Page 38 of Entangled

They did the dance of love, their movements fluid like the water, but their bodies both burning for each other like her special times, bathing in the sun. Something came to life inside her that she’d never felt before. All that mattered in this time, in this very moment was to give this man pleasure and to feel that same pleasure in return. However, this seemed to be going far beyond any of her expectations.

“Merrow, I don’t want to hurt you.”

“You couldn’t hurt me, my lord. I hope I don’t hurt you.”

That made him chuckle as they continued to kiss while they coupled. He pulled back long enough for her to hear his reply.

“The only way you could possibly hurt me is if I find my release before you experience yours.”

“How about we find it together, then?” she asked, feeling her heart about ready to explode, from not lust, but love. All the love she felt for her sisters, her underwater home and the creatures that walked the earth and swam in the sea, was here now within her. She experienced joy, happiness, and a carefree feeling that everything would be all right. Merrow wanted Sebastian to feel this way too. She wanted to feel these emotions together.

Their rhythm picked up and their hips moved faster and faster. She didn’t hold back, but moved atop him the same way she did when she moved her hips to swim through the water using her tail to propel her. Their bodies made a slapping noise as they came together. The sound excited both of them. Her heart beat faster, and she noticed his breathing change. So did hers. They were climbing the precipice and about to reach that peak of fulfilled desire. Together.

Sebastian growled loudly like an animal, the sound calling to her in a primal way, until she released screaming noises that she hoped wouldn’t scare him off.

She cried out. So did he. Colors exploded behind her closed lids and her senses, since she was a sea nymph, were enhanced more than ever before. She could smell the scent of happiness, taste the flavor of joy. Merrow could feel the overwhelming emotion spilling forth, filling the air all around them. This seemed more than just lust and sexual fulfillment. She felt the two of them come together as if they were part of nature. Part of each other. Like they belonged together. If she didn’t know better, she’d say that possibly what she was feeling…was love.

Sated and spent, she rolled off of him, cuddling up and resting her cheek against his bare chest. Breathing hard, he reached out and smoothed down her hair. His hand almost touched her shell charm woven into her locks, but he was careful and pulled his hand away at the last second. If he had touched it, she wasn’t sure that it, as well as she, wouldn’t shatter in his arms.

“I’ve never coupled with a sea nymph before,” he whispered, kissing her atop the head. “I must say it was exhilarating. After that, I am not sure I will ever be able to couple with a human woman again.”

It was meant as a compliment, she was sure, but for some reason his words made her feel empty and sad. Part of her wanted to claim him as hers. She didn’t want to share Sebastian with any human woman. But to want that was selfish she supposed. After all, she was about to leave Mura forever and go back home. Sebastian would want a wife and queen here on Mura. He would need a woman who could not only satisfy him, but remind him that he didn’t need to care what anyone else thought about him and that he didn’t need to listen to anyone’s feelings but his own.

Merrow was an undine. She belonged in the Aegean Sea, not the Masked Sea. Her home was with her forty-nine sisters and her brother, not in a castle with armies, living on land, and eating in a great hall. He needed someone who could fill that position. It should be a woman who could serve as queen of Macada Castle, as well as wife to the king. That is, a woman who could bear him as many heirs as he wanted.

She was Merrow Havfine, from a different world, she reminded herself. Just a poor girl who was at the wrong place at the wrong time and was accidentally sucked through a portal. That is what brought her to Mura, and that same portal would take her home now as well.

She could never be the woman that Sebastian needed and wanted.

Nay, never.

Or could she?