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“This is what I want. You and I, in sync. Nothing exists outside of this. Nothing else matters. Now, I suggest you clear the cobwebs out of your skull and listen to me carefully.”
Raven’s eyes narrowed.
“We will figure it out. I have faith we will figure it out. You are now my first priority. Not Embour. Not Draven. Not the fucking Faelands. You.”
Her mouth fell open and I took advantage, swooping down to kiss her long and hard. She matched the strokes of my tongue, tasting and lingering in ardent exploration.
My soul cried out for hers while my cock demanded its perfect fit. I lifted my head before going any further. “Are you still listening?”
“Mmmhmm,” she nodded with a half-lidded look. I needed to wrap this up before I lost her to the wave of lust getting ready to crash into us both.
“Good. If you feel like you have to ascend, we’ll figure it out. If you take over as Queen and despise it, we’ll figure it out. If you want to live with me here at Embour, we’ll figure it out. If either of your family members decides it should be one of them who rules, guess what? We’ll figure it the fuck out. There is no situation, no future, where we are not together figuring it out. Not for me, at least.”
I wanted to pressure her to say the same in return but I feared she wasn’t ready for that. I was all in and she’d only agreed to give this a shot. A couple of days might not have been enough to fall head over heels in love with someone, but our souls had touched. It was enough for me. More than enough.
Something inside me had shifted right before she’d broken my head. I’d had a moment of rightness, of feeling whole. I’d fight anyone and anything to keep it, even her.
“You’d give up your position here for me?”
“In a heartbeat.” I would never let my mate face the future alone.
Her head shook, an argument brewed behind her eyes.
“I know you don’t have complete faith in the preordained. I get it. Sometimes a person meets their soulmate and it is ugly and nothing like it should be. Kree’s mate beat her mercilessly.”
Raven blanched.
“I wish she hadn’t endured what she did. But her meeting that monster, in coming to live here, set forth a chain of events that changed the lives of every Shadow demon in the Otherland, ending with Draven as the Shadow Lord and bringing Lyric to the Otherland. And before that, it put Draven and I in the path of The Navita and forging a bond with him. A bond strong enough that when his daughter needed help, he brought her to us. So, maybe things aren’t always as they seem in the beginning, but know this, Little Bird. Where you lead, I will follow. I have enough faith for the both of us.”
“But your family—”
“Will support me in whatever I decide to do. You’ve seen how Draven looks at Lyric. He understands exactly how I feel.”
“Casimir,” she whispered.
The way she said my name as her eyes glistened, a spark of hope ignited deep inside me. Maybe she was more in sync with me than I’d allowed myself to believe.
“We will worry about the specifics later. Right now, I think my mate needs a distraction.”
“No, I don’t want you to think I’m using you like that. It wasn’t right of me. It was stupid, really, and terribly unfair to you.”
Bending, I licked a trickle of water running down her neck, humming with satisfaction when she trembled. “Do you want me, Raven?” I asked.
“Yes.”
“Then it can be as simple as that.” I bit down on her earlobe and gooseflesh broke out upon her skin. “Besides, it is my job to see to your every need. Is a distraction what you need right now?”
Raven shook her head. “I don’t want a distraction.”
I halted my sexual advances. Small hands grabbed my hair on the sides, lifting my face.
“I don’t want adistraction, Casimir,” she spoke slowly with force.
“Then what is it you want?”
“You.”
An animalistic rumble started deep in my chest. “Only me? Yourmate?”
