Stars above.
When he eventually pulls away, his hands slide to her hips, and he leans closer.
“I have longed to do that since we left the hotel kitchen,” he whispers near her ear, his ragged breath warm on her neck.
Both their hearts are racing now.
“H-have you?”
His lips graze her skin below her ear, and a shiver runs the length of her body as she gasps.
“My magic wants you,” he murmurs.
“D-does it?”
He pauses for a moment before his voice slips tentatively past his lips again. “I want you.”
His warmth seeps through his leathers as she clutches his shirt, and his hands are hot where he circles his thumbs over the soft flesh near her waist. What is he thinking of doing?
Is he even thinking at all?
“My plant magic is...difficult to hold back sometimes,” he whispers. “I-I feared my vines would search for you in the candy store.”
He was thinking of her like that even then?
“Don’t hold it back,” she breathes as her eyes slide shut and memories of their time in the dark of the heartlanding fill her.
“We don’t have to go out there again, do we?” he asks, a vulnerable note in his voice. “I like it here with you. It’s safe here with you.”
“S-someone might miss us,” she says through halting breaths as one of his vines wraps around her leg.
He sighs and presses his forehead to hers. “You are a welcome distraction from the fears filling me.”
“Am I?”
He doesn’t respond. He just finds her lips again in a gentle kiss as his vine wraps around her beneath her shimmeron gown.
Here in this tiny alcove, where he can be himself for just a little longer before they have to face the world once more.
No Longer a Secret
Episode 80
“You’rewarminguptheentire alcove,” Arisanna whispers as Cerian lets his vines wander.
“It’s all right. I’m managing it.”
Barely. He won’t last much longer before he needs to pull back, but his fire isn’t out of his control quite yet.
And he’s enjoying this too much to stop. She seems to be enjoying it, too.
Voices arise from down the hallway, and they freeze.
“That’s my father,” she whispers.
“I believe I hear my father’s voice as well.” He listens closely for a moment. “They’re looking for us.”
Panic widens her eyes, and she looks so adorable he steals another kiss. He can’t seem to help himself.
