The bond responded to every motion.
It pulsed beneath their skin and through the walls, making the air shimmer while the glyphwork around her wrists began glowing more brightly. Neither of them noticed. Their attention had narrowed to the place where their bodies joined and the impossible familiarity of each other.
Her rhythm quickened.
Rhen guided without controlling, lifting his hips only when she leaned closer and silently asked for more. Each thrust drove him deeper, and the sound of her pleasure stripped another layer from the discipline he had spent centuries perfecting.
“Rhen..I …I want…” she breathed.
“Take it.” He pushed her hips down and his into her. A cry escaped her lips as he filled her.
“Yes!.” She pressed one hand against the center of his chest. Her head rolling back, her long hair brushed his slick thighs.
He could feel the gathering tension inside her, the pleasure tightening through her body, and beneath both lay the echo of an emotion that felt far older than the hours they had known each other.
Rhen sat and caught the back of her neck and pulled her into a kiss.
She began moving harder, her thighs trembling around him as she chased the release building between them. Rhen slid onehand between their bodies and found the sensitive point above where they joined.
Her cry broke into his mouth.
“That?”
“Yes.”
He circled slowly, matching the movement of her hips until her control began to fracture.
The room filled with the sounds of uneven breathing, skin against skin, and the low growls Rhen could no longer suppress. The fire bent toward them as though caught inside the same pull, while silver light traced the hidden symbols beneath her skin.
“Look at me,” he hissed, gripping her throat as she moved, grinding on him harder and harder.
She held his gaze even when pleasure made it difficult.
Rhen felt her tightening around him, felt every tremor as though it moved through his own body.
“I cannot—”
“You can.”
Her fingers dug into his shoulders.
“Rhen.”
“Take it, fuck! Harder, take it harder!”
The words reached somewhere deeper than desire.
She came apart around him.
Her body tightened as the orgasm tore through her, pleasure and magic breaking together until a cry of his name filled the room. The force of it pulled Rhen past the last boundary of his control.
He drove upward once, holding her against him as his own release struck.
At the instant their bodies locked together, the bond completed.
Power detonated through the chamber.
The wards screamed inside the walls, the windows rattled, and every flame rose white before being extinguished at once. Something ancient closed around their joined blood with the finality of a door locking.
