Chapter 121 Tomb Raider's Reward Ch3

• The ruin is alive. She feels it — humming in the back of her skull, vibrating through the stone floor under her bare thighs. Every breath comes too fast, every heartbeat matched by the pulse in the idol’s eyes. Red. Gold. Black. A warning — or a promise.
• He watches her like a predator still half-starved — back braced against a slab of carved rock that must’ve been a sacrificial table centuries ago. His shirt’s ripped open, chest slick with sweat. The scratch marks she left blaze angry and raw across his collarbone. He looks like a god. Or a devil. Or both.
• “You gonna run again, princess?” he drawls, voice wrecked from growling against her thighs. “Or you gonna climb on like you mean it?”