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Sorcery sparked in the night air as the mystery revealed itself.I’ve been searching for this my entire life. Have been waiting for her.“I’ve found you across worlds and time. I’m never letting you go, princess.” He palmed the globes of her ass, pulling her up.

She wrapped her legs around his waist, settling atop his cock. “Hold nothing back! You’ve made me even stronger.” Clamping his shoulders, she leaned back with straightened arms, giving him free rein to plunge as he needed.

Lashed by her cries, he pounded between her thighs, his sweat-dampened skin slapping hers. Quakes rumbled as sorcery swirled. Shock waves were tame compared to each flex of his hips.

Pressure grew inside him, overwhelming his earlier euphoria, until he felt like the geyser that had shot him into the sky.

Out of his mind, he rasped words in the old tongue of Sorselan, praise for his female. As he stared at her, his eyes glowed so brightly they reflected in hers to infinity.

Sorcery whispered all around them, binding her union to Adham. She tasted his magic; she pulsed from his blood. Both sent her skyward.

When warm light from his eyes bathed her, she raised her face, basking in him as she might the sun. “You are magic, Adham. I can see it.” She tightened her legs around him, chasing relief.

“You spark it.” He reached between them to rub her clitoris. “I’d give it all to you,” he said, despite his tattooed vow.

When her head lolled, he gripped her nape, forcing her to meet his sunlight eyes as he thrust harder,harder. He widened his stance, his muscles sharp with relief as he obliterated her with sensations.

Despite his force, he was making love to her. Another epiphany struck her as her body tensed to climax. If two souls were in love, then any intensity—no matter how raw or wicked—was lovemaking.

The bond between them thrummed and glowed; even in this dying place divinity existed.

Right when she was at the precipice, he rasped, “I told you I saw everything in the sand. I think I even sawyouthere.” Holding her gaze, he bit out the words, “I’ve waited so long for you, Kosmina.”

She tried to answer him, but emotion engulfed her, blinding rapture about to consume her.

With each wild surge of his hips, he propelled her heavenward. “You are everything.” He plunged with all his might, his big body straining. “I don’t fucking exist without you.”

Quakes. World’s end. Control’s end. They surrendered to transcendence.

He came with a roar, pumping heat into her, his brilliant eyes filled with awe.

Just before ecstasy ripped an answering scream from her lungs, she whispered,“I knew you could take me here.”

Forty-Five

“Divine?” Adham muttered between breaths, still buried inside her.

“Divine,” Kosmina answered, sounding as thunderstruck as he felt.

It wasn’t every night one crested such heights. Yet he knew with her, itwouldbe. His chest swelled and so did his shaft—even though he’d come till his legs had buckled.

When the ground shuddered again, harsh reality returned, but he was finally—finally—ready for it. Clarity followed, and he embraced that as well, seeing through the hourglass at last.

Shewasthe reason he’d endured, and now he had a job to do—one he’d been fated to complete since his birth. As he withdrew, she gave a moan of loss.

“Soon, love.”

Though doubt flickered in her expression, she said, “I’ll hold you to that.” They swiftly found their clothes and dressed. Yet before they set out, she murmured, “I don’t want to give up this moment in time.”

“I don’t either. But we have work to do.”

“Work, said my pleasure-seeking sorcerer.” Her small smile faded. “You were right—this is a suicide mission with no guarantees.”

He’d been thinking about that. “I want to leave you here, search the hive, then return for you.”

“Your sorcery is growing—I saw it just now—but it’s not enough to take on countless ghoul sentries. Not yet.”

His magic had simmered earlier, but he couldn’t depend on it. He raised his palm, producing a faint light. “Damn my power.”