Page 124 of The Thief Of The Light

“Shh! Goddess Caly, someone will hear.”

"Let them.”

“I need to get you back to our rooms before you get me kicked off the First Flight.” I baulked at his words, but he set me on my feet before I could say anything and dragged me along to the legion quarters we now shared along the corridor from Kol and Jaxus and Kiera.

He stopped at our door, fumbling with the key and letting us in. He hoisted me into his arms and carried me over the threshold.

“Faolan!”

“Hush, I’m busy.”

"Let me speak,” I demanded.

He tossed me down on our bed and began to strip. “Not if you are going to tell me again that I should run away and be free.”

“But I?—”

He crawled over me and silenced me with his lips in a punishing kiss. I pressed at his chest, and eventually, he pulled back some.

“Faolan,” I said seriously.

“Caly,” he said in an impersonation of my tone.

“I'm serious.”

“So am I, and we are done discussing this.”

“I just need to know that you don't resent me for needing to stay for my sister. You have had to give up everything and do the one thing you never wanted to do so that I can be here, and it’s not sitting well with me,” I rushed out.

Faolan took my hand and pressed it into the mattress above my head with one of his, then he took the other and did the same, pinning me down so I had no choice but to listen to him.

“I don’t resent you any more than you would have resented me if I said I had to leave. I have everything I will ever need now that I get to have you. I’ve given up nothing, and there is nowhere else I'd rather be. Just be happy with me. You’re a ryder now! And if I haven't mentioned it…leather really suits you.”

I rolled my eyes. “You’ve mentioned it. But the legion, Faolan. You’re stuck with it now, and it was the one thing you said you refused to do.”

“It could be worse,” he shrugged. "We made the First Flight, and honestly, no dragon actually wants to be there. They’re allforced. And with Alaric as heir, maybe the future looks brighter for everyone.”

“I know, b?—”

“No buts, unless it’s your butt, then I’m interested.” He grinned.

I shook my head but laughed. Maybe he really was okay with being here, and I just needed to get over the guilt.

“Are we done with that now?” he asked with a smirk.

I smirked right back. “Fine.”

Then he began to strip me.