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I wasn’t going to ask because I didn’t want to know if someone else got this when I wasn’t here to give it to him.
“A virgin, huh?” He tried to hide his smirk as his hands gripped my hips softly. “Was it a shock to see those memories of us?”
“Yes.” I looked away from his face. He turned my face towards him as I tried to hide the emotions bubbling up. “I don’t want to forget this again.”
“I don’t want you to either.”
"How do you do this every year knowing I won’t remember you?” I traced the T on his chest again, as if I could burn it into my memory.
“Your mind might not remember me, but your heart does and that is enough for me. Every trial you’ve come to, you seek me out, ask questions about me, stare at me a little too long, smile at me, and find reasons to be near me,” he confessed. “It’s like the curse couldn’t take your desire to want me away from you and it shows me with every little thing you do.”
“But you wanted to stay away from me this time.”
“I’ve never tried to actually stay away from you before and I thought it would help you to not be so distracted by your feelings for me. That it would keep you from doing something so reckless like save me from those men in the forest, but it didn’t work.”
Something shifted into place in my mind.
“That’s why you were so upset that I had come. You didn’t want me to get hurt and not compete in the trials.”
He nodded and leaned up to rest on his hands behind him before leaning forward and kissing me softly.
“When I heard you were missing, my mind went crazy. Like I didn’t have a choice but to go to you. No one could stop me from going.” Pausing, I watched his face soften at my words. “Why did you tell me to leave your room?”
“I was still so scared that I would lose you again. I’m sorry for making you feel that way and saying what I did. For making you think that I hated you and wanted you away from me.” His eyes looked up to mine. “I thought it was a dream when I woke up to you in bed with me, but then you were actually there. At first, I was confused, but honestly, I needed you to stay away from me because I thought it would make you focus on me instead of the trials. It happened in one of the other trials and I didn’t want to chance it again. I figured I could hold off until you were done with the trials and then we’d have a lifetime together.”
The rain started falling around us and we hurried to get dressed. Cassius pulled me onto the horse with him and my horse followed closely. He wrapped his arm around me and his other hand held the reins as we darted through the forest. I laughed as the rain soaked through our clothing. His arm holding me squeezed me tightly.
“You did always love the rain,” he said from behind me. I turned my face towards him and smiled brightly before crushing my lips to his. The horse slowed down as Cassius’s hand dropped the reins so he could pull me closer. He twisted me so I was facing him, my legs straddling his hips. The horse kept walking at a slow pace as Cassius’s hands tugged my hips, so I was rubbing against his hard length.
“Home. Let’s get home first.” He groaned but didn’t shift me back around as he grabbed the reins and urged his horse to go faster. I kissed him softly before moving down his jaw and neck. He let out a soft sigh as I moved my hips slowly against him. Teasing him. I smiled when his fingers tangled in my hair and pulled me back so he could find my mouth.
He broke the kiss as soon as the horses walked into the stables. Cassius practically dragged me to the castle doors before stopping.
“Stay with me in our room?”
Our room.
“Yes.”
He gave me a lopsided smile as he dragged me through the castle hallways. We passed the room I had been to before. We walked up a long spiral staircase I had never seen before. When we reached the top of the stairs, I saw separate living quarters from the rest of the castle. A large living area with a nice kitchen and dining room off the side. It was mostly decorated in forest greens. I couldn’t admire much about it as Cassius dragged me quickly to the left. When we entered the last door at the end of the hallway I froze. I had been here before. The mirrors I had been standing in front of in my memory were to the left of the giant four-poster bed frame. The bed had beautiful dark green bedding and accents in off-white.
“You like it?” Cassius smiled. “You should. You picked out everything in here,” he said, lightly chuckling.
“I had a memory of us here not that long ago,” I replied, “I was standing in the mirror, and you had come in being extra flirtatious.”
Cassius’s eyes shined a bright gold like he was happy to know I remembered something else. The look had my heart racing with deep emotions.
“You told me you thanked the Gods above that you found me.”
“I still thank them even if I don’t believe in them like I did before,” he whispered. Cassius paused before he continued. “I prayed to Gods I don’t believe in, and I begged the stars above that they let you choose me to love, Thea. That has been my only prayer since I first laid eyes on you.”
I was the one to move first. My strides towards him were swift. As soon as my mouth touched his he had me up in the air so my legs could wrap around him. We fell to the bed in a messy chaotic heap. Clothes flung to the floor like we hadn’t touched each other in years, even though it had only been minutes. I had never felt a burning need like this.
Cassius slid to the floor to kneel between my knees. His hands undid my boots, my daggers clanking to the floor. His smile was contagious when he met my eyes. He gripped the waistband of my trousers, and I was naked with one swift pull. His rough hands ran over my thighs before gripping them to spread them, so I was completely exposed to him.
I should feel embarrassed or nervous, but he looked at me like I was a sight to behold. Sitting up on my elbows I watched as his head descended. My legs threatened to close tightly when he ran his soft tongue along my pussy. When he knew I would keep my legs open for him he let go of them and ran his fingers over me before plunging them into me as his mouth licked and devoured me. I moaned loudly into the space of our bedroom as his dark hair bobbed up and down between my legs.
My hands gripped his hair as he wrapped his arms around my thighs and hauled me against his face completely. His tongue shoved into me, hot and demanding.
