Why had I been destined to spend so many years in misery without her?
Never again.
Never again would I be alone.
Never again would she leave me.
“Everything about you crucifies me,” I hissed into her ear as I lost myself to something I never thought I’d do. I rutted into her like an animal, lost entirely to lust.
“I’m harder than I’ve ever been in my entire life and being inside you...” I bit her ear, loving the way she gasped and twitched and encouraged me to go harder, go deeper, take more and more andmore.“I’m either going to have a heart attack or decimate this entire valley.”
She groaned, another flicker of frost decorating her eyelashes. “Less talking. More fucking.”
“You’re driving meinsane, you know that, right?”
Fuck, she was gorgeous.
I couldn’t stop touching her, kissing her, aching from the sharpest gratitude that she was the only one who’d never wanted something from me.
Back in Cinderkeep, she didn’t want my blood, my company, or my child.
But out here?
She wantedeverything.
She was demanding and greedy and I loved every moment of it.
A rush of fury heated my blood, smoke bled from my skin, and unlike all the other times when the flames overwhelmed me, pain didn’t come. Just relief and power and I kissed her so damn hard because she was the reason for everything.
She clawed at my back. “More. I need more.”
More?
Fuck, I’d give her more.
I drove into her, hard and fast.
Her hair was full of bracken; her skin smudged with river sludge.
I definitely should’ve waited until I had her in a bed.
But...I couldn’t help it.
Couldn’t stop how unhinged she made me.
I lost myself to the prehistoric rhythm of making her mine ashardand asdeepas I could.
A flash of frost covered her.
She struck me dumb with how beautiful she was.
How she glittered with snow, her eyelashes spiky with minuscule icicles, her lips a life-defying shade of blue.
And I couldn’t do it.
A roaring fire broke out of me as I sank as deep as I could, singeing the tree leaves and sending them scattering with raining charcoal.
Her eyes flared as my skin danced with flames but...I didn’t hurt her.
