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Evander

T he next morning, I wake in a tangle of limbs.

Bria’s body is wrapped around mine, her ivory leg stretched across my hips, her skin flush against mine.

Her long, toned arm is slung over my chest. I tilt my head back to see golden and bronze hair splayed over my arm and chest, rippling across the pillows behind us.

I lift the arm that’s under her to graze my fingers along her upper arm, over her shoulder, closing my eyes and reveling in the feel of her next to me. I breathe in the scent of her hair, her skin, and beneath it all, the sweat from the night before.

Her body stirs and she shifts her leg directly over my still very exposed groin. My eyes flare open, pleasure flooding over me and straight to my already hard cock. She moves again, her leg rubbing against me, and I know this time she does it on purpose.

“Awake, are we?” I ask, rolling her onto her back and pinning her beneath me.

She hums in affirmation and looks up, the fire still there.

Still burning but with less intensity than the night before.

Mere flickers of sapphire and cobalt instead of raging wildfires of blue and black.

She quirks her brow and I splay my mouth over her neck, peppering her with kisses and grinding my hips, letting my cock push hard against her.

I’m ready for more. To take in as much of her as I can before... No. It hurts too fucking much now to even think of her not being here. I want to spend every waking moment with her. To fill our time with this. And with so much more than this.

She kisses me deeply. And I come undone as her tongue brushes across my lips.

As she curls her legs around me, there’s no urgency, no flames to extinguish, no surge of magic to be released.

Just us. I slowly move myself inside her and feel her body wet and ready for me, taking my time and soaking up every second with her.

“You’re perfect,” I murmur against her, watching as she throws her head back, a husky moan escaping when I’m seated to her core.

The world around us melts away as I drive myself in and out of her.

Being with her makes me feel whole. I love her with every piece of myself. Every inch of my body and soul. And I plan to show her that, to make her aware of just how much I love her. Until her dying breath I will be here, with her. There will never be anyone but her.