A whimper slips from my lips, and I watch as blazing eyes turn the darkest shade of wine.
Folding his head forward, my prince leans his head towards mine, pushing our foreheads together. “If you make that sound again, Princess, I cannot be held responsible for my actions.”
My breath catches in my throat at the sound of his desperation.
It leaks from his voice and the bond.
Want…
Need…
Desire…
Connection…
Our connection—it’s undeniable. This moving thing within and between both of us is a new song that I’m becoming more and more attuned to.
My body thrums along to the sound of Rivern’s power. It’s almost like my human senses are heightened.Will I receive his fae abilities if we fully bond?
“We can’t,” I whisper.
“We can’t?” he questions.
I need to run far, far away from this fae prince. All I can feel is him, me and our bodies.He has brought me fully into the present. Past and future no longer exist within his embrace.
“No! We can’t,” I shriek in a hushed tone.
This fae will be the death of me. And here, I thought it would be a wolf that kills me at the request of a disillusioned king. Turns out, it is going to be the Goddess-bonded fae prince who sets my blood to boil instead.
“You can’t hide from me, Dove. I feel you, in here.” He pushes his palm on his chest.
“That’s what I’m afraid of.” I bring my trapped hands up towards Rivern’s upper chest and trace the lines of his markings around his perfectly sculpted frame.
With our bodies flush together, all of the hard muscles and lines of his body become one with mine, including a hard length below my waist, seeking something it cannot have.
No, no, no.I shake my head vigorously.
My mind has only one focus, and I don’t know how to pull it away from the prince who has gripped my body tight with a claiming, a vigour I have never known.
I am melding to his will. To the bond’s will…
At this moment, I am utterly lost to my fae prince.
thirty
Rivern
She is everything Ididn’t know I needed.
The idea of us becoming fully bonded sets everything within me flaming, and I cannot hold my arms back from their explorative groping of her body.
Each moment I spent with Dove plastered against my body while we were riding Mage deeper and deeper into the forest away from Haven filled me with a need, a feeling I can’t describe—something I have neverfelt before.
She slept, and I clutched her to me like she was the sweetest of all the prizes. One I will never let go. The thought of being away from her rips through my very framework.
She is mine, and that wolf will have to kill me before he ever gets to her.
When she mentioned the possibility of her not making it to Terra to teach my people the song, I lost it.
