Page 254 of Split or Swallow

Pleasure radiated through her. Caspen was inside her body and inside her mind, stimulating both at the same time, penetrating Tem without limits. Smoke surrounded them, caressing every part of her, intertwining them even more than they already were. She was hyper aware of the sensations within her own body—the way she was suddenly in tune with the blood in her veins—able to feel the way her muscles rippled and tensed.

Tem was unstoppable. Her power finally matched his.

She understood now how Caspen was so intuitive—how he knew exactly how to pleasure her. The same ability had been granted to Tem: she could hear his heartbeat, feel the subtle changes in the way his blood rushed through his body.

Caspen sent a surge of power right to where they were joined.

Oh. Tem closed her eyes in sheer bliss. Do that again.

Smoke enveloped her, arching her entire body back so she was looking up at the stalactites hanging far above them. He sent another, and Tem nearly blacked out.

Again.

Another.

Again.

And another.

Caspen wrapped his body around hers, surrounding her completely, making it so she felt nothing but him. He sent pulse after pulse—far more powerful than anything he’d ever sent her using the claw—until blackness began to overtake her. Just when she was sure she wouldn’t survive another, Caspen sent one last pulse.

Pleasure like she’d never known slammed into her.

Tem roared in release—in salvation—as climax took her. No human words could describe such exquisite bliss. Every cell in her body was hot and open, willingly receiving wave after wave of glorious sensation as Caspen pushed her far beyond the limit of what she’d ever thought she was capable of taking.

It was paradise.

Nothing Tem had felt up until now could ever compare to this. She felt so alive, so whole, so filled with purpose. Tem wanted to give it back—to make Caspen feel everything she was feeling. She reached for her own power and sent him a pulse, wielding the wave of pleasure her climax had given her, using it to pleasure him in return.

Caspen let out a rabid sound—one of brutal joy. Tem sent another pulse, desperate to hear him make that sound again. No sooner had she released the pulse than he sent one in return, ripping the breath straight from her chest.

It was sensory overload in the extreme.

Tem had never experienced such rapid give and take—never been such a participant in someone else’s experience. Everything she did to Caspen he did right back to her—each pulse she sent him was returned tenfold, until she could feel her body vibrating with unrestrained power.

They were still connected—still intrinsically fused together. Tem never wanted it to end. She knew Caspen was right here with her—that they were on this journey together—that they would anchor each other no matter what came.

She couldn’t tell one orgasm from another. They were endless, building into one great orchestra that unfurled her from the inside out. Caspen’s voice bloomed suddenly in her mind:

I want all of you, Tem. Give yourself to me.

How?

Let me all the way in.

Caspen was so deep inside her she didn’t know how to let him any further in. He surrounded her already—there was nothing more to give him.

Open your mind.

Tem had thought her mind was already open. But a moment later, she felt Caspen brush up against a barrier—one that shielded the deepest, purest piece of her. Her soul. To open it would require ultimate trust—ultimate surrender. It would mean showing him everything—the part of Tem she kept only to herself—the part that made her her. Tem couldn’t imagine letting Caspen see that. But there was no one she’d rather show it to.

She began to lower the barrier.

Caspen growled in approval. Tem sensed the animal in him—the beast that craved her even when she was a beast too. His hunger for her ran so deep that a sudden loop of fear enlaced her. Caspen immediately suppressed it, his grip on her growing with each moment they were joined like this.

Let me in, Tem.

Tem closed her eyes and let Caspen all the way in. She felt him take the reins, pouring himself into her—filling her mind until they were no longer two beings, but one. Tem had never experienced anything like this before. Their minds were combined—she was equal parts Caspen and herself. She saw his soul too: its flame a mirror to hers. He stroked her from the inside out until she was whimpering beneath his grasp.