“Ave, you’re mine.” Savine’s voice was raspy and his essence bucked across his skin. Even as she was lost in her own release, she knew Savine was experiencing it with her through their bond.
His mouth was on hers, and Avery bit and sucked down on his bottom lip, drawing blood as her body crested with wave after wave of bliss, Savine still gently caressing her inner walls.
When Avery opened her eyes, she saw her soulmate staring at her with such tenderness that it made a knot form in her throat.
Savine slipped his arms around Avery and guided her into the heat of the pool, positioning her on his lap, legs straddling either side of him. Avery could feel his hard cock pressing betweenthem. She reached her hand down, guiding his length forward and pumped his cock, causing a moan to escape his lips.
His voice was rough as he said, “You are the best thing to happen to me, Avery Hollis. I am still broken and will undoubtedly make mistakes, but I want nothing more than to have you at my side, as my partner and mate.”
Avery smiled, twining her free hand into his hair. “I see you, Savine. I see all of you and there’s nothing I don’t want. You are this lost piece of myself that I didn’t even know I was missing, but now that it’s here I don’t think I could survive without it.”
With that, Avery guided Savine’s cock to her center and slowly slid down, stretching around him as she took in every inch of him. For a moment, they just looked at each other, and Avery could have stayed in that moment forever. Then the tension between them built, the insatiable need to ride him caught up to her. Avery rolled her hips and Savine responded, meeting her movements beat for beat. She leaned down and kissed the swirling essence along his neck.
As they moved together, the bond between them tugged and writhed, pulling and sweeping them closer until Avery thought she could die from the need to meld herself into Savine’s body.
More.
She needed more of him, all of him.
Body and soul.
As if he knew it too, Savine arched up, gripping her in his strong arms as he turned them, laying Avery down on the cool stone and bed of moss behind them. He brought his hard, firm body down to her, putting just enough of his weight on her that she felt herself become fully consumed in him.
“Ave, I never thought…” Savine said, emotion on his face. Before he could finish his sentence, he kissed her. All of his need for her, all of her own desire to share this life with him reached a crescendo as Savine’s thrusts built into a frenzy of desire.
She was so close to the edge when the taut bond that had been tugging for weeks burst open between them. Avery crested over the edge and came with Savine’s name on her lips. He followed, burying his face into her neck as her inner muscles pulsed around his pumping cock.
Then, the bond fell loose. Brilliant colors filled Avery’s vision as she and Savine were transformed into light and brilliance. She clung to Savine as the final spasms of their release flowed through them. They were both glowing in a soft green light. She touched Savine’s chest and the light softened, sinking into his skin and revealing his essence below.
“That was… That was life changing,” Avery panted.
Savine nodded, stroking her cheek and she could actuallyfeelthe strange glowing light soak into her face.
“Look at you. Glowing with our bond.” His thumb stroked her lips before he took her in a soft, gentle kiss.
He pulled out of her, but kept her close to him as he gently lowered them both back into the hot springs. The water stung her cooled flesh and she leaned into his warmth as she began looking at the forest around them.
“Savine! Look what we created.”
All around them, the forest was no longer fading with the end of fall colors. Instead, it was teeming with vines creeping up tall pines and firs, flowers of all colors were interspersed across the forest floor, and the ferns had grown to be the size of small cars.
“We’ve made something beautiful together,” Avery said with a smile.
Savine slid her into his lap. “Don’t slide away from me yet, Little Flower.”
He plucked a few stray flowers on the edge of the pool and tucked them behind her ear. “Our magic made that. But you’re the most beautiful flower in all the forest. And I get to spend the rest of my days with you as my soulmate.”
With a tenderness that made her throat catch, Savine cupped Avery’s breast, rubbing the glowing light into her skin. She reached over and began exploring Savine’s skin, rubbing the afterglow of their bond into his skin.
Savine kissed her neck, sweeping his mouth across the hollow at her collar bone.
She was getting turned on again, and fast, but she also was curious about the bond. “Do mates usually glow from their bond?”
Savine worked his lips up to Avery’s ear and gave it a nibble. “I don’t know, Ave, but I want every last part of our bond to be a part of you, and I want you to do the same to me. Just let me love you,” he said, gently tugging her hair back.
She didn’t need to respond with words. She leaned back on the cooled stones and let him explore all of her, letting that light become a piece of her.
Slowly, all the light from their bond settled into her skin and she began doing the same for him. She traced every ridge of hard muscle and every invisible scar, brushing the gleaming glow into his essence.
