The Pentagram Child: Part 1 (Afterlife Saga Book 5) (34 page)

“Catherine! What are you doing?” Alex hissed as if I was committing the biggest crime this side of Italy.

“What does it look like I’m doing?” I said hoping to sound seductive enough to get him to at least play along. After all, this was supposed to be a romantic trip away and so far all we had done was bicker.

“It looks like you’re doing something stupid.” He reprimanded and this made me turn to see he was in fact scowling at me. I frowned pulling down my gloves and kicking off my shoes before thinking my new favourite saying, ‘oh to Hell with it!’ Then I said, 

“No, I am about to do something fun!” And then took a running jump and did a cannon ball into the pool. I couldn’t help but smile under the water at the fact it was heated but when I rose to the surface I soon lost my smile.

“I refuse to deal with this!” Alex was saying as he walked away.

“Alex! Where are you going?!” I shouted after him but he just continued on until he was out of sight.

“Fine! You were a killjoy anyway!” I shouted knowing he couldn’t hear me but at least it made me feel better. I mean what was his problem? It wasn’t as if they would chuck us out of the hotel, the worst I would surely get would be someone coming in here telling me it’s closed. Jesus but it was sometimes like dating a choir boy!

I just shrugged my shoulders and turned my back on the lit entrance. It would have been nice to have seen all the room as the water looked quite eerie and black without enough lighting, but I was in here now, so I was going to make the most of it. Of course I was going to look a little obvious trying to get back to my room with ringing wet hair but thankfully I had spotted a large amount of towels as we came in so at least there was that.

I had to say swimming in a corset was definitely a first for me and not the easiest feat at that. But there was also something very sexy about the way it clung even tighter to my skin when wet. I swam over to the side and decided to pull the pins from my head to free my hair from its confining side bun. I was just glad my feet could touch the bottom at this end as there were so many pins I would have probably have got cramp from treading water for that long.

Once my hair was down I swam back into the middle and dived under the water. Then something bad happen. I had been busted! It was when I was still underwater that someone had suddenly flipped the lights on and I could now see the soft glow lit all around the pool. If I hadn’t needed to breathe I would have both said ‘Oh Shit’ and stayed under there hiding. But of course I was human so, I had little choice.

“Hello Love.”

“Draven!” I shouted in utter shock at seeing him here.

“Keira.” He said my name with a grin he didn’t try and hide, unlike me when I couldn’t stop my arms from crossing over my breasts that were nearly spilling over my underwear.

“What are you doing here?!” I screeched moving further away from where he stood casually against one of the marble pillars. He was still wearing his tux and the last time I had seen one on him was when he took my virginity, making me shudder with the intense memory.

“I must say sweetheart that you have developed quite the knack for breaking and entering…tell me Love, is this a new hobby of yours?” He teased ignoring my question and pulling his bow tie free.

“I hardly think this constitutes as breaking and entering, Draven, it’s an open archway not Fort Knox.” I said frowning.

“That’s true… no warehouse fire escapes to pull down, no ivy ladders to scale, no fences to climb or villas to scope out… I think you see where I am going with this.” He said after taking off his suit jacket and now he was undoing the buttons of his shirt. I thought he was going to stop at the neck but oh no, he wanted to try and give me heart failure and carried on going.

“Er…what are you doing?” I said as his cufflinks dropped to the floor without him touching them. His shirt quickly followed and I watched open mouthed as he threw it casually on top of his jacket. I tried not to notice all those lickable muscles but one thing I couldn’t ignore was the two bands of leather that I knew covered the scars that he always kept hidden.

“Isn’t it obvious?” He asked smirking and I snapped my mouth shut just so that I could swallow the pebble sized lump that went down like hot coal. I shook my head letting the wet strands part and one stuck to my cheek. This made his smirk deepen to a one sided grin as his hand went to the fastening on his trousers.

“I’m becoming an accomplice.” He finished at the same time as unsnapping his pants.

“Ohh my…oh dear…ok, ok…umm…” I started making all these noises in response to seeing him getting naked and I had to quickly turn round before I passed out and drowned. I heard his deep laughter behind me before I heard the splash. I needed to get out of here…like in a big friggin way!

I started to make my way to the other side, wading through the water to get there quicker but was stopped when an arm quickly wrapped around me from behind.

“Hey you, where do you think you’re trying to swim off too… um?” He said all this with his lips at my ear and the feel of his rippled muscles at my back had me close to drooling.

“Uhh…” Was the only sound my brain could muster up my body into making. I looked around the room trying to focus on anything other than the desire blooming within me, pushing against the barriers I had put into place. Of course one look at the room and I knew I was in trouble. Let’s just say there was a reason it was called Spa Sensual!

The large room was made to feel so intimate with its low ceilings and ambient lighting in blues and muted orange and pinks. All the lights were directed at the walls and some twisted iron art work that also doubled as a water feature. The sound of water trickling along different materials like metal and glass added that gentle sound in the background that was needed to cover the pounding of my heart. Then there was the marble loungers running along one wall and the whole place reminded me of some kind of harem, as I could just see naked beauties spread out seductively, trying everything to entice the King at my back. But wait…where did that vision just come from? It was so real, like a flash of the future.  

“Well at least breaking into here I didn’t have to worry about you breaking this pretty little neck.” He hummed as he tantalisingly ran his fingertips up and down the length of it. This was the point that a moan escaped and he growled behind me quickly making me forget any vision. Luckily it was also the moment that I came to my senses and tried to pull myself from him. Although this was Draven we were talking about, so it didn’t exactly go to plan, as in, not at all. No, instead of me getting my own way his arms tightened across me and the fingertips that were exploring became a full hand at my neck, holding me immobile.

“Tut tut Keira, I think you know by now how I feel about you leaving my arms.” This made me frown and find my anger through the heavy weight of lust that was also infecting my mind.

“Actually I know exactly how you feel about leaving
me
as you have done it often enough.”

“Ah there she is.” He said ignoring my pissed off tone altogether.

“Let me go, Draven.” I demanded and I felt him sigh behind me before he granted me my wish. I pushed away and turned to find both his arms outstretched as if making a show of letting me go.

“You can’t just do this whenever you feel like it.”

“Do what exactly?” He asked raising an eyebrow and folding his arms across his naked chest. The action caused his biceps to bulge and now there was no material hiding them I felt my mouth go dry at the sight. There was that delicious line from the rounded and defined muscle of his massive shoulders that cut into the powerful force of his arms. It shamefully made me want to lick the length of it.

“You can’t just come flying back into my life when it suits you, then walk away, leaving me with nothing but a load of cryptic shit to deal with and a messed up hea…head afterwards.” I said and thankfully caught myself before I said the word heart instead of head.

“I’m not going anywhere this time, Keira.” I couldn’t help but laugh at this.

“Yeah right…whatever! Look you wanna be friends then that’s fine, it won’t be easy but I think I can do it but we will never be anything more, not again, do you understand?” I asked trying to sound firm but it was getting harder when he kept stalking closer to me. I hadn’t even really realised it until now but I had been moving backwards. So how I was shocked when my back hit the side of the pool I didn’t know.

“Uh…so…do you…understand that is?” I asked as he came at me to the point where I had to tip my head right back to say this. Both his arms came to rest either side of me, gripping the edge of the pool and I knew this was Draven’s way of saying you’re not going anywhere and effectively caging me in.

“You want to be friends then that’s what we will be.” He said this in a way that sounded far too friendly to be classed in the same realm of ‘Just friends’.

“Well, alright then.” I said filling the void with something that didn’t need to be said but helped mask my nervousness anyway. Well ok, given the look Draven just gave me he knew I wasn’t masking diddly squat but thankfully he didn’t have to say anything other than with his cocky grin.

“I must say
friend
, if I thought you looked exquisite in your dress earlier then now I think you look like Heavenly sin in the rain.” Draven said and I had to bite my lip to stop myself from saying something stupid or more like…
dangerous.
However, Draven took this silence as an advantage to continue with whatever game he was playing with me as he first leant forward and said,

“You’re blushing Keira, any reason for that?” So I did the only thing I could and that was escape. I quickly ducked under his arm going under the water and swam away to the deeper end. I was left trying to stand up on my tiptoes before I knew I would be treading water.

“I don’t think you have had many girlfriends…I mean…girls that are friends that is…you know what I mean…like before.” I said stumbling around the words.

“Are you suggesting that I don’t know how to behave?” He asked and I knew it was another tease.

“Oh I
know
you don’t know how to behave, that’s my point.” I said in reply laughing and once again watching as he stalked me through the water.

“Then educate me.”

“Yeah right, isn’t that like teaching an old dog new tricks?” I said now teasing him back and not being able to help the compulsion.

“Well this old dog responds well to petting if that helps.” At this I burst into a fit of giggles and threw my head back.

“I’m starting to think you might have a behaviour disorder, Draven” I said but finished it with a little yelp when I saw how close he now was again.

“What me?” He said and before I could register what he was doing by leaning to one side, I just felt a hand shackle my ankle and pull. I went under the water with a gasp and came back up immediately when he gripped my waist and lifted me back to the surface.

“Oh no, now you have gone and done it!” I said after pushing the hair from my face and then launching myself at him trying to take him down. I wasn’t sure whether it was all my weight being thrown against him in my surprise attack or whether he in fact just let me take him down but we both went under, with me on top of him. I didn’t miss the way he kept his eyes open under the water as I did or the way he was smiling in a way that mirrored my own daft grin.

We both came back up for air but I knew only one of us needed it.

“And you think I have behaviour problems.” He said pushing all his wet hair back with one large hand. I was just thankful I didn’t start spluttering at the sight. In fact all he was missing was a waterfall and him throwing his head back to some cheesy nineties track…I had something like Mysterious Girl by the endearing Peter Andre in mind.

“Keira, you’re chuckling again and I have no clue why.” On hearing this I stopped and bit the bottom part of my smile.

“And now she blushes…I have no hope.” When he said this I couldn’t resist and put both my hands together and pushed water in his face, splashing him. I ended up giggling again when his hair flopped down in front of his face and I could just see as he lifted an eyebrow at me. This was when I started moving backwards again smirking.

“Now, now Draven, play nice.” I warned in vain.

“Just remember sweetheart, you started this war.” And this was my only warning before he was at me and lifting my body in the air to then throw me back into the water. I went under like a sack and came up gasping to find him laughing.

“Oh you are so going down!” I warned pushing my hair back like he had done and the play fight began. I wasn’t sure how long this went on for but it only stopped when I was gasping for air from both laughter and exertion.

“Ok, ok! You win…you win.” I said as he had my wrists gripped tightly in his hands.

“Of course I do,” he said being cocky. I rolled my eyes and tried to pull my hands from his hold but he wouldn’t let me. I gave him my wide eyes in question as he walked us both backwards into the deeper end.

“I can’t stand up here.” I said now relying solely on Draven to keep me afloat. He leant his face closer to mind and whispered,

“Oh, I know.”

I was left treading water but after our ‘fight’ my legs felt like jelly and really weren’t up for the task. I think Draven must have felt me flagging because he started holding up all my weight with his hands.

“I think somebody could do with a little pick me up.” He said and for one shocked moment I thought he meant his blood. However this panic only lasted for a second before it was consumed with another one. He suddenly let go of my wrists but before I could go under he had both my thighs in his hands and he spread my legs at the same time moving flush in between them. Then he wrapped my legs around his waist and my instincts kicked in to grab onto his shoulders.

“Much better.” He commented looking intently down at me.

“Uh…I think at least one of us should point this out as I don’t think you will but…”

“But?” Draven said getting closer to my lips.