He kissed her passionately through his tears. His hand slipped beneath her white silk gown and cupped her breasts, which were molded for his hands. Dawn took her hands down and unbuttoned his pants. She dug her hands inside and held her shaft that was now aching to spill.

Daryn shivered at her touch. "Gods I missed you woman," he said in between kissing her. He couldn't believe that Dawn was really there. The reality was overwhelming. Her scent was overwhelming.

She held it and stroked it lightly. Daryn raided her mouth as if he wanted to plunder the wealth inside. Their tongue was woven into a lap dance. Daryn pressed her so hard into his chest it was as if he wanted her to merge in him. Leaving her lips, she slid his tongue further down to her neck where he nibbled, sucked and licked her skin.

"Ah!" she groaned arching her back. Daryn got up and removed her gown to reveal her golden skin and her heavy breasts. Her nipples were strained and the rosy buds peaked for him. He grabbed one of them in his hand while wrapping his lips around the other one. He took a lot of skin around it and suckled it hard until it hurt. He left it and went to the other hungrily. She groaned in pain but didn't want him to stop. He kneaded and pinched the other one until she buckled nearing her orgasm. Daryn dipped his head to the lower curves of her breasts and sucked a little more over there before going further down.

He avoided her tummy and went straight down to the inside of her thighs. Her crotch was wet with anticipation. Daryn sucked and bit and grazed his fangs against her thighs before he plunged his mouth on her clit that was swollen with want. He started to suck it, flick, and suck it alternately. She fisted a handful of his hair and drew him closer to her bud.

Daryn was dying to put his finger inside but he stopped himself. Dawn shuddered and he knew that she was about to come. He suckled her clit harshly and then she came with a soft muffled groan. Daryn immediately left her clit and went down to lap her honey mead as he felt the waves of orgasm on his tongue.

"I am not able to resist you baby," he said and positioned himself on her entrance. He plunged in her slowly and when he was fully inside, he groaned. "I missed you as hell!" he said and moved out only to go back in. a rumble formed in his chest as he increased his pace.

Dawn pressed her face against the pillow to stop moaning loudly while he moved like a piston in her—his shaft swelling with every stroke. Her freshly swollen breasts moved up and down with his ministrations and soon he spilled inside her. He buried his face next to hers in the pillow to stop himself from roaring.

Daryn lay beside her after the mind-blowing sex they had. Once again he dragged her to his chest and clutched her waist with his knee on her. He watched her for a long time as if filling every detail while lifting her hair in his hands and letting them slip through his fingers.

She closed her eyes and rested her head against his chest. "Daryn?"

"Hmm…" he asked absent-mindedly.

"I missed you terribly baby."

He stopped playing with her hair and looked into her eyes solemnly. "I am so sorry for the mess. I should've told you about it before coming or shouldn't have come… I didn't know that all this was so well orchestrated. My mother actually planned the crash of the aircraft."

"I know it," she replied, shuddering on the inside.

"She has captured Neal, Brenda and others in her dungeons two stories beneath the castle's floor. I want to find them but every time I go around, I come across her magic. When I step through it, my skin burns and I have to retreat."

"Then don't do it for now…"

"I have to Dawn. I brought them all in this mess and I have to take them out."

She rose on the propped up pillows and stroked his handsome face. "Sedora has created so many spells around the place. Are you a victim of her spells too… as in can't you understand if the illusion she has created is different from reality? After all you are also a half-sorcerer."

His body froze.

"What is it darling?" she asked.

He took a deep breath and circled her hand around her tummy. "When I was a child, she used to throw in numerous nightmares at me whenever she was around. I never understood about them, but had to keep my lips tight about it. Couldn't reveal it to others else I would have been labeled as insane or schizophrenic. Both Caleb and me dealt with them until recently. Our nightmares increased when she was around, otherwise they were mild when she wasn't. And that is one thing I could never understand as to why I have the mild ones when she wasn't around. Now that I am here, I feel that there is Sedora's spy amongst us."

"Oh! There is!" said Dawn. "Brantley told me about it!"

"What?�� Daryn jerked his head back. "How does he know so much?"

"He knows a lot Daryn, but that is a different story." She brought him back to the topic. "Why haven't you been able to blast those nightmares? Haven't you ever tried?"

He shook his head. "I haven't tried… I just suffered because I thought that there was something wrong with me…"

"Then, now is the time to try it Daryn."

He looked up at her face.

"You need to tap that inner power. I know it isn't easy. But you are a natural born sorcerer. You should be able to conjure those illusions to break them."

Daryn turned his face away as a muscle ticked in his jaw. "I hate my mother and am so proud of my Lykae blood. I don't think those powers will ever surface in me."

"You have to try Daryn. There is so much at stake."

Even by admitting that Sedora was his mother hurt Daryn's pride, how could he tap those powers?

"Baby, look at me," said Dawn. "There is no harm in knowing what you are capable of, but it is up to you to use the powers you are vested with."

Daryn still didn't look at her. He said, "I don't think I have those powers."

She knew that the more she would say, the more he would be repulsed by the idea, so she left it.

"Every woman that I see looks like you. I was so deprived of you all this while that my mind started playing with me, and Sedora took advantage of it. Can you imagine what it is to find that every woman you are looking at looks like you? It is an overload of sensation. On top of that every morning she drugs me, so my mind just gives in to the emotions."

"That is horrible!" she winced.

He turned to bury his face on her side and inhaled her scent as if committing it to his memory again. She stroked his arm.

"The contest begins tomorrow," she said.

Daryn looked up and said, "By Skadi! How do we stop this outrageous contest?"

"We can't… I have to win my husband back," she said mirthless laughter.