Page 34 of The Hidden
The moon’s light plays with the golden highlights in his long hair, and I find myself momentarily distracted. “What?”
“Why would the Eyrie be traumatized by the way your people dance?” he clarifies.
“Oh right. Because typically, if you were to go to a club or something, you’d find a lot of people grinding on each other.” Suttons confused look makes me smile. “That’s a dance where the couple writhes and rubs up on each other like they’re having sex, but they’re not actually having sex,” I explain, and I track Sutton’s tongue as it darts out and wets his lips.
“Even our slow dances are way more intimate,” I tell him as I take his drink out of his hands.
I set both of our mugs on the ground and then step into Sutton. I grab his large hands and place them on my hips, and then I reach up and wrap my hands around his neck. I have to stand on my tiptoes, and Sutton bends down a little to make it easier for me, which makes me laugh.
“Fuck, you’re tall,” I observe as I pull his body flush with mine. I feel his breath hitch, and I like knowing I have this effect on him.
“You’re beautiful,” he answers back, and he groans a little when I play with the hair on the back of his head. “So once you get in position, then what?” he asks, tightening his hold on my hips.
Heat fills me, and I run my gaze from his eyes to his lips. “Then you just sway,” I explain, showing him how to move his weight from one foot to the other. “You spin in a little circle, swaying like this, and just feel each other.”
“I think I like the way your people dance much better than the way mine do,” he admits, and I laugh.
Sutton leans down to close the distance between our lips. I smile in encouragement and close my eyes.
Finally!
His full pout barely skims mine before he pulls away suddenly. I open my eyes, a sound of protest sitting on my tongue, but I blanch when I see Zeph shoving Sutton away from me.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Sutton looks confused by Zeph’s actions. He’s pushing back as if to defend himself from his leader but not escalating things beyond that.
Zeph bellows, “Mine,” in Sutton’s face, and his sage gaze widens with surprise.
“I didn’t know, Syta, I would never…” Sutton defends, and then he throws up his hands in surrender. He shoots me a disappointed look and then turns and walks away.
What the fuck?
“Sutton!” I shout out and try to go after him, but Zeph steps in my way.
Pigeon wakes up inside of me, and my vision changes as I get ready to shift and let her deal with this asshole.
Zeph grabs my neck and leans down into my face. “Mine, little sparrow!” he growls at me, and I’m completely floored when I feel Pigeon practically melt into a puddle of mush inside of me.
“Pigeon, what in the actual fuck are you doing?”I demand, but she’s already backed off, and I know I’m not going to get any help from her in dealing with this prick.
“Sutton!” I shout out again, but he just walks away, shoulders slumped, leaving me to deal with Zeph all on my own.
My chest aches with the rejection, and I turn my furious gaze on Zeph. “That is the second motherfucking time you’ve been a raging, cock block, douchebag! What the hell is your problem?” I yell at him, shoving at his chest, more pissed than I have ever felt in my life. I want to kill him.
“You will not look at, let alone entertain, another gryphon again!” he shouts at me, and I see fucking red.
“You will not fucking tell me what I can and can’t do, let alonewhoI can and can’t do. I am a grown ass woman who likes sex, and I’ll fuck whoever I want! And there isn’t shit you can say or do about it!” I scream back.
Zeph says nothing, just picks me up and slams me over his shoulder and stomps back toward the castle.
“What the fuck are you doing? Put me down!” I demand, but of course he fucking doesn’t.
“Pigeon!”I scream internally.“You better wake the fuck up, you lazy turkey, because I am not dealing with this shit on my own!”
“If I have to lock you up, little sparrow, I will, but you will obey me,” Zeph snarls, pulling me from my internal battle with my useless gryphon as he carries me inside the cliff castle and starts up the stairs to get to my room.
“Pigeon!”I try again. Nothing.
