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Where did he learn to do this? What woman had taken what should have been hers?
Impossibly, he went faster. It was torture and heaven all at once.
Her head whipped side to side. She couldn’t take this anymore. She was perched on the brink and had been for a solid five minutes. He just kept going. She couldn’t move her arms,couldn’t budge him, couldn’t change anything until she whipped her head toward one of his arms and bit down hard. He surged deeper, and she exploded.
Her orgasm went on and on, and she saw glimmering white sparks around his head. She knew it was because she had stopped breathing; nothing about this was actually magical, but it took her breath away.
She had to start breathing and move on and get up and go home, but nothing would feel this good again.
He pulled out, sending fresh waves of sensation through her, and finally let her hands free. He sat back on his heels, and she curled to sit up. He was panting in the dark, which gave her some satisfaction because she was still starved of oxygen.
“If you—” She had to stop and take a breath. “If you say you’re sorry or how this wasn’t a good idea or a mistake, just remember the feathers.”
He chuckled. “If it was, it was the best mistake of my life.”
Satisfaction burned along exhausted nerve endings. She would have suggested doing that again, but without his weight, she realized she was freezing. They were somewhere in the woods with nothing but a bit of clothes and a horse blanket.
She dug for the plaid. “Take me home.”
He froze as he reached for his shirt.
“Not home home,” she clarified. “I promised. I meant your house where you have a heater and a…” She trailed off before she mentioned a bed. Would he expect her to share one now?
A part of her worried even he couldn’t match his own perfection. She wanted to keep this one perfect memory, and she wanted to sleep. She was absolutely at the end of every rope she had.
They dressed quickly, and he saddled the horse but made no move to get on. “We’re close.”
She looked around. There was no hint of civilization in the endless forest. She recalled the spooky feeling of being watched. What had they been thinking?
They hadn’t. That was the whole point.
He didn’t get on the horse but led them through the trees for another few minutes. She was about to protest that she didn’t want to cap off this day with another hike, but then she felt the heat of magic ahead and remembered the wards.
She paid careful attention as they approached. Even stunted as her gift was by dyslexia, she could feel the order of the spell. It was spectacular, old, and huge.
With no sign that she could see, Aiden stopped at the edge and walked along it. She was about to ask where the entrance was when he took a sharp right. She looked up and down at the featureless forest.
“How did you know this was here?”
He stared back at her, a pained look on his face. “Sorry.”
“You’re still not going to tell me?”
He shook his head once. “It’s just. This is the only protection we have…”
She fought down a sense of outrage. “I get it.”
She followed him around the U-turn and pushed a little on the interior wall. The ward shifted, and she jumped back.
“What?” he asked.
“It moved.”
“That’s impossible.”
“I’m telling you…”
Even without her touching it, the wall shifted, closing in on the path.
