Page 98 of Solstice

He cleared his throat, sat up straighter, and stabbed out the cigarette in the crystal by the bed. Lex swallowed and tilted his head to the side, eyes narrowing.

In the twenty-six years we’d been together, I neveroncecame to him like this, willing and vulnerable and desperate for him specifically. His expression demanded to knowwhy now?

I didn’t answer, just crawled onto the bed and straddled his body, cupping his face, tilting his chin up so he faced me.

“No matter what happens tomorrow, I’m happy it’s you.” I kissed him gently, much more gently than I’d ever kissed him, cradling his face like it was made of porcelain. With those marble cheekbones and his hard, cold heart, I couldn’t be sure he wasn’t.

He furrowed his brows and stared up at me.“What’s going on with you?”

“Shh.” I pushed him back, dragging the blankets down so I could slip my hand over his half-erect cock. I scooted down his body until I wrapped my lips around it, sucking it the way he liked. I looked up his body at him before I continued.“If you want me to stop, tell me to stop.”

Lex groaned and fisted the back of my hair, hissing in a breath when I swirled my tongue around the head.God,I loved driving him wild like this, loved it even more when he got so hard, so quick.

He tightened his grip, letting me into his mind, forcing his way into mine.“X, what’s wrong? Is it the lust?”

“No, Lucifer.”I let his cock go with a loudpop.“Can’t a girl fuck her husband before their second wedding?”

He laughed. “I’ll take your pity fuck, but I need to know it’s real.”

“It’s not a pity fuck.” I gave his cock another lick, all the way from the balls up to the tip and back down again. “It’s real, Lucifer, and I get it now.”

His eyes lit up, mischief and hope glittering behind them. “Get what?”

“What I have to do.”

He looked like he was going to ask more questions, but he didn’t get a chance. I climbed up his body, positioned him at my entrance, and sheathed him inside me, all the way down. It took me a minute to adjust, but I didn’t mind the pain, especially when he inhaled a sharp gasp.

There was nothing like that first shove inside—the warmth in my lower belly, the jolt of pleasure erupting all over my skin, the intimate connection to another human. All of it overpowered me, forcing away thoughts of the king and Miri and what might happen come morning.

He sat up and bit my breast, knowing I normally liked it rough between us. But not tonight. No. Tonight, I wanted to love him, to revel in this one thing we’d get to have between us. No one else was being forced to get married tomorrow. No one else was completely surrounded by their horrible, maniacal family. No one else was being tracked and stalked by an evil fairy bent on killing the entire human race.

This night, tomorrow, they were about us, me and him. I grabbed his hands and intertwined our fingers, leaning down so I could pin them above his head.

Lex didn’t normally take the submissive role when we had sex. He liked to win, and I let him. But I wanted to remind him we were equals, that as much as I liked to give in to him, he also liked to give in to me.

He caved with very little effort. He let me hold him down with one hand while I rode him the way I wanted. He let me finger my clit, and he watched, his mouth hanging open, his head thrown back in euphoria, deep sighs on his lips. I angled myself so he hit the spot inside me that had both of us moaning and gasping. My climax rose, bubbling up my spine and down my legs.

“Ride the wave with me, Lucifer.”I opened the floodgates between us, so his pleasure was mine and mine was his and every single nerve ending in our bodies became one. We were one soul. One mind. One body. Our molecules warped and changed and molded together.

When I ran my thumb over his bottom lip, I felt it on my own. I pushed inside his mouth, and he sucked it back, rolling his tongue around the tip, sending a shock of lust to my clit.

He groaned.

“Do you feel me?”I didn’t mean physically. I meant subconsciously. Spiritually. I felt him everywhere, all at once, like a million icy pinpricks on my scalding-hot inferno.

“I feel you, X. I feel you.”

When my orgasm finally crested, it shot out of me, right into him, and his peak hit me between the eyes. Our bodies vibrated with hormones and magic and the tether that had bound us together. Call it fate, karma, whatever, it had led us to this euphoric point in time.

Just me and Lex, like always.

The universe split wide open. Lex and I surfed a higher consciousness. We were together in a way no two humans had ever been connected before. We stayed like that for hundreds of years. Thousands. Millions. Time did not mean anything to beings like us anymore. My soul expanded to an effervescent all-knowing thing, and so had his because we were the same.

We hovered there, on the brink of this profound, ethereal weightlessness. Then it collapsed down, and we sank into our bodies, Lex and Ivy once more in a guest room at Mount Vernon.

Time passed like centuries in the moments after. I lay next to him, breathing down the high, and he rolled on his side to face me. Lex grabbed my hands, our thumbs hooking around each other, and he pressed his lips to my knuckles. We didn’t say anything. Nothing needed to be said.

We were in the presence of each other’s company, finding comfort in both the familiarity and the contact. My thoughts went to younger versions of us, holding each other wordlessly after learning that Marcus had died. How different those children seemed compared to the people we’d become.

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