“I love you,” he breathed.
I couldn’t speak. I just nodded. He knew how I felt, the bond ensured that. He knew a few more encounters like this might just break down the fortifications around my heart and I’d let him in.
God! I was so close!
Our pace hadn’t even picked up, but the intensity had, hard and needful. And with his next slow crash against my core, I came apart.
My mouth gaped, but no sound came out. I wanted to throw my head back, but I forced myself to focus on what I saw in Myel’s face. A tear left his eye and traced his cheek as I trembled on him, my vagina working hard to strangle his cock, desperate for his release.
A hint of a smile curved his lips as he whispered, “Perfect.” Then he grunted, his face contorting in rapture as his body shook and his cock erupted inside me.
Wow… eye contact during an orgasm was… profound… transcendent. It changed me, a small broken part of me mended. Tears filled my eyes as well.
And when I’d come down enough to speak, regainingsome breath, I said what I hadn’t had the words for a moment ago.
“You feel like…home,” I breathed. And we both knew what that meant for me. Because I’d never had a home, a safe place, a comfortable place. But now I did, in Myel.
“Izzy?”
The new voice — above us — shocked Myel and me so violently, we came apart awkwardly. I stumbled as my weak-as-water legs hit the sand, then fell on my ass.
I looked up and there — hovering above us, angel wings keeping him aloft — was Vyns. Who’d seen and heard everything.
VYNSIEL
What in Heavenswas Izzy doing?
Didn’t she know mating with beastfolk was illegal?
Why would she evenwantto be withthis man?
This was wrong on so many levels. Saldrea would destroy Izzy if she knew.
Luckily, as I’d flown out here, I’d seen no one else around. Izzy and hercompanionwere far from campus. I’d only known where to look because of her draw upon my spirit.
I landed, furious.
“What are you doing?” I hissed, keeping my voice low, even though no one else was around. “Who is this? What’s going on? How could you…?” I let out a frustrated, disgusted sound and turned away, stalking down the beach. It was hard to look at Izzy, lying on the sand flushed and breathless.
“He knows!” the other man hissed. “We can’t let him live!”
Yeah, good luck with that, buddy. I was no slouch. I could take a shifter any day of the week. The most experiencedtigers or bears might give me a decent fight, but this one looked young still.
“Myel, no!” Izzy cried out. “He’s a friend, he won’t tell anyone.” Then in a different tone, “Will you, Vyns?” The uncertainty in Izzy’s voice was a knife to my heart. She didn’t know if I’d keep this a secret. She should.
I heard shuffling in the sand, someone approaching slowly. “Youarea friend, right Vyns?”
Was I?
I’d hoped we could be so much more. I’d hoped she’d be the one to save me from this wretched world, but now…?
Why was she with some shifter?
Wait…
“Isthisthe other man you’re with?” I asked, spinning to face her. I’d thought it had been a demon. This wasfarworse.
“Yes, Vyns,” she said, stoic. She looked me in the eye and spoke slowly. “We’re mate-bonded. We. Have. No. Choice.”
