The wind came, but instead of sweeping her off the mountain with Gideon, it caught her up in a rising spiral of sensation. She felt him, felt his body, felt his c**k within her and the pleasure her body gave him.
“I can feel what it’s like for you to have me inside you.”
She nodded. “Ditto. It’s amazing.”
His hips moved again, faster and faster. She stayed within his mind; she felt his pleasure and hers.
When the orgasm came, it was doubled, tripled in intensity. She grabbed him around the neck with both arms and held on as he pumped into her. She could feel the sharp pleasure travel the length of his c**k just as all that electric sensation, enhanced by the potions, pulled at her and brought her back arching.
She screamed and cried out.
The orgasm poured through him. Then her. Then him. Then her. She experienced it all.
And just when she thought it might be over, a new wave erupted for her, for him, and he shouted. “Shit. My wings.”
Her hands found his back. All the apertures of his wing-locks were weeping, which wasn’t new, but this time his muscles, the flesh supporting the apertures, had thickened, a lot. She figured out what was happening, so she moved her hands low onto his bu**ocks and stayed with him.
“Just let it go,” she whispered.
He met her gaze. “You sure?”
She smiled. “Hell, yeah. Release your wings and let it all go.”
“Hold on then.”
His hips moved faster with each thrust. He arched away from her and grunts left his mouth. She felt his wings begin to glide through his wing-locks. She felt the pleasure of it and cried out all over again.
His wings appeared and he jerked into her and that one solid movement brought her screaming and writhing once more. He pumped into her and shouted a series of curses as he moved and writhed and twisted and came a second time.
The orgasm went on and on, a kind of preternatural ecstasy that wouldn’t stop. His hips thrust and she knew he was still coming and her own pleasure seemed to be a mile long. He slid his arms around her waist, then maneuvered as he drove into her so that one arm surrounded her bu**ocks and kept her pinned to him while the other supported her back, because in the next moment his wings, which overlapped the space above the bed, had her airborne.
Another orgasm barreled down on her so that she was screaming into the ceiling once more, the sensation streaking through her body. He bucked and she felt him come. She moved with him and against him, until finally he slowed and the last bit of her pleasure eased into that loose, contented sensation.
She could feel his wings from within his body and each gentle flap as he sustained them in the air. She let her arms dangle at her sides, hanging down. Her fingertips grazed the sheet below and she laughed. “I love this new world.”
At that, he met her gaze, but his eyes weren’t exactly focused.
“You okay in there?” she asked.
He nodded and his smile had the look of someone who had been to the shores of heaven and was struggling to come back.
She was one with him, in the most incredible sense. Her mind flowed through his and suddenly the vision was on her but this time there was no countdown, just the future images of Gideon. She let them flow into his mind so that he could see them at the same time.
In the vision, he matched swords against Kerrick in training, and his movements equaled Kerrick, in speed and skill.
The battling stopped and Kerrick wiped his forehead and said, “Good. You’ve almost got it. Let’s try it again.”
And on it went, the battle training, sword to sword, the shrill sound of metal grating and clanging against metal.
The images flew. Kerrick worked Gideon hard until both men were sweating and struggling for air.
When the training session ended, Thorne approached both men. He clapped Gideon on the shoulder, nodding. “I’ve seen enough. Your speed almost matches Kerrick’s now, which is really saying something because no one is as fast Kerrick. You’ve made it, warrior. I’m going to ask Endelle to bring you into the ranks of the Warriors of the Blood.”
The vision faded. Elise blinked at Gideon and he frowned at her. “You saw that, right?” she asked.
He nodded, his wings flapping. “It was amazing.” He held her tight against him. “But damn, I really don’t want to leave the Militia Warriors.”
“The vision didn’t show what happened after Thorne made his pronouncement. Maybe that’s not even the issue, only that soon you’ll have their level of ability.”
“Maybe,” he said. “But I do have one question; what’s the time frame? Do you know?”
Elise shook her head. “Sorry. Haven’t got a clue.”
“Could be a fluke.”
“You mean a visionary gaffe?”
He chuckled. “Hell if I know.”
She reached up to him and kissed him. “Looks like Endelle wasn’t kidding when she said you were close to Warrior of the Blood status.”
“I guess not.” Then he smiled and his eyes had a distinct glimmer. “You know what all this increased power means, right?”
She lifted one of her dangling arms, and touched his cheek. Because of the two years she’d spent talking with him at the Blood and Bite and because she’d just been inside his mind, she knew exactly what this meant to him, that which was more important to him than anything in the world. “You’ll be able to make a difference in the war.”
“Yes.” He made the word long, like it had never had so much value than it did right now.
The rhythm of his wings slowed as he lowered her back onto the bed. When she felt the firmness of the mattress beneath her, only then did he remove his arms from around her, but at about the same time he collapsed on top of her and she loved it.
His wings settled in a soothing blanket over the bed. Covered by an angel, except he wasn’t an angel, he was just a man, a warrior, and, yes, a vampire. She slid her arms around his neck and kissed him over his vein.
And now she was a vampire, too.
She savored his contentment and released a deep sigh. They were still connected deep within, a symbol of the greater connection of their minds and souls. Tears, unbidden, began to flow and after she’d swiped several away, he asked, “What’s wrong?”
He lifted up to look into her eyes, his now etched with concern. She felt the tightening of his abdominal muscles, the strain of his brow, all that he was feeling as he tensed.
“I never thought to know love like this. I’m amazed, just amazed.”