“Yes.”
As the forest trees grew tighter together, their leaves overhead formed a sort of canopy. The result was that the area they were walking in was very, very dark, but it was also very, very dry.
“Where are we going?”
Felix had her cradled like a baby. She leaned her head against his chest. It was wet, and she knew her hair was, too. It was comfortable, though.
“A safe place.”
“You know this island well.”
“I do.”
“Have you been here a long time?”
“No more talking,” Felix said. “Save your strength.”
She wasn’t sure why he cared about her strength, and she wasn’t sure why she trusted him, but there was something familiar about Felix, and she knew, deep within her soul, that he wasn’t going to hurt her.
She closed her eyes, and she nestled her head against him.
She hated how safe she felt with this stranger.
She hated how warm and wonderful he was.
Tabitha had been running for a long time. She’d been searching, looking for answers, and she’d been trying to find a way to get revenge for what had happened to her people. She wasn’t used to feeling protected like this, but she was a little bit worried that she’d get used to the way it felt.
She was here on a mission.
She needed to remember that.
Chapter 6
The girl was strange indeed.
In all of his days, Felix had never met anyone quite like her. She was soft and cute and sassy. She was mouthy. If it were up to him, he’d pull her over his knee and paddle her bottom until she was soft and compliant and tired. Then he’d slide his cock into her wet pussy and fuck her deeply until she came again and again, just for him.
That was what he wanted.
That was what he craved.
He’d been with women before. He’d been with women who were older than him and younger than him. Some of them were magical and some were just ordinary humans, but he’d learned a lot during his life, and he’d learned exactly how wonderful it was to make a woman fall apart just by touching her.
That was what he wanted for Tabitha.
He walked through the forest, carrying her. He hadn’t planned on taking her anywhere at all, but he was curious about her desire to find Ursula.
Oh, she would never find her.
The witch was dead, and Felix had burned her corpse as soon as he was certain she was dead indeed. She wasn’t coming back. She wasn’t going to hurt anyone ever again.
And Tabitha would never, ever find her.
What did she want with the old witch, anyway? A girl like Tabitha should have stayed far away from a place like this. That was what he really wanted to know.
Why had she come here?
What was she after?