But it didn’t change anything for me. I was already falling for Hook. Whether or not my body was untouched bears no consequences to me.

“Why does it matter?” I tighten my legs around him and feel him twitch inside me drawing a deep ache within.

He groans as if feeling it too but holds his stiff position, his restraint driving me insane. “It matters because I could have made it special. I could have—”

“It’s perfect,” I moan as he shifts his weight slightly. “I’m here with you. Nothing else matters. Now, please.Move,” I beg as I arch into him.

The tension finally falls from his body as he leans in to kiss me, his dark eyes burning with need.

He pulls back, dragging himself nearly fully out before he slides back into me, torturously slow. So slow I feel every inch of him. Before dragging himself nearly all the way out and doing it again. And again. Leaving me breathless each time.

Pleasure like nothing I’ve ever felt before slides up and down my back, spreading outward.

“Hook… Faster,please.” I wrap my legs around him, urging him to move. But he gives me a throaty chuckle before pulling back and looking at me.

“Oh, no. Nothing about this is going to be quick.” He slowly slides back into me and moves his hips in long, undulating strokes, teasing me, making the heat build once more. His slow punishing pace continues, burning me up from the inside until my legs shake from the slow building heat.

“You deserve to pay for not revealing something this important.” There was an edge to his tone that excited me. Something that told me I’d enjoy Hook’s way of punishment.

“I’m going to mark you so deep that you remember this night forever. So that it’s seared into your mind, burned into your body and etched into your very soul. I’m going to consume every inch of you until you know who it is that has claimed your heart.”

He leans in and nudges my head to the side before placing soft wet kisses on my neck and shoulder. My legs tremble from the building pleasure, the blazing heat that envelops me. But he continues with his agonizingly slow rhythm, sliding in and out of me until my entire body is ignited in flames.

I can’t think, my mind a haze of pleasure. Each slight movement makes me gasp and moan, clawing at his back as he continues to torture me. To drag out this moment between us as I soar higher and higher.

Ripples of pleasure rush up and down my spine as our ragged breaths blend as one.

A tormented groan slips free of his lips, telling me he’s just as affected. But he keeps his relentless, punishing pace, making me burn and ache with need.

Something inside my chest warms, getting hotter and hotter, blazing to life before moving outward. It overwhelms my body, flooding every nerve, every cell and demanding I push it toward Hook. Give him everything I have.

It was as if my soul was calling out to him. Needing to claim him as deep and as infinite as he’s marked me.

“I know… I know…” he whispers, placing soft kisses along my neck as he continues to bring me higher and higher.

I don’t take in his words or what they mean. I can’t think past anything but the feel of him as he slides into me once more and I come apart, shattering into a million glowing stars as blinding pleasure envelops me.

I open my eyes just as his slide shut in ecstasy. He throbs and pulses inside me as I watch him come apart and the pleasure drags out forcing me into another smaller orgasm. I moan, arching into him.

He catches himself just before he falls on me, his breath ragged, his eyes finding mine. And that deep, warm feeling from earlier pulses somewhere inside my chest, tethering us together.

Was joining always like this? This is intense.

“You undo me,” he breathes, looking at me as if I’m something precious.

A deep feeling of peace settles inside me making me feel complete. Whole. And full of warmth.Hiswarmth.

It spreads through my chest but once I focus on it, I start to feel something else.

My powers.

They slither beneath my skin, wanting to reach out to Hook.

The warmth quickly turns to a sharp tightness as I begin to panic and lose myself. I try to pull it back before it unleashes and causes more pain, but I can’t seem to stop it.

I go to move, to get away from Hook to keep him safe but one look at him has me pause.

My breath hitches as his blue eyes glow and swirl into storms full of lightning.