Page 112 of Fractured
“Yes,” I cried out from the bottom of my heart as my hips moved to take him in deeper. Fuck, yes—forever.
“Good girl,” Rune whispered, and he leaned back, my face in his hand. “I fucking love it when you smile.” He leaned closer again, pressed his lips to mine without kissing me. “Your happiness. Your joy. Your pleasure…”Kiss, kiss, kiss. “It silences all the voices in my head, Wildcat. It’s intoxicating.” And he bit my bottom lip hard.
I cried out, the pain translating into pleasure instantly, but he didn’t give me the chance to even ask him to do it again. Instead, he spun me around, put me in front of him and moved me forward, both his arms around my waist.
Water sprayed my face, my naked body. The sea fell continuously off the edge, and outer space stretched beyond to infinity.
“Spread your legs for me,” Rune whispered in my ear from behind, so slowly I barely caught it from the sound of the water pouring. My body moved on its own, my legs spread to the side, and Rune didn’t wait a single second. Heguided himself between my folds, then thrust his hips up, coming inside me all the way at once.
My eyes rolled in my skull. His fingers and his tongue were amazing, but his cock was something else. It put me together, every little piece that had ever been broken. He made me whole.
With a hand around my jaw, he kept my back pressed to his chest, and with his other, he held my hip tightly as he fucked me from behind. We were there,right there,the edge of those rocks possibly a foot away from us. The water didn’t stop spraying me everywhere, and it somehow made it all so much more intense. It was cold, and Rune’s body was warm, and his breath against the side of my neck waseverything.He spoke to me while he moved, thrust into me without stop, but I missed most of it because he whispered.
But just before the second orgasm broke me apart, he wrapped both arms around my body and held me tightly in place, raising his hips as far as he could to give me all his length.
In my ear, he said, “Look at that. That is what you give me, Wildcat. The whole universe is mine when you are.”
I held onto his arms with both mine, and in my head, I screamed with all my strength, but when I jumped over the edge, all I was able to do was whisper his name. Wave after wave of pleasure came over me as Rune held himself there and didn’t move, knew how to make it last so long that I couldn’t even feel my legs anymore.
My eyes remained wide open, and I looked out at the space beyond the edge of Verenthia, the stars twinkling in the distance. It all feltmine,too. All of it was made for me when Rune was there.
Fucking hell, it wasbeautiful.I’d take that image with me to my grave.
When he continued to move in and out of me again, to chase his own release, I was glad he kept his arms around me because my legs would probably let go. I was completely spent in the best possible way.
He, too, came with my name on his lips—those lips that were right by my ear so I heard it. Feltall that he felt, which waseverything—just like I did. The fear was gone, and I could have been falling off the edge right now and I wouldn’t mind one bit.
Everything was exactly as it was always going to be when Rune held me to his chest like I was a part of his own body, whispering in my ear that he loved me.
thirty-two
“We’ve hadsex in caves three times now.” Though we’d technically been outside at the Mercove, but still. “Damn.”
My whisper echoed in the ceiling because we’d come to the other side, close to the entrance hole—both to eat and to lie down. Raja had indeed brought a bag full of bread and cheese, nuts and carrots, even a handful of dried apricots that tasted amazing. Rune ate with me, which meant he hadn’t eaten at all recently. He only ever ate once in two days before—but I wasn’t complaining.
We’d found a big enough spot to lie on where there were no sharp edges on the stone floor of the cave, had set up the queen’s cloak underneath us as a blanket, and had lain down with one of the two metal bottles full of water we’d found in Raja’s bag.
My head was on Rune’s shoulder, my hand on his cheek, playing with his stubble, and both his arms were wrapped around me. We’d both put our clothes on because we had no idea when Raja or Vair would be back, and I was tired indeed but not tired enough to sleep. Not with all these thoughts going through my head.
“Talk to me,” Rune whispered, putting his hand over mine and leaning his head to the side to plant a kiss in the middle of my palm. “Tell me what you’re thinking. You look miserable, wildling.”
“I’m not.” Though I was. “I’m just…I’m scared, Rune. Which is only natural.”
“Tell me what you’re scared of,” he said, pulling me closer until the tips of our noses touched. The bird he’d made me was sitting on the edge of protruding crystals over our heads, but there was plenty of light to see his eyes.
“Everything,” I whispered. “The fact that Lyall turned out to be so…evil.And that a fucking building can literally hold you captive in this place. And that I am a vessel carrying half the soul of a dead queen for some reason.” I shook my head, sighed deeply. “And it’s not even in a coolway. Like, I wasn’t eventhe chosen onelike in the stories. I was just…empty enough and touched by magic.”
“That sounds like a choice to me,” Rune said. “Magic is a very…smart thing, if you will, and I’d reckon the soul of a queen would be, too. It wouldn’t just choose to exist in the wrong person. It would choose someone…likeyou.” A kiss on my lips—and just like that, I felt far more special than I actually was.
“That was smooth,” I muttered, a goofy smile on my swollen lips.
“It’s the truth. And you do not have to worry about Lyall. He wouldn’t dare attack me. He had his chance, and he chose the coward’s way—to throw me to someone more powerful and hope for the best.” He closed his eyes for a moment. “Even if he comes and finds out, you don’t need to be afraid of him. I promise you that. With that frostfire you have in you, you can win against him even if you were all alone.”
My stomach turned. “I know the difference. The way it feels is different, too, when it comes. It’s so strange, Rune…”
My voice trailed off and I raised my hand to look at it. It looked so normal. Nothing about my skin was any different than it had been my whole life.
“Frostfire is very powerful. You should learn to master it at will, Wildcat. It’s one of the most powerful weapons a fae can wield.”
