As a result of he as soon as beloved her.

As soon as gave himself to her.

And he was pressured to dwell them again and again.

I introduced myself to the current earlier than my ideas turned carried away. My cheek rested in opposition to Caedryn’s chest. The thump thump drove into me. I splayed my palm on his heat and stable chest. I pressed my finger pads into the muscle. This was actual. Caedryn was actual. He bore no marks of a tussle. No bloody scratches. At any time when the empress drove a fingernail down his pores and skin, Caedryn howled—with pleasure. He bit her in return.

I took a deep breath.

A sick ardour. Not simply violent. Sick.

Methods I ought to have reacted coursed by my head. Push away. Run. Yell. Cry.

Caedryn took a deep breath. His lengthy fingers combed my hair. Whereas he studied my hair and my brow, I studied his chin. Clean traces. No hair. Positive pores. Lovely.

We have been each too petrified to talk.

I don’t know the way lengthy we sat collectively on the mattress, with the blankets swirling round us and the cover seeming to wave out and in with my inhales and exhales, as if it’d come crashing down on us. The room was transferring. Vibrating with my spirit’s inside twister.

His fingers traced my jawline. “I swear to you I’ll by no means react with you as I did together with her, by no means abuse you as I did her. Do you consider me?”

“Sure.”

“Do you perceive why I confirmed you?”

I nodded.

“Earlier than I open my thoughts to you, it’s essential to know the idea for my ideas, for the patterns they’re caught in. I nonetheless may suppose this stuff. I’d suppose them about you, however I swear—”

“I do know. I’m not going to run from you.”

“I want I might blame my forcefulness on my darkness, however that’s an excuse. I personal my actions. I do know what I turned. There’s a hidden animal aspect to our make-up as emrys, as dragon riders. However we will management it.”

“Maybe it’s our gentle that provides us the management.” The thought was hope to me. “As a Darkish Emrys, the empress didn’t have gentle. She triggered, even amplified, your darkness. You’ll be secure with me, Caedryn. I do know it.”

“Niawen. I—you’ll be able to’t think about. I wish to be yours eternally.”

My coronary heart lodged itself in my throat, and I couldn’t communicate. That is so quickly. So quickly. I sat up and pulled his arms off.

“I do know,” he whispered. “I do know. However I’m prepared to like you—all the time.”

I reached for his hand and wove my fingers between his as I closed my eyes. I imagined the way it’d really feel to entry contact like this anytime I wished. I imagined what his fingers could be like on my pores and skin. I imagined his peaceable goals, his nights with out anguish as a result of he spent them in my arms.

I imagined my coronary heart therapeutic as a result of I used to be beloved for me. Caedryn didn’t care if I used to be marred. Caedryn didn’t care the place I got here from or what I had accomplished. I felt hope in these ideas.

Hope on this individual, this emrys I might share each pleasure, each sorrow, each change of life and new season.

With out warning, Caedryn grunted.

I opened my eyes and dropped his hand. I practically evaporated. What did you do?

With the energy of a miniature solar, his gentle—in its entirety—hovered in entrance of me in a compact orb the scale of his palm.

I had by no means seen this earlier than. The bonding of two souls occurred in personal, with a small occasion consisting of fogeys and the Excessive Emrys and her mate.

“Niawen,” he rasped. “That is extra excruciating than you may suppose, holding one’s gentle within the palm of 1’s hand. I really feel empty. Make me entire. Say you’ll bond with me for eternity. Unite our gentle.”

My mouth gaped open. I couldn’t let him sit like that for lengthy. His different hand clutched at his chest, over his coronary heart.

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