His breathing is becoming erratic, and I can tell he's holding back. I can tell he's trying to prolong this moment.

I want him to give in. I want him to let go. I want to feel him lose control.

He begins to move faster, and my insides begin to tighten around him again. I can feel my body getting ready for another explosion, and I can't wait to feel him come with me.

I don't want it to end.

I want it to last forever.

I move my hips against him, feeling him moving inside me. I can see the desire in his eyes, that he wants me just as much as I want him.

I moan as I approach my peak faster and faster, and I know that this time I'm not going to stop.

As I get closer, I can feel him tensing up, moaning in pleasure. He’s getting closer. I move my hips faster and faster. He’s stretching me to my limit.

I pull him against me, pushing him deeper inside me. I can't think straight. I can't breathe. I can't do anything except feel him moving against me.

I reach a whole new level of pleasure as he keeps moving inside me. Stars burst behind my eyes as we climax together. Then, panting, I fall into his arms, feeling like I'm meant to stay there forever.

CHAPTER 19

REVNAN

There’s smoke and fire surrounding me. I run into the night with a dark-haired woman in my arms, desperately trying to escape the flames.

And for a moment, we’re safe.

And then it all goes horribly wrong.

“How disappointing,” a slimy voice drawls.

I see a familiar face point his gun at her stomach. My mouth opens to warn her. To stop him. Anything to not make it come true.

But I’m too late.

He fires.

Maya crumples to the ground, but she doesn’t look quite like Maya should. I can’t explain why, but my brain somehow knows it is her and not her all at the same time.

I stumble towards her, but don’t make it but a few steps before I fall over and into oblivion.

I gasp as I wake up from the horribly vivid dream.

Dream. It was just a dream, I try to reassure myself. But I can’t shake the feeling that it was much more real than that.

“Revnan?” Maya murmurs sleepily next to me. “Are you alright?”

Shakily, I draw her close to me, breathing in her scent. She’s alive.

“I will be,” I murmur back to her.

All I want is to stay in this moment. To stay with her by my side, content and alive.

But the dream rings too vividly in my mind. And with every minute that passes, it feels more like an omen than a dream.

I recall the warning I received about being involved with her. That there would be dangerous forces trying to keep us apart.

Is it a prediction of what waits for her? It feels almost like a memory of something that already occurred, though I don't completely understand it.