A rough growl tore from his throat and his hand tightened slightly over her pussy.“Continue, female.”
“I think…I think you’d been somewhere,” she said, furrowing her brow as she tried to remember, trying to think past the haze of lust fogging her mind.“You’d been gone for a little while, maybe to the Golden City, but I’d stayed behind since it was only a short trip.And when you got home that night, you were…ravenous.We had sex twice before we’d even made it to the bed.”
Vikan hissed out a breath, his cock pulsing against her back.
Taylor gasped when his fingers lightly ran between the seam of her sex.“Y-you were rough,” she whispered.“But I loved it.I needed it.I neededyou.And when you made me cum, I remember fisting my hands in these furs, unable to do anything but just…just feel you.”
“Vrax,” he cursed softly, even as he lightly played between her thighs, just a whisper of a touch, nearly not enough pressure to make her orgasm.
But it felt nice.It felt…intimate, as if they’d done just this a million times before.
“Did you feel the blood bond then?” he rasped.“Between us?”
For some reason the question made Taylor feel vulnerable.
“I think so,” she replied.“I—I don’t even know if I understand what it is.”
Vikan’s fingers paused and she felt him brush a kiss across her neck again.“You wish to know?”
“Cecelia said something about it, when she came back from wherever she’d gone,” Taylor said.“And I know for certain I’d dreamt of it that night, right before you came for me.”
“What did it feel like?” he asked her.
She’d been afraid that he’d ask.But she’d gone this long without fear stopping her, so she found herself saying, “It was like we were one.”
“Tev.”
“I…I could feel you, your thoughts, your emotions.I felt everything you felt for me and I knew that I broadcasted just as much to you.It was equally terrifying and yet, it felt natural.Normal.”She turned to look at him over her shoulder, licking her lips.“I…”
She trailed off, not knowing if she could voice the words.
“Tell me,” he murmured, his free hand coming to caress the space between her brows, where a line had just formed.Then he ran that hand down to her lips.
Her lips brushed his fingers as she said, “I loved you.”
Vikan’s pupils dilated, becoming so black that she could see her reflection in them.
His voice was gruff as he said, “And I am certain I loved you,luxiva.”
Taylor swallowed past the thick lump in her throat, breaking the contact and turning in his arms so that she looked out the window at the dark sea.Her heart was pounding in her chest and she blew out a steady breath, trying to get her heartbeat back under control.
It was quiet for a moment.And then she gasped, feeling the dream changing and shifting.Vikan pulled them from their bed, pulled them out ofLopixaentirely until they stood in front of a circle of giant, stone statues.
Land stretched for miles in all directions, the sea nowhere in sight.And Taylor knew that they were no longer in the western lands, nowhere close to them.
It was dark, the full Luxirian moon still hanging overhead, illuminating the faces of the statues that towered over the both of them like skyscrapers.They were arranged in a perfect circle and Taylor counted six.Three males and three females, their expressions, weathered and smoothed with time and exposure, were calm and serene.
“The Fates,” Vikan murmured down to her, tucking her close to his body.“We are in the plains of theRavrax’tor.This is where the mating ceremony, theravraxia, takes place.”
“I…I don’t understand,” Taylor confessed, looking from him to the statues.
“This is where the blood bond begins,luxiva,” he said.“When fated mates perform theravraxia, they come here, or another sacred place, and ask for the Fates’ blessing.”
“Okay,” Taylor said softly, looking up at the statues.“And how do you know if you get their blessing?”
Vikan purred, making Taylor flush.“You will know, female.It is said that once the Seeing is complete, the mating call consumes the pairing, but it is intensified.A gift from them,” he told her, jerking his head towards the Fates.
“Intensified,” she whispered, thinking back to earlier that night, when she’d been overstimulated with need and desire so potent it had scared her.She couldn’t imagine this ‘mating call’ even more intense than that.
