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As I spin, I catch sight of movement in the tree line a few feet away. I stop, and my heart stills. It’s Xander.
His golden eyes meet mine. I wonder fleetingly why he’s here, but I’m too high on magic to care. He looks like I feel: intoxicated, enraptured, enchanted. I realize then, quite abruptly, what his eyes remind me of. The dragon in the forest. The one who saved me.
My feet are moving without conscious thought, through the garden and toward him. He walks toward me, too, as if entranced. The golden spin of my magic rolls out and around him, pulling him closer until we stand inches apart. It glows around us as if we’re the sun and moon, causing the whole universe to move.
“It was you,” I say softly, breathlessly.
I step even closer and place my palm on his chest. His heart beats beneath my fingers, and his skin feels hotter than flames. Those golden eyes have never been brighter, and now that I know what he is, I sense the thrill of power behind them. The desire. Those eyes tell me everything I need to know.
I lean forward, my lips hovering just over his. He doesn’t move for a moment, but I can feel his dragon magic, fire and thunder mixed. It mingles with my own magic, and I feel a shiver in my belly, and down further.
Xander growls and his mouth meets mine with ferocious intensity. One arm wraps around my back, his hand grabbing my ass, crushing our bodies together. His other hand tangles in my hair, and his tongue claims my mouth, taking my breath away.
I move both of my hands under his T-shirt and around to his broad, muscular back. He is raw power and force, a storm breaking all around me. My fingernails dig into his skin and he growls again and lifts me by both ass cheeks. I wrap my legs around his waist and he carries me, then shoves me against the nearest tree. The bark is rough against my skin, and I let out a cry that’s half pain, half pleasure. My legs tighten around him even more, and I feel a throb forming between them, a need only one thing can fulfill.
Xander feels it, too. The growing length of his erection hardens beneath his jeans, pressing into me. I let out a soft moan and suck his lower lip into my mouth, one hand moving down to the buckle of his belt. In a few moments I have it free, and I pull it from its loops with a satisfying snap. Xander moves his mouth to my neck, then moves down along my collarbone, trailing hot kisses. One of those strong, rough hands moves up to my breasts, his thumb stroking my nipples through the thin lace of my bra until they’re rock-hard. A sigh escapes my throat.
“Xander,” I moan.
And then, abruptly, he freezes. Pulls back and looks me in the eyes, then shakes his head, as if my use of his name had broken his trance.
“I—I can’t,” he says. His voice is thick with lust, deep and velvety.
He backs away from the tree and drops me to the ground. My heads spins at the sudden change in mood. I’m throbbing with unspent pleasure, and his words shatter the glow of my magic.
“We can’t… not ever…” He’s staring at me with a world of emotions in those golden eyes: lust and sorrow and guilt. “I made a vow,” he says, and he sounds angry now.
He takes another step back, shooting me one final look, and then he disappears into the trees in a blur of speed my eyes can’t follow.
