Elemental Compass - Jaymin Eve Page 0,110

job to love her until she never for a second feared being alone.

“Please,” she sobbed. “I can’t believe how incredible you are.”

I snorted. “Babe, I’m an asshole of a dragon. You’re the light in my soul. You know that.”

She shook her head. “I want to punch you for the comment, but since I’m feeling very loving toward you at the moment, I’ll save it for later.”

I laughed, lifting her higher so I could kiss her perfect lips. “Don’t ever fucking change.”

Jessa grabbed my face in her hands, holding me still. “Last memory. Give it to me.”

A rumble shook my chest. “Giving it to you will come after.”

Her eyes darkened too, but she was stubborn, and would push her need aside for this memory. With a sigh, I released my hold on that part of my past, showing her the one secret I’d kept from her.

“Braxton,” she snarled. “These are not memories I want to see!”

Shut up and watch.

Her eyes narrowed, but for once she did as she was told. The memory returned, the first date I’d ever gone on, with some random shifter. One by one, she witnessed all the dates I’d ever had that weren’t with my mate. At first Jessa flinched away from the images, until she realized what I was showing her.

All of the dates ended the exact same way: me kissing the female on the cheek and bidding her goodnight.

I'd never really touched a woman until the moment my mate was ready for me. I’d known as a child and I’d waited for her. She hadn’t done the same, and while the possessive part of me hated that, it was the right path for Jessa to come to me as the shifter she was.

"I don't … understand." She was crying hard, tears streaking her face. "You had sex before me, right?"

"No."

Touching another woman when I loved her would have been the ultimate betrayal.

Jessa shook her head, like she refused to believe me. “I don’t understand.”

My voice gentled, as it only did for my mate. “I knew you were mine for as long as I could remember. I made the decision not to push you, and if I hadn’t dated at all, you would have questioned it. This was my compromise.”

She sobbed harder.

"It was always you, Jess. Always."

She kissed me, wrapping her legs around me, as her tongue tangled with mine. "I love you. I love you. I love you."

She said it over and over between kisses.

My chest rumbled as the possessive bastard I was came out to play. It was never enough with Jessa. I craved everything, wanting her naked against me, so I could love every inch of her.

Tonight she was not getting any sleep.

Promises, mate. Make sure you live up to them.

I always do.

And I always would.