Total pages in book: 144
Estimated words: 137871 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 689(@200wpm)___ 551(@250wpm)___ 460(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 137871 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 689(@200wpm)___ 551(@250wpm)___ 460(@300wpm)
“I want all of it. All of you,” she rasped, scraping her teeth along her throat. “This moment and a thousand more. I want your mind, your body, and your heart, Ade. I want forever with you.”
She drew back and studied her in the silence. The gentle lap of waves against the rocks contrasted with the steady beat of her racing pulse. Crystals clung to the alcove ceiling in a canopy of sparkles that glistened in the reflection of the water and the world outside ceased to exist.
“I can’t imagine what that looks like,” Adriel confessed. “I want forever too. But it’s been so long since I’ve allowed myself to dream, I can hardly picture that sort of happiness.”
“We’ll figure it out together.”
There were no rules here like the ones of The Order. They were free to live as they wanted and love who they wanted. Juniper loved Adriel. She’d do anything to show her how much. “We could…marry.”
She looked startled by the suggestion, but then her mouth curved with the most genuine smile. “Is that possible?”
“There are others out there like us—well, sort of. There are other female couples.”
“I didn’t know.” She looked away but couldn’t stop smiling. “The elders say—”
“Who cares what the elders say? Are we really going to give those guys any more authority than they’ve already taken? The elders aren’t living in the modern world, baby. But we are.”
Adriel looked up, her grin impossible to hide. “The modern world. Imagine that—I am becoming a modern female!”
“That’s you. You get to decide how you want to live, dress, act… It’s all you, baby.”
She surged forward and pressed her lips to Juniper’s, the velvet water lapping around them.
Juniper forked her fingers through her hair and took command of the kiss. As her touch traveled over her thighs and between her legs, Adriel’s soft, erotic cries were swallowed by the night breeze.
Carnal need coursed through her veins. She wanted her on a primal level, deeper than ever before. She needed to possess every inch of her being. Drawing from the ancient energy hidden in the grotto, she charged her touch to enhance the sensation, and Adriel gasped.
“What are you doing?”
“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 of pleasure. Every ripple of water and whispered breeze a caress against her skin.