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I flinched and pressed a hand to my chest at the sudden pain. “Fuck you, Caleb.”
He stepped in front of me, blocking my exit. “I didn’t mean that in a bad way, Ember.”
I stumbled back, remembering the curse mark. “Don’t touch me. Not that you want to, anyway.”
His eyes dropped to my wrist and he swallowed hard. “You teleported us, sent us away while you were left with hundreds of people determined to kill you. You said you didn’t want to split the group and then forced us to leave. You teleported us so far away there was no hope of making it back to you. I sat there, waiting to feel your death, and when it didn’t come, I didn’t know what to do. Then Kieran flew to us and I saw you – alive, but barely, and all I could think about was how I had failed you. How I had almost let the woman I was courting die because I’m too weak and inexperienced. Because I let my concern for a stranger surpass my concern for you.”
“You didn’t fail anyone,” I countered. “We’re all alive and?—”
He reached to grab my arms and I stumbled back and fell on my butt.
“You can’t touch me! The curse mark?—”
“Fuck the curse,” he growled, pulled me up and kissed me deeply, his tongue stroking along mine and I moaned into his mouth. The warmth of him hugging me warmed up the void in my heart. He rested his forehead against mine and in a voice cracking with emotion whispered, “I love you, too, Ember. I love you more than anything in this world. I don’t deserve you and that’s why I was so mad. I am so sorry that I failed you.”
Shaking my head slightly, I said, “You only failed me when you shut yourself away from me.”
“Can you forgive me? Can you please give me a second chance to prove myself to you?”
“I love you, Caleb, but I’m still upset with you.”
He nodded. “That’s fair. I need to prove myself to you again.”
“And now you’re likely cursed just like I am,” I whispered and choked on a sob. “What if we’re both dying now?”
He wrapped his arms tighter around me. “Then we die together.”
Leaning my head back, I captured his lips with mine and slid my hands along his waistband to push up beneath his shirt, and squeeze his back.
His kisses moved down my jaw, down my neck. He pulled me inside of the building, to his apartment, and laid me down on the couch. Leaning back, he yanked his shirt off and quickly unbuttoned and pulled his pants off.
I worked my shirt off and he removed my pants, immediately dropping down to suck and lick at my clit.
My hips arched up and I moaned, sliding my hands into his hair, I gripped him and ground myself against his mouth.
When my orgasm shattered me apart, my eyes unseeing as stars covered them, he pulled back only long enough to reposition himself and thrust into me.
“Ember,” he gasped as he buried himself fully into me. “I don’t want to be separated from you ever again.” He arched back and thrust into me again, eyes fluttering closed. “The void in my soul hurts so much right now.”
Wait …
“You feel the hollowness, too?” I asked.
He stopped moving and opened his eyes. “Yes.”
“But … I can still feel our connection.” I touched a hand to my chest.
He nodded. “Yes.”
“So, what is that emptiness?”
Scowling, he thought about it a moment and said, “I don’t know.”
“Is it the mark being gone?” I asked and held up my wrist.
He flinched and said, “That could be it.”
“But I felt it even before I revoked the mark,” I whispered.
