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“I love you and will continue nurturing that love in this life and the one to come,” I breathe.
Those, too, she echoes.
The ceremony is simple. Our words hang in the air. A golden light snakes around us, pulling us together tightly until there is barely an inch between us. The air crackles with magic, like every inhale is filled with the depths of our love.
Then an idea strikes me. Something else I can give her. A gift.
I move even closer, lowering my lips to the shell of her ear, and I whisper one simple word. The word that holds all the power in the world for me. She gasps, but the binding holds us together too tightly to look at her face. Her chest rises, pressing against me.
Her lips reach my ear. She kisses me, then breathlessly returns the gift I just gave her.
A Name.
I draw in a breath, and it’s like I’ve never really breathed before. Everything is better. New. Different.
I am hers, and she is mine.
The golden light fades away, leaving us in the same room as before. We relax, our hands sliding together and interlocking.
We are wed.
Elva looks up at me and smiles. “Thank you,” she whispers.
A long moment passes as we stare at each other. A world of silent understanding passes between us. No one can tear us apart. Nothing can destroy us. We’ve already been through so much, and our struggles are not yet over. But maybe we can have one more thing.
I won’t move first, though. I need to hear her say it.
“Nathaniel,” she breathes. “Kiss me. Touch me. Please.”
Those words are my undoing.
In an instant, I crash into her. Her legs unfold as she lands on the floor, my body pressing down on top of her. The kisses are feverish and intense, echoing the fire in my veins.
“What do you want?” I ask between kisses.
Her hands twist in my hair, tracing the uneven growth of the once-shaved side. “Everything,” she breathes. “Anything. I need you.”
Gods, how I have waited to hear her say these words. My hand slides down her smooth, bare skin. She is soft in all the right places, and my desire for her grows.
A door slams somewhere nearby. I pause, my hand on her hip, and we stare at each other with wide eyes as muffled voices filter through the door.
“Bring them...” a deep voice says.
I want to groan.
Please leave,I think. If the gods are real, they will let this happen without interruption. I’ve waited for so long for this. To hold her, kiss her, touch her, make her mine.
“Not yet...” a female outside replies.
“... but...”
Elva’s head tilts back, her neck so beautifully open to me as our chests heave in time. Her pupils are dark, and I can smell how much she wants me.
“Get Akron, and he...”
The voices move on, but it’s too late. I heard what they were saying.
“They’re coming,” I say.
