Total pages in book: 162
Estimated words: 151630 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 758(@200wpm)___ 607(@250wpm)___ 505(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 151630 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 758(@200wpm)___ 607(@250wpm)___ 505(@300wpm)
The last words are whispered as he drapes the Goddess Chain around my neck. It’s gold, and the amulet hangs just over my breasts.
Then he is kissing me, taking me back to the softness of the bed. It’s easy to open my arms to him, spread my legs for him to make a place there.
“Shy, are you sure?” he asks as I feel his cock slide against my labia.
I don’t think he’s sure I have the power to cancel out that fertility magic of his. I give him a smile. I am coming into my own powers. I am death and rebirth, and both happen at my will. “Make love to me.”
He stares into my eyes as he gently enters my body.
I wasn’t expecting pain. One doesn’t receive pain sexually from a Green Man. Even this first time is pure pleasure, but the care he takes warms me. He works his way inside, kissing me the whole time. His body against mine, skin to skin. Like we are one flesh.
And we are.
He groans as he fully breaches me, his cock as far inside as it can go. “It feels so good. So fucking good. So fucking right. This…this is right.”
It is. This is sheer perfection, and there is nothing between us. No worry or fear. No self-consciousness. No one else in the world can come between us here in our place of love and power. I can feel the very walls breathe with us, like the whole temple is coming back to life as my husband works over me. I let my nails dig into the strong muscles of his back while I lock my ankles around his waist, not wanting to give up an inch of him.
He finds a rhythm that matches our beating hearts, our breath, the pulse of our souls against each other. It isn’t long before I scream out his name, the orgasm so much stronger this time because he’s with me. I can feel his pleasure. It joins my own and sends me to a place I never expected to see. A place where I am not alone.
Rhys falls on top of my body, and I wrap my arms around him.
The sky seems so much closer now, the moon and stars shining through the window at the top of the temple, and then I realize. The shine isn’t simply coming from the night around us.
It’s from us. Our bodies glow, gold and silver weaving together.
“Love you, Shy,” he whispers as he starts it all over again.
All in all, a hell of a wedding night.
Chapter Twenty-Four
Sasha
She can feel me. The way I can feel her.
“Sasha’s here?” Dev asked, his neck craning around to see.
Ostara stared at the mirror. “He is. I felt him moving through the palace. He’s behind this wall. It’s so odd. I felt the moment he entered the plane, like a piece of Meadow fell into place and she had the chance to be whole again. Even if he is your soul’s mate, he might have information that will settle my host’s issues. She still dreams of her traumatic past life. She left something behind.”
“Sasha is not my…,” Dev began. “We heard you say vampire and thought only about Daniel. Ostara, we came here with two vampires. One is my partner, Daniel Donovan, and the other is our general. Sasha, once known as Oleg Federov. Since I’ve known him, he had one goal in his whole vampiric life. To live long enough he could find her again.”
Ostara’s green eyes turned to Sasha even as he was frantically trying to find the seam in the wall that would allow him entrance. It had to be there. The king would want to enter from time to time and play with his prey.
“She would not take a husband,” Ostara said to Devinshea even as her eyes seemed to find Sasha. “She would not take a lover. She felt so deeply inside that she was missing something. Someone. She can’t remember, but the knowledge is in her soul. It is how I know. I can read her history, see her past lives. It is always you.”
“There’s a slight breeze here, and I can smell the other room.” Neil was calm and collected. He ran his hand over the wall and Sasha heard a click.
The door opened slightly and Neil pushed through, rushing to Dev while Sasha followed.
He stood in front of Ostara, the moment so surreal it almost felt impossible. She was beautiful, but then she always was. She was the most beautiful woman in the world to him.
“I selected her because her soul meshed with mine,” Ostara explained. “I did not know it at the time, but the universe brought us together for a reason. Because I long for the kind of love you have between the two of you, but I have never found it. I love her. Through her I know I can love you, and I can give her what no one else can.”