“I told you that you could do it.” Sebastian's palm swallowed my shoulder, making me jump.
“Oh, thank the gods.” My hand met my heart in relief.
He pointed to a blackened boulder in front of me. “See? You need to trust yourself. You have more control than you even realize.”
I studied the frenzied burn I had carved into the stone with the cosmos. “How did you know I would be able to do that?”
He shrugged. “Magic 101. Intuition is hardly ever wrong if you are utilizing it right.”
“Not mine.”
“Tell that to the forest you so graciously didn't burn down,” he retorted with a cheesy grin. “Let's do it again.”
“Ha!” I snorted. “How about we not test our luck?”
“Come on, love. You aren't one to back away from a challenge, are you?”
“I am when it could potentially kill you.”
He glowered at me. “One more time. You can keep your eyes open this time. Deal?”
“Fine,” I grumbled, grounding myself where I stood.
“No blindfold, but I’m going to distract you in another way.”
My head cocked. “Huh?”
Standing behind me, Sebastian pressed his chest into my back. “Let’s see how well you do when I’m focusing on the most sensitive parts of your body.”
His knuckles grazed the back of my neck, brushing my braid over my shoulder. Then his lips met my flesh, planting tiny, feather-light kisses just below my ear.
I let out a moan as his palm slid down my waist, gripping my hip before fiddling with the waistband of my pants.
“Seb…” I breathed his name as a warning when his fingers slipped into my panties, wasting no time finding my clit. “I’m not going to be able to do this while you're doingthat.”
“Shh.” His teeth scraped up, nipping the bottom of my earlobe. “Yes you can. And the quicker you do it, the quicker we can go back to our room.”
With that incentive as added motivation, I drew a steady stream of starlight inwards, securing it within my soul. I held on to it tightly even when Sebastian moved his other hand to my breast, pinching my nipple through the fabric of my shirt and pulling a subtle moan from my lips.
His fingers swirled around my nipple, his other hand stroking up and down the entirety of my pussy at an agonizing slow pace.
“Oh gods,” I whimpered, grinding into his hand. “I—I can’t.”
“The sooner your magic hits that rock, the sooner you get to come around my fingers and I get to suck the taste of you off of them.”
Fucking gods.
I drew in a thick breath. “Ready?” I croaked out at last.
When his head nodded into the crook of my neck, I released the full magnitude of my absorbed power, slamming it into the same bolder.
My skin and hair nearly blinded me as the intensity of the starlight I absorbed pushed me and Sebastian backwards. Wewent flying a good few feet, though my body fell on his as a cushion while he landed in the dirt.
I scrambled to roll over and off of him, the lust inside of me completely dissipating. “Shit. Are you okay?”
Eyes squeezed shut, he winced and grunted as he forced himself to sit. “See? I knew you could do it.”
My mouth set into a tight line. “Seb.” I pointed a shaking finger at his left arm, hanging loosely from the socket of his shoulder.
