Page 102 of Forgotten Fate
“You think the only reason I love you is because the gods wrote it into my fate? Are you telling me that’s the only reasonyouloveme?”
He pursed his lips for a moment. “There are many reasons I have fallen in love with you. But that doesn’t mean I deserve you.”
“Oh shut up with that bullshit.” I finally shot out of my seat asmy temper flared. How dare he tell me who I should or shouldn’t love. “You didn’t kill people because you fucking enjoy it. You did it because you were forced to. You did it to survive. To experience freedom.”
“I could have tried harder to find another way. Only when fate brought me to you did something change.”
“Fate.” I rolled my eyes and began pacing as my annoyance boiled. “Fate may have brought you to me, but fate does not define my love for you, Elias. I do.”
“Aura…”
“I love you. For who I know you are. And I know you love me too. I didn’t fall in love with you because of some magical bond. The gods didn’tchooseyou for me. I did. I make my own choices, Elias. What’s yours?”
Elias stood slowly, the toxins clearly still circulating through his system. But in spite of the wolfsbane, he took one step closer to me. Then another. Until he stood directly in front of me.
I looked up at him, meeting his eyes. “What do you choose, Elias?” I repeated.
He gently grabbed my chin and tilted my head up towards him. My heart raced at the sensation it brought.
“I choose you, Aurelia of Rimor,” he said in a deep, possessive tone. “I will always, and forever, choose you.”
Before I could think a single thought, Elias pulled my face towards him until our lips crashed together, passionate energy flowing into me. Elias slid his free hand to the small of my back, pulling me in even closer until our bodies collided. Without his shirt, I felt even more of Elias’s skin at one time than I ever had, making the energy between us – and the ecstasy it brought – intensify.
I gasped into his mouth as pleasure rippled through me, and I felt the corners of Elias’s mouth turn up in a smile under my lips. Hereleased the hold on my chin and began to untie the string of my borrowed blouse. As it loosened, he pulled it down until my neck and shoulders were bare. His lips left my mouth and trailed down the uninjured side of my neck, each kiss and lick bringing heat to my center. I moaned, unable to control myself.
Elias pulled back, and I looked into his eyes, which began to glow.
“Your eyes,” I said, head swimming as my heart pounded with excitement and lust. “They glow.”
A smile tugged at Elias’s mouth once more. “They do.”
“Why?”
“It happens when the wolf inside wants to emerge – when the magic in me wants a release, whether it’s due to anger, or fear, or…a growing need for something. Someone.”
I reached up and placed a hand over his cheek, fighting back a tremble as I was overwhelmed with need, myself. “I think I know the feeling,” I whispered.
Elias’s face suddenly hardened. “If we do this, princess…we are mated for life. The bond is unbreakable.” His voice was a deep, husky growl, almost more beast than man. And it caused another moan to escape me.
“I’m yours and you are mine. Forever.” I looked into his eyes, determined to show him that I meant every word.
I guess it did the trick because Elias immediately pulled me in again, his lips finding mine and his tongue joining in. I placed my hands on his chest, feeling the energy flow through my palms against his skin, and reverberating into my very soul.
Elias gently pulled the blouse down even further, revealing my breasts. He brought a hand down onto one, massaging it in rhythm with his tongue as he kissed me. Pleasure pierced me that made me nearly boil over, and we had barely even begun.
Even in his weakened state, Elias used his strength to grab mebehind my thighs and lift me up until I straddled him. The bulge beneath his pants pressed against me, and I gasped from the friction. With me on his hips, and our tongues still entangling, Elias walked us over to the bed.
He sat me on the edge, and I took no time to reach for his belt, trying not to let the sweet taste of his tongue distract me from my task. Within a moment, the belt was undone, and Elias finished the job by removing his pants entirely, before ripping mine off as well, along with the blouse.
Once we were both naked, he gently guided me down until I laid on my back. From there, I could see his entire body before me. Every inch of him rippled with muscles. Despite the extreme number of scars that laced his torso, he had the body of a god. Even his cock was so long and thick, I moaned when I saw it.
He must have been thinking something similar. “Your body is…perfection,” he growled. Then he reached down from where he stood and placed his hand between my legs. My entire body trembled with an explosion of energy, and I cried out from the intensity.
Elias froze for a second. “Am I hurting you?” He lifted his hand.
“No,” I gasped. “Don’t stop.”
A low rumble escaped from his throat, and he replaced his hand. I arched my back as the sensitivity heightened – my hips rotating so I could get more friction.