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After pressing a soft kiss to my tendon, he lets his mouth linger there. Teasing me.
I’m shaking from how badly I want him to bite me.
I lightly punch his shoulder, and I feel his lips spread with a smile because he knows exactly what he’s doing to me.
Playfully walking his fingers up my back, he stops between my shoulder blades before moving back down. As he drags his nails on either side of my spine, I shiver and grab fistfuls of his shirt to keep myself from falling.
Nerve endings are igniting all over my body, lighting me up with chills and a buzzing sensation. I feel him everywhere. In my mind—it’s like my brain is tingling. In my heart—I think it might burst because it’s so full in my chest. In my fingers, toes, and even my eyelashes—each little part of me is vibrating.
“Do you feel that, too?” I whisper against his chest, my lips just an inch away from where his shirt is partly unbuttoned.
Deciding to do some torturing of my own, I lick his exposed skin.
Ellister shudders. “I always feel you, even when we’re not touching. Just a glance from you can make my insides boil.”
Glad I’m not the only one.
When Ellister slides his hands from my back to my front, he trails over my lower stomach and traces my belly button before going up. Cupping my breasts with his warm palms, he releases a ragged exhale as he runs his thumbs over my tight nipples.
“These tits, Hannah. Such perfect tits.”
Something inside my abdomen swoops, and the heat between my legs becomes almost painful.
My pocket watch stops ticking. A few seconds later, so does his. Earlier, we’d wound them up at the same time, so I’m not surprised they gave out simultaneously.
“Do you want me to…” Ellister toys with my clock, but I shake my head before he can finish his question.
“I don’t want you to restart it. Not now. Maybe not ever again.”
He cocks his head as he gives me a scrutinizing look. “Why?”
“It’s a reminder of my old life.”
I want to let go.
Let go of my attachment to the world I used to know, to the home I still long for.
It might take weeks, months, or years for me to stop missing the Earth realm, but moments like this help. If I can look to the future with Ellister, I might forget about the farm-shaped hole in my heart.
Ellister fiddles with the watch some more. “What if we were to give it a new meaning?”
“Like what?”
“Objects of commitment.” At my confused look, he goes on to explain, “All fated pairs have them. Couples exchange important items as a token of their love, along with a very special promise. It’s like getting married in your world… but more.”
I nod. “I like the sound of that.”
“Then let’s do it.”
“Now?”
“Now.”
“Once we complete this ritual…” Realizing I could be undressing him while we talk, I start with the buttons on his shirt. “We’ll be bonded for real, right?”
Earlier, while we were scrubbing the floor in the living room, Ellister gave me a crash course on the fae. He’d explained the soul mate bond and how once a fated pair has sex, their souls are forever entwined. It’s deeper than any other worldly connection. You feel it on a physical level.
From that moment on, you sense that person as if they’re a part of you. Because they are.
