Savine’s smile was so big, he seemed lighter, so unlike the hard, bitter man he was when she first met him. “I’d actually planned for this to happen tomorrow night in our bedroom. But, I like the idea of sneaking away from the burdens in the residence to bond with you better.”
Savine wrapped his arms around her, cupping her ass as he leaned in to kiss her. He pulled back and Avery thought she could get lost in his soft blue eyes and the rippling motion of his essence; the way his wind tousled hair fell effortlessly around the crown on his head.
She was his, completely, fully and he was hers.
She’d never had someone to call her own. It was comforting and terrifying all at once, knowing that agreeing to this was a lifetime commitment.
Avery had always shirked commitment, yet here she was, jumping head first into this commitment without a doubt in her mind about her decision. It made her heart race and her body feel grounded all at the same time.
“You are everything I ever dreamed or hoped for. I’m yours, Savine. I never knew I was waiting my whole life for you, but I was, and now that I have you I’m never letting you go,” Avery said.
Savine’s eyes dilated, and with an infinitesimal nod of his head he was scooping her into his arms, carrying her to the water’s edge. He held her tight enough that she thought she might bruise where his hands dug possessively into her flesh. The bond between them bucked and writhed, and Avery relished in the feeling of his desire for her down their bond. Heat pooled between her legs and her own desire pulsed down their bond.
Savine let out a deep groan as he placed her feet on the ground.
“You can feel how bad I want you, can’t you?” Avery asked as she began stripping off her jacket, then her shirt. The crisp air stung her exposed flesh, cooling her heated skin.
“I can feel it. I can smell it. Abyss damn me, Avery, I want to be buried in your need for me,” Savine growled.
His eyes took in her exposed body as she dropped her pants, standing before him in only her underwear. When he reached for her, she gently pushed him back and slid out of the last remaining garments, exposing all of herself to him. She stepped back, letting her feet hit the cool flat rock of the hot spring’s edge.
“I told you to come and get me at the lake. Well, Savine. Come and get me now, and never let go.” She stepped from the flat rock ledge and into the hot water, letting the steam surround her. The pool was deeper than she’d expected, up to her breasts, but it was lined with a stone bench for sitting and resting, or in their case, having sex. She slid away from the bench, feeling the granite sand bottom beneath her feet.
Savine stood on the edge, his erection straining at his leather pants, but he didn’t move as he watched her in the water. Thelast green ferns of the season covered Savine’s boots and moss covered rocks glistened in the steam from the springs.
“Just look at you. You’re beautiful,” Savine said, his voice husky. “I never let myself hope for this—but here you are. And you aremine.” The essence under his skin swirled as he tugged off his clothing. In quick, steady movements, he was bared to her.Hewas the beautiful one. So unlike any human man she’d ever been with. His body was a work of art, muscles stacked on muscles and accentuated by that pulsing, shifting essence. In one stride, Savine entered the pool while also letting his crown sink away.
He submerged himself under the water, swimming across the bottom of the pool toward her. Through the clear water, Avery saw Savine reach out and grab her ankle, pulling her toward him. She couldn’t help but laugh and scream as he pulled her down into his arms and under the hot water. She found his face and kissed him hard. The feel of his body surrounding her, with the warm, soothing water was pure bliss.
When they surfaced, Avery gasped for a breath and clung to Savine, her arms wrapped around his neck. All the hard edges of his fae features were softened into a silly grin. She let out a squeal of laughter at the smile on his face.
He laughed with her. “Goddess above, Avery, I never knew loving a person could be so… so fun. But you bring that out in me. This part of me that I didn’t even know I had. Is it a human thing?”
Avery wrapped her legs around Savine’s waist, feeling the hard length of his erection between them, as she traced his essence while he held her close in his strong arms. “It’s an us thing, old man.”
Savine knelt deeper into the water. Its heat drifted around them as he slowly brought them across the pool and set Avery down on the bench at the water’s edge. Savine worked his handsdown her side, squeezing and teasing her flesh as he explored her. Avery’s nipples pebbled, and she knew it wasn’t from the chill in the autumn air. She felt the connection between them tighten, like their bond was this living thing, demanding they unite their bodies and souls. She thought about all the love, all the need she had for him, and sent it down that mysterious connection between them.
Savine let out a moan as he locked his eyes on hers. “Avery. Goddess damn me, your arousal is consuming me.”
With a slosh of the water, Savine caged his arms around her and pressed his mouth against hers. She tilted her head back and opened her mouth to him, tongues crashing together. Avery kissed him and touched the invisible scars on his back, touching each one in tandem to her deepening kisses to erase the years of pain, of trauma, that he’d experienced. She kissed him for the new beginnings for both of them. He didn’t say it, but between them, she could feel the barriers he’d built up around himself over the years begin to crumble.
Savine’s hand swept up to Avery’s peaked breast, his warm hands heating her cooled skin and Avery couldn’t stop herself from arching into his touch. He squeezed and teased her sensitive skin. Damn, she wanted to melt into him right now and he hadn’t even touched between her thighs.
She grabbed Savine’s wrist and guided his hand down to her heated center. Savine growled as he dipped a finger into her.
“Fuck, Ave, I can feel how slick you are for me, even in the water.”
Before she could reply, Savine grabbed her by the ass and set her on the cool, flat stone surrounding the pool. She shuddered at the sting of it on her hot, aching body, but she didn’t protest, didn’t fight the chilly embrace against her heat. Savine knelt before her on the bench as he reverently spread her thighs. Theadoration mingled with lust in his eyes was the most beautiful thing she’d ever seen. She’d never known love like this.
Avery leaned back on her elbows, her arms sinking into the soft fronds of a fern, and spread her thighs farther, letting him take in all of her. She couldfeelhis low hum vibrate off the stones as he tightened his grip on her thighs.
“Don’t make me beg. I’ve waited long enough for you,” Avery moaned.
Savine’s hands roamed up to the apex of her thighs, stroking her clit in a way that made her shake. “No Ave, I want to feel you come for me first.”
He slid one finger inside her, stroking and touching her as she squirmed against his hold. Finally, he added another finger into her center and pumped into her slowly at first, but increasing his pace with each heartbeat, each pulse of their bond. She was already feeling the pressure of her orgasm building at the base of her spine, but when Savine stroked her clit with his thumb, her body responded like he’d hit her with a jolt of lightning. Coiling tension threatened to burst out of her.
“Savine,” she shouted, like a thunderclap, Avery plummeted into her orgasm.
