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He arched, bending to slick his tongue over one of my nipples. His cock surged inside me at a tighter angle, and my orgasm crackled through me like a firework. I gasped, clenching around him. His breath hitched too. “Fuck,” he muttered, bucking harder. His muscles twitched beneath my gripping fingers. With a groan, he followed me intorelease.
We rocked to a stop, our skin damp with sweat where our bodies pressed together. A pleased sounding hum reverberated from my mate’s chest. He lowered himself beside me, tucking his arm around my waist, his nose brushing mycheek.
“Mine,” he murmured one lasttime.
I smiled and squirmed over to hug him back. “Mine.”
Chapter 10
Ren
I dozed for a few minutes,until a strange light hazing my eyelids brought me back to sharper awareness. I blinked, nuzzling closer to West and breathing the smell of his skin, like rich earth and the pinesoutside.
Somewhere in the midst of our coming together, his bandage had fallen off. The glow I’d noticed was emanating from his scar. I’d never seen it this close before: a slight indent in his skin with ragged edges marking the boundaries of a magicalblast.
I raised my fingers to it tentatively. The surface of the scar was smooth, harder than the rest of his skin but just as warm. When West didn’t pull away, I lay my palm right againstit.
“It changed color,” Isaid.
“It does that,” West said. “What were youexpecting?”
“I think it’s always been red when I’ve seen it before.” Now it was beaming a vibrant pink. Not a color I’d have expected West to sport, but I guessed he didn’t have a whole lot of choice in thematter.
“That would make sense. You’ve probably only seen it when I was throwing myself into some kind of skirmish.Angry.”
It took a moment for that information to sink in. I looked up at him. “It shows youremotions?”
He shrugged. I could tell from the slight tensing of his shoulders that he didn’t enjoy discussing this topic, but he held my gaze anyway. “Fae magic works in strangeways.”
“No wonder you keep it covered up.” Imagine going around alpha-ing with all your kin being able to read anything you were feeling from the glow through your shirt. Wearing your heart on your sleeve pretty much literally. “You got it during that fight whenyour…”
“When they killed my mother,” he filled in when I faltered. “Yes. It was red for a pretty long time afterthat.”
I ran my thumb along the edge where the scar met the softer skin over his leanly muscled chest. “So what does pinkmean?”
West chuckled. “Do you really need to ask that,Sparks?”
He tipped my chin up to bring my mouth to his. The kiss was so long and tender it left me feeling as if my heart were glowing too. Our lips parted, our faces still close enough to brushnoses.
“I love you, Ren,” he said, low andrough.
My pulse skipped. I looped my arm around his neck, tugging all of me closer to him. “I love youtoo.”
“Lord only knows how I got thatlucky.”
I laughed. “You didn’t exactly make it easy when we got started.” But there were some things I didn’t totally understand about how he’d reacted to me. “You were worried I was going to take off on your kin—all the kin—when the going got tough, like my motherdid?”
He shrugged. “That was some of the problem. I wanted to be sure we could count on you before I put their lives in your hands. And also, especially later on… I wanted you. I didn’t know how much to trust my judgment. I have to put what my kin need over what I want, so when my instincts seem to be telling me what they need just happens to be something I’d very much enjoy, I have trouble not beingskeptical.”
“Maybe you’re a little too hard on yourself,” Isuggested.
“Maybe.” He exhaled a ragged breath. “Ever since that battle, and losing my mother— It might not make total sense, but I’ve always had this feeling hanging over me that if I make a selfish choice for something else, I’m saying she didn’t matter enough. If I was willing to sacrifice her and not somethingelse.”
My throat tightened. I nuzzled his cheek. “You’re definitely too hard on yourself. I guess I can forgive you for being hard on metoo.”
He gave a hoarse guffaw. “You have no idea how much it’s been killing me watching you throw yourself into harm’s way, again andagain…”
“That’s my job,” I said. “Just like it’syours.”
