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Because I was breaking apart.
Not just because my brother was hurting, a pain I felt due to the connection we all shared. But also because I knew it was a future that waited for me too. No matter how hard I had fought against my feelings for Simon, how much I’d blocked him from getting too close, he had managed to slip through the cracks.
Simon dug his fingertips into my sides as I thrust deeper, a slow in-and-out glide. My soul fucking purred. In that moment, I knew there would be no walking away from him.
I’d been a fool to ever think I could.
Chapter Fourteen
Simon
Galen had never taken me so slowly. So tenderly. Normally, I would’ve loved the change, but something felt off about him. Shadows clouded in his gray eyes, and when he kissed me, his lips quivered against mine. It caused a crack in my chest.
“Talk to me,” I said, running my hands along the muscles in his thick arms. “What’s wrong?”
He pressed his mouth to mine instead and rocked his hips forward. I tore from his lips with a soft moan. Fine. We’d talk later. For now? He needed an escape from whatever was on his mind, and I’d give it to him.
“Simon,” he whispered, pushing his face in the crease between my neck and shoulder.
He’d never said my name during sex before. And the crack in his voice when he said it? I slid my arms around him and kissed the side of his head.
This is so different.It no longer felt like fucking. We were way beyond that now. This thing between us was so much more than anything I’d ever experienced with another man.
Galen skimmed his lips across my throat as his thick cock filled me. Then, he growled a word that had my heart racing faster. “Mine.”
“Yours,” I said, smoothing my hands across the indentions in his shoulders.
“And I’m yours.” His massive body shook a bit as he crushed our lips together.
Clara had said Galen and I had a strong connection, that we were two souls meant for each other. I felt the truth in those words as my grumpy, sometimes sweet Nephilim kissed me.
Something came over me, and I pushed against his chest to move him to his back. He stared up at me with an awed gleam in his gray eyes as I straddled his hips and took him back inside me. I rolled my hips, gliding up and down his rock-hard shaft.
“So beautiful,” he murmured, skating his fingertips down my ribs. His hand came around my bobbing erection and gave me a slow pull. The slightly calloused texture of his warm palm ushered from me another moan, which he then captured with another kiss as he sat up.
My hands traveled to his back, to the slits that drove him wild. He bit my collarbone as my fingers slid inside the openings. The skin there was soft, as was the silkiness of the tops of his wings.
He grunted against my skin as I finger-fucked him just the way he liked.
“I love that so much,” I said, pressing my face into his short dark hair. Sandalwood and citrus wrapped around me, amplifying my arousal. I was consumed by all things Galen: his gruff voice, the graze of his teeth on my neck, his scent, and the way he shuddered at my touch.
I loved him.
A month was too soon to feel that way, but the truth of it was present in every kiss, every smile, and in every eye roll when he was unnecessarily cranky or stubborn. I think I’d loved him since the first morning I woke with him in bed beside me.
“Take what you want,” he murmured against my throat as I rode him. “Make me yours.”
A familiar tingle moved down my spine as his cock nudged my sweet spot. I increased my pace, riding him faster. Skin slapping skin filled the room, mixed with his encouraging groans as he squeezed my ass cheeks.
I didn’t expect what happened next.
He released his wings. In seconds, we were shrouded by silky black feathers as he wrapped them around us both. Like a cocoon where only he and I existed.
“Galen,” I whimpered against his lips. I was shaking. From the pleasure coursing through me. From the weird ache in my chest as his arms and wings enveloped me.
“Come for me.” He thrust up into me and took my cock in his big hand.
And then I was coming undone. My orgasm hit me so hard I was left breathless as I reeled from the force of it. Galen’s fingertips dug into the globes of my ass as he fucked up into me faster, and then he softly grunted as he came too.
