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“I love you too, Sai,” she said against my lips. “I’ve been a fool and I’m sorry for it.”
My breath caught. Then that memory was accurate. Every bit of suffering in my life seemed worth it to make it to this moment. Lira trailed her hands down my chest, along my ribs, then clenched my hips to pull me between her legs. She didn’t need to offer more encouragement. I rose and pressed against her until she moaned. I stood, snatched her into my arms, and carried her to the bed. She fell against the mattress with a huff, her ivory hair splaying out over the pillows. I kneeled in front of her on the bed and slid my hands under her dress along the soft lines of her legs.
“Sai.” She grabbed my shoulders. “Are you well enough for this?”
I rumbled a laugh at that and bent over to kiss her hard again. “Lira, I’ve nearly died in far worse ways this week. I’ll accept death in the bed of a beautiful siren with a grin on my face.”I would gladly die in the arms of my wife, the woman I’m in love with,I wanted to add, but I wasn’t sure how much I should push it with expressing that. She’d said she loved me, but she couldn’t feel for me as much as I felt for her. I didn’t want to scare her away.
A gentle smile pulled her lips as our gazes met. There was something in her expression I’d never seen before, a confidence she’d never possessed. Goddess she was stunningly beautiful and touching her felt like holding my heart in my hands.
She brushed her fingers over my lips which sent flames lapping through me again. I tucked under her dress, gripped the soft flesh of her stomach, and to the sound of whimpers, tasted her and held her in place as she writhed against me.
Someday, I wanted to do this somewhere where she wouldn’t have to hold back her song. Where she could cry out and let rain pour upon us, allow a hurricane of wind to send a chill over my flesh, where I could press my lips to her mouth and swallow her song in my throat.
I untangled myself from her skirts and hovered over her again. Her eyes sparkled with lust but there was thatsomething elsethat lingered there too.
Love.
That had to be what it was. She had feared my death and fought to save me. Goddess, I would never stop appreciating that, even if it never quite matched the intensity I felt for her. I kissed her mouth, and she gripped her thighs around me to roll me onto my back.
A smile spread across my face. and I thought I’d never break the expression. I could be nothing but happy with Lira looking at me the way she was.
She jerked at the pants, and I lifted my hips to help her ease them off me. She grinned as she leaned down then took me into her mouth. My hands clenched into the blanket, and I closed my eyes. I wanted to hide in this room with her, feel the soft weight of her against me, brush the worry lines away from her forehead. Fuck the world and the fairy courts and finding these damn heart stones and—
She plunged me deeper into her mouth and my eyes fluttered back open. “Lira, wait… I’m… I can’t…”
She rose to her knees, lifted her skirt, and slid onto my lap, gliding our bodies together. I shuddered against her, and her mouth found mine. She kissed slower this time as our bodies rocked together, every motion seeming to drive our souls closer. I slid my hands under her dress and brushed my thumbs over the gentle curves of her breasts until I found the stiff peaks of her nipples.
She broke away from me with a gasp. “More of that.”
Damn. A partner knowing what they wanted was the biggest turn on for me. All I desired was to see her fall apart, lose herself, sing until she froze this room. Our pace quickened, and I flipped us over, ignoring the ache in my side, so I could better control my movements as I rolled her nipple between my fingers. She released a shudder of a moan, a whimper of a note that rose hair on my arms. Then her head fell back as she clenched her teeth and her legs trembled against me.
I dropped my fingers lower, chasing her pleasure. She tucked down against the pillows and clawed her fingers into my shoulder. Oh fuck. My release built, but I wouldn’t give in until she let go one more time. Her lips parted, her tongue flicking out to wet them. I pressed my mouth to her and followed the curves of her mouth with my tongue. She whimpered again as she pulled her mouth away, her body tensing and trembling as she groaned into my shoulder, and I couldn’t hold back anymore. I finished with a thrust that knocked the bed against the wall.
Lira dropped against the pillows, her hair a wild swirl of pale locks. Her cheeks had flushed with pink, and she released panting breaths. I rolled over to fall against the mattress. She curled against me, tucking her arm around my waist. “Don’t leave me.”
I pulled in closer and breathed into her hair. “I never wish to leave you.”
She leaned back, and her expression was haunted. “I thought you were going to die.”
“I did too.” I smoothed hair back from her face. “But I’m okay now.”
“Sai, I…” She bit her lip. “Maybe it’s too much.”
“Tell me.”
She swallowed and tucked her chin down so I couldn’t see her eyes. When she spoke, her voice came mewling. “I know it’s ridiculous because we barely know each other. But when I imagined having to face life without you… I didn’t think I could do it.”
Her words hit me like a wave, rushing over me, dragging me into a sea of emotions I’d tried to swallow down. I kissed the top of her head. “I feel the same way.”
She raised her face again and, Kali’s powers, I could spend my life studying her. She brushed a thumb over my lips then curled against me, her hand draping right where the scar began before grazing gently over it. I lifted the blanket to cover us and tucked against her, content to remain in that nest with her forever.
A knock a few minutes later dragged me out of exhaustion pulling on me. Lira clutched the blanket around her chest. I chuckled. “Don’t worry. I’ll send away whoever it is.” I jumped up, grabbed the strange cotton pants and pulled them on before opening the door a crack.
Rainoe frowned at me, her arms crossed. “I suppose it’s pointless for me to tell you I wished for our group to do a final examination before you engaged in any strenuous activities.”
I cocked my head to the side and grinned at her. “Probably so.”
She sighed. “Well, you clearly haven’t died despite being a poor patient. There’s trouble on the water. If you wish to avoid harm you may want to travel soon and by land.”
