Addy lay on her back, gazing up imploringly at her otherworldly lover.

At last he got down on his side next to her and cupped her cheek in his hand.

“You’re so anxious,” he teased.

“Yes,” she smiled. “You think maybe we should wait a week or two? See where this takes us?”

He growled and flipped her on top of him.

She laughed, glad to see he was eager too.

And she could feel his eagerness. He might just be eager enough to split her in half.

She tried not to think about it. Instead, she leaned down to kiss him.

He kissed her passionately until she had to pull away for a breath.

“Addy,” he said softly, pulling her in again.

“Some of us need to breathe,” she pointed out.

He laughed and she laughed with him as he had flipped them over again.

“You can breathe for both of us,” he told her.

He kissed his way down her jaw, to the tender hollow where her neck and shoulder met.

Waves of need began to roll over her again.

He showered kisses on her breasts, slowing to lick and suck one nipple and then the other until she could feel it in her pussy.

“Please,” she whimpered, not even sure if she wanted him to stop, or to go on forever.

But he knew what she wanted.

He pressed her thighs apart gently, eased himself between them until she could feel the rigid heat of him throbbing against her sex.

“Are you sure, Addy?” His voice was strained.

“I love you,” she told him simply.

“I love you too,” he whispered against her lips. “So much it hurts.”

She tilted her hips up to him.

He pressed against her opening, then pushed himself slowly inside.

Addy gasped. There was a moment of pain as she felt herself stretch to accommodate him.

“Oh, Addy,” he murmured into her hair, his hips quivering with the effort not to move.

A wave of sympathetic desire washed over her and suddenly instead of pain she was awash in pleasure.

“Please,” she whispered, letting her nails sink into his shoulders, tilting her hips up to meet his.

He growled and thrust into her, filling her, ratcheting up the tension.

She clung to him, trying to take in each sensation, the physical pleasure, the knowledge that this was her man, that he was hers forever.

But the pleasure was catching up with her, and she wouldn’t be able to hold out for long. She was riding the waves of it, desperately trying to hold back so that they could climax together.

She kissed him, crashing her tongue into his, begging him to come with her.

He froze for an instant.

Then she felt him swell impossibly inside her.

Addy let go and felt herself flying apart with him.

The bliss was almost blinding. Addy felt as if she had been ripped out of her body and thrust into a sea of light.

They kissed until the waves of ecstasy had dissipated into tremors, and kissed some more.

It wasn’t until some minutes later that Addy realized she hadn’t stopped for a breath.

“Hey,” she said, pulling out of the kiss.

“Hey, yourself,” Remington replied. “That was pretty incredible. Can’t a guy just lie around kissing his beautiful mate for a while afterward?”

“I didn’t have to breathe,” Addy said.

“Oh,” said Remington.

“I didn’t have to breathe,” she said again, her mind reeling.

“Well, we did click,” he said.

“What does that mean?”

“When we made love,” he said, “I felt the click that made me human forever.”

“That flash of pure light?” Addy asked.

“Yes, I think that’s what it was,” he said. “And since you saw it too, then maybe, just maybe, I gave you my gift. It has occurred with other visitors from Aerie and their mates.”

She gazed at him in wonder, this incredible man of hers.

She had no idea what their lives would hold. Maybe deep sea diving without equipment, maybe days and nights of med school studies, maybe smelly diapers and little cries in the night, and hopefully summers at Maxwell’s as guests one day…

But one thing was certain.

They would never be bored.

“Want to go for a swim?” she suggested.

“I thought you’d never ask.”