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“Finally? After all these months… everything we’ve endured—”
He pressed a finger to my lips, but I could swear I felt him in the corners of my soul.
The bond.
I could feel him because of the bond. My body was the question, his was the answer.
Two halves of a set, a pairing foretold and prophesied and infinitely precious.
He pressed a finger to my lips, still staring down at me with that same expression.
I realized what that solid, unshakeable expression on his handsome face was.
It was certainty.
“I have loved you,” he paused to drag in a breath, “Since I found you after the massacre of the goldstone palace. The first time I thought you might be taken from me, I knew.”
Months and months. Before the Joining. Before the mating bond.
A bead of wetness formed at the corner of my eye. I couldn’t even lie to myself. It wasn’t mist or condensation. It was a tear.
For myself. For Arran.
“All this time,” I half-sobbed.
Arran slid down into the water, bringing me with him, wrapping my legs around his waist and pressing his forehead against mine. “Always, Veyka.”
I couldn’t breathe. My entire chest was caving in.
Arran’s smirk grew into a smile. A real smile. I leaned back so I could see it, even though that meant showing him the tears streaming down my face. True smiles, true laughter… so rare from my mate.
My mate.
I let the word sink into me.
“You are my mate,” I breathed shakily.
The smile grew. “Yes.”
“You are mine.”
It deepened. A husky growl, almost like a purr, rumbled low in his chest. Rolled through me. “Yes.”
“You waited for me.”
He was tugging me closer. He must have been moving me while we spoke, slow and steady, because suddenly the head of his cock was nudging at my entrance.
“I would have waited a thousand years for you to realize what was right in front of you.” One thrust of his hips, and he was inside of me.
My head went back, my mouth falling open as I savored the fullness. There was so much of him, so much of me. A perfect match.
“I am going to be terrible at this,” I said through my moans.
Arran rolled his neck, then his hips. “I think you’re quite good at it.”
I managed to swat his shoulder. A gargantuan effort. Thinking was becoming harder by the second. Let alone controlling my limbs.
“We’ll learn together,” he said.
