Page 180 of Let It Snow
His gaze drifts down my body, and I notice bright, swirling energy spreading and pulsing in the space between us. He catches my right hand and intertwines our fingers.
In the same moment, I look at it and see thin lines spreading over my skin, silver, white, and gold, tracing their way from my knuckles to my wrist, along my arm, up to my shoulders and chest.
It feels incredible, my body trembling from the sensation. The silver current is cool, the gold is warm, and the white one glides over me like polished glass.
Holding my breath, I reach out and place my left hand on Snow’s shoulders, and somehow, his body begins to change too. Without me doing anything, his skin takes on the faint amethyst shimmer of my scale pattern. It’s as if we’ve exchanged our natures, his reflected in me, and mine mirrored in him.
I don’t try to make sense of it. All I know is that heat floods through me, consuming, unstoppable.
I grind my hips against his hardness, rocking because the hunger inside me is growing. I don’t want foreplay, don’t need it. I crave him shamelessly, almost insolently.
So I rise up over his hips, and he yanks his pants down in one swift move.
He’s hard, ready for me, because that’s just how it is between True Mates. I press my slick entrance against the tip of his cock, then look down at him.
Snow smirks, and nods once.
I grin back, beaming.
Everything clicks into place right now. Perfect.
Then I sink down, taking him in one swift thrust of my hips.
It happens in a heartbeat, like fire erupting between us.
What’s going on?
A wave of energy ripples out in concentric rings, powerful as a shockwave, but this isn’t destruction.
It’s light, spreading outward in a glowing wave.
It expands in every direction, not wrecking but blooming, a vast, iridescent flower painted with lines of light. Purple, gold, and silver petals unfurl around us, shimmering with crackling sparks.
I see the lights in the building flicker and go out, along with all the solar lamps around us. Farther away, the lights in front of Bay’s house go dark too, and even beyond that, the streetlights.
Everything goes black, and I just know it’s not only here. The entire street, the other houses stretching hundreds of yards down the road, they’re all swallowed by darkness.
But only for a second.
Then it all lights up again!
"What the hell?!" I mumble. "But we are already a merged soul! It looked like the… First Orgasm!"
Snow smirks and shrugs. "A little something from me… for you. A small gift. Just so you know how True Mates join for the first time…"
I gape at him for a few seconds and then start to laugh and… cry at the same time, tears running down my cheeks. But Snow’s lips find them one by one and kiss them away.
I now have one more precious thing I had dreamed about, and Snow made it real for me.
We collapse onto the grass, still holding each other, still connected.
Our bodies glow with color, his tattoos blending with my scales, my scales shifting into white, silver, and gold. Magic surrounds us, filling us.
As we enjoy the Joining, the TM healing starts to spread through me.
I feel its immense power, the magic of our Bond gradually easing the grisly shadow of what happened in the Ferro hangar. The destruction, the devastation I brought to that version of reality, begins to blur.
The fear fades from my mind as if through a soft filter; the magic slowly erases the dread, the terror, the shock bit by bit, like insignificant doodles in a school notebook.
