Page 144 of Gift from the Nexus

Willow

His words soothe the beautiful beast inside of me and she purrs as she recedes back into the cavern of my chest.

Although her sight is far sharper than my own, nothing could obscure every impeccable feature of Caspian’s right now. His wild dirty-blond hair, the perfect amount of stubble that dusts his face, his gorgeous chest piece that doesn’t conceal his sculpted abs. There’s not a flaw to this man.

My man. My final Nexus member.

His whiskey eyes devour me, and the longer I stare into them, the drunker on him I get.

My dark and damaged protector just laid his soul bare for me to witness and I refused then and now to let it fall to shreds. My soul won’t allow it. It cries out for him, desperately needing them to finally merge into one.

“You want…” I can’t get the words out.

Fear clogs my throat and I’m positive if that’s not what he meant, I’ll crumble beneath his hand that’s holding me together.

“You’ve scraped together the broken pieces of me that had lain scattered about and now I want them whole. I want them whole for you. Only you. For eternity.”

My breath whooshes out of me and he uses that to his advantage.

Crowding me even further into the wall with his body, his tongue slips past my parted lips and tangles with my own. Even as our bodies go incorporeal through the shadows, our mouths never leave one another’s.

It isn’t until he lays me back on the bed that he finally breaks away from me. Shadows cling to his eyes, his skin, but I know not out of fear or disgust. It’s out of love and desire.

Slowly, he commands those shadows to slither down his arms and around me until I’m sitting up and they draw my nightgown over my head. Where that scrape of fabric goes, I have no clue, but I have a sneaky suspicion that my clothes that don’t get destroyed but do disappear, is his doing.

The hunger in his eyes intensifies the longer he watches his shadow circle my body and I grow more feverish by the second. He’s seen me naked countless times before. Both from the encounters he’s joined in on with the others and from his spying under the cover of darkness. But something about this, all his undivided attention, seeing me completely exposed, only the two of us for the first time is different.

It’s intense, intimate, maddening.

The second the chill of his skin caresses my own, I cry out and my back arches into him as he hisses. The complete opposites of my fire and his water create a never-ending sensation that pulses between us. Hot and cold. Burning to freezing. It’s overwhelming.

This is only the beginning. He hasn’t even touched me.

“You are trouble, Primary. Just the touch of your skin to mine is addicting.”

“Caspian,” I say, beg, breathe. I’m not sure why I’m saying his name, but that’s all I can come up with.

“Do you remember what I said my plan was when I took you, when I gave you my soul?” he asks as he lays kisses down my neck.

“Y-Yes.”

“Tell me then. What did I say?”

I force my muddled mind to sift through my memories to pull his words out, but it’s nearly impossible as he lays a kiss between the valley of my breasts. I want to shift, turn my body toward him and plead for him to touch my nipples, but I don’t because I know that’ll stop him.

I can’t demand anything from him.

This will go his way, and his way only.

And I’m perfectly fine with that. I just need him. All of him.

“You said…when you take me, bond your soul to mine, you’ll have every part of me you want,” I say.

“That’s right, Primary. There won’t be a piece of skin on your body that I leave untouched. My mouth, my fingers, and my shadows will devour you until it’s seared into my memory. Then and only then, will my cock map out the inside of what I know is going to be your perfect pussy.”

“Oh, Elementra.”

I wither and moan beneath him. His words alone have my clit throbbing and my pussy soaked.

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