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I moaned as his lips moved against me, hot and needy, along my neck and up to my jaw.
“I crave every bit of you,” Alek whispered. “All I can think about is this.” He slid his hands down my body, over my jeans. “And this.”
Just then, something ignited within me. Like a piece of me that had been hidden for so long finally unleashed. A feeling of heat and need started in my core and pushed and pushed until it was all I knew.
Alek stilled.
I could do nothing but breathe as the foreign sensation washed over my entire body, from my toes to my head.
“Lyra,” Alek breathed. “Are you okay?”
“I—” I started to reply but suddenly could not find the words. This feeling, this heat and burning sensation that I could not escape, began to tingle.
Alek backed up a step, surveying my face. “What’s happening?”
“Something,” I managed to bark, shaking my head. “I don’t know, something feels…”
“What? Are you okay, Ly?” Alek gripped my face now as he searched for an answer; searched for whatever might have been hurting me.
“I’m fine.” The tingling faded, leaving me more energized than I had ever been before. “I just got the strangest feeling.”
“Explain it to me,” he demanded, his voice rough with worry.
So I did. I tried to put it in words, giving him as many details as I could about what had just occurred in my body. It did not feel human, but it did not feel demonic, either.
“Do you think it’s the goddess blood?” I asked.
He considered this. “What has your mother told you about your gifts? Has she been preparing you for anything?”
I choked down a fit of laughter. “You’re not serious.”
Alek frowned. “Right. Terrible question.”
“Besides, she hardly told me anything about herself. There was zero chance she would actually take a risk and tell me something about myself, especially something that didn’t automatically mean I was a waste of air.”
Anger flashed over his features. We had talked about her a few times over the weeks; mostly Alek asking me if I was okay and me insisting that yes, everything was fine.
When in reality, everything was not fine. Everything was very, very far from being fine. But how did I tell him that?
He had died. I brought him back from the veil using my own blood, against my mother’s wishes. We had both endured trauma. I worried about him just as much as he worried about me.
I was just better at hiding it.
“It’s been a long night.” Alek ran a thumb across my cheekbone as he exhaled. “We need sleep.”
I reached up to grab his hand, holding it in mine while we looked at each other.
“Sleep isn’t what I need,” I whispered.
I didn’t wait for him to decipher my words. I reached up and pulled his face down to mine, pressing my lips to his.
A few seconds later, he was kissing me back, claiming my mouth with his, slipping his tongue against mine.
This was what I needed. Alek knew it, too. He knew it from the first time he met me.
I didn’t hold back with him. My kisses grew aggressive and passionate as I tried to remove any extra space between our bodies.
Alek leaned down and gripped the back of my jeans, hoisting me against him while I wrapped my legs around his waist.
