Chapter Twenty-Seven
Asher
I could see a range of emotions going through her head. Would she be freaked to find out that we were predestined for each other?
“Let me clean up first and then we’ll talk,” I told her calmly and walked into the bathroom to clean myself up.
I’d dry-fucked her like a savage animal. Her hand on my cock pushed me over the edge, and I couldn’t stop from grinding against her sex. Her arousal called to me on some deep level I simply could not deny. It was like I would physically hurt if she needed me sexually and I didn’t do anything. Blue balls times ten.
I changed into another set of clothes and found her waiting at the table with two cups of what smelled like tea.
“You know the term soul mates, right? One special person that was made for the other?” I asked as I sat down. She nodded, waiting for the rest of what I had to say before deciding if she’d run or not.
“Well, with my people, finding your soul mate is pretty rare. To be perfect together you need matching energies, and most don’t ever find someone who is equal to their own power. So they settle with someone who will strengthen their bloodline. I am the strongest of my people. I never expected to find someone that matched me, and I didn’t want to settle. That’s part of the reason why I left. You have the energy of every animal on earth inside you. You are my match…my equal.” I took a sip of the tea she made me and watched her digest my words, rolling them over and over in her head.
“How do you know?”
A reasonable question.
“We sparked. That little current you feel when we touch—it’s our energy flowing as one. Only happens with mates.”
I prayed she understood. I meant what I’d said last night: I was choosing her, even though predetermined destinies made me jumpy.
She sipped her tea and was quiet for a few minutes, just looking at me and apparently trying to figure out what to say.
“Wish you had a different soul mate?” I teased, but I knew she saw through the humor down to the true vulnerability lying there. Did this change things for her? Was I not what she dreamed for a soul mate?
“Are all electronics going to blow up every time we are intimate?” she asked so matter-of-factly, like we were talking about the weather.
“Never had a soul mate before. But I’d be willing to experiment with you. See what chaos we could create together.” I couldn’t help but use humor as a shield. Thankfully she just rolled her eyes and drank some more of her tea.
After another three minutes of silence, I had to know how she felt about all of this. I knew it was a lot to take in, that soul mates are real.
“I’d like to hear your thoughts.”
“Do you fear having a soul mate?” She chewed on her lip, and I shook my head.
“I was at first, but I can see that we are perfect for each other. It’s just weird, thinking I was never going to have this in my life, and you just showed up outside my bar. I still chose you, though. We’re like penguins, mates for life. Even if you decide not to claim me as yours, you’ll always be it for me.” That was the honest truth. She was my only, and I knew, no matter what, I’d never want anyone else.
I felt completely okay with that.
But hopefully she would still choose me too, and then I wouldn’t have to pine after a woman I loved but couldn’t have.
My body tensed, realizing what I just thought, and I knew she caught the movement.
“What?”
Tell her I love her, or keep it in for a bit longer?
“I’ll tell you later. First I need to hear if you want to accept the position that the universe has offered you.”
We’ll focus on that instead of confessing my love right now.
“It’s hard to even imagine that this thing between us was preordained, if you will.”
True. Very true. If you didn’t believe in soul mates, this would sound unbelievable, maybe even ridiculous.
“I feel it; I think I always have. But even letting someone in is new for me, and it’s hard enough without the title of soul mates attached to it. Can we just…” She tried to think of how to put her thoughts into words, and I was frozen to that chair waiting to hear what she wanted.
“Keep doing what we’re doing. I want to be with you, learn about you, date you. I haven’t done this before.” She chewed on her lip nervously, as if that wasn’t going to be okay with me. Like it wasn’t enough.
“Of course. I’m happy you’re giving this a shot at all.” I reached over and touched her hand, my thumb rubbing little circles over her soft skin.
“Good.” She smiled a little and intertwined my fingers with hers.
We were staying as we were, and that gave me the chance to make myself that indispensable person in her life…the one she couldn’t imagine living without.
“What time are you going to the station?”
“In an hour. The lawyer should be there and have had time to talk to Robert. You staying?” She removed her hand from mine and got up to put her cup in the sink.
“Yeah, I’ve got to take care of some business stuff today. So, I’ll be around here.”
It was great running a business, but sometimes it sucked. Like the business part of it.
My eyes were on her hips as she swayed over to me and leaned down to give me a soft kiss.
“Thanks for this morning,” she purred as I wrapped my hand around her neck and held her lips close to mine.
“We should do it again sometime…maybe sans clothing?”
She giggled for a moment before our lips met in the middle and gave me a taste of what was to come.