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The tension hung in the air between us. I’d touched her before, I'd kissed her before, but there was something tremulous now.
She rose to her tiptoes, and the feel of her weight shifting against my chest made something inside me melt, the second before she brushed her lips across mine. It was a gentle kiss, and then she murmured, “Zehr, what’s really going on? What’s wrong?”
“Right now, all is well, love.”
“Oh,” she said eagerly. “Talisyn’s memories came back. Do you… know anything about that?” Her voice turned shy at the end.
I wanted to claim credit, to curl up in the warmth of her admiration as I fell asleep in the earth.
I shrugged. “No idea. But perhaps I did something without intending it. Feel free to thank me if you wish, Honor.”
She laughed, shaking her head. But she kissed me, and that was all I needed at the moment.
I had to make things right. Maybe that was the only way I deserved to live.
She kissed my cheek, my jaw, my throat. Her soft tender lips nuzzled my skin and drove me wild in every way. Honor and I had sex before, but this was the first time she had touched me so tenderly. It was the first time I could remember anyone touching me tenderly in two hundred years.
It was infatuating, and it terrified me. I grabbed her chin and yanked it up to mine, pressing my lips to hers in a claiming kiss. Her mouth was soft, and she opened to me, letting me plunge inside her, my tongue teasing against hers. I wanted all of her.
And I want all of you,she answered.You don’t have to pretend.
The curtains of her mind parted as easily as her lips, showing me the way she saw me. The way I towered above her, so much taller; the way she used to feel intimidated by my height and sarcasm and power but now just found it all endearing. She imagined herself in my arms, and me kissing her back just as tenderly as she had kissed me, and the sense of warmth and safety. The world had been terrified of the Lord of the Scourge—but she was just glad to be close to me, to feel my hard body against hers. When the two of us were together, history faded away.
And she just loved me.
I let out a groan, overwhelmed by the feelings that flowed between us. But I didn’t want to break away and abandon her.
Instead, I wrapped my arms around her waist and drew her to me. In our dreams, I could blink, and we could fall back onto the bed that had suddenly come from nowhere. She looked up, blinking. “Where are we?”
I’d dreamt we were in the dragons’ wing back at Rylow. Perhaps because I’d seen it all those times in her dreams, tinged with a sense of warmth because she was happy there. When she was withthem.
But I couldn’t even summon jealousy at the moment. Honor was all-consuming; her lips were hot against my throat, and she straddled me, naked now in our dreams. I ran my hands through her bright red hair and yanked her down to kiss me. The two of us tumbled over each other on the bed, both of us seeking to dominate, until we fell out and landed on the floor. She grinned down at me, and I didn’t even feel the elbow I’d just cracked against the hardwood, and then we kept touching each other on the thick rug in front of the crackling fire in the fireplace.
It felt like I was coming home as I drove inside her. Her cheeks grew red from pleasure, her fingers tangling in her hair as her back arched. The sense of her pleasure, molten heat sweeping through my body, ignited my own orgasm, and the two of us tumbled over the edge together. We finally collapsed side by side.
It was just a dream, but I felt warm and safe and comfortable there, buried to the hilt in her perfect body, her arms around my neck and her soft breasts pressing my chest. I buried my face in her hair and breathed in her sugary scent as the dream began to fade.
“Zehr,” she whispered, and it was a plea, but I was waking. “Come find me.”
I was pretty sure that, just like when I was dying from the Scourge, Honor’s will for me to live was keeping me alive. Before, she had been feeding me magic without even realizing it, because she wanted me. But now, I wanted to live for myself, to be at her side.
And as the sweetness of dreams faded… I woke to the deep cold of the forest.
CHAPTER52
Honor
When I woke,I found I couldn’t stop worrying about Zehr. I rolled over to find Talisyn already awake.
He was watching me steadily. “I’ll go find him.”
It was unsettling for these men to be in my head, although when I was so sleepy, I didn’t have my walls up. I put them up then, smiling at him to soften the effect.
“He’s not easy to find,” I said. “And we have to get to Rylow.”
“I know. But if you need to know he’s alright… I’ll make it happen.”
“I thought you hated him.”
