Then she collapsed on the bed in her beauty.
49
TEMPEST
Don’t leave me again.I spoke the words simply in his mind, but they clawed their way out.I nearly lost you too many times.
I will always be yours.He continued to gently stroke my inner walls with his threads, and I knew it wouldn’t be long before I was bucking beneath him once more. What he’d done had only whetted my appetite for everything Vexxion.Even when I was lost in the ether, all I could think of was you. I could never give up. My place is by your side, in your bed, and within your arms.
“How could you forget me?” I croaked, awash with the pain I’d felt when he looked at me blankly.
Residue from the ether?
Perhaps.
Few knew anything about what happened when someone’smagic was drained to the point where they lost the thread keeping them from falling from this world into the next.
He rose above me, kissing me, and I tasted my passion on his mouth. His head lifted. “I love you now. This is all we’re ever given, Fury. This moment in time. If I’m granted tomorrow, I’ll love you then as much as I do now. The day after that? Same. Years from now, I’ll still feel everything when I look your way. And when my body finally rests, I’ll dream of my love for you. Always.”
I cupped his shoulders. “I love you.”
He nodded. “Let me show you. Now and tomorrow and even on my final day. Follow me when I go. Dream with me. Be with me until this world ceases to exist and there’s only our souls entwining in the sunlight.”
The intensity of my love for him shook my core. No one else could ever match the way I needed not only his touch but his undying devotion. This wasn’t only about passion or desire, but the profound connection between us that made me whole. He was the part of me I’d been searching for since the dawn of time. Every moment without him felt incomplete, and every glance from him ignited something inside me that no one else ever would.
“Let me show you,” he said again, moving his threads deeper and faster inside me.
They caught my emotions and swirled them through me, heating me to a blaze only he could extinguish. I was dry tinder caught by fire, and the feel of it was a roaring beast this man had tamed.
“Yes,” I breathed.
His gaze locked on mine, and he smiled with such joy that my heart melted before surging up in my throat. I wasn’t sure I could take more, yet I would. I’d pull it in and give it back tenfold to this man alone. No matter how fiercely I burned or how hard I crashed, I’d land safely in his arms.
He kissed me hard, and I could taste his need on my tongue, fiery and heady. The thread of my control would soon snap, and if he didn’t love me completely soon, I was going to roll him onto his back and stake my claim on his body.
The need I felt for this man would never wane. It was a feral thing inside me, a fierce longing that demanded I take until he had nothing else to give.
Losing him had nearly ripped me apart. It was all I could do to hold myself together. I didn’t want to think about a time when I might lose him completely. I’d sunder the world to keep it from happening.
While some of his threads drove me closer to the edge, others wrapped around my wrists, tugging my hands above my head.
“Too fast, lovely mate,” he purred in my ear. “I want to take this slow. I need to see every bit of emotion on your face as I consume your body with mine.”
I laid beneath him, writhing as his mouth glided down my throat and over to my breast. While he stroked one nipple, his tongue flicked across the other.
“I want you wild,” he said. “Can you let everything come undone for me, my fury?”
Vexxion,I growled in his mind.I need you now.I was aflame for him, burning to ashes in a way I never had before, not even with him. We’d come so close . . . Knowing he loved me again, that he wanted me as much as I did him was all it took.
I bucked up against his threads, and he lifted his head, watching me with complete adoration in his eyes. The sharp edge I loved was there as well, and it fit with his threads keeping my arms bound above my head.
Others coiled around my ankles and tugged them farther apart, while a few slid beneath me and thrust my hips up. He was placing me in a position that many would consider vulnerable, but I savored it, moaning as he centered his cock at my opening.
One thrust seated him deeply, and we both groaned.
All I could think of—feel—was his body deep within me. His gaze locked on mine, and seeing his need edged with a hint of vulnerability made me come undone. His obsession with me and the almost overwhelming way he wanted to consume me should make me eager to run in the opposite direction. But I couldn’t. I didn’t want to. He was the only person that saw who I was deep inside and still loved me. He empowered my weakness, fanned the heat of my fire, and lifted me when I needed the boost to keep going. His selfless way of giving humbled me. Knowing he loved me despite my flaws was enough to sustain me if life sliced between us once more.
Then he started to move, slowly, almost gently at first and in complete contrast to how he had me pinned to the bed and splayed out for his pleasure alone.
