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Chapter Thirty-Four
Jasper
IwantedtotakeEdie to my house, but when we pulled off at the Lodge I was too tired to object.The day had disappeared, but that didn’t mean the Lodge was quiet.There were guests returning from a day in the park or walking to dinner.For a moment, I stared toward the building, feeling the swampy pull of the work I hadn’t done.But when Tonya, who was standing on the porch helping some guests with their bags, saw me and waved, I turned away and walked with Edie to her cabin.
She didn’t turn on the light when we walked in, just toed off her shoes and dropped her bag by the door.“I need a shower,” she said.“So do you.”
Her pants dropped atop her shoes, followed by a scrap of silky fabric that made my mouth dry.Her shirt came a few steps later, followed by her bra.It was utilitarian, not a sexy striptease, but it was more than enough to stir the last of my energy.
She flicked the switch that illuminated the steam shower stall in golden light.She gathered her hair into a bun as the water warmed.“Are you going to join me?”
I stripped off my shirt, wincing a little as my muscles stretched over my ribs.There was another gash on my calf that had progressed to the itchy stage of scabbing while I slept.My head still hurt from Dr.Barnes’s punches, but that wasn’t what made me dizzy.Edie opened the shower door and stepped inside, leaving it open for me.
She liked the shower hot.It made me think of our dream last night and the conflagration between us.I stepped in, bumping her body with mine as I closed the door.The steam built immediately.When our bodies brushed, they nearly sizzled.“Edie,” I said, desperate to tell her everything.
“Don’t talk,” she said.When she turned her body into mine, I couldn’t tell if it was water or tears glittering on her face.“I almost lost you.I’ve never been so scared.I have to--”
She kissed me like she was starving for the taste of me.Her hands kept stroking my neck, where the bruises from Dr.Barnes’s paws were fading, as if she was reassuring herself that I was real.Her nipples grazed my chest, teasing me with their tautness, until I crushed her against me.I pressed her against the dark blue tile, bracing us both for the onslaught of sensation.
Her pussy was even hotter than the shower when she lifted her leg to welcome me, and I sank into her smooth as silk.The sense of completion, of satisfaction, was staggering.Whenever I ran my mouth over her neck, her chest, she pulled me back to kiss, her tongue as deep in my mouth as my cock was in her body.For the first time in hours—days—possibly my entire life—I felt real and sane and whole.Her softness cradled all the aching parts of my body and mind.
I didn’t want to come yet, so I pulled out and dropped to my knees.The taste of her freshly fucked pussy was ambrosia.I found her clit and flicked it with my tongue as I rubbed my chin in her folds.Wanting more, I lifted one of her legs over my shoulder.She braced her hands against the steam-slick walls and arched her back to press closer to me.I couldn’t keep my eyes open with the water cascading down, so I concentrated on the taste of her until her body stiffened, then sagged.
I stood and kissed her, sharing her taste.Edie moaned into my mouth as she found my hard cock and stroked.I could have slid into her again, but I wanted what had been interrupted in our dream.I flipped her around, no longer sure of if water or sweat was slicking my skin.She seemed to know exactly what I wanted, as she bent at the waist and offered her ass up to me like a gift.I smacked it just hard enough to make it jiggle just as I slid my cock into her soaked pussy.
Edie moaned with pleasure as I stoked in and out.Unable to stand having any part of me not touching her, I curled myself over her body and ran my teeth over shoulder.“Hot,” I gasped.
She stiffened, but it was too late for either of us to turn back.I wrapped one arm around her body and slid the other hand between her legs, “Hot,” she screamed as she came, and the pulse of her body took me with her.
We stood in the unbearable heat, panting.Then, still holding her close to me, I flicked the switch to vent the steam and turned the shower to cold.
She shrieked, squirming away from me when the freezing water hit us both.“Cold cold cold,” she accused, pushing at her hair as she opened the door and jumped out the shower.
I grinned at her and turned off the water, joining her in toweling off.“I wasn’t going to get my hair wet,” she said, pulling down the soaked bun.“But I got distracted.”
“Sorry,” I said, not the least bit apologetic.“I’ll get you one of those plastic caps for the next time we have sex in the shower.”
She stared me down as she squeezed the water out of her hair with a special towel.“What about the next time we have sex in a dream?”
My pulse skittered.Her expression was both knowing and doubtful, as if she knew what she’d experienced but she couldn’t quite believe it.“Let’s get dried off.We need to talk.”
“No.No more delays, no more hesitations.I have never felt anything like this.”She pronounced each word deliberately.“Is there something supernatural about what’s between us?”
I sucked in a breath.Though I had a towel draped around my waist, I felt naked.“The dreams are real.It’s one of the signs.”
When I didn’t continue, she crossed her arms over her chest.“Signs of what?”
I couldn’t put it off any longer.“Edie.You are my fated mate.”
She blinked.“Why do I feel like you just told me I have cancer?”
“It means that we belong together.That we’re supposed to spend the rest of our lives together.”
“Supposed to?”
“Get to.Have the privilege of.”I pushed my hand through my hair.“Fated mates commit to each other for the rest of their lives.They support and care for each other no matter what.It’s true love, but at a price.You’ll never be able to love anyone else.And you’d have to give up your life as you know it.”
She stepped away from me, hand at her mouth.The stunned look on her face tore at my heart, but it was exactly what I deserved.“I changed my mind,” she whispered.“I do want to sit down.”
