Reaching up, Quinn stroked Ariana’s black diamond pendant with its enormous sapphire. As his long fingers touched the sapphire, it seemed to burn upon her skin as it flared with a deep blue glow. But it was a good burn as Ariana indulged in his caress, his fingers slipping from the pendant now to stroke her chest. Watching his fingers, Quinn was careful with her.
But also alert, like a man obsessed as he touched her.
“What is this resonance?” Ariana breathed as she swallowed hard, loving his cold-hot glow in the night – needing it, though she also needed answers before they could continue. “Why did you run away from me so abruptly last night… when this sensation rose between us?”
“Magic is happening between us, Ariana.” Quinn breathed as his fingers continued to stroke her, delicate yet oh-so-needful. “An immensely strong resonance of a kind I have never felt before. I ran from you last night because I did not trust myself to confront this strange power. Confront it, and not damage you or ruin myself, which might easily have happened had I lost control. Forgive me; it was callous of me to run away like I did. I know I need to face this, which is why I invited you here tonight. And you came.”
“I had to come.” As the moon rose higher above the grotto, Ariana felt its power like a sweet burn – one she began to drink, in and in. Closing her eyes as Quinn caressed her, she absorbed the moon’s light and his dark touch. As the moon’s radiance flowed over her skin like the waterfalls all around, diving deep into her body, Ariana reveled in it. And as she reveled in Quinn’s touch also, she felt it spark that silver-gold heat inside her again.
Radiating her new Dark Fae power out and out – as a shimmer of dark rainbows curled from her in the night.
“You’re drinking my energy.” Quinn breathed as he touched her, closer now as they sat together. “You’re drinking it in with the light of the moon, to create your blossom of power now. Feeding from my touch and the moon like a Vampire… as you revel in it also, like a Fae.”
“It’s opening something inside me,” Ariana breathed as she sat entranced by Quinn’s dark touch, and feeling her power slowly blossom out around her. “Something that blooms more with every moment I bathe in the moon’s light. And your caress.” She had to confess that last part; she couldn’t deny it. Just the very act of Quinn touching her, sitting so near to her, caused her to unfurl deep inside like some dangerous, rare blossom as her dark rainbows shimmered in the air.
“Yes.” He spoke softly, still smoothing his fingers over her chest. “You drink power like a Vampire, but from your reveling in life like a Fae, you create power also. A true Dark Fae – able to wield the very best of Vampire and Fae magics.”
“What do you mean, the very best of both magics?” Ariana breathed, reveling in Quinn’s touch as that luscious silver-gold and rainbow-dark mist eased out from her spine for the second time tonight. The sensation made her arch deep now as she allowed it to come; as she did, Quinn’s hand slid up to cup her jaw and neck, holding her still to that massively decadent sensation. It was vastly erotic to have him hold her motionless in the night as that enormous pleasure blossomed all through her. As Ariana’s eyelashes flickered, she saw her dark rainbows swirl around her in the night with brighter flashes of silver-gold light.
“Your magic is so strong already, Ariana,” Quinn breathed as he fell into her, closer. “And just as I desire to feel how strong it is… I also fear it. For you undo me. You undo everything I am, all the control I have ever built, as your powerful dark-light pours through me. You hold me in the palm of your hand… and gods, how I hate it. And love it.”
His lips were near hers now; Ariana could feel their chill heat so close. She could feel how hard he controlled himself from blazing tonight, though she also knew how desperately he wanted to succumb and let fate take hold. Like a gentleman, Quinn held himself back from her; though like a dominant he tempted her with his nearness, controlling her so she had to unravel to him rather than him unraveling to her. Ariana felt his subtle games; she felt how they spun her, his dark nimbus of power licking out all around her now and teasing her flesh with its sensual tendrils. As she felt it, Quinn’s hand slid down, tightening around her neck.
Holding her throat firmly, as her lips rose to his.
“Quinn…” She breathed as a delicious ecstasy throbbed all through her now, needful.
“Ariana…” He breathed back, still holding himself back from kissing her as their powers surged in the night. She couldn’t help it; her body strained towards his with the rising music and their diving magic all around, and the ecstasy of the moon. Her body was moving now with a subtle undulation like a dance as his power dove gently into her flesh like caressing fingers and hands. She felt it, taking her. She felt him seeking her out, seeking out what made her powerful and wanting it. But he was also captivated by it, as if the sheer beauty of what she was was so much more than a tool to be used.
And it held him in the night – just a breath away from kissing her.
“Gods of the Night, I want you…” He breathed, close now as he shuddered.
“Then take me.” She breathed back, loving the way he held her despite her saner mind. As his fingers tightened around her, possessive and dominant but oh-so-needful, Ariana gave a small cry. He could hold her here forever in this heady ecstasy, or he could crush her throat with a spasm of his fingertips. He was just that strong, she knew. And she wanted that power crushing her close in the depths of the night.
All night long.
“I’m afraid…” Quinn spoke back as their lips hovered so near and he held her so still. “That if I take you… I will not know who is the Master and whom the servant.”
“Does it matter?” Ariana breathed back, simply wanting him to throw her down on the bench from the passion now rioting between them. “Does such a thing as Master and servant really matter with what we’re feeling and sharing right now?”
“But what if it ruins you? Or me? What if this is a power we are unable to control? What if it puts people we care about in jeopardy?” Quinn spoke with a sudden intensity as his lips moved closer and his hand tightened on her throat, producing another cry of pleasure from her. Those oh-so-soft lips eased over hers now and everything inside Ariana clenched with need.
“Then surrender!” Ariana gasped as a beautiful dark-light sensation flooded all through her, knowing her solution was the truth, even as wild and impossible as it seemed. “Surrender, Quinn, to what’s happening between us. I don’t know how this connection happened; I’ve never felt this intensely for someone in so short a time, ever. But I know something that seems impossible and even idiotic right now… is somehow the truth. It’s true, this feeling between you and I, this resonance. I can’t deny it. Can you?”
As Ariana spoke the truth of her deepest intuition to him, something inside her suddenly sang. As if expressing her truth had rung her magics and the resonance between them like a bell, a music of magic seemed to pour from her as her wings surged wide, shimmering fiercely in the night. As that music chimed deep inside Ariana, she felt it resonate Quinn’s energy, flowing all around her. As the tendrils of their power twisted deep into one another, that sound suddenly vibrated with an otherworldly resonance.
Like the music of angels, as it soared around them in the night.
Ariana felt Quinn’s breath catch in a sharp inhalation. His dark eyes burned upon her now like galaxies aflame as his other hand slipped up, cradling her low back and pulling her closer. As that music thrummed through them both, unearthly and wild, his fingers caressed her neck, his lower hand pulling Ariana hard against his iron-wrought body. But she could feel him warring deep inside; fighting with his need for her and the truth of what was happening and his fear at losing control. As that music between them soared, weaving into the music of the string quartet, their connection roared.
And Ariana gazed up into Quinn’s dark eyes – seeing them blaze with pure red-gold fire in the night.
He kissed her. Dark rainbows, flame, and silver-gold light lanced through both their auras as Quinn suddenly kissed her, diving in hard as he sought Ariana’s lips – and she kissed him back. As the music careened between them with a roar of power, Ariana succumbed; they took each other with lips, magics, and hands now as Quinn’s and Ariana’s hearts both thundered in the night. Ariana felt him give in to his massive passion.
And her passion matched it as their auras roared in the night with that powerful, darkly angelic music.
A bright midnight filled the grotto now; the stars were like diamond daggers as they seemed to fall from the sky as Ariana’s energy whirled and danced to Quinn’s kiss, and his did the same. She felt his lance-sharp fangs cut her lip but she didn’t care as their tongues delved, shadows roared, music sang, and stars slit the night sky. The moon was suddenly burning upon her skin as Quinn’s strong hands heaved her up into his lap. Seizing her, needing her, his kiss was pure decadence as he devoured her hard in the night.
