MasukAdam must have gotten tired of waiting for my answers because he dipped his head and pecked my lips softly.
However, that was for a start, because immediately after that, he wrapped his hands around my waist, drew me closer to him, and pecked my lips again.
He withdrew his face thereafter, taking note of my facial expression, to know if he should go on.
I knew he was waiting for a go ahead, so that it wouldn’t be like he was bullying me into kissing him.
Foolish me thought that the act was cute.
I must have nodded my head at one time, because before I could say jack, his lips were on mine, and this time around, his tongue was attempting to push past the protection of my lips into my mouth.
Yet I was not responsive. Not because I wasn't into the kiss, but because I didn't exactly know how to kiss. .
“You haven’t kissed before?” A note of incredulity rang in his voice, as he withdrew from me the second time.
I shook my head in reply, wondering if he would go away when I heard him mutter ‘f*ck’. Of course he would know now that I was a virgin.
Should I have told him that I wasn't a virgin? And where was Naomi? I wondered, wanting her to come down now. This stuation was awkward as f*ck now.
I wanted to be out of here. I felt stupid too—not sure if it was because I had allowed Adam to kiss me or because I didn’t know how to kiss.
When Adam noticed my abrupt change of mood, he sighed and dropped a kiss on my lips, bringing my attention back to the softness of his lips.
“Hey, don’t worry. I can teach you. We will take it slow and steady.” He whispered, making me wonder if s*x was the only thing that can manage to bring out this side of him. I have never heard this voice octave.
My heart raced wildly and fast again when he lowered his mouth on mine, when his fingers began their tracing sequence at my back and around my waist.
He pushed at my lips, and I opened. I didn’t want this to end.
Adam let his tongue into my mouth expertly, using it to guide the motion of mine around his mouth. It was fussy at first, but then it got better and became so d*mn sweet.
The kiss felt like soft rain on a summer evening. It felt like an explosion of the best flavors in the universe all at once mingling together and creating the best taste and sensation I had ever felt. I was lost, totally lost in it.
But then he broke away, and chose to stare at me, perhaps gauging my expressions.
His eyes were filled with so much lust, and surprise.
Yes, I could see that too, though I had no reason why, because before I could think on that, he returned his lips to mine.
This time when Adam’s lips mashed against mine, it was more violent.
He kissed me as if he was trying to flatten and destroy my mouth, as if trying to state his claim on me.
I was taken aback. For a second, I couldn't breathe. My mind was a blank slate until I felt those tingles again.
They assailed my body like rushing water that had broken over a dam. And when they attacked me, I welcomed them with open arms, and hungrily pushed back.
The bristles of Adam’s immature beard scratched against my soft cheeks when I gripped his head firmly—acting out of instinct—as if to keep him from escaping.
Then, I worked my mouth against his, our tongues battling back and forth like wrestlers, each trying to pin the other.
I kissed him like he wanted to be kissed, like no girl had ever kissed him—or so I thought—soft and moist and hot and breathy, not trying to win a battle but seeking union and closeness and the sharing of one breath, one sensation, one timeless and passionate moment.
The heat rose in his loins as my tongue danced with his tongue, quick and electric and delicious, then firmer, more determined, more curious about the heat that lay within, seeking to chase down that elusive liquid lightning that reached through both of us.
I was moaning now, and I could literally hear his grunts of pleasure and it filled me with some kind of weird pride knowing that my kiss was doing that to him.
I gasped softly when I felt his hand begin to snake toward my breast region. Were we really going to do it here? In Naomi’s kitchen?
A light brush of his finger around my nipple caused me to tighten my thighs in anticipation. But that anticipation was caught short when I heard a light scream right behind me.
I knew it wasn’t Naomi. Naomi’s voice wasn’t as shrill as that.
No. This was even worse.
It was Claire, and in the next second, she was dragging my hair, dragging me away from Adam, and into the reality that I had been smooching a forbidden fruit.
SAGEI reached for Makeh just as she rose to her feet.She had stretched both hands toward me, palms open, her expression unreadable in that infuriatingly calm way of hers.“What is going on?” I asked, suspicion tightening my voice.“I am going to show you your parents,” she replied simply.My breath caught. For a heartbeat, I did not move. My hands twitched at my sides. I had asked the question. I had demanded the truth. But now that the answer stood within reach, doubt coiled through me.“Are they… dead?” I asked quietly.Makeh’s gaze softened. “No.”Alive. The word echoed in my chest. Alive meant possibilities. Alive meant answers. Alive meant complications.I swallowed.“What could possibly go wrong?” I muttered, though the irony was not lost on me.Before I could change my mind, I slipped my hands into hers.The world collapsed.There was no spinning, no falling—only a sudden, absolute obliteration of everything familiar. Light vanished. Sound vanished. Even the sensation of my o
SAGEI bit back a curse the moment Makeh released whatever spell had sealed my lips.The words burned at the back of my throat, hot and vicious, but I swallowed them down before they could escape and wake Adam. He shifted slightly behind me, still deep in sleep, blissfully unaware that a being had been standing by our window moments ago.My thoughts, however, were another matter entirely. What in the goddess' blazing—Makeh's shoulders shook with silent laughter.Of course she could hear that.And what is so funny?!I glared at her as carefully and murderously as one could glare at an entity before dawn. Slowly, I slipped out of bed, careful not to jostle Adam. His arm reached instinctively toward the empty space I left behind, fingers brushing the sheets.I smiled, watching him, then remembered the golden dragon breathing light into my eye and nearly scaring me into a third death.Priorities. I would come back to him later... We could, maybe, bring to reality my first dream... After
SAGESleep took me gently that night.It wrapped around me like warm silk, pulling me under without resistance. I did not remember closing my eyes. I only remembered Adam’s arm around my waist and the steady rhythm of his breathing at my back.And then I was laughing.I was on one of the long marble countertops in the western wing, my back against cool stone, Adam standing between my knees, his hands firm at my hips. The morning light streamed through the tall windows, catching in his hair, turning it molten gold.“The maid will be back any second,” I whispered, though I could barely keep the laughter from my voice.“All the more reason to hurry,” he murmured, his mouth brushing my collarbone.I swatted his shoulder, breathless, my heart racing with delicious recklessness. My dress was halfway undone, my breasts nearly bare, and his hands were everywhere at once.He kissed me again, deeper this time, and I tangled my fingers in his hair.“We are going to get caught,” I insisted, even
SAGEI had thought I understood what pride felt like.I was wrong.From the raised dais where I sat between Adam and his brothers, their Lunas flanking them like jewels, I waited to watch my sister walk toward destiny.The hall of the witches’ community had been transformed beyond recognition. Where once there had been stone floors etched with ancient sigils, there now lay layered carpets in deep plum and midnight blue, threaded with silver runes. Hundreds of floating candles drifted near the vaulted ceiling, their flames golden, casting soft halos against carved arches of white marble. Incense curled lazily through the air—lavender, myrrh, and something sweeter I could not name—blending into a scent that felt ceremonial, sacred.Garlands of night-blooming flowers hung between pillars, their petals pale as moonlight. Crystal orbs suspended by invisible magic hovered along the walls, each containing swirling lights like captured constellations. The entire hall glowed as if the sky its
ADAMI had never thought peace would feel like this… warmly fulfilling. I laid on my side, propped up on one elbow, watching Sage sleep in my bed.My mate.The word still did something to me. It settled deep in my chest, intoxicating, grounding, all at once. After everything, after the years, I had her here. In my room. In my arms.The doctor had insisted she be transferred here after the final examination. “Rest,” he’d said firmly. “Complete rest.” As if I needed convincing.She laid curled slightly toward me, her hair fanned across my pillow like a spill of midnight silk. Her breathing was steady, her lashes resting gently against her cheeks. Without the tension that had shadowed her for weeks, she looked younger. Softer. I brushed my fingers lightly over her cheek.She stirred.A soft, sleepy moan slipped from her lips, and I couldn’t stop the smile that tugged at mine. It was ridiculous how that tiny sound affected me. I leaned down and pressed a gentle kiss to her forehead.Her
SAGEThe idea of being taught magic again should have frightened me. It did not.If anything, it made something quiet inside me settle. I had never been too proud to learn. I had clawed my way through every skill I possessed—combat, control, leadership—often the hard way. Starting from the beginning did not scare me.What unsettled me was something deeper. I did not think I had the magic gene anymore. It felt gone.Not dormant or sleeping. Gone.As though the goddess had taken back what she had lent me. The abyss, the ancient bloodline that had awakened in me, the tether to something divine—all of it felt like a door that had closed and sealed.Maybe that was the cost. Maybe that was balance.I had reached into power no mortal body was meant to hold twice in one day. I had bent the sun to my will. I had burned an entire region clean.Perhaps the universe had decided that was enough.I flexed my fingers slowly, studying them. They looked ordinary. Human.Was I human again?The thought







