FAZER LOGINChapter One Hundred and Twenty FiveAriaI woke before dawn and for a while, I didn’t move. The room remained dim around us, pale gray light spilling softly through the curtains while silence wrapped itself around the bed in a strange kind of peace I still didn’t fully trust.Zane slept beside me, actually slept and not the restless half-awareness he usually carried. Nor was it the rigid tension that followed him even in silence.He was really sleeping. His arm remained heavy across my waist, holding me against him like sometime during the night his body had decided distance was unacceptable even unconscious, and for the first time since I’d known him, he looked human.The sharpness was gone from his face while he slept, the constant calculation had disappeared completely, leaving behind something quieter and unexpectedly exhausted.Younger, almost.My chest tightened painfully at the sight, because now I couldn’t stop hearing his voice from the night before.I didn’t just choose you
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty FourAriaThe air in the room was thick, and heavy with the scent of us. It reeked of cedar, salt, and the sweet, musky scent of sex and a night that refused to end. Zane stood over me, his chest heaving as he looked down at me on my knees. Without a word, he reached down and hooked his arms under my armpits, hoisting me up until my legs instinctively wrapped around his waist.He didn't let go. He kept me flush against him, his hardness a hot brand against my belly as he carried me toward the massive expanse of the bed. Every step he took sent a jolt of friction through me that made my head light. He tossed me onto the center of the mattress, the silks cool against my heated skin as I sank into the pillows, completely sprawled out."The door was for the King," Zane rasped, his eyes dark with a hunger that felt bottomless as he crawled over me, his knees caging my hips. "The floor was for the warrior. But this... the bed is for the man. I want to see you
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty ThreeAriaThe echo of my scream was still bouncing off the stone walls when the world finally stopped shaking. The heavy silence that followed was thick enough to choke on, broken only by the erratic, ragged hitch of our breathing and the faint, rhythmic groan of the door hinges settling back into place.For the next couple of seconds, Zane didn’t move. He stayed pressed against my back, his forehead resting against the corner of my neck, his chest a thundering furnace that kept my body trapped. I was a liquid mess, my legs barely holding my weight, and my skin still tingling from the violent pressure of that climax.Slowly, almost tentatively, I felt his hands move to the silk sash at my wrists. The brutality of him fucking me like a mad man vanished, only to be replaced by a gentleness that felt like a secret. He untied the knots with painstaking care, his fingers light as air. Once my hands were free, he didn't let them fall. He brought my wrists to
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty TwoAriaThe word hung in the air, thick and heavy, vibrating with the force of a royal decree.“Strip.”I wanted to tell myself that I hadn't heard properly, but it was impossible, not with the way Zane's eyes were trained on me like a fucking snack he couldn't wait to devour.At this point, my heart wasn't just hammering, it was trying to claw its way out of my chest. I stayed backed against the cold oak of the door, my breath coming in shallow, jagged hitches.Zane, on the other hand, didn't move. He stood just inches away, a dark, looming shadow of a man, his eyes tracking the frantic pulse jumping in the hollow of my throat."Did I stutter, Aria?" he rasped, his voice a low, dangerous warning. When I didn't answer, he continued. “I don't think I did, so don't make me repeat myself.”His warning sent jolts straight to my pussy, and it took everything in me not to moan out loud. I bit down on my bottom lip, but it did nothing to make me feel less hot.
Chapter One Hundred and Twenty OneAriaThe air around me settled into something dangerous immediately. Of all the things Zane could have said, never in a million years did I think that was what he was going to start with, and worse, I hated that I understood the double meaning in his words.I didn't even have time to breathe before his hand was at the back of my neck, his fingers tangling in my hair with a possessive grip that forced my head back. When his mouth crashed into mine, I literally saw stars. Not that I was complaining though.The kiss was deep, punishing, and obscenely hot. He tasted like the bitter coffee he’d been drinking and the raw, sharp edge of a man who was done being patient. For a split second, my brain tried to remind me where we were, in the corridor just outside Kieran's confinement room , surrounded by guards that could show up any time and I shoved against his chest.But the moment my palms met the hard, unyielding muscle of his torso, my resolve shattered.
Chapter One Hundred and TwentyAriaBy the time we returned, the palace no longer felt tense, it felt worse , almost infected if you asked me.The atmosphere had changed completely in the hours we’d been gone, like the knowledge of Lena’s escape had spread into the walls themselves and poisoned everything it touched.People moved differently now, guards watched each other too carefully, servants lowered their eyes too quickly, and conversations stopped the second anyone important walked into a room.Nobody trusted coincidence anymore, and after what Kieran revealed? Neither did I. I would be a fool to think that anything affecting the citadel was accidental now.The moment we entered the strategy hall again, the commanders gathered inside stood immediately. Exhaustion carved deep lines into most of their faces now, but underneath that exhaustion sat something colder.Disturbance, and the kind of realization that changed how people saw the world around them.“She was reporting to someo
Chapter Sixty EightAriaThe weight of my own plea hung in the air, thick and desperate. I was vibrating, my skin singing from the friction of his tongue, and my bound wrists straining against the silk ropes.I wanted him. No matter how hard I tried to deny that, I just couldn't. I wanted the fulln
Chapter SevenAriaHoly hell, the place wasn't a bedroom. It was a stage set for kings alone.It was magnificent!The first thing I noticed was the decor. The entire room was defined by a striking, high-contrast palette of sapphire and gold. The sapphire dominated the vertical space, while the gold
Chapter SixAriaFix us…My breath caught in my throat.The word almost cracked me open right there on the altar.I hated Rhett, but I hated myself more. I hated how stupidly pathetically in love with him I was. How, after everything, I couldn't put him behind me. How I still thought he looked hand
Chapter FiveAria“Aria Nightwind,” a woman’s voice called beside me at the entrance of the hall where I stood in an elegant white dress, adorned with the rarest onyx stones that sparkled like moonlight against a blade’s edge, with a bouquet of lilies held tightly in my grip.The dress was expensiv







