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“I am happy to help you—”

I kissed him again, deeper this time, and he held me tighter. I couldn’t get enough of him. My body throbbed and ached, and I was wet before I had another thought. I tore at his clothes until I found his warm, firm skin. He stripped me down too, and soon we were both naked in the temple.

I wasn’t sure if it was the gratitude or something in the temple, but I needed Deacon inside of me. I grabbed the top of his shoulders and he lifted me up, then lowered me onto his stiff cock. I was sore from everything that had happened with him and Jac earlier that day, but nothing could have held me back from being with Deacon now. I wrapped my legs around him and groaned as he entered me, then began lifting me up and down his length, burying himself as deeply as my body would allow.

I needed him and he seemed to need me, too.Am I falling for him? Is that what this is?

I didn’t know anything about love—I had come close in my past, but even then, it didn’t feel like this intense, overwhelming need I was experiencing right now with Deacon. I rolled my body on him, while he supported my weight. Our desperate sounds filled the temple. Deacon bit my shoulder and held me still, while he pumped up into me, grunting with pleasure.

Every stroke drove me higher. I dug my nails into his neck—I needed something to hold onto when I came. The intensity of my orgasm tore through me, wrenching a gasping moan from my soul. My back muscles locked, and my head tossed back. He bit my throat as he came, too. He growled my name through his teeth, and the vibration felt like another orgasm in my skin there.

When the blissful sensations gradually ebbed, Deacon gently set me onto a fur on the floor. He gathered a few more for bothcleaning me up and for covering us. After we were settled, I nuzzled onto his chest and fell asleep, exhausted to my ghost.

CHAPTER 19

Jacaranda

The ride out to Mother Portend’s mountain cabin was long and annoying, mainly because of my passenger.

Wave shouted over the onworlder, “Can we stop again?”

“You wanted to come, remember?” I shouted back.

“I didn’t know it would take this long,” she grumbled.

Right then, the trees opened up to a clearing and a cabin, so I slowed down to a stop. My battered body was grateful for the reprieve. Being crouched forward on a bumpy path for over an hour with my arms outstretched to hold the handlebars had irritated the deeper parts of my healing chest wound.

The sharp pains dulled when I sat up and stretched. “Seems like we’re here.”

“Thank the gods,” she mumbled as she wobbled off the vehicle and walked into the forest.

“Where are you going?” I asked her retreating back.

“I have to pee again,” she replied in a snarky tone. “Is that okay with you?”

I rolled my eyes and checked my gauntlet driver to see where Kapok and Tiger were. But the readout didn’t work. I smacked it a couple of times, but still, I got nothing. Then I saw Kapok and Tiger ride up on the proper onworlder we borrowed fromAllegiant.

Once they reached me, Kapok brought the onworlder to a stop and asked, “You think this is the place?”

“It’s the only cabin on the nearest mountain,” I said, glancing around. “I’d say it’s a good guess.”

A green light came on inside the cabin.

“That’s weird,” Tiger said, pointing to it.

“I don’t know. Maybe Mother Portend likes colored light.” I shrugged and headed for the cabin.

Kapok and Tiger came with me to the door. I knocked and while we waited for a response, Kapok asked, “And we’re here because you think the conduits are going to come after—”

I silenced him with a sharp look. “I just want information.”

“Then why arewehere?” Tiger asked.

“The better to threaten her for information.”

The door slid open, and an old ghost stood there. She was faded from time, but still present. Long gray robes covered her all the way to the floor. The kind of robes conduits wore for battle. I wondered if she was always dressed in her old war uniform, or if we were special.

Her wizened face formed a smirk as she flirted, “Three handsome boys at my door in the middle of the night. How could I get so lucky?”

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