Taylor pulled back for a brief moment.“He’s decided to forgive you.He said he’ll talk to you tomorrow, but that you’re off the hook.”
Vikan closed his eyes, unable to believe his luck.“Truly?”
“Yes,” she murmured, smiling.“I can tell how much he cares about you, how much he respects you.He wants you to be happy.”
“And what about you, female?” Vikan rasped quietly, looking down at her, feeling the coolLopixabreeze brush between them, bringing the scent of the sea with it.“You never answered my question.”
“About whether I would be happier without you?” she asked, quirking her brow.
“Tev,” he murmured.“You have my heart,luxiva.For the rest of our life spans.I just want to make sure that I will be enough to make you happy.”
Her breath hitched, her eyes softening.“Really?I have your heart?”
“Tev,” he rasped.“Always.”
And then she smiled so brightly that Vikan was momentarily stunned by her beauty, his chest thrumming with his Instinct’s pull.
Then her smile softened and she reached up to brush a finger across his lips.
“Last night I had another vision,” she whispered, instead of answering his question.
“Tev?”
“I was pregnant.”
Vikan sucked in a rough breath, a purring growl immediately rising in his throat.In a flash, he pictured her, heavy with his offspring, and besides hisluxiva, he had never wanted anything more in his life span.
A child…
He had given up all hope for a family.But with his female…anything was possible.Those old dreams awakened like a roaring fire that threatened to consume him.
“It was after a lunar celebration and I had fallen asleep.And you were carrying me into our home,” she whispered, her eyes soft with the memory of it.“And that night, as we lay in bed, you fell asleep with your hands over our growing child and I laid there and felt our blood bond.I felt how much you loved me even as you dreamed.I felt how much we loved each other and how excited we were for what was to come.”
“Luxiva,” he rasped, emotion bursting in his chest.
“In that vision, I remember that feeling of happiness, so intense I never thought it could be real.I remember feeling that love,” she whispered.“And I feel those same thingsright now.In this very moment.”Softly, she pecked his lips before lifting her eyes to his, a teasing smile on her features.“Does that answer your question?”
Vikan growled, need and desire and love and excitement strumming through his body.It released him.Every worrying thought, every fear…they were gone.
Taylor gasped out, “Vikan,” as he caught her lips once again, kissing her until their heads spun and their hands began to wander shamelessly.
“Tev, luxiva,” he said, pulling back to rest his forehead on hers.
He gazed into those beautiful green eyes that had just given him the entire universe.
With a smile, he said, “It answers everything.”
EPILOGUE
TWO MONTHS LATER…
It was a strange sensation, Taylor mused sleepily, whenever her visions came true.Like deja vu, but more intense, since she knew everything that came next.
She smiled, sighed, and stretched against her mate’s warmth.Outside, gray light filtered in, a cloudy sky greeting her when she glanced out their large window.Vikan said the cold season was coming, but Taylor didn’t mind the change in weather, especially when she had a gorgeous male to keep her warm in their plush bed of furs.
It was the night after the lunar celebration she’d seen in her dreams so long ago.She’d fallen asleep in her mate’s lap during the festivities, he’d carried her into their home, they’d made love in the bath, and then she’d fallen asleep in his arms.
And now it was morning.Her mate still slept soundly next to her, his arms still wrapped around her growing belly protectively.Vikan was going to make such an amazing father that Taylor cried whenever she thought about it.Already, her hormones were making her an emotional wreck and she’d never cried so much in her life.Mostly happy tears, but sometimes she cried because she was worried she wouldn’t be a good mother or she worried that something might happen during the delivery or simply because she was frightened—and excited—to begin this new chapter of their lives.
