Because I’d surrendered the second I’d felt it and from this day, to my last day, she wasmine.
Rook suddenly flung her newly healed arms around my neck, feeling the same rapture of want. Her hands landed in my hair, yanking me down as her icy power sundered through me, tearing through every blockage, every scar, every limit my body had ever known.
It freed me.
Released me.
I groaned and plunged my tongue into her mouth as my cracked and charred skin sealed and healed.
I tasted everything she was.
I drowned on snowfalls and starlight.
Her energy flooded me, intoxicating and inevitable, sinking into every hollow place, rewriting everything I was and making sure I was nothing but hers.
My self-control snapped.
The blood-laced kiss we’d shared turned into a breathless war of teeth and tongues.
Power spiralled between us, battling each other, clashing with fire and frost.
It grew stronger and stronger as we kissed faster and faster.
The hunger was unbearable.
The need absolutely maddening.
We were both driven to a disastrous edge.
An edge that promised total destruction if we didn’t stop.
But we couldn’t stop.
Wouldn’t stop.
I tore at her soaking clothes and let go.
Chapter Forty-Two
HEAT AND COLD, FIRE AND FROST.
That was all I was and all I’d ever be.
Every element braided tightly in my chest, humming and mending, erasing my pain and every piece that had been broken.
I twitched as the wound in my side knitted over, sealing my inner workings as if I’d never been punctured. The numbness in my lower body vanished with a gush of searing sensitivity and I almost sobbed with gratitude as I wriggled my toes and they answered.
Everything happened so fast, so miraculously, it couldn’t have been real. My bones and muscles defied logic and law, reversing death itself to become whole and strong andpowerful.
How?
How had Lucien brought me back to life?
What had he become that his blood—his incredible healing blood—could do something that defied nature itself?
I should be dead.
Yet I was being kissed within an inch of my life and suddenly, nothing else mattered.
