release some new and exciting projects in the next couple of years, so stay tuned!
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Table of Contents
Contents
Title Page
Forever: The Forever Series, Book 1
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapt
er 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Epilogue
The Power of One: The Forever Series, Book 2
Prologue
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Epilogue
Revelations: The Forever Series, Book 3
Prologue
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Epilogue
Choices: The Forever Series, Book 4
Prologue
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99