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Chapter29

Leela

Electricity hummedthrough Leela’s veins, her heart hammering rapidly inside her chest.

Her vision blurred as though lost to a dream, reality spiraling into a sea of insanity where time ceased to exist.

She could hear Balthazar’s mind, his thoughts, his assurance that this was what he wanted, what they needed, what would save them both.

But it went deeper than that.

He’d bitten her for the memories. For the sensation of rightness. For the realization that they were fated to be together.

They were two halves of the same being.

A pair destined to rule together, their combined sensuality a threat to all of mankind. Or perhaps a gift.

Oh, the fun we’ll have, she heard him musing.

Which sent them over the edge into a world of experiences that proved his thought to already be true.

They’d provoked sexual experiences all over the globe, just like last night on the beach.

They were dynamite together, a duo destined to seduce everyone in their path.

But those weren’t the memories Leela sought. She wanted the ones defining how they’d first met, to understand why she’d bitten him, to confirm what her heart already knew.

I love him.

Not past tense.

Because her feelings for Balthazar had only deepened throughout the millennia, each meeting further defining the link between their souls.

A sharp slap to her cheek drew her from the mental playground for a moment to see Mel standing before her with a furious expression. Her mouth was moving, but Leela couldn’t hear anything she said, choosing instead to fall back into her mind with Balthazar as her guide.

They were connected now, their psyches traversing the same wavelength and intertwining in a way that secured them together for eternity.

She wished they were alone to indulge in the moment in private. However, Mel was already privy to every memory in Leela’s mind, so one more wouldn’t hurt.

Because Mel no longer mattered.

Only Balthazar.

Only their connection.

Only this warm existence securing their souls together in an irrevocable bond.

Reformation could drown Leela in a sea of nothingness, but that link to Balthazar would always remain. Even if they forced her to forget him, she’d find him and remember all over again.

Not just because of the bond, but because of the power between them.

She could feel him in her mind, dismantling the blocks with his mind-reading ability, destroying the obstacles to find the memories he craved.

Or maybe that was within his own mind.

She couldn’t tell, their psyches so intertwined that everything felt intimately connected.

His frustration was her frustration.