At least that is how it looks to me. The air around us crackles with electrical charges swirling in a colorful circle.
Sparkly, bright, magical!
In that instant, I know something has sealed itself between him and me. This is it; the legendary electric coil that binds True Mates.
It feels as if my body is expanding inside this endless orgasm, leaving not a single cell unchanged, untouched. It is like being blasted by a high-pressure stream that slams into my nervous system, then boils and surges like raging floodwater.
A cry tears from my throat, half pleasure, half pure joy, because there is no doubt left now.
Eliano and I really are True Mates.
That bastard Storm was right all along, and I was living in complete denial.
Colorful discharges in shades of turquoise, blue, and sapphire spin around us like a massive vortex, rattling with that sharp electric sound. I stare at it as it slowly fades and disappears. A once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I want to see every single second of it.
"So it is true," I blurt out, breathless.
It shocks me how close I came to ruining my chance at a life with my True Mate, when I pushed him away. An unbelievable gift from Fate, and I ran from it.
And as we are connected like this, one more truth emerges, one from deep inside him, one I can almost read in his mind through a strange kind of telepathy, and the understanding hits me of what really happened between us.
I realize that what I took for pride was something else entirely. I was shocked that he simply left and did not contact me for twenty-five days, but that was, in fact, a classic case of…
Rejected Mate Syndrome.
Only now can I sense the energetic wound in him closing as we wallow in the Joining.
"Oh, Eliano… I’m sorry for rejecting you! Fuck, we really are fated!"
Eliano slowly turns his face toward me. He was watching the fading lights too, but now he looks at me. His skin is flushed, but a smile spreads across his lips.
"Did you still have doubts? Because I stopped doubting a long time ago."
I blink in surprise.
"Seriously, not even a shadow of a doubt?"
"Salt, I was able to track you by instinct when you ran into that swamp. That would not have been possible if we were not True Mates."
"Then why did you even leave?" I almost regret asking.
Eliano rolls onto his side, and the moment his cock slips out of me feels like losing something vital, something precious.
That is why I grab his shoulders and yank him back against me.
"Don’t you dare pull away now. Enough leaving. In every sense of the word."
Eliano lets out a soft laugh and slides back into my obscenely wet, slick-soaked entrance.
"Salt, I left because I had things I needed to take care of. If I had not needed to do them, I would not have left no matter how many ‘I hate-yous’ I heard."
I stay silent because I do not understand what he means. One thing is certain, I do not want to talk right now, not after the orgasm of my life and the discovery that Eliano and I are two halves of the same soul that just fused into one.
Eliano studies my face, then lifts his hand and gently brushes a strand of hair away from my cheek.
"But we need to talk, Salt."
"About what? Just not yet. Give us a moment, just one more moment," I murmur. "We just discovered this miracle, we have proof, please…"
