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And he gave me exactly what I wanted: raw sex until I detonated in ecstasy, until my heart beat so fast I thought it might escape my chest, until I saw colors in my vision rather than shapes, swirling in the colors of euphoria, colors not of this world while my body burned from indescribable pleasures.
When I found release this time, Marco came with me, and it’s a wonder Drake Security didn’t evaporate in a huge mushroom cloud from the detonation, the true joining of all our people — all eighteen thousand of our wolves and vampires, plus all the humans and shapeshifters who belong to his vampires. I felt every one of them, all at once, as if their eyes were on us — from the most powerful to the least powerful, and I sensed them bathing in the energy of what we were creating.
Chapter 25
Marco
I regretted that we were on a schedule, but we absolutely were. Still, I held her until the erotic shudders and tremors in her body calmed, and I reminded her, “We’re about to join an orgy. This is just a break from the action.”
I love you.
My soul sang with pleasure, hearing her voice inside my head again, and I told her, I love and adore you. My love for you is more plentiful than the atoms in the universe. My people are your people. Your people are my people. They are all now ours. I will protect, defend, and care for our people equally.
She pulled me down and kissed me from below while she repeated the oath we should’ve said while we exchanged blood. My people are your people. Your people are my people. They are all now ours. I will protect, defend, and care for our people equally.
It shouldn’t have worked, to say it after the fact, but I felt the oath made real within us, the heat of it searing my soul, and I suddenly felt the wolves even more.
So much more came to me, I needed to take a breath to withstand it. I can only assume it was Kirsten’s energy that bombarded me, coming to me through the bond Cora shared with her, but I had to manage several deep breaths before I could integrate the wild, feral energy into my own. It was a living energy, not the energy of the undead. My werewolf sensed I was in trouble and put her hands on either side of my face. “Look at me. Eyes right here.”
I opened my eyes and looked into wolf eyes in a human face, and all the pieces came together. Human, wolf, and vampire, mixed with the energies of the Harlequin, and I’m pretty sure there was some lion energy as well as that of the God of War and Courage, son of Zeus and Hera. Zeus is Jupiter, who was also part of the Amakhosi’s energy, and I wondered that I’d never seen it before. Not as a son, not biological, but something of a surrogate.
“You’re okay,” Cora said.
“I am. Thank you.”
“Always. We build each other up. I can’t explain it, but we fit. The sum of our parts is so much greater when we’re plugged into each other.”
I kissed her nose. “No one’s telepathed me yet, but it’s only a matter of minutes before someone reminds us of the schedule.”
“I know. And it isn’t like we aren’t going to have sex again soon, we just have to do a few things, first. Ready for me to bring Kirsten and the others?”
“They’re already here, just down the hall. Are we doing this nude? I’m game if you are, but I have robes for us to wear when we arrive at the field, if you’d like.”
She saw the question I was asking right away. “Do we arrive looking regal, or do we arrive nude, glowing with power, showing we have nothing to hide?” Before I could answer, she sighed and added, “Let’s put robes on to do the next binding on the agenda, and then we can decide how to appear before our people.”
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Cora
Appearing nude on the boulder was probably the way to go, but I didn’t want to do the binding we were about to do without clothing. Also, it would be best to see how our energy was right when we were ready to begin the orgy, before deciding how best to handle the theatrics of what would be a super-short opening ceremony.
Marco walked to the door, lifted a duffel I hadn’t noticed, and pulled two luxurious, deep burgundy robes from it.
“I’m not at the top of my game because I didn’t even notice the duffel,” I told him while I donned a robe.
“Only because you trust me,” he said while he put the other on, “and possibly because you were so happy to see me. Anyone else, you’d have seen it.”
“I’d feel happier with a shower, but it isn’t as if they don’t know we’ve just fucked each others’ brains out.”
Marco chuckled and pulled me into a hug. “Yes, I’m pretty sure I was brainless for a while, and that so rarely happens anymore. I truly love you, Cora. Those words sound so trite, but what we just did was the opposite of trite.”
I smoothed the collar of his robe and opened the door.
“It absolutely was, and while I kind of hope our people only felt the joining aspect of that, I’ll actually be okay if they picked up on the sex parts as well. I want them to understand what we are to each other, so those with hesitations will feel better about belonging to both a vampire and a werewolf.”
Because whatever hesitations I’d once had about fully joining my empire with Marco’s were gone. The way to keep all of our people safe was to join us into a single demesne. That part was done, now we had to defend it. One step at a time, and we’d all be safe.
Or dead, but I tried to shut that possibility down as soon as it rose. The binding we were about to do was going to give us the strength we needed to defeat anyone. Even this Neanderthal motherfucker.
