Warriors of Poseidon 02 - Atlantis Awakening

"Tell me what you want, Erin," he rasped out.
     
    "I want you," she whispered. "I need you, always you, only you, Ven. I need you inside me."
     
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    The words broke the final thread of his control and he centered his cock over her slick, wet opening and plunged in so far his sac slammed against her as he thrust in to the hilt. He stood, holding entirely still for a long moment as his body quivered with the furious pressure for him to take and take and fuck her harder and faster and then harder still.
     
    She quivered underneath him and lifted her arms to him. "Now, Ven. Come for me, this time."
     
    "Mine," he growled, pulling back to plunge back into her, harder and faster and deeper.
    "Say my name again. Tell me that you know it's me who is fucking you, claiming you, taking you for my own."
     
    "Yes," she said, arching her hips up to meet his furious thrusting. "Ven. Yes."
     
    Her beautiful blue eyes, blue of the sky, of innocence, of the magic she'd wrapped around his heart and soul, stared up at him and he felt a tingle of her magic wash over him.
     
    Then the song of her gems burst forth from the control she must have been keeping them under and swept him away, swept her away, in a fierce tsunami of passion, of heat, of powerful hunger and need.
     
    He came harder than he ever had, so hard he thought something in his balls must be rending, pumping his seed into her for what seemed like forever, and she came with him, clenching and spasming under him and around him, milking his cock with her feminine muscles, until finally, finally, he collapsed onto her and the world faded as her music sang exultation around them.
     
    "If that's the soul-meld, how can we ever survive it?" she whispered, her voice trembling.
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    He smiled at her, reveling in the feel of her, in her music, in the light and color that was her soul. "Now that we have found it, mi amara, how could we survive without it?"

Chapter 21
    Erin woke suddenly, a warm and unfamiliar heaviness across her stomach, and stared into a pair of very amused black eyes.
     
    "You snore," he said, laughter lacing the words.
     
    "I do not!" Indignation warred with embarrassment. She lay there nude, zipped into the sleeping bag with him, the warmth of his arm and one leg casually thrown across her body.
     
    She had an instant to realize that she would be happy to wake like this every morning, and then the memories of the previous day crashed through her sleep-filled mind. "Oh, Goddess, Ven." She pushed at his arm and struggled to sit up. "How could we… when so many others—"
     
    "No, Erin. Don't diminish what we shared with regrets. We needed to rest and regroup, and our bodies needed the reassurance of each other. Our souls—"
     
    "No. Please. I can't talk about that right now. We may not survive this fight with Caligula, and I can't go into it if… just not now."
     
    He pulled her into his arms and held her for a long moment, saying nothing. Then he spoke against her hair, his chest rumbling beneath hers. "As you wish, mi amara. But there is one thing I need to tell you, as much as I may not want to do so. The soul-meld does not negate free will. You are not bound to me, if you should choose—" His voice cut off, and he stilled before inhaling a huge breath. "If you should choose another path than mine."
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    She pulled away from him, and this time he let her go. "The soul-meld, that's what allowed me to see inside you? What allows you to hear my music?"
     
    "Yes. It is a pathway between the souls of two who have the ability to find love on a much higher scale of intimacy than merely physical or emotional."
     
    She laughed a little, shaken. "So, does using formal speak help you negate the fact that you're centuries old and I only have a human life span? Or that we might both die in the next day or so? How does that play into everything?"
     
    A muscle in his jaw clenched at her words, but he answered her calmly. "If you were to die, I would end my existence as well. So it would be a good idea for us to get up and make that coffee and get to work practicing for what we plan to do, wouldn't it?"
     
    She blinked, not even sure where to start in asking about the "end my existence" part of that statement. Not sure she wanted to know the answer.
     
    After they drank