Chapter 29
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
MIKO
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
What the hell was I doing?
God, his body felt so good in my arms. I could hold him night after night, wrapped in cherries and his warmth for hours.
Mine…
I never meant to tell him my story. It didn’t matter, I’d told myself. Push him away, reject him, don’t let him get too close to only lose him.
Epic fail, there.
Even at this point in time, I knew I wanted more from him. That if I lost him tomorrow, I’d be broken. My heart told me so.
Crazy!
That was mating bonds for you, I suppose.
He comes, this scarlet-haired man, bearing a golden gift in his hand. For you. It is for you. It is for hope. He is hope.
My hope? Were the dreams showing me the possibility of love? After so much pain, Orion would make things better?
“Are you my hope?” I whispered to the back of his scarlet head.
But what about the golden gift? A few pieces of the Orion puzzle weren’t slotting into place. We still had to try finding another mark to rule out the oracle thing for sure.
I’d talk to James about a Lance solution regarding Camden tomorrow. The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to search there.
Orion gently stirred against me. My mate, my potential everything. Amazing to fuck and kiss and hold. Igniting every part of my curiosity, making me want to take him to expensive restaurants, watch the sun rise on a beach, do anything to make him smile.
Damn.
I’d crossed the line I’d tried to establish by coming here. It was too late to push him away again. And I didn’t want to, an uneasy epiphany striking the bull’s eye in the shape of our second kiss. I wanted him. I wanted to explore my bond mate.
“I want you…”
He shuffled again, not waking up.
Giving in like this might end up being a painful mistake, but try telling the fly to get out of the silky steel of a spider’s web.
Probably not the best analogy…
“You’re not a spider,” I said.
He mumbled in his sleep, settling down seconds later.
Eventually, I joined him in the land of dreams.