Savine pressed her back into the bed and leaned over her body to kiss her. His kiss was urgent and hurried, like he was afraid she may slip away from him. The tension in him was palpable. The need to claim her as his, and she wanted him to. She wanted him to take her, body and soul. She’d never felt this taut, like strings ran through them both, drawing them closer and closer to melding the two of them into one and never unraveling.
Savine flipped her over onto her belly and straddled his body above her ass. He began working the ties on her dress. He unfastened thedress quicker than Avery expected and pulled her up to her knees. His hard arousal pressed into her back. He cupped her breasts through the thin slip she wore and said in a deep voice that reverberated off her taut skin, “I prefer your breasts free from those bindings.”
Savine held both her breasts in his hands as he caressed them. His mouth worked up and down her neck and over her collarbone.
Based on where this was going, they were definitely going to have sex.Finally!But she had to know. She needed him to say what he wanted with her. The aching between her legs was enough to drive her insane, and the need to feel him, all of his hard length in her, was insatiable. Avery pulled away from his body and rolled onto her back. The groan from him as she drew herself back was enough to make her want to ignore this need to ask him this question. But not quite enough.
“I want to feel your cock in me. Is that what you want too?” Avery asked. He stilled with the look of a predator before its next meal.
“I want nothing more than to bury my cock in you, my little witch. But there is still something we have to see through to the end before I can do that,” Savine said. His reply was like a bucket of cold water was dumped on Avery. Avery sat up and gave herself a little space to read his expression. The look on his face was pure desire.
“Please. I need you. I’ve never needed anyone like this before. It feels like I’ll snap in two if you’re not inside me.” She couldn’t believe she was begging him like this. She’d never begged anyone. Ever. And yet, she really would snap into pieces without him inside of her, melding her back into herself.
“That feeling. I feel it too, little flower.” Savine crawled toward her, pressing his body against hers as he began kissing her outer ear. In a low, seductive whisper he said, “Have I ever told you how much I adore these round little ears of yours?”
“No! And what is stopping us? What could be so—” She said the words before she realized what was bubbling between them. A current built between them. It felt like a magnetic pull to be with him, to have all of him fill her and spill into her. This need. This urge—it was primal and instinctual and likenothingshe’d ever felt with another person.
Her voice didn’t sound like her own as she spoke. It sounded hoarse with desire and need. “Oh, my God. We’re soulmates.”
Savine pulled his lips from the crook of her neck and looked at her. For the first time, she saw it. She saw him. All of him. Her other half. It was so obvious to her now. How could she not have realized they were soulmates? From the moment they touched, Avery had felt something different about him. And that undeniable chemistry just grew and grew, even when she tried to ignore it.
Savine’s hands shook as he took her hands in his. His face was washed in a mixture of relief and guilt. “You feel our bond, don’t you?”
All Avery could do was nod as she stared back at her other half.
“Do you hate it? Having someone so broken for a soulmate?” Savine asked. His face was nothing but pure anguish at the thought of her rejecting him. But she couldn’t reject him. It would be like rejecting a part of herself.
“No. I don’t hate it.” Avery shook her head as a little laugh burst forth. “I’m relieved, actually. I’ve been feeling confused about why I feel so much for you, so fast. But this? This is like on a whole other level. It’s this magnetism that we can’t help. Nothing has felt so natural as what I feel for you. And yeah, that’s terrifying. But it’s also good to put a name to what I’ve been feeling. Savine, you’re my soulmate.” Avery paused as she looked at Savine. The raw emotion on his face was enough to make Avery’s breath catch. Tears glistened in his eyes, and he had an apprehensive smile on his face. “I’m honored to be your mate, Savine Ralathian.” Avery leaned in and gently kissed the twotears that marked his cheeks. Then she kissed him on his lips. He kissed her back, gently, hesitantly, as the pulsing need to bind themselves together pushed around them.
Savine pulled back from her and looked into her eyes like he was looking right into her, to the very depths of her being. “I am yours until my dying breath. The forest may crumble, and the stars may fall, but you will have my love for eternity.”
He loved her? Of course he did. Honestly, all those weeks of being friends had left his true feelings bubbling below the surface. She’d seen how he looked at her and knew that his feelings for her grew deeper every day. She’d felt it when they touched and felt it just by him looking at her.
Avery was never more confident as she said, “Complete the soulmate bond with me.” There would be no turning back after that. No finding a way back to Montana. Her life would be bound to Savine’s, and she would no longer be the woman who landed here. Granted, she didn’t know what completing the soulmate bond even meant. Nobody had bothered to tell her.
“I want so fucking bad to complete the soulmate bond with you. I’ve been fighting this urge to bond with you since that night at the lake. But we have to wait. We cannot consummate our bond until you are safe.”
Avery was dumbstruck. Confusion wafted over her as she sat up to better understand what he said. Avery was back with Savine, and this was the most natural thing in the world.
“But I’m safe with you now. The bond may give me more protection from being Rylo’s captive.”
Savine shook his head as he spoke. “Everyone already knows you’re my soulmate. I shouted it as Rylo stole you away. Jasper knows too. Once you are my bonded soulmate, you will be a subject of Jasper’s.I’m looking for a way to defeat him without using you, but I’m afraid Rylo is going to force the issue in two days.”
Damn.
“So the soulmate bonding… What exactly is it then? Like when we have sex, we’re going to have some sort of magic bond that binds us together for all eternity?”
Savine stroked her exposed skin, making the warm, pulling sensation between them stronger. “Do you feel that tug between us when we touch?” Avery nodded. Wherever his caress skimmed her skin, it felt like she’d catch flame. “I should have known right away what it was, but I was in denial. First, I thought our connection was because of your human magic. Then I couldn’t believe the Goddess would give you to me. I don’t deserve you.”
“Please stop saying that,” Avery said, but he brushed his fingers to her lips, stopping her words.
“When two soulmates acknowledge there is a bond there, our bodies will try everything to get us to seal that bond. That can happen through sex of any kind, but our body will be demanding what it craves to seal our bond in place. Every soulmates’ bonds form differently, depending on the couple. But I think it’s clear what both of our bodies want to seal the bond.”
Avery glanced down at the bulge in Savine’s pants. Her hot core felt needy and empty just looking at him. Yeah, she knew exactly what her body craved.
Savine looked at her as if he knew just what was on her mind. “We cannot seal the soulmate bond tonight. But that will not stop me from licking and tasting between your legs until you are screaming my name in pleasure.”
Avery shuddered, and her skin prickled at his words. Slowly, she lifted her arms over her head. Savine didn’t hesitate to pull the slipfrom her body, exposing all of her to him. The soft evening light illuminated her skin. The look on Savine’s face made her feel like a queen.
