His eyes flickered with that spark I knew so well. “Tell me you’ll stop me when I transform into a wraith, and I will speak of this nomore.”
“No!” I shouted the word and closed the distance between us. “I’m never going to kill you, Lugh. I don’t care what you say. I don’t care how much you beg. I’m not going to do it. You’re not Angel, and I’m not Buffy. If you tear down this world, then I’m going down withyou.”
The words poured out of my mouth, heavy with fear, pain, and an intense energy that pulsed beneath my skin. Lugh stared up at me, exhaustion gone from his eyes. A heat had replaced it, and a ferocity that made my toes curl in myboots.
“You hate nightmare wraiths,” hemurmured.
My heart tripped. “But I loveyou.”
As I gazed down at Lugh, a sudden realisation washed over me. The truth was on my tongue and hanging heavy in the air between us. All this time I’d been terrified that Caer’s prophecy could come true. I’d thought up crazy scenarios to explain why I would suddenly turn my blade against my mate. I’d tried to imagine how I’d feel, what I’d do, how I’dact.
But there was one thing I’d missed. I hadn’t taken into account my love for him. With the reality of the prophecy staring us down, I now knew that the prophecy had never stood a chance of coming true. I didn’t need to go trekking through the snowy mountains of Faerie to find a “cure” for this. We didn’t need to scour the ends of the earth for another druid who might have the answers. And we certainly didn’t need to tap into the dark arts or any of the other magical solutions I’d considered over theyears.
The truth was…I could never bring myself to end Lugh’s life, nightmare wraith or not. I’d been running from him…fornothing.
“Lugh.” I pressed my palm to his cheek. “I should have stayed here with you instead of running. I feel like I wasted so muchtime.”
That was the thing about being a fae. Sometimes you don’t think about a week or a day or a month the same way a human would. We aren’t immortal, but our lives are practically endless. There is always moretime.
Until thereisn’t.
“Then, don’t waste any more of it.” He growled and pulled me onto his lap, spreading open my thighs. I shuddered in response, a desperate desire ripping through my core. “We don’t know how much more time we have left. Let’s make the most ofit.”
A slight smile played at my lips as his hands began to trace lines up my back. “I thought you wereexhausted.”
“Oh, I was.” He ripped my shirt over my head in one fluid motion. “But no amount of exhaustion will ever stop me from touchingyou.”
His eyes flicked across my bare chest, and a delicious smile curled across his lips. He pulled his shirt over his head, and then yanked me toward him. I fell onto his chest, breasts pressing against his strong pecs. An ache spread between my thighs, a need that I couldn’t ignore anylonger.
Reaching between us, I pushed down my panties and slid down his pants. He groaned as I slipped my fingers around his shaft, stroking the hard length of him. Fire danced in his eyes as I guided his pleasure toward the peak. I kept my gaze focused on his face. I wanted to see him when he lost fullcontrol.
As his cock hardened even more, he growled and flipped me over, pinning my arms to the bed. He hung his head low, tongue dancing along my neck. I squirmed against him, desperate to touch him evenmore.
“That’s not fair,” I whispered. “I was busy downthere.”
A wicked spark lit his eyes. “Not so fast. If we keep going like that, this will be over far too fast. I want to take my time with you. I want to be inside you when youscream.”
I shuddered, arching toward him. I couldn’t say I didn’t feel thesame.
His hands slipped down my waist, and his fingers gripped tight around my thighs. In a slow, exquisite torture, he pressed his length against my core. And then he dipped himself inside of me. He slid between my wetness, and sparks lit up in hiseyes.
I gasped, body shuddering from the length of him. It was all I could do not to scream right there andthen.
He tightened his grip on my hips, fingers digging hard into my skin. His body rocked against mine. Lugh moaned as he hit the back of me, and I spread my thighs wider to curl my legs around his back. My entire body felt abuzz, the hot magic of our bond whirling through the room like a magnificent hurricane. I was barely in control, but I didn’t care. I’d dreamed of this moment, I’d yearned for it. Being away from him had proven one important thing. I could run from him as fast as I could, but I would never escape how Ifelt.
I was in love with KingLugh.
This was it. Everything I wanted. Everything Ineeded. If I kept running, not only would I hurt myself, but I’d hurt him, too. I didn’t know what the future would bring. Maybe one day we would come face-to-face with the prophecy. Maybe we wouldn’t. All I knew was that I had totry.
We were in control of the future. Not some magical fate-like force that would guide my hand to do what I didn’t want todo.
Lugh’s eyes went soft as he gazed down at me. His lips found mine, and he kissed me fiercely, like he would never kiss me again. I sighed in his arms, moaning as he pulsed into me, again and again, guiding my pleasure to an almightycrescendo.
I clung on tight as the pleasure pulsed through me, as my body rocked with delicious spasms that shook through my core. He came only seconds later, his seed pouring into my body. We had come together, and this time, nothing could tear usapart.
Casting me a smug smile, Lugh eased his body off of mine and propped his head on the pillow. His eyes sparkled with a delicious wickedness I hoped he’d never lose. “So.”
“So.” Ismiled.
