Eyes of the Soul 🌶🌶🌶

BAMBI

I felt Ekon shift his weight on the edge of the bed, about to stand up and pack up his belongings.

But I wasn’t ready to let him go yet. I wanted to take advantage of this moment.

The calm before the storm.

I knew we were in a hurry, but I also knew I couldn’t bear to charge into battle beside my mate without showing him how much I loved him one more time.

“Ekon, wait,” I whispered.

He was immediately back at my side, his hand on the small of my back. Though I couldn’t see him, I could imagine his face, so caring and intent, ready to give me anything I needed…

His attention made me smile.

Though the days since Devina had taken my sight had been long and hard, something good had come from it.

It proved that the trouble we faced as a couple didn’t define us.

Ekon had been there for me through my hardships.

He was an alcoholic, but he wouldn’t always be caught in a loop of destructive habits.

It had taken just one thing for him to change his ways…

That I needed him.

And my mate had risen to the occasion nobly, like the alpha he was.

Now I knew for sure that I could trust him, no matter what happened.

“What is it, Bambi?” he asked.

As a response, I fell back on the bed, pulling Ekon down with me.

“Bambi,” his husky voice said with hesitation. “We don’t have much time.”

I reached under his shirt, feeling the hard ridges of his abdomen.

“Exactly. What if this is the last time?” I whispered.

I kissed his neck. With every touch, his body relaxed beside me.

He held my chin gently between his rough fingers and brought my face up to his.

We kissed hungrily. The tenderness we felt for each other was surpassed only by our desperate passion.

Though I didn’t want to believe this would be the last time I had my mate, I couldn’t deny that I was nervous about the upcoming battle.

I decided to channel that desperation into our lovemaking…

Our clothes fell off like autumn leaves as we clawed at each other’s bodies.

I knew Ekon and I were thinking the same thing:

This is the only thing that matters. Us. Our love.

I rolled onto my back, my legs folding open like a butterfly’s wings. I was acting on pure instinct.

All I wanted was to feel and be felt.

Ekon’s strong hand gripped my thigh, then moved gently up to my most sensitive place. When his finger gently pushed inside me, aimed directly at my G-spot, I cried out.

With one arm, I held his body as close to me as I could, so that his chest hair tickled my breasts.

With the other, I reached down for his manhood.

He was already hard. His member, as hard as a rock, throbbed under my firm touch.

The noises Ekon made when he lost control had always made me wild…but now that I couldn’t see him, they were driving me ~insane~.

I wanted to make him growl and whimper…and finally, cry out in ecstasy.

I twisted toward him and cupped his balls with one hand while I stroked the length of him.

His breath caught as he thrust up into my touch.

“My turn,” he growled, climbing on top of me.

I felt him position himself between my legs.

“I fucking love to watch you,” he whispered. His warm breath on my pussy made me squirm. “I’m going to kiss you, and then I’ll give you all my cum.”

His dirty talk made my head swim, and a second later his mouth was on me, licking slow circles over my clit as if he knew exactly what I needed.

Because he did.

When he pushed his finger inside me, I knew I couldn’t last.

“I’m going to…” I warned.

“Cum,” he ordered.

My pleasure mounted until it reached its peak, spilling over in an intense orgasm.

Ekon growled his approval as my pussy muscles clenched his finger.

“Fuck me,” I demanded, my body melting into the bed after my orgasm.

But as Ekon stood on his knees, I heard rustling—he was stroking his own cock, I was turned on all over again.

“You want me to give it you?” he asked, his breath short.

“Give ~everything~ to me,” I gasped.

My pussy, wet and throbbing, accepted his massive length easily. When he was all the way inside me, Ekon sighed, as if everything was finally right in the world.

We were exactly where we were meant to be. Together, as one.

He fell to his hands and lowered himself over me, so his huge body was protecting me from all sides.

I squirmed as I waited for him to continue thrusting, but he paused—his cock filling me up and pulsing inside me.

“Fuck me,” I whimpered.

He didn’t respond until he’d kissed my lips.

Finally, he began to move his hips, pounding inside me, hitting the perfect place with every thrust.

My mouth fell open in ecstasy as I clawed at Ekon’s back.

“Give it all to me,” I ordered again.

“You’re going to make me cum so much,” he gasped, his breath uneven. “And I’m going to watch your face while I give it to you.”

His words made me so horny, I knew I was close to cumming again. I bit my lip as I locked my legs around him, holding him inside me.

His pace quickened until my body was being pummeled into ecstasy…

I arched my back, tipping my head as I cried out, my orgasm erupting inside me once more.

“Oh, Bambi,” Ekon growled, “I’m going to cum.”

His voice, always so strong and deep, broke with passion.

His thrusts crescendoed with slow, intense pushes up to my core.

As Ekon cried out in ecstasy, I felt his hot cum release inside me.

I held him as the orgasm racked his body until, finally, he was slack on top of me.

He tried to move, but I held him tight.

“One minute more,” I begged, wanting the moment to last.

We’d had amazing sex before, but somehow it had never been ~that~ good.

It felt like we finally knew how to give each other exactly what we wanted and needed.

It felt like, for the first time, we were seeing each other clearly.

EKON

As Bambi wrapped her body around mine, clutching me, I covered her face in kisses.

Even as the most intense orgasm I ever felt overcame me, I hadn’t closed my eyes. I hadn’t even blinked.

Because I didn’t want to look away from her for one second.

~Seeing~ her ecstasy was so beautiful, so ~fucking sexy,~ that I doubted I would ever get used to it.

And I didn’t want to. I would be in total awe of the woman beneath me for the rest of my life, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.

“I love you, Bambi,” I whispered, kissing below her ear, then straightening my arms so I could see her smile.

Love poured from me like an overflowing glass. I knew she didn’t want the moment to end, and I didn’t either.

Though our time at the beach house had been hard for Bambi, these had been some of the best days of my life.

I was able to ~see~ her.

And more importantly, I had proven to both of us that I could support her the way she needed.

I could stay sober. I didn’t need to run away from all the things that brought me pain.

I now saw that drinking had been a false support system. It was unsustainable, and only made me feel worse about myself.

Now that I had risen to the occasion, I knew I didn’t want to rely on alcohol anymore. I wanted to be someone Bambi could rely on.

And being her support system had taught me that.

Soon, I would head into the hardest battle I had ever fought. In order to defeat my enemy, I would have to lose my mother all over again.

But I was ready for it. And the memory of this perfect moment would get me through to the other side…

HOLLY

While Rose and Hunter were strategizing in the kitchen, I slipped out the back door.

I needed a moment to myself.

I raced down the road until I reached the harbor.

The place I had made the worst mistake.

Because, though I had been scared of the dark, I had been lured in by the sexy shimmer of the deep.

I had been blinded by my desire.

My disastrous experience with Freya was still fresh, and I was raw with regret and embarrassment. But I had learned an important lesson from it.

I was drawn to the darkness. There was no point in denying that I longed for the power of the dark.

Once I had accepted that about myself, I knew that the answer was not to resist dark magic.

Instead, I would embrace it.

As I stared out at the calm, deep ocean, I felt a steely resolve within myself.

There was darkness inside me.

But there was also light.

And I wouldn’t let my dark desire overtake me.

I would use ~all~ the magic within me to help Rose kill Devina.

I announced my newfound wisdom to the soul-sucking monsters that still lingered in the deep:

“I won’t let it scare me. I won’t let it overcome me. I won’t suppress it…I’ll ~control~ it.”

ROSE

“Everyone please join hands,” Victoria requested, glancing meaningfully around our small army assembled in the kitchen.

We were dressed for war in tough leather hides and chainmail that I had stored away in the attic.

I took Holly’s and Ekon’s hands and clenched them tightly in mine as Victoria and Ryland stood back and prayed to the Goddess.

“Goddess, protect us. Our mission is yours.”

I closed my eyes, channeling the love in my heart to my son…and the young woman who had become like a daughter.

My time was short, and from now on, I would only be able to focus on the mission.

~Devina.~

Ekon was my fellow soldier. There would be no more time for him to be my son.

“May we rid our world of all evil… Help us reclaim what is ours.”

When Victoria’s prayer was complete, I pulled from the well of power inside me and pictured the compound in my mind.

Leaving Victoria and Ryland behind, I teleported with Holly, Ekon, Hunter, and Bambi.

The beach house fell away, and when we opened our eyes, we were standing outside the compound.

But it was hardly the home I had once known.

Even the air itself was hazy and orange, nearly toxic in the encroaching darkness.

As we walked near the gate, Ekon cried out in pain.

“What is it?” Bambi whispered.

“Devina killed the servants,” he replied, his voice shaking.

Their bodies were burned and mutilated, left on the road outside the gates as a warning…to us.

I felt sick to my stomach as we stared out at the compound’s buildings. They had once been beautiful and pristine.

Now, every surface was covered in the awful symbol of my coven, which Devina had adopted as her own: the crown of thorns made with thick black paint.

I swallowed the bile that rose in my throat, turning to see my son’s reaction. His jaw was set as he stood protectively before his mate.

His determination fueled my own.

My time in this world had almost reached its end.

But I wouldn’t leave without taking my daughter with me.