Page 96 of The Stone Survival
“Some isle off the coast. They need enforcers. I’ll explain more at supper. But I…I wanted to tell you first.”
He and Levi were leaving? Truly leaving and I wouldn’t see them again? “Curi…” My voice cracked. “I’m going to miss you so fucking much.”
His smile was a fractured, broken thing. “Yeah, me too. But I got dibs on you in the next life.”
Hot tears blurred my vision. “Can I get a hug?”
He held out his arms, and I stepped into them for what would probably be the last time in a long time.
Levi answered his bedroom door,book in hand, hair mussed. “Hey. Everything okay?”
“Curi told me that you’re leaving.”
His shoulders tensed a little. “Ah, yes. We were going to tell you all at dinner tomorrow.”
And yet Curi had come to find me, to give me a heads-up. Levi hadn’t, but I wasn’t about to make an issue out of it. This was what he needed, and I was going to let him have it. “I just…I wanted to say good luck and that…that I’ll miss you.”
His wary gaze softened. “Thank you. I’ll miss you too.” His throat bobbed and my heart ached for him. For the pain I’d unwittingly caused him.
“I’m sorry, Levi. For everything.”
“You have nothing to be sorry for,” he said. “We don’t control fate.”
“I know but…I want you to be happy.”
“I will,” he said with confidence. “I promise.”
I believed him.
It had been toolong since I’d had Serath inside me, pinning me to the bed with his huge frame as he drove into me hard and fast, hitting the sweet spot that had me hurtling toward release. He made a guttural sound as I came around him, my body spasming and clutching at him. But he kept going, smooth, hard strokes that fed my release until I was sobbing and begging for him to stop. Only then did he seat himself fully, his cock swelling and stretching me in a way that had me biting down on his shoulder to stifle my scream of pleasure.
Our bond flared, ribbons of power curling around us and cradling us, locking us in place as he rolled his hips against me and filled me with his hot seed.
Now that Ubron was gone, our bond was stronger than ever. This…this was how it should have been from the start.
Are you all right?His voice in my head gave me delicious chills.
I am. You?
Still hungry.He nibbled on my ear, and I giggled.
“We should shower and dress. It’ll be dinner soon.” Speaking out loud felt strange now that we could communicate silently if we wished.
He pushed up on his palms and surveyed the room, stripped bare now and ready for whoever would claim it once the academy had been restructured. “Maybe we should flip the mattress.”
“I think whoever gets this room will need a new mattress altogether.”
His eyes heated. “In that case, we should ruin this one as much as we can.” He claimed my mouth in a savage kiss that instantly reawakened my desire.
Dinner would have to wait.
I’d cometo the academy with nothing, and I was leaving with nothing but my mate. Essentials would be acquired on our journey. I stood in the doorway of the room Serath and I had shared for the past few weeks. Empty now. Bedframe sitting stark and lonely without a mattress.
Oh, that poor mattress…
Serath joined me, slipping his arms around my waist. “Dinner’s almost ready.”
I leaned into him. “The last one here.”
