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“With everything I am.”
Only for a few more weeks, but he didn’t say that. So I wouldn’t either.
Might as well enjoy the time we had together.
“Tell me you were jealous, Fireball.” His command was low.
Hot.
“I was jealous.” The admission escaped before I could even attempt to stop it. “Now that I can smell your scent, hers seemed wrong.”
“Good.” His hands released my breasts, sliding down my abdomen. One lingered on my hip, and the other slid between my thighs. “What do I smell like?”
“I don’t know.”
He gave me a disapproving growl.
“You don’t smell like anything. More like… feelings. Lust. Desire. Comfort. Belonging.”
“That’s better.” He finally stroked me between my thighs, over my shorts.
“What do I smell like to you?”
“Mine.” He touched me again. “Pleasure. Need. Home.”
Well, that was intense.
He worked me with his fingers, and my mind left his words.
His hands were the only thing I could focus on.
I shattered, and shattered, and shattered.
And by the time we collapsed in bed together, I started to think maybe he smelled like home to me too.
thirteen
ELODIE
The next few days were peaceful.
It was strange to experience peace in the middle of heat’s intense magic, but we did.
We spent hours and hours on the porch together. I made a ton of progress on my schoolwork, and he massaged my feet like he was being paid to do it.
He wasn’t.
He just liked touching me.
Eli and Gordon had spoken with the school and gotten permission for me to finish everything as soon as I could, so I’d been working with my professors to wrap my classes up early. I needed to be done before we reached the worst of heat’s magic.
They set up my finals online, so I made my way through the last exams. The pain and warmth started slowly seeping back in, but it wasn’t too bad.
My sense of smell didn’t fade in the days that followed the bite. I found myself lifting the collar of my shirt—August’s shirt—just to inhale his scent.
He always smelled amazing.
And when heat’s magic got too difficult to deal with, we had no problem slipping into the bedroom together.
