She held his face in her palms, his beautiful wolven face, all sharp teeth and gleaming eyes, and looked directly at him. “We’ll do it again. And again. I have never felt like this. Never. Never this connection, this mind-and-body experience that’s so totally soul-deep. Not with anyone. I will not let you go.”
“I felt it, too,” he whispered, turning his head to lick her palm. “I was so afraid I was alone, but I felt it, felt you.” His hips rocked against the cradle of her thighs, probing her, touching the mouth of her womb with his hard cock. No longer swollen, but still erect, he loved her once more. She wrapped her legs around his hips and held him close.
They sat quietly in front of the fire, sipping an excellent Cabernet Franc, watching the flames dance. Xandi’s two weeks were almost spent. Her car, slightly dented but still functional, sat in the driveway where Oliver had left it after towing it out of the deep canyon where she’d gone off the road. It was as if they waited now, for something, unsure what that something might be.
Xandi couldn’t stand it any longer—the suspense, the need to know. They’d made no mention of tomorrow, never discussed a future. “What next?” she asked, resting one palm over his beating heart. “What are we going to do?”
His arm tightened around her shoulders, and she felt him sigh. “I don’t want to lose you, yet I can’t, in good faith, tie you to a beast.”
She laughed. “Ah, but I love being tied to a beast. You’ve shown me an entirely new type of pleasure, one, I fear, I’ve become addicted to.” She paused a moment, gathering her thoughts. “You can’t force me to leave, you know. I can be tenacious.” Xandi snuggled closer to his warm, familiar body. A body she’d learned to crave over the past days and nights of sensual exploration. “I have…feelings for you, Stefan. Very strong feelings. Stronger than I ever imagined.”
He tightened his arms around her. “I’ll not hedge mine, Alexandria. I love you. You have given me a reason to live, to search for an answer to my dilemma.” He smiled at her, brushing the tangled hair back from her eyes. “You are the woman I never thought I’d find, the one who has reminded me that humanity is more than just appearance. It is the soul, the spirit, the very essence that makes one a man.”
He looked away again, but when he turned back to her, his eyes were filled with resolve. “I told you it was my own hubris that turned me into a beast. What I didn’t tell you is that it was a very powerful wizard who actually did the deed. All he asked was my apology, my admission that I was a fool, and he would give me back my humanity.”
He sighed, then smiled at her. “It has taken me five long years to realize I was wrong and he was right. I owe him that apology, whether he returns me to my former self or not. I’ve decided to try to find him, to beg him to forgive me for my insolence. He merely offered to teach me, but I thought I was more than he. It wasn’t his fault I was a fool. It will, however, be my fault if I don’t let him know I’ve finally learned my lesson.”
“Take me with you.” Xandi turned in his arms, grabbed his shoulders and forced him to look her in the eye. “Take me on your quest, Stefan. I can’t imagine being parted from you. Not now, not ever. You’ve become a drug my soul needs to survive. A part of the very cells that keep my heart pumping, my brain functioning. Please. Take me.”
“And what if, when the journey is over, I am nothing more than Stefan the Magician, a normal man with insubstantial powers? The face of a human, the strength of an average man. Will you love me when I am no longer the wolf? Will you still want me?”
She ran her finger along his bare chest, circled his navel and traced the length of his growing penis. “Ah, Stefan, yes. I’ll still love you. But when you ask him to return your humanity, do you think you could keep just this one small remnant of your life as a beast?”
Laughing, he grabbed her, rolled her onto her back, used his hand to spread her legs wide. “We’ll make that a priority, my love. Hopefully he’ll consider it a little souvenir of my life as a wolf.”
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