156. Vameer
Vameer
With her hand over her eyes, Rune walks through the portal behind me.
I take a breath as it closes. “You can look.”
She lowers her hand. And her eyes widen as she recognizes the location.
“Holy shit!” Rune’s brows lift. “It’s your cave.”
“Sí.” I smile down at my mate.
Her clear excitement pushes away the uncertainty I had over bringing her here.
She grins up at me. “We’re going inside, right?”
I nod. “Sí.”
The path climbing the side of the mountain is narrow. But the sun is out. The wind is low. And the view from here is stunning.
Rune looks out, taking it in.
And I watch her.
I wanted to bring her here to give her a better memory.
I think about how scary it must’ve been the first time she was here.
Alone. In a storm. Not knowing what was happening or why.
But this time, we’re here together.
“Mon Amour,” I say quietly.
She smiles at me over her shoulder. “Love you.”
Just like every other time, those words spear into my heart. And I place a palm on my chest as my gravito keeps my pulse steady. As it always does.
Rune walks up the path, dragging her hand along the rock wall as she goes.
Trailing her apple scent.
Opposite from the last time I was here, I follow my mate’s scent into the cave.
I follow my mate as she retraces her footsteps.
I watch her walk through the dark. This time understanding why she can see.
Rune pauses when we reach the chamber where I slept.
The slab of stone is still on the ground, where it fell when I woke, leaving the entrance open.
I step up beside her.
And she slides her hand into mine. “You okay going in?”
“I’m sorry for all I missed and all the hurt I caused by staying here so long,” I tell her truthfully. “But I do not have bad memories here. I came here to rest. And I woke to my mate. There is no better moment in my life.” I meet Rune’s eyes. “Except maybe that first time in your apartment.”
She grins.
Then we enter the room I slept in for one hundred and three years.
Rune looks up as we walk to the altar in the center of the space. “I was so focused on you when I got here, I didn’t realize how big it is.”
She drags her fingers over the altar.
And something low in my gut heats.
How big it is.
I flex my jaw.
I don’t need to turn this sexual.
Rune looks up at me, and she’s doing that thing where she lightly bites her lip. Which is always hot. But now I’m thinking about biting her lip while we were fucking in the sky.
I am a warrior.
I have discipline.
My dick twitches. “What is it?” My question comes out thick.
“Is it wrong…” She drags her fingertip back over the surface.
“Is what wrong?” I shift closer.
“That I want to… on the altar.”
I growl and grip her waist. “Not wrong.”
“Wait.” She presses a hand to my stomach. “What if… we… recreate.”
“My Prinsessa come to save me?”
“Yes,” she breathes. “Except I need to do more than feed you a single drop of blood.”
I turn her and push her toward the door. “Give me ten seconds before you come back.”
Rune laughs as she hurries out of the chamber.
Quick as I can, I strip down to nothing, then lie on the altar, dick hard and pointing to the ceiling.