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“My little savage wants it rough and deep?” His thrusts were relentless as he unleashed in the most euphoric of ways. Chrome pounded me into submission, showing his own inner savage.

Just as I was about to peak, he slowed his pace to achingly slow, causing me to growl at him in frustration. But his molten gaze never left mine, pinning me there. “You take me so fucking good, but we really need to work on your patience.”

Chrome cut off my remark when he flipped me over on my front. Snaking an arm around my waist, he lifted my ass in the air, leaving me completely bare to him. The air chilled my heated skin, but the heat from his teasing fingers skating down my spine sent more sparks throughout my body. “So beautiful.” He stopped to caress my ass cheek, and I felt his emotions bask in having me served up on a platter for him.

Chrome lined himself up with me again, his hand gripping me around my waist. He shoved himself inside while pulling my hips back to meet his thrust. I took the entirety of him in one stroke. I cried out as I rocked forward. “You’re so…” he said through gritted teeth, “fucking tight.”

I didn’t know how much longer my arms could hold me as he pummeled into me. The woods echoed our sounds, the lake reverberating my cries and moans back to us. Fisting my hair in a tight grip, he slowed his pace with deep thrusts, rolling into me.

I clenched around him, squeezing his cock. “Chrome, I need to…please.”

“That’s my good girl.” Then he tugged on my hair, wrapping his free arm around my waist, making me straighten my back against his front. The arm around my torso slid up the center of my chest and cupped the front of my throat. He kept his pace even, steady, holding me on the brink of ecstasy. Leaning forward, he kissed my earlobe, taking it between his teeth. “Come on my cock,” His gravelly voice alone was almost enough to send me over the edge.

Chrome’s mouth found mine as the orgasm washed over me, swallowing my sounds for himself. Oblivion claimed me as I imploded from the inside out. With it came a blast of air from my body mingled with the blue electricity of my magic. It didn’t spare Chrome. A deep, pleasure-filled groan rumbled in my ear, and I watched in awe as he seemed to absorb my uncontrolled magical blast into his body, sending pleasurable tremors down his spine. Suddenly, he withdrew and released me.

Chrome pulled me flush against him as we crumpled to the ground on our sides, facing one another. He peppered me with tender kisses on my forehead, nose, and cheeks just before settling on my lips as he caged me in his arms against his chest. I melted, feeling cherished in a way no one had ever made me feel before—not even Slate.

Something within our soul bond clicked into place. I couldn’t place it, but both forms of my magic felt different. More tangible. Secure. The chord that seemed to connect us felt more concrete.

I sensedhim. I felt his energy in a way that was new like I had an internal Chrome GPS system. The tether connecting us through our bond felt more solidified.

Leaning back, I met his gaze. It swam with warring emotions that Ifelthim trying to mask.

“I feel it, too,” he said, almost as if he read my thoughts. But that wasn’t it. No. He read me in the same way I read him.

I had a feeling we’d just unknowingly done something irreversible regarding our bond. Something on a soul level that we didn’t understand.

Chapter 50

Chrome

“Ifeel you,” I said, my voice low. “Not like before, but clearer.”

Gray’s rainbow eyes were wide as she nodded her head. “Me, too,” she whispered.

My energy buzzed, my magic feeling electrified. I noticed the difference during sex, but I wrote it off as just being lost in the pleasure. But when she orgasmed and expelled her powers, which was unusual in itself, I absorbed her magic. Not with my abilities, but into my aura—my soul. As if her magic had somehow merged with mine.

It didn’t make sense because I didn’t suddenly have her abilities, but my connection to her felt more concrete—like I could pinpoint her at any time.

As a test, I focused on closing off the connection between her emotions and mine. With a simple thought, the tether connecting us closed off, like the slam of a door. Gray jumped in surprise, feeling the bond go mute on her end, too. “Well,” I mused. “I figured out how to give you privacy now.”

Gray deadpanned. “Surely you can’t be a bit gentler than that?”

I nuzzled into her hair, breathing in her scent of vanilla and lavender. “Let’s be honest. You don’t want it gentle, little savage.”

Gray relaxed in my arms. “I just want you.” Her lips brushed against the skin on my chest as she spoke, her breath warming me from the chill.

“Just stay with me,” I said into her hair, the tones weaving together to resemble marble. “You’ll see that I’ll always find you.” I kissed the top of her head. “I swear on my broken soul.”

And I meant it with every frayed fiber of my being.

“I promise.” Gray’s promise stitched itself into my soul.

After some time just lying in our comfortable silence by the lake, Gray spoke up, her voice muffled against my bare chest. “What all do you know about the Twin Soul Bond?”

I sighed. “Not a whole lot, honestly.” Combing my fingers through her hair, I went on, “As I’ve said before, we share two halves of the same soul. It’s a bond that goes back lifetimes for us. And I know there are several steps that need to be taken in order to fully complete it.”

At that, Gray lifted her head to peer through her droopy lids at me, her brow furrowing. “What do you mean? What steps?”