Page 98 of Soul Bound

Her hot mouth closes over my neck and she sucks the skin there lightly. She kisses me once more before I feel her blunt teeth bite into me.

It’s the best kind of pain I’ve ever felt, embracing it, I let it consume me. My hips grind violently against hers, moving in her in a punishing thrust. The base of my spine tingles and I explode into her with a shout.

An electrical current starts buzzing in my scalp before it shoots down my spine and down each of my limbs. Winslow’s body shakes and she gasps, and I know she feels it too. Her mouth leaves my neck as she gasps.

An explosion of power happens around us like an invisible bomb goes off. It blows over us so violently, our hair moves as if we were caught in a windstorm. I even hear the trees around us move and sway, the leaves on the ground kick up and fly in the air.

As quickly as it happens, it stops and everything around us goes still. And as if a rubber band had been snapped, I feel the connection between Winslow, and I snap into place. I feel her in my head, I feel her heartbeat in my own chest. I feel hereverywhereinside of me. She’s a part of me now.

We’re officially mates.

The mating aura around her dissipated when the stormy power ceased. I’ll miss the aura, but I no longer need a visual indicator to tell me who my mate is because she’s already mine.

“Can you hear me?”I use the internal mind link that had snapped into place once the mating bond was put in place.

Her head jerks back so she can look at me. “Why can I hear you talking in my head?” she exclaims.

“That’s the mating bond.” I kiss the tip of her nose. “We can now communicate with each other through the link in our heads.”

I roll off of her. I settle onto my back and pull her to me, draping her leg over mine. I grab one of the blankets and pull it over our naked forms.

“That’ssocool,” she gasps. “You’re going to getsosick of me being in your head all the time.”

I bring her hand up and kiss the inside of her wrist. “Not possible. I could never get sick of you.”

“Is that a challenge?”

I just laugh and hold her tight.

Just over three months ago I watched a woman die, and I was consumed with an anger that I’ve never experienced before. I had made her a promise I wasn’t sure how to keep. My life went off the rails and I let the anger and guilt consume me to a point that I didn’t know how to find my way out. But it turns out I didn’t have to rescue myself because a little witch was going to come along and act as a guiding light. She showed me the way back.

She is my light, she is my savior, and now she is the other half of my soul.

And I’m not letting her go for anything in the world.

29

Winslow

Three Months Later

I’ve never liked the snow, but today I find it beautiful.

It falls to the ground in fat snowflakes, blanketing the earth around me. It makes everything quiet and still. It makes everything peaceful.

And today I need peace.

We all do.

I stand on the balcony of Pruitt’s lake house, looking over the frosty lake and white frozen ground. Snowflakes stick to the black wool coat I wear, and they dampen my hair. I don’t mind though, not today.

Today we buried Addison.

After a year of fighting, she finally succumbed to her cancer. Everyone was there for her when she passed and like I promised, I was with her the whole time. I spend the past three months getting to know her and the rest of the pack I’ve found myself a part of. And I cried with Pruitt and Noah when she passed away. I cried with them like they were family, because well, they are my family now.

The weight of the guilt I have felt the past four months was overwhelming, but Addison was the first one to forgive me for not being able to bring her back. I already brought back my one soul and she refused to allow me to feel guilt for that.

“He’s your mate,”she had said. “We have to fight hard for our love, and you did. You refused to let him go, you held on tight and now you can never let go again. You two are soul bound, and that’s something incredibly special.”

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