Violet took his hand and kissed his palm. “I wasn’t sure of anything, only went on instinct. I’m glad I was right.”
“You didn’t have to save Brennan. Not after everything he did to you, after all you suffered.”
“I felt your despair when you were a vampire, Finn. I can see how it could have affected his mind and his hope for the future. How can I be mad at him when his actions allowed me to save you from the same fate? I would go through that again if it meant saving you.”
Finn came to her like a starving man, as if he’d held himself back for so long he had to taste her or die. His energy wasn’t the same, but his soul was as she remembered, and when he took her in his arms, nothing stood between them but possibilities and hope. And the future. It wouldn’t be as long as eternity, but Violet would make sure to fill it to the brim with everything good in this life, both for him and for her.
Finn had to break their kiss so he could remove his clothes, and she did the same, launching herself at him once her panties hit the floor.
His mouth took hers again, and he swung her to the bed before covering her with his hard body. She indulged in his newfound warmth as her sex clenched in anticipation. Impatient, Violet widened her knees and pushed her hips up.
The Finn she knew was quick to grin and lick his lips. “I love you impatient and greedy for me. I may not be a vampire anymore, but my hunger for you is the same and will never go away.”
His teeth closed around her nipple in a tender bite quickly followed with soothing lashes of his tongue. Her breasts grew heavy as he continued to lavish them, and as she was sidetracked, all she could do was gasp when his agile hand slid between them and covered her sex. Wet like never before, he used it to his advantage.
“You crave me as much as I crave you.” And to prove a point, one finger and then another slid into her.
“You’re not playing fair.” Her reproach sounded more like a gasp, but she didn’t care.
To prove that he didn’t care about that, his thumb circled her clit. “And yet you lie there panting, your hips pursuing my hand.”
When she opened her mouth to throw out a snide remark, he curled his digits and pressed hard on that soft spot that stole her breath. “Ah, I see. Maybe you still need to think about it?”
She swore if he weren’t making her see stars, she’d slap his arrogant face. After all, if she couldn’t be vulnerable with this annoying former vampire turned necromancer, who could she be vulnerable with?
Wanton with lust turning her blood to slick lava, she allowed herself to fall apart.
Finn didn’t wait for her to come down from her high before pushing his hard cock deep inside her. Bliss couldn’t describe the sensation she felt as he thrust harder and harder. He didn’t have the preternatural strength known to vampires anymore; it was a strong man making love to her, possessing her.
He was no longer able to break her neck with one hand, but her heart, definitely.
Your heart is safe with me, my beloved. As for your body, I can’t make any guarantees there.
In an instant, her mind was flooded with erotic thoughts of everything he wanted to do to her, with her. It was like being swept away in lust, and this time, drowning with him would be the best way to die.
He hadn’t noticed it yet, but she could feel a wave of magic pouring from him, and it made her own power tingle and reach for him, deepening the connection to a completely new level.
His hips started to take her with a vengeance, and she was teetering on the verge of her own explosion when he spoke to her one more time.
Then, come and die with me.
Her entire being seized with a monstrous orgasm while Finn shattered as well. It was almost too much to experience—the joined pleasure, how much he loved her, and she loved him. It was so much, maybe too much, that after such grief, fear, and sorrow, she’d had the incomprehensible luck of finding him and surviving.
“We found each other and survived,” Finn said as his big frame relaxed onto her.
“Is this paradise? Did we survive, and are we still alive, Finn?”
In one swift move, still deeply connected, he brought her on top of him, and Violet melted into his body.
“Life and death, paradise and hell, they are everywhere around us and in us. But I have to say, I believe in paradise now, my lovely witch. And I found it in your arms.”
Violet sighed as she agreed. Whether they lived or died was unimportant as she had felt both inside her, and neither of them stood a chance against the love she felt for the man in her arms. Back then, now, and forever.
Epilogue
The summer was well on its way. The wind was soft and warm as it rustled through the leaves. The night sky was blooming with stars, and as they sat around the fire, the moment couldn’t have been more perfect.
Violet looked around, and her heart expanded at the sight of her friends who’d become the family she had lost, a circle that never ceased expanding since the people of Sanctuary had entered their lives.
From Valeria, Sera, and Violet, three best friends and witches that were raised in the little town, they’d grown into their own, and as they found themselves, they’d stumbled upon love along the way.
Valeria had taken a stand against the father she thought she had, and discovered a brand-new family when she fell for Asher Stonelake, and found Sanctuary, one of the
