And my control snaps. I thrust in, hard, the entire bed groaning under our weight. Then again, harder. She shouts out my name, and I’m lost to the frenzy building inside me. With one hand, I pull both of hers above her head, using them as leverage to pound into her as my free hand grabs her breast, squeezing.
“Yes. Yes. Fuck. Yes,” she repeats over and over again as I satiate myself with her body, praying that she’s close because I’m not sure how much longer I can last.
“Now, Fate. Come for me now,” I growl, and her hooded eyes widen slightly, her back bowing just as she topples over the edge. Her body tightens around my dick like a vise, the pleasure so intense it’s painful. I explode. A cascade of color lights up behind my eyelids as my body is overwhelmed by the sheer level of power coursing through us. And then nothing. Total blackness. But I see her. She’s a shining star, always there to make sure I know the way home. We’re still moving, our bodies dragging out every last bit of ecstasy they can as our movements slow and our breathing evens out. Even then, I can’t quite force my hips to stop. It’s a slow push and pull, and it feels incredible. When her eyes open, she smiles sleepily, and I’m once again struck by her beauty. Not just her gorgeous face, but the purity in her heart too.
“Welcome to the ether,” she whispers. “It’s our place. One only the Guardian and her consorts can find.”
“I don’t care where we are,” I murmur, “as long as I’m with you.”
I kiss her again. Because I simply can’t not kiss her. And when I finally pull away, we’re back on my bed, in the house in Illinois.
“That might take some getting used to,” I say softly, rolling us both so we’re on our sides facing each other, our bodies somehow managing to stay connected.
“I don’t mind practicing. Help you get familiar with the place,” she says with a smirk.
“Oh, I’ll definitely need some practice. Might take me a while to really get the hang of it.”
She just chuckles and burrows her face into my neck, and I find that I like it. A lot. My hand rests right above her delectable ass, and the moment just feels...complete. Like we’re on our way to being what we once were. Possibly so much more.
“What are you thinking about?” she asks quietly.
“Wondering how I got so lucky. Twice.”
I can feel her smile against my throat. “I think I’m the lucky one.”
“I don’t think I can put into words just how incomplete I felt until you came back into our lives.” My brothers brought a sense of purpose to my life, reaffirming some of the missing connections in my soul, but the circuit was never complete. Not until Fate.
“You don’t need to. I understand. Truly.”
“I suppose you do,” I murmur. She smells like sweetness and fire, like something that I’ve always known and could never forget. But somehow I did. And I need to figure out how so that it never happens again.
“It’s going to be okay,” she soothes, her hand softly caressing my back. Picking up on the emotions suddenly rolling through me.
“You believe that,” I state. It’s not a question.
She pulls back, looking me straight in the eye. “I do. I won’t let anything happen to us again.”
My hand comes up to brush a stray hair from her cheek, my thumb running along her bottom lip as she tries to pull it between her teeth.
“We’ll do it together.”
“Together. You’ve said that before. In the study when Cole stormed out and I was still just a spirit who wasn’t really a spirit at all. I didn’t know who I could trust, so I wasn’t a fan of that word at the time.” Her smile lights up her face. “But it’s growing on me now.”
“Good. Because we’re stronger that way. Now that all of the bonds are finalized, we’re all finding we’re stronger too.”
“Stronger?”
“We all sort of...leveled up after you and Cole…” I stop, unreasonably embarrassed to finish that sentence despite what just passed between us.
“Fucked? It’s okay. We’re all adults here and can use the naughty words.”
I just chuckle and playfully swat her ass. “You sure do bring out the naughty side of me.”
“Mmm...my sexy nerd has a naughty side. I can’t wait to see more of that.” The flame in her eye sparks again, and as much as I want to dive back into her, the rational side of my brain is kicking into action.
Fuck, being the rational one really sucks sometimes.
“And you’ll get to see plenty of that...soon. But for now, we’ve got work to do.”
She sighs, her lip coming out in one killer pout.
“Ah ah. None of that. The others are probably out of their minds with worry, and you know Cole will eventually come in here and order us to get going if he has to.”
As I pull back, my semi-hard dick slowly leaves the warmth it’s been nestled inside, causing us both to groan. She clamps down around me, and my dick practically begs me to stay where we are.
“Fate…” is all I can manage as I try to regain control of my body.
“Fuck. It feels so good,” she murmurs before a sigh escapes. “But you’re right. We need to check on the others. So explain this leveling up thing to me real fast.”
She sits up, moving off the side of the bed completely naked, and for a moment I can barely breathe. Can barely think. The woman is beyond perfection.
“Nu-uh. You don’t get to have that look right now when you just went all work-mode on me. You’ll have to wait.”
It’s my turn to sigh as I attempt to contain my growing need. Rolling out of bed, I grab my shorts and pull them on, along with the t-shirt I had thrown over my desk chair. When I turn around, she’s in her tank top and pulling the leggings back over those long legs of hers that were just wrapped around my waist.
“Eww.” Her nose is scrunched up in clear disgust, but she’s still damned adorable.
Fuck, Mack. Pull yourself together, man. “What’s the matter?”
“You don’t want to know, sexy nerd.”
“Maybe I can help? You can tell me anything, Fate,” I say, ready to tackle the world if it makes my echo happy.
“Okay, but don’t say I didn’t warn you. There’s a whole...SeaWorld situation...happening down there right now, if you know what I mean.” She motions toward the apex of her thighs, and my eyes dart between hers and the area she’s directing my gaze to. Then mine widen when her meaning finally hits.
I clear my throat, trying to stave off the ridiculous smile that wants to plaster itself across my face. I must not be successful because her eyes narrow.
“You look entirely too pleased with yourself right now.”
“Well...I...no, of course not. I…”
Her lips quirk up. “I didn’t think caveman was quite your style, Mack.”
“When it comes to you, Fate, my style is ever-evolving.”
“Stop saying things like that or you’ll never make it to your desk.” She sighs, a dreamy smile crossing her face before she shakes her head and looks at me with serious eyes. “Now, tell me more about all these new powers before I decide to jump you again.”