Dark Hunger

Elize had shown Laurel who was the queen. She had also shown that whose clout worked on the sorcerer king. And it was certainly not hers. This also implied that if she wanted, she could easily dispatch Laurel back to Ixoviya whenever she wanted and that she could even slap a treason label on her face. 

When Caleb placed a kiss on her lips, she grazed him with her fangs and drew a little blood, which she licked on her lips and some smeared on the corner of her mouth. Caleb's breath hitched and he seemed so intoxicated by their blood kiss that the world faded into darkness. All his attention was on his wife. He brushed her cheeks lightly. "Are you comfortable now?" he asked, his voice breathy. 

"I am, love," she replied and rested her head on his chest and then shot a dark glance towards Laurel who was still twisted in her seat to watch them. Elize raised her eyebrow as if to ask why she was looking at them. Laurel immediately turned her head back in front and gasped. Elize then opened the front button of her shirt till her bra and slid the collar of the shirt down to her arm. She cocked her arm a little to him and said, "It hurts here too." 

Caleb let out a rumbling growl and then waved his hand over there to heal her. Warm magic dropped from his fingers and spread all over the arm. Elize started showing more of her skin where she was hurt and he continued to spread his magic there. In the end it was her butt where she wanted it. And Caleb said, "Auril, we need to stop somewhere. Elize is not well." Damn it! How could the wolf leave her butt? It needed his immediate attention. 

"If we stop right now, I fear that demons will close up on us," Auril replied. "We must travel a few more hours and then we will stop." 

"He is right," said Elize. "I have made a blunder and we can't take any chances." 

Caleb pursed his lips. "But I want you to be as comfortable as possible." 

At that Elize bit her lip, then took his hand and guided it to go inside her pants to her buttock. "Now heal me." 

And Caleb did just that. Biting back a grunt, he sent his magic to her skin over there. She sighed with magical relief. Settling closer to him, she closed her eyes and buried her face in the crook of his arm. He grabbed his jacket from the side and covered her with it. The magic worked like a charm. Soon she had drifted off to sleep. Caleb rested his head on the back and he too drifted off to sleep with his mate well protected in his arms. 

As for Laurel, she was left to fend to heal her own bruises that Elize had given her. Slowly, she healed herself while grunting at every little pain. She realized from the last interaction that she had gone all wrong. She had to renew her strategy if she had to win the king's heart. In her race to take revenge from Elize or to put her down, she had forgotten the main purpose. She glanced at Auril who was driving the car and a plan started developing in her mind. And she had to meet Urhan urgently. They were soon going to reach Wick Airport and once they reached the airport, it would become all the more difficult for her to get rid of the vampire. 

Elize jerked her eyes open when the car came to a stop. She yawned and stretched in her husband's lap and rubbed her eyes. "Where are we?" she asked. 

"In the middle of the highway!" said Auril. "I can't keep my eyes open, Caleb. You have to drive! Also, I have taken us to a nondescript highway. I hope we have left the demons far behind." He got out of the car and stretched.

Elize got out of Caleb's lap. She also got out of the car followed by him. Caleb gazed down the length of the highway. "It is ideal for our purpose." The highway was deserted looking like a deserted air strip with forest on both the sides and mountains in the far distance visible through light fog. Old snow lay in clumps on the side of the road but the road was mostly clear. 

"Why don't you let me drive?" said Elize as she inspected the highway. 

"Do you know the way to Wick?" Auril asked. 

"No, but what are Google maps for?" she said, lifting her chin up. She surveyed the area. The waning moon lit the forest, the sky clear. Mist rolled on the sides. "I can't believe we are so far north and there's not much snow. 

"True. But we can see the northern lights," said Caleb. 

"Oh really! Where?" 

Caleb pointed to the right, just above the dark silhouettes of the trees in the forest and said, "There's Aurora Borealis." 

Even though Elize had lived all her life in Ireland, she had never seen the northern lights. Her gaze followed and when her eyes fell on them, she inhaled sharply. Glittering blue and pink and violet lights danced against the velvety black sky. They swirled and twirled, highlighting the stars around them. "It's beautiful," she murmured. 

And Caleb watched her watching the lights. "Hmm, it is…" he replied absent-mindedly. 

They all settled in the car with Elize at the wheels. She was itching to drive this beast from a long time and as soon as she was on it, she pressed the accelerator. The car sped and even at a hundred miles an hour, it was hugging the road. Breaking the highway limit thrilled her and she squealed in delight as Caleb shook his head and chuckled. She pressed the accelerator further and they all were plastered to their seats. Laurel was shit scared but she dared not say anything to the queen. She looked at Auril who was sleeping without a worry in his life. He was hardly bothered when the car reached over one fifty miles. 

Elize hadn't been this thrilled in her entire life. This journey with Caleb, for Auril, proved to be one of the best. By the time she was at one hundred eighty, she realized that she was getting aroused as hell. She licked her lips and then glanced at Caleb who was sitting very quietly. "Anything wrong, Caldy?" she teased. She knew his entire body had gone stiff. 

"Pull over!" he said very quietly. 

"Why?" she asked. 

"Just pull over!" 

She pulled over. He opened the door and jumped out of the car. He rushed to her side and Elize was sure that he would ask her to sit on the passenger seat as she had blown the speed limit. But what happened next surprised her. The man opened her door, unstrapped her and then lifted her from the car to set her feet on the road. He closed the door and pushed her against it. "Caleb?" When he cupped her face with his hands and leaned over her, her hand shot to his shaft. Caleb drew her towards him for a deep kiss. She rubbed him over his shaft and he hissed. 

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