It didn’t matter how upset I might be, how lost I was, or how defeated I felt. My body still responded to his. It always would. Even when it hurt.
I arched up into him, my insides clenching beneath an onslaught of sensation as my heated center spasmed around him.
A curse threatened my tongue, tears clouding my vision, my limbs strung tight.
It was right there. So close. So intense. Soconsuming.
I whimpered.
And Cam… pressed his thumb…down.Hard.
I screamed.
It was… too much. Too exhausting. Too beautiful. Too wrong.
I swam in a turbulent sea rippling with waves of agony-induced ecstasy.
None of it made sense. My brain no longer functioned. My lungs wept. My heart beat too wildly. My limbs were nonexistent. My body resembled a vessel meant solely for Cam’s pleasure.
His seed warmed my insides, his passionate growl vibrating my chest.
My head fell automatically to the side, aware of what would come next.A bite that would send me back into my endless slumber.
Yet all he did was kiss my throat.
I waited.
Then I frowned.
And eventually, I glanced at him. He was still inside me, his upper body braced on his forearms.
But rather than stare at my neck like it was his favorite food, he watched me.
I gazed up at him, noting the varying shades of blue in his eyes. It wasn’t a deep ocean color anymore, but layered in a way that reminded me of the shoreline. Dark to light. All ringed around his black pupils.
“I need to prepare for tomorrow’s meeting with the alliance,” he told me quietly. “So I will be gone most of the night.”
My brow furrowed.He’s talking to me about his plans?
And he’s going to meet with the alliance?
“I need you to drink two vials of my blood in preparation for when I return,” he continued. “Because I suspect I’ll be in a brutal mood and I don’t want to accidentally kill you before I’m finished with you.”
Oh.If there was any question as to which version of Cam I was dealing with, those final words confirmed it was new Cam.
The vestiges of my dream melted away into my heartbreaking reality.
Those walls in his mind were as impenetrable as ever, even with him lodged deep within me and having just fallen apart.
How am I going to break through?I wondered for the thousandth time.Is it even possible?
At least our bond was still intact. That much I could feel in my soul.
Which means he’s definitely Cam and not some dangerous clone of him,I thought to myself with a sardonic snort.Silver lining and all that.
“Come,” he said, slipping out of me. “I want to fuck you again in the shower before midnight breakfast.”
CHAPTER TWENTY
