Chapter Three
It was like being struck by lightning bolts.
Electric heat singed her spine, zapping nerves and frying her cells.
She tried rearing back, pushing her palms against the muscled wall of his chest.
But he held her by the nape, his mouth refusing to let her go. His tongue plunged into her mouth, drugging her with the taste of earth and fire.
She could feel her muscles weakening, her body softening against his. For a second she thought it was a response to his kiss, a purely feminine reaction to his male flesh.
But when she felt her body cooling with unfamiliar frost, she knew it was not carnal desire weakening her.
He was stealing her life force.
Larsala!
When did Dragons attain the powers of Incubus?
With everything she has, she summoned a whip of wind and pushed him. His body fell back on the quilt, his chest rising and falling in sporadic rhythm.
She had flown a few feet away from him, her hair falling across her face as she crouched on the stone floor.
She snarled. He stole her energy! It was enough to activate the binding magic of Territorial Supremacy. She could render him weak as a human and kill him with a simple hiss.
“Explain, Dragon,” she spat, the air surrounding her swirling into a wall of protection. “Explain before I invoke the protective magic to render you helpless.”
He expelled a harsh breath and fixed those dark eyes at her. Strands of inky black hair fell over his forehead, slightly shading those intense eyes. “I need you to balance the elements in my body.”
Her eyes narrowed, taking in not just his words but the texture of his voice as well. It had lost some of its extreme harshness, reverting to the normal roughness he first exhibited. His eyes no longer held the crazy pulses of crimson and black as well, but the color still remained separated, unlike the usual blend of red, black and brown.
“Continue,” she demanded, still crouched on the floor and ready to attack at the slightest wrong move.
He took in a breath, the chiselled muscles of his abdomen tightening with the effort.
“I need to take a part of your life force, a water creature, to handle and stabilize the water elemental medicine in my body. My life force is not complimentary to the elemental energy of an ocean medicine, it cannot use it the right way. Thus the poisoning.“
She remained crouched on the floor, refusing to relinquish her defensive position.
Why should she trust him? She tried to find a hole in his explanation but came up blank.
Her nails dug into the limestone floor. What did she know about elemental energy? About dragons? About complimenting life forces? None!
And as she watched his chest rise and fall, she noticed the crimson stain had faded a shade lighter, too. But it was there, lurking beneath his skin like a live pulse.
She forced herself to straighten but she did not drift back toward him. “So you are better now?”
A spasm tightened his muscles. “Not yet.”
She sneered. “You are not taking more of my life force!”
“I will not kill you,” he growled, but the rumble was still too weak.
