entire life got better.”
I make myself look her in the eyes. And I don’t look away, even though I want to.
Her expression softens as time ticks off. “You know what I think?”
“I’m dying to hear, princess.”
“I think you’ve been holding on to the idea that you had a soulmate called Corla for too long. You’ve been emotionally celibate. I think you forgot what it was like to not have the weight of being star crossed on you. I think you missed a lot of chances, Crux. A lot of good women probably got away because you were attached to this idea of soulmates. And even though this is your default setting and I can’t change that in the span of the next few minutes, I’m not letting you walk out of here without at least one kiss.”
“You already kissed me.”
“I know. But you didn’t kiss me back. You’re gonna go back to your time, and your world is going to fall apart, and so what is the point of being emotionally loyal to a woman who left you behind twenty-one years ago and wrote you off as over?”
She’s right, of course.
But she’s wrong too.
I bring my hand up to her cheek. She blushes at my touch. And then I tuck a strand of silver hair behind her ear and say, “You wanna know what my real problem is?”
She nods.
“My real problem is that… I know it’s going to be over. We’ll get this one moment, Alera. But that’s all we’ll get. Because this is not our time. And maybe I’m being selfish, but I’m not in any rush to find my end.”
“You can’t cram an entire love story into one middle-of-the-night meeting, Crux.”
“Wanna bet? How much you wanna bet? Hmm? Because I have spent two-thirds of my life imagining my happy ending, Alera.” I tap my head. “I got it all up here just ready to be unleashed.”
She chuckles. But as she’s smiling at me, her fingertips go to the hem of her shirt and lift it up over her head. Our gazes are locked as she sits there. Bare.
I shrug out of my jacket and let it drop to the floor, and her hands immediately slide up my arms until they’re gripping the hard muscles of my shoulders.
A chill runs through my body and Alera smiles.
Then she lets go of my shoulders, and I immediately tug my shirt over my head as she lifts her hips up and slides her pants down her legs. They drop to the floor at my feet and now she’s is just naked.
Her skin is not the color of death gray.
She is glowing with an all-over shimmer.
Her hands go to my belt. But our eyes are locked on each other.
I place my palm flat on her cheek and she blushes again.
Then I kiss her.
Just as her hand slips inside my pants to grab both my hard cocks, I kiss her.
And it’s the most perfect kiss ever.
I grab her knees and push her legs open so I get closer to her. Her grip on my cocks is firm. And the way she slides her palms up and down my shafts almost drives me over the edge right then.
I stop thinking about what she’s doing to me and start concentrating on what I want to do to her.
And that answer is… everything.
I want to do everything to this girl.
But we don’t have time for everything, so I slip my fingers between her legs and push them inside her.
She’s already wet for me. But as I play with her, she begins to glow brighter. Her skin taking on an almost heavenly radiance.
I ease my hips forward as she presses my cocks between her legs. And when I press into her, even though she is very wet, she is very tight too.
She moans. And I can’t help myself. I get off on that. I lean in to her neck and bite her ear as I thrust forward. This only makes her moan again, Louder this time.
I want to go slow. I want to enjoy her. Take my time. Make it all special. Make her remember me for the rest of her life.
And just as I think that, she says, “Don’t forget about me.”
“I promise, I will never forget you. I will remember you until the end of the universe.”
And that’s not even a lie.
I might not be able to save her and I’ll probably never see her again, but I will never. Ever. Forget her.
The feelings inside me