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My entire body seemed to awaken, every nerve and hidden corner within me sparking and contracting, feeling alive in a way I’d never known.

As the aftershocks of my release subsided, a faint tingling sensation brushed beneath my palms and knees.

When I looked down, I saw tiny tendrils of greenery sprouting between my fingertips. The moss was velvet-soft against my skin, and as my pleasure grew, so did the garden.

Flora broke through the barren soil and twisted up the ancient columns surrounding us.

I was breathless and trembling as Rowen rutted into me from behind, healing me while my blood healed the earth.

Moonlit petals unfurled in glittering waves as Light rippled through the leaves.

Saplings morphed into towering trees, their vines draping down around us and brushing against our skin like fireflies.

Glowing mushrooms and flowers sprouted as a canopy of wisteria connected the gaps in the ruins.

Fleur Uaine seemingly returned to its original glory and encased us in our own personal oasis.

Rowen pulled out of me, but before I could whimper in protest, his calloused hands, that I missed with every fiber of my being, latched onto my waist and flipped me around—my back landing on a soft bed of moss.

“I won’t last much longer,” he said as he pushed my knees up to my chest, barring me obscenely before him.

He folded and unfolded me like origami, bending me to his whims and desires.

“You’re glorious, Keira,” he grunted as he thrust into me once again.

I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and my legs around his waist, holding on for dear life as he ground my clit perfectly.

And together, we were lost in our thunderous release.

Eons might have passed when Rowen finally pulled out of me with a shudder. He rolled us until we faced each other in the plush nest of our paradise.

Being unable to touch Rowen had been like dying of thirst. I could see the sparkling water in the distance like a taunting mirage, but now, the hidden oasis engulfed me and drowned me in bliss.

I glowed softly from the intensity of my body-high.

After my legs stopped shaking and my breathing returned to normal, a single tear dripped from my eye. Rowen kissed it off my cheek as if it were a drop of ecstasy. “What is it?” he murmured against my cheekbone, lightly stroking me from my shoulder to hip bone.

The newly sprouted forest, vibrant and alive, cushioned my descent back to earth, awakening my senses to the moss and roses surrounding me .

“I feel like myself again,” I said, tracing my fingertips along his abs.

“I was drowning in a bubble of water, suffocating in plain sight. Everyone tried to help, but it was I who had to swim above the pain. It’s still there, might always be there, but at least my chin is above the water. It feels good to finally breathe.”

“Keep treading the water, Keira,” Rowen whispered as he brushed my hair off to one side and traced his fingertip along the shell of my pointed ear. “And when your legs get tired, I will always be there to help keep you afloat. Tell me you know that.”

I leaned forward and gently nibbled his lower lip. “I do.”

Rowen smiled, offering me a glimpse of his sharp canines, and I realized he hadn’t smiled that wide in ages. “I’m so proud of you. Look at what you did,” he marveled as he stroked a low-hanging bulb of light. “You brought Fleur Uaine back to life.”

“She’s marvelous. I just wish I knew how to use this on a worldwide scale. We can’t have sex all over the planet.”

“Can’t we?” He nudged me playfully, already hardening against my stomach. His face was mesmerizing as the moonlight and shadows danced across his features.

“I mean, we can certainly try,” I replied, awestruck by his hard and chiseled beauty.

“Then are you ready for your punishment?” he asked, kissing the shimmering scar tattoo on my collarbone. Then he lowered his mouth to the scar beneath my breast and the one lower on my ribcage. He inched open my thighs and traced my center.

My hungry moan was answer enough.

I must have dozed off because I woke to Rowen’s head in between my thighs, licking and kissing me. He thrust his tongue inside my walls, and I moaned as I threaded my fingers through his hair.

Rowen had taken punishing me very seriously, making me come for hours. I didn’t know how, but he managed to awaken my exhausted body and drown me in pleasure once again.

This man had a skillful tongue.

Rowen claimed me in position after position. I had no idea just how thoroughly my body could be used and claimed.

He’d promised me he would fill me in every way possible, and he had. I was deliciously sore but already aching for more.

All night, he had taken me ruthlessly, forcing me to come again and again. But now he took his time, languidly kissing and making love to me with his tongue.

As Rowen brought me higher and higher, my body coiled tighter and tighter, and I pressed my palms against his broad shoulders. He plunged a finger inside me, and I hissed as the sharp sting morphed into delicious pleasure.

His tongue found the perfect rhythm on my clit as his finger slowly plunged in and out of me.

“Harder,” I desperately panted, and Rowen chuckled against me. He slipped in another finger, his gentle ministrations turning into a brutal surrender of my command. He knew I was no fragile thing. “Yes. Yes. I’m going to come for you.”

Suddenly, I saw stars upon stars as I came on his tongue, my head tilted toward the sky. I clamped my thighs around him as I rode his head, wanting to keep him there forever as he rolled my clit in his mouth.

“I’m still coming. Don’t stop,” I moaned as my orgasm stretched on and on. Rowen drew out every second of my release and groaned as if my pleasure were his pleasure. The heavens passed over me, and I finally released my shaking thighs, worried that it had been some time since his last breath.

“Always such a good girl for me,” Rowen breathed between my legs, his lips glistening. Our eye contact was unflinching as he lapped up every morsel of my release.

I arched back as he lowered his mouth to me again, concentrating his tongue on my swollen bundle of nerves, ready to do it all over again.

I let out a delusional giggle as he continued to lick me. I had my doubts about camping, but who knew it could be this fun?