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“It’s… me…” I sputtered in desperation. “Wake… up…”
Cole’s eyes flared wide at my voice. He leaned back, shocked.
“Avery?” He shook himself. “This is a new torture.”
“This is real,” I assured him. “You’re safe now. I got you out of Tartarus.”
“I thought it was a dream.” His voice was rough. “Then a nightmare. Where someone attacked you.” His gaze slammed to my throat. “I hurt you.”
He looked disgusted.
My neck was going to be ringed in bruises, and not the fun kind. But none of that mattered. I circled his wrists with my hands and pulled him towards me. “None of that matters. It was a nightmare, Cole. Understandable after… after everything.” I bit back a sob. The little bit I’d seen him go through had been my own torture. And he’d gone through that for much, much longer.
“You’re here. This is real,” I repeated, pulling him to me.
I wrapped my arms around his neck, tasting his lips.
“I’d given up.”
“I never did,” I said, tasting him again.
“You feel too good to be real,” he said, catching my lower lip between his teeth.
My claws sharpened, digging into his freshly healed shoulders. “Does this feel like a dream?”
“Little wolf, you have no idea.”
I shivered at the nickname. Emotions swirled inside me, a million disparate feelings, but they all crystallized into a single intense need. Magic or not, I was a wolf at heart. I needed to feel skin on skin, to wrap his scent around me.
I pulled Cole’s body against mine, refusing to let him get away. His body responded, hardening against me. His hand gripped my hair, unmistakably possessive. His other made quick work of my makeshift outfit, the vines turning to dust with nothing more than a touch. I leaned back, dragging him with me until we both lay on the bed. Unwilling to simply be led, he took control. His hips rocked against mine, taunting, threatening.
Need was a raging fire in me. I urged him on, bucking against him.
If he’d been feeling weak before, any sign of it washidden. There was nothing but dark, demanding intensity in every single one of Cole’s movements. Still, he controlled the pace. He wanted to drive me to madness before succumbing himself. Wanted to see me lose control. Wanted to force me to.
I was on board with his plan, for the most part. Except I intended to take him down with me.
“Give me more,” I insisted. “Don’t taunt me, Hades.” The name slipped out before I could stop it.
He froze above me.
“Cole,” I corrected. “I need you.”
“You remember.”
“Pieces.” I didn’t want to talk about it now. Soon, we would talk. About my memories and a dozen other things that seemed to strangle us. But tonight, all I wanted was him. “For example, how much you likethis.”
I arched up and nipped at his jaw, then exposed my throat for him.
He took the invitation, capturing the flesh between his teeth and sucking. Every part of my skin felt ultra sensitive, as if keyed in to his touch alone. I ran my fingers over his arms as if assuring myself they still held me.
He moved lower, teasing my breasts. My nipples had turned to stiff peaks, aching. When I tried to massage them, he snatched my hands away, pinning them above my head.
“Mine.” The word came out as a low growl. “In any shape, by any name, little wolf, you are mine.”
“Yours,” I promised. It felt odd to be owned, but right, too. Like I belonged in a way I never had before. As if a missing piece had snapped into place. “Take what’s yours.”
“I should savor this,” he rasped against my skin. “Should stretch this out to eternity. A perfect dream I won’t let end.”
