I laughed, leaving a trail of kisses down her neck.
“Harder.”
“You are so demanding.” I nipped at her neck this time, gently biting her.
“Clearly, you aren’t understanding how much I need you.”
I tsked. “I know exactly how much you need me. I know exactly how much I need you too, but I want this to last. It’s the first time I’m taking you since you learned I’m your mate. And despite being in the woods, I will take my time with you.”
She paused grinding on my fingers and looked at me. “Since I learned? You mean since we learned.”
I shook my head, slipping a second finger inside of her and making her shudder. I ran my thumb over her clit, moving in and out as I watched her. “I knew long before you, love. You just needed time to catch up.”
She whimpered as her hands gradually made their way down my chest and wrapped themselves around my hardened cock.
She stroked the entire length of my shaft once, while I stared into her hungry eyes. She licked her lips, and I knew holding out was done.
“Take me, Illiana.” I slid inside of her, both of us groaning.
She moaned. “I missed you.” She tilted her hips, moving faster until I gripped her tightly, stopping her mid thrust.
“Slower,” I begged. “Please, Little Rebel. Slow. Let me feel you stretching around me. I want to feel every part of this.”
She obeyed, slowing her pace against me. I trailed kisses over her collarbone before licking up her neck. Lana shuddered, clinging onto my shoulders and marking me with her nails.
I took one of her hands from my shoulder and pressed it to the center of my chest. Right where I knew our bond rested. “I feel you everywhere, in every part of me,” I said, not stopping the slow, deliberate thrusts inside of her. “But I feel you most of all right here. Your soul is here.”
She let out a strangled sound. “Don’t ever leave me again, Kade. Never.”
“If I had to go, never doubt that I’d find you again. I’d hunt down the Fates themselves and demand they return me to you.”I gripped her hips and plunged into her harder, sheathing myself fully as she tilted her head back.
Fire lit in my chest as the tether between us tightened and wove into a nearly tangible thing, so much larger than it had been before.
“Kade,” she whispered. “I feel it.”
“I know,” I said with a strained voice. “I know.” I chanted it over and over as we both devolved into panting, moaning messes.
She tightened around me, hot and wanting, and as I slammed her down on my length one more time. She shattered, coming undone. The sound of her delicious orgasm sent me over the edge as I emptied everything I had inside of her.
She fell forward onto my chest, breathless and sweaty.
I lifted her hair from her neck and slid my hand there to hold her close. I never wanted to leave, even if we were in the middle of the damn forest.
She pressed her lips to my chest after a few minutes of silence except for our thudding hearts and heavy breathing.
“We should go back,” I whispered against her hair before kissing the top of her head.
She nodded. “Only if you promise to do that again.”
I laughed, lifting her from my lap. Grabbing her pants, I slipped them on her, reverently kissing her thighs as I slid them to her waist.
I rose, adjusting my own clothing, but stopped, frozen at the sight before me. My shadows spanned around Lana and the soft glow from my skin told me her light was wrapped around me. Between us, our magic lay intertwined.
“Apparently our magic wants each other too.” Lana snorted, noticing their movements as well.
Ours. All of her is ours.
“I know,” I said out loud both to her statement and my shadows. “My shadows talk to me.”
