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“Do you feel that?”

“Yes. I feel—Ah!” Her head angled back as she sucked in another sharp breath.

Juniper teased every erogenous zone at once, and Adriel’s body pulsed under her touch as she came apart in her arms—so graceful yet unrefined, a true natural beauty.

Pulling her toward a low rock step, she lifted her out of the water and kissed a trail down her belly. She licked away the salty droplets and playfully bit at her ticklish curves. When she reached heaven, she tasted her like a holy offering.

Adriel moaned as Juniper dispensed a relentless wave of pleasure, driving Adriel to the brink of madness only to ease her back and start again. When she begged for release, Juniper delivered.

Juniper crawled over Adriel’s tempting body as she lay panting on the rock bed. Their bodies pressed together, rocking, thrusting, deriving pressure from friction as fingers teased and mouths kissed. The magic added pressure where it was needed most, and when they peaked together, a wash of calm blanketed them both.

Such sweet ecstasy.

“You taste like a winter morning,” she whispered against her thigh, licking over the fluttering artery there.

“My blood feels hotter than a summer day.”

“Mmm, I want a taste.”

“Yes…” she begged and Juniper’s fangs sank deep.

Hot, delicious blood filled her mouth as Adriel writhed under her touch. She fed from her vein as she fucked her fingers into her heat, driving her to another climax.

The tension of the last few weeks dissolved, replaced by a burgeoning sense of freedom and rightness. It would take longer for older wounds to heal, but for now, hope had at least been restored.

“I feel like all the pieces finally fit,” Juniper said, kissing her way back up her body.

A sense of weightlessness settled in as Adriel pulled her closer. Still trembling with the aftershocks of release. She whimpered hungrily as Juniper lovingly caressed her breasts.

“I’ve never felt anything so pleasant in all my life. If this is what it’s always like, how does anyone get anything done.”

She smothered a laugh against Adriel’s shoulder. “Sometimes it’s okay to be lazy and indulgent, Ade.”

“I wouldn’t even know where to begin.”

“We could start here.” She kissed her nipple. “Or here.” She licked her stomach. “Or maybe here.” When she nipped her throat, Adriel arched.

“Yes… More…”

Juniper sank her fangs into her flesh and pulled hungrily at her vein. It was easier now that her fangs had formed. Nails scraped down her back as Adriel held her close, wrapping her legs tightly about hers and rolling her hips.

When her fingers boldly traced lower, Juniper parted her thighs. Adriel’s touch delved into her heat, gently exploring and teasing all the right places. Her over-sensitized body became a riot ofpleasure. Every ripple of water and whispered breeze a caress against her skin.

Drawing back, she moaned through her release. Adriel rolled her to her back, scooting lower and lower as Juniper arched and edged her on. When she bit into her thigh, pleasure ignited in her veins. Her fingers forked through her hair, fisting tightly as she rocked her hips. Adriel kept her touch where it needed to be, pushing her closer and closer to that carnal edge, and then…she was free.

Falling into an abyss of ecstasy.

Juniper had never felt anything so exquisite. When Adriel licked the bite closed, she looked up at her with kiss-swollen lips. “Was that okay?”

“That was…” Juniper panted. “I don’t even have a word to describe how good that was.”

She laughed and blushed, modestly dropping her face on Juniper’s thigh as she stared up at her. “I love you, June.”

She laced her fingers with hers. “I love you too.”

They swam out of the grotto, where the moonlight poured beyond the cave's opening. Wading into the liquid silver pool, they floated, safe in each other’s arms as the gentle current allowed them to be.

“June?”