The Veil of Darkness
Chapter 91: I Need You

Chapter 91: I Need You

Annalise snuggled closer into the arms of the man who was softly stroking her cheek as her head rested against his shoulder while his arm was wrapped around her securely.

"How are you feeling now, Princess?" Damien asked in an unusually soft voice, one that she couldn’t even relate to him. If not for her bond, she almost thought that he was someone else.

She found herself smiling softly as the memories of the previous night returned to her. "Perfectly fine." She whispered and realized just how raspy her voice sounded and how dry her throat felt.

She felt something against her lips which she parted on instinct and the next second, a small candy-sized tasteless thing slipped inside her mouth and immediately melted into cool water and slipped down her throat.

She let out a small audible sigh as she snuggled her face back into the warm chest of her mate and realized that it was pretty much bare. Her eyes finally fluttered open and she found herself staring at a very naked Damien laying beside her.

Her mind got frozen for a moment as her heart leaped into her throat but then she felt the softness of his pants against her leg that was resting over his and she finally let go of the breath that she had been holding all this time without realizing it.

A black cover was hiding most of their bodies and she realized that she was also wearing a soft black nightgown that left her upper body almost half as bare as Damien’s. At least, her chest and abdomen were perfectly covered unlike his.

"I’m having trouble understanding the way you are looking at me." The man suddenly commented, pulling her attention back to his face.

His long black hair was left loose, and his grey eyes stared at her with an emotion that almost melted her to her core. His tanned and muscular body was completely at her disposal and she couldn’t find any reason to not like what her eyes were seeing.

Her eyes finally landed on his left wrist and she noticed the moon thread that now had a black thread added to its all-blue color - his color, the color of his shadow and darkness.

"Thank you..." She spoke softly while returning her gaze once again to his face and locking it with his. "... Thank you for saving my life."

Instead of replying, Damien just moved swiftly to place a kiss against her forehead, and when he returned to his original position, he made sure to pull her down with him but that wasn’t the end because he then moved to cage her down on the bed with his huge body, his hands resting on either side of her shoulders.

"What are you doing?" She asked as she gazed up at his eyes that had started taking over the lightest hue of crimson.

"I will like us to finish the last ritual of our wedding ceremony, if you may allow," Damien answered as he looked back at her with a serious but also soft expression on his handsome face.

"There’s still a ritual left?" She asked in genuine confusion and curiosity, being completely oblivious to what he was thinking or talking about.

"Of course, there is. You were too exhausted last night for us to complete it. So we should do it now." Damien replied in that same serious tone that easily fooled her.

"Alright," Annalise responded with an affirmative and waited for the man to let go of her. However, a gasp of pure surprise escaped her lips when he moved his face suddenly and the very next moment, his lips were on hers.

His tongue took full advantage of her momentary shock as it slipped inside her mouth and at the same time, she felt him lowering his body on hers but not to the point where she would be crushed under his enormous weight.

The kiss was slow, sweet, but also full of passion and desire. And as their soulmate bond flickered to life, she felt the need deep inside her to consummate their bond and marriage. This was the final ritual he was talking about.

A moan slipped through her lips as Damien’s lower body settled between her thighs, causing her to arch into him as his touches made her body respond in ways she had never felt or experienced before.

He nibbled lightly on her lower lip before pulling away from the kiss to look at her face. His eyes turned a brighter shade of crimson as desire started consuming him.

Annalise allowed her hands to trail over his and her fingers moved along the veins that were decorating his arms, crossing his shoulders and finally wrapping around his neck as she pulled him back into a kiss, taking initiative this time around and he happily allowed her.

She let her hands slip down his neck to his spine before drawing her nails down his bare back, adoring the way his muscles flexed beneath her touch. All the while, she kissed him with all the desire that was brewing inside her, licking his bottom lip before slipping her tongue inside his mouth.

She needed him. More than anyone or anything else at that moment. Every inch of her body, heart, and soul desired him like never before. All that was on her mind was to make the man hers while allowing him to do the same.

"Damien..." She called out his name as she ended the kiss and looked straight into his beautiful red glowing eyes while her own were probably filled with nothing but pure desire.

"Yes, Princess?" He asked as he moved one of his hands to cup her face while the other one carried the weight of his entire upper body.

Annalise bit down on her lower lip, contemplating on her words as she wanted to tell him exactly what she needed and wanted but at the very same time, she was too embarrassed to say it. But her body didnt understand the latter, it only needed what it needed and that was him.

"I need you."