and I just had a vision of us in there, you riding me, surrounded by bubbles.”
Desire unfurls in the pit of my stomach and heads south, pooling between my legs. My heartbeat increases its tempo, thrumming inside my ribcage.
“That’s quite a vision.”
He pulls his jacket off, then gets rid of his soiled shirt, jeans, and underwear in the blink of an eye. “Let’s make it a reality.”
“Okay.”
“Here. Let me help you out of those clothes.”
By the time we finally make it into the tub, I’m so turned on that it won’t take much to send me over the edge. After a lot of splashing and maneuvering, we finally manage to find the right position in the tub. Saxon is big everywhere. But once we do, and he slides home, it makes all the contortionism worthwhile. We’re slick and wet as we discover our rhythm. I gyrate my hips, Saxon pistons into me, our tongues mingle in the most erotic dance until my brain short-circuits.
“Sax?” I say against his lips.
“Yes, honey?” He kisses my neck, giving me delicious goose bumps.
“Bite me. Please?”
“Fuck, you don’t have to ask twice.”
He sinks his teeth into my skin, shooting radioactive waves of pure ecstasy down my body. I cry out his name, rotating my hips faster. With each pull from him, the pressure between my legs increases, and Saxon seems to grow larger. I have to close my eyes when the room begins to spin, and yet I see stars everywhere. My body turns into liquid fire when the orgasm hits me so intensely that I can’t even scream. My voice is gone.
Saxon is busy chasing his own release. He stops drinking from me, licking the incisions shut with his tongue before he claims my mouth again. His tongue darts in ferociously, demanding, while his arms keep me trapped against his chest. He grunts against my lips, shaking violently as he empties himself into me. I keep on riding him, which only makes me shatter again.
Minutes pass before we dare to move. My heart is still beating out of sync, and my breathing is ragged. I lean back, finding Saxon staring at me with hooded eyes. There’s still a hint of red in them.
“That was…”
“Earth-shatteringly amazing?” He smiles.
“Is that even a word?”
“It is now.” He kisses me gently, turning my already limp body into goo.
Reluctantly, I pull away, but only so I can stare at him unabashedly. I pinch myself for reassurance that this extraordinary male is my mate, that I get to spend a lifetime with him. A sliver of sadness slides into my heart when I remember what I had to give up.
“What’s the matter, my love?” he asks.
A loaded exhale whooshes out of me. “You know that in order to make the warlock athame work for me, I had to bond with the jewel. But I didn’t tell you what it required of me.”
Saxon’s post-coital blissful expression becomes somber. “Tell me, Rora. Let me help you carry the burden.”
His words almost make me cry. Through a lump in my throat I tell him the vision I saw and what I think it meant. Saxon doesn’t speak for several beats, but I can read in his gaze and also sense through the bond that he’s as shattered as I am.
He reaches for my cheek, caressing it with the tips of his fingers. “You couldn’t have known. You did what you had to do.”
“You’re not angry at me?”
His brows furrow. “Why would I be angry? Your sacrifice saved our lives, and I know you’ll save many others as a badass warlock. I’m proud of you.”
A rogue tear escapes my eye, and Saxon wipes it off with his thumb. “I love you so much,” I say.
“Not as much as I love you.”
He claims my lips in a slow and tender kiss that helps soothe the pain in my chest. We’ll be all right for as long as my mortal body allows. A gasp escapes my lips when sudden realization hits me.
“What’s wrong? Did I hurt you?”
“No, of course not. Something just dawned on me. If I’m a warlock, that means I’m immortal.”
He tenses, watching me with wide eyes. “For real?”
“I think so. Ryker and Declan are. I’m not sure how it works. But I guess I’ll find out during training.”
“I hate that you have to leave, but I’m fucking happy that I won’t lose you in a few years,” he says in a choked-up voice.
His eyes become brighter, and the raw emotion I see shining