“Then why would a bit of mourning scare me?” He took my hands. “I knew from the beginning that loving you would have an end . . . for both of us. I felt it. You're it for me, Ember. Once you're gone, nothing will matter.”
“Rath,” I whispered. “Please, don't say that.”
“You wanted the truth. Here it is. When you die, I will quickly follow.”
“Fuck, Rath.” I launched myself at him.
He caught me with a soft laugh. “I've accepted it. Don't fret, love.”
“Don't fret?” I pulled back to look at him as I straddled his lap. “You just told me you'll die when I do.”
“Does that mean you'll finally apply yourself to your combat training?” Rath's eyes twinkled.
“You asshole!” I slapped his chest. “That better not have been a ploy to get me to train harder.”
He went serious. “No, my love. I wouldn't lie about that. I am yours until your last breath and then I will take mine.”
“Goddess damn it! Stop saying that shit.”
Rath chuckled. “All right. On one condition.”
“What?”
He held out his hand, and a breeze swept through the room, lifting the oil bottle off the bedside table and bringing it to him. With a wicked grin, he said, “You'll need to take my mind off it.”
“Oh, I think I know the perfect distraction.” I took the bottle, opened it, and poured some oil into my palm.
As Rath took the bottle back to cork it, I rubbed oil over his long rod, massaging it until he groaned and leaned back on his hands to watch me. When he was nice and slick, I reached behind me and rubbed the remaining oil over my entrance. Then I rose on my knees, and he straightened his legs so I could bring mine in even closer. Holding Rath's hot gaze, I angled him at my entrance, then slid down on him slowly.
“Fuck,” Rath groaned. “Oh, fuck, Ember. Great Goddess, you're tight.”
I clenched and made him groan louder. “You like that?”
“You know I do.”
“Good, because I'm going to be doing it a lot. Tonight and every night we're together after that.”
He sat up to kiss me, running his fingers through my hair as we moaned together, then eased back to say, “You see? You're worth it.”
I pushed Rath back into his lean, then slid my hands down his chest to massage his pecs. Oh, the feel of his smooth flesh beneath my hands. The pebbled nubs of his nipples. The stretching of my body around his. All those sensations merged into a magnificent moment. Pleasure so great that I quickly rose on its wings. As I did, I felt Rath there beside me. Not just in my arms or even in my body, but inside him. That piece of me in him came alive, pulling me into him as his flesh surged into me.
“Ember!” Rath cried out, one hand lifting to clutch my shoulder.
“Rath!”
And then the ecstasy took us, lifting us on a geyser of love and bliss until we erupted with it. He filled me as I came across his chest, and then we collapsed together, Rath sitting up to hold me as I wrapped my legs around him. Inside me, his flesh softened, but I clenched my muscles to hold him there.
Rath smiled against my neck. “Let me go, little spark.”
“Never.”
“I love you.” He laid us down on our sides, his cock sliding free of me despite my efforts.
Still, I held on in other ways, and Rath knew it.
“I love you too,” I said as I nestled in against him. “Forever.”
“Yes, forever,” he whispered. “However long that is for us.”
