“It wasn’t easy.” I pulled away and tucked dancing hair behind her ear. “But...I can finally keep my promise now.”
“Oh?” She smiled, looking like a queen kissed by moonlight. “What promise is that?”
“The one where I said if I don’t want you to die, you’ll never die.” My fingers linked with hers as I tugged her back to the cliff where our home waited. “You’re stuck with me now, I’m afraid.”
“How ever will I survive such hardship?”
“Guess you’ll just have to suffer.”
“Or I could makeyousuffer...with my tongue.”
I groaned. “Don’t tempt me. Renovate first. Then sex. Because if I take you now, we might not come out of the dreamscape for years and what will Whisper do?”
“And just like that, I’m back to being second best.” She laughed. “I see where your true priorities lie.”
I laughed as I scooped her into my arms, lifting her over a fallen log drowning in newly sprouted flowers. “I love both of you, but you...you’re special.”
“Special?”
“You own all of me, Rook.” I smirked while also being deadlyserious. “I literally cannot survive without you. I wouldn’t even want to try. In fact, I think I’m still alive because I gave my heart to you the moment we met and it’s up to you to protect it for the rest of our existence.”
“Wow.” She slung her arms around my neck as I refused to put her down. “That’s a lot of pressure.”
“I trust you to rise to the challenge.”
“Oh, I can rise to the challenge all right.”
The heated look she gave me snapped my non-existent self-control.
Fuck waiting.
Why was I waiting? We had all the time in the world.
She bit her bottom lip as I marched toward a tree, dropped her to her feet, and pressed her against the bark. “Hold on.” Flipping up her dress, I nudged her legs wider with my foot.
“I thought you said we had to renovate?”
“How can I think of anything else when you’re the reason I defied death?”
She whimpered as my fingers found her slickness. “But don’t you want to go home...?”
“I do.” I pushed a finger inside her, making her shudder.
“Then...”
I growled against her ear, pushing a second finger deep into her heat. “Whenever I sink inside you, Iamhome.”
Removing my hand, I picked her up and waited for her to wrap her legs around me.
The moment she did, I lined up my cock and thrust into her with one swift impale.
Home.
She cried out as frost raced up the tree and soaked into the ground.
Fuck, I would never get enough of her.
Never stop loving her.
