Page 87 of Shiny Things

Trying to look sexy, I laid out in one position and then another. I opened my legs wide, and then closed them. Truth was, I had no idea how to look desirable. Maybe desperate and needy was a better route for me to take.

I laughed to myself. This was ridiculous. But I also knew I wasn’t going to sleep without him.

“Elias.”

I could hear him getting up and walking towards me. He slowly opened the door and peeked inside.

“Did you need something?”

“Yes.”

He immediately noticed my nakedness as his eyes washed over me and he gulped hard.

“Uh, what do you need?”

“You,” I boldly told him.

He stood there for a moment and then a grin broke out across his face.

“Oh, thank God!”

He started removing his clothes as he closed the gap between us. By the time he crawled into bed with me, he was already gloriously naked.

As he kissed me, he took my breath away. I knew without a doubt or hesitation that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with this man.

I sighed happily, reaching for him, desperate to touch him. He was already hard, and I knew I hadn’t imagined the sexual tension between us before he banished me to the bedroom for a nap.

“Tell me what you need, baby,” he whispered in my ear.

“All I need is you. All I’m ever going to need is you. I don’t trust that your mom is completely okay with us, and just yesterday I was ready to leave Ravenden just so you didn’t have to decide between us. But Elias, I want to spend the rest of my life with you. And maybe it won’t be perfect all the time and maybe we’ll have really bad days like yesterday, but even through that, you were there for me. And I want to be there for you too. I love you so much, and right now I need you so badly it hurts.”

“Are you saying what I think you’re saying?”

Slowly, I nodded.

“If you still want me, mark me as yours.”

He let out a series of chirps that melted my heart.

“What about not making any major decisions during times of high stress?”

“Screw that. I know this isn’t something I’m ever going to regret.”

He gave me a wicked smirk. “How about I screw you instead?”

Before I could respond, he kissed me again, deeply and passionately. It took my breath away, and I clung to him in response.

He pulled back, leaving me breathless as he trailed light kisses down the long column of my neck. I nuzzled into the crook of his, taking a moment to just breathe in his scent.

I felt the sting of his bite before I even realized what was happening and my beak immediately appeared as I bit down on him. We were still stuck like that as I rolled on top of him, needing him inside of me like I needed air to breathe.

He understood the assignment as he helped to guide himself to my entrance. Slowly, I lowered myself onto him and froze. The connection surging between us was unreal and not what I was prepared for.

Mine!my raven called in my mind.

A guttural sound erupted from my throat as I started to move up and down, feeling everything as if we were in perfect sync with each other. This was it, our moment. It was a bond that would intertwine our lives forever.

He was mine and I was his. Nothing else mattered.

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