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An image of a golden flame flashed in my mind. The color of Kaza’s magic. I sensed his heart start, his desire surge, and the pain in his leg swell from what we’d just finished. He’d done something to me. Branded me with hismagic.
“What did you do to me?” I said,panting.
“Our hearts are bound now,” he said, tracing the shape of a heart on my chest with a perfectfinger.
“What does that mean?” I asked, my lungsheaving.
“I’ve let you into my heart.” He squeezed me. “You now feel what I feel, and viceversa.”
But part of me didn’t believe him. He was the joker after all. How could I let him into my heart when we only had a short time together? Once all my wishes were granted, I’d be alone again. For now, I just wanted to stay content, snuggling into his hard chest, listening to hisheartbeat.
He pressed his lips to my neck, laying soft kisses along my ear. His heart whispered to me that he desired me again, called for me to curl in his arms and fall asleepafterward.
But I knew I couldn’t. I had to return to my brother. Get the genies well enough to create my wishes and heal Ali. I kissed Kaza on the cheek and gotup.
“Where are you going?” He grabbed myarm.
I pulled away as much as I hated the idea. Part of me toyed with the notion of staying here for eternity and doing nothing more than lying with Kaza, but that was me living in a fantasy land. “I’ve got to get back to mybrother.”
Disappointment stormed across his face. “Don’t leave.Stay.”
Our bond told me he didn’t approve of me leaving him. All the women he’d shared his bed with had fawned over him like puppies. He liked to be in charge. The one who’d leave the girls hanging, waiting for him. But I wasn’t a littlepuppy.
Truth be told, I didn’t want to go. Inside, I fought a battle between my heart and my head. I just wanted to let my hair down. Stay a little longer. Have that wine Kaza offered me. Play a few games. Laugh and joke with him. Definitely continue where we left off and have another round of mind-blowing sex. My heart pumped with such joy. I think I had a crush on him. That was confirmed when I glanced over at Kaza lying on the couch naked, winking at me, and I almost melted and jumped back in hisarms.
But I’d promised my brother I wouldn’t be long. Zand might have returned with Kaza’s medicine. I needed the genies to save my brother. The responsibility weighed heavily on me. Eventually, my head won out over myheart.
“How do I get out of here?” I said, wading into the pool for a quick dip to wash the sweat and mess fromme.
“Think it,” he said, “and itis.”
Okay… but I wasn’t exactly a magicalbeing.
Once I’d put my kaftan back on, my gaze lingered on him for a few moments. His eyes called to me to stay.Ugh. It took every ounce of restraint to drag my lovesick, giddy ass out of there. I wondered if everything that had just happened replayed in his mind like it did inmine.
No. Cut it out. You’ve got to getback.
Fine.
I kissed Kaza on the forehead. “I’ll be back to check on you when Ican.”
He grabbed my wrist. “Is that apromise?”
“To deliver your medicinepersonally.”
That brought back his delicioussmile.
I thought about returning to my hovel and my brother. Smoke furled around me as if responding to my request. The last thing I saw before I was drawn out of the lamp was Kaza blowing me akiss.
