My entire body snapped tight instantly.
“Oh gods?—”
“Mine!” Sten growled, lowering his head and biting me right on the place where my neck and shoulder met.
Pleasure detonated through me violently.
White-hot.
Blinding.
I screamed his name into the darkness as the orgasm ripped through me so hard it stole the air from my lungs.
“Sten!”
The world dissolved.
Magic exploded from my body immediately afterward.
Not metaphorically.
Literally.
Blue-white light burst from my fingertips in violent spirals, wrapping around us both as raw power surged through my bloodstream like a runaway freight train.
I gasped in shock.
The room shook.
Floating candles exploded overhead in showers of sparks while lunar light flashed wildly across the walls of Sten’s chambers.
“What’s happening?” I cried.
My skin burned.
Not painful.
Just too much.
Like something long dormant inside me had suddenly awakened all at once.
Magic raced beneath my skin in violent waves, brighter and hotter than anything I’d ever experienced in my life.
And somehow—somehow it all pulled toward him.
Toward Sten.
Toward the impossible bond tightening between us with every frantic heartbeat.
“Hold on, Luna,” he grunted, wrapping one powerful arm around me instantly as more energy erupted around us. “I got you.”
I believed him immediately.
Even while the room practically trembled around us.
Even while blue magic spiraled through the air like living moonlight.
I trusted him.
