Page 45 of Touched By Moonlight
Something seized my heart and refused to let go. Deep inside, I had suspected this, longed for it, but life had kicked me in the ass far too long to believeit.
“It’s not possible.” Even as I said the words, I knew the truth. My heart skipped a beat for purejoy.
“It is possible.” He sat on the ground, his shoulders slumped. “You’re the reason I couldn’t have sex with another woman after we had made love in our dreams. How could I even consider it after what we shared? I’d never felt anything like that before, and I knew without you, I’d never feel anything like thatagain.”
Suddenly I no longer felt soalone.
I had my beloved wolf, the one who found me in the forest when I was a child and led me home, silently lopingaway.
My wolf who had shared my innocent, childish dreams as I slept when I was achild.
My wolf who had shared his body when I became an adult and we made fervent, erotic love in ourdreams.
Sinking beside him, I framed his face with my hands. “It’s reallyyou?”
Expression wary, Grayson nodded. “Do youmind?”
He sounded vulnerable, unlike the arrogant, confident alpha I’dknown.
“Mind? I’m glad I finally found you. So glad.” I kissed his mouth gently. “Your face always was slightly blurred when I woke up. I thought I’d never find you. How did you know it wasme?”
“I memorized your face. Waking made you blurry as well, but I kept a sketch pad by my bed and drew your face. Each morning after a dream, I filled in a detail. I didn’t want to forgetyou.”
Grayson brushed his mouth tenderly against mine. “I wanted to tell you earlier, but had to wait until we could get here, where you’d be safe from intruders. Nicolas and Stephan assured me they would do everything in their power to protect you aswell.”
I hadn’t felt this safe and cherished in a long time. I had three strong wolves to protect me, and the wolf of my dreams was finally here withme.
“Do you remember when we first met?” I whispered, unable to stop touching him to make sure this wasn’t still a dream. “When I got lost in the forest andcried?”
“You were only seven.” He smiled beneath my caressing fingertips. “I could scent yourfear.”
“Terrified of the dark forest and the noises. I wasn’t afraid of you, though. I hugged you and then climbed onto your back and you took me home. And then you took off before anyone could see you. I guess I was happy to be home, and rescued, that I must have reached out to you in dreamsleep. It wasn’t often, but those dreams were the ones that got me through toughdays.”
He cupped my face, stroking my cheeks with his thumbs. “You were so lonely and upset you felt locked away from theworld.”
“Do you think we bonded in our dreams because we first met in theforest?”
“It may have been the connection we shared when we met. But that’s not important. What is important is that we found eachother.”
“That’s why you stalkedme.”
“Why I found you, lass. I had to find you. I knew we were destined to be together. And then,” His voice grew rough and deep. “The dreams stopped three years ago. I thought… I’d never see you again in my sleep, until a year ago. I caught a glimpse of your dream of destruction and death and watched your entire world blow to pieces as you screamed. I couldn’t help you. I couldn’t hold you or comfort you. All I could do was watch you sob. I felt sohelpless.”
“Until I felt you watching me, and invited you into my mind. You comforted me, and then we made love,” I saidsoftly.
Three years ago, when I had destroyed my family and most of the Fae in my colony. I stopped dreaming. Learned to block everything from my mind. A year ago, I was hungry, so desperately lonely and beginning to doubt my veryexistence.
I dreamed of the day I killed everyone, and in that dream, I cried for my wolf friend. Grayson entered that dream and soothed me. Although it was only a dream, his presence centered me. I could not recall his face when Iawakened.
“You restored my sanity,” I told him, remembering the strength and renewed purpose I had gained from thatdream.
“I would do it again, to be there for you. I only wish you had reached out to me sooner. You seemed so damn alone. So very alone.” He kissed my hand. “You never have to be alone again, Sienna. I’m here with you, and so are Nick and Stephan. I’ve waited for so long to finally have you in myarms.”
Then all my hopes crashed. Because when you have high expectations and time and again, they’re smashed to the ground, you learn easily that nothing in life comes without a steep price. Grayson wasn’t thataltruistic.
“Is that why you wanted to have sex lastnight?”
Maybe the flat note in my voice gave him pause. Grayson shook his head. “It was about consummating a long-simmeringpassion.”
