pulse took over her thoughts and actions.
He leaned in and kissed her, biting lightly at her lips.
His hips shifted, and he increased his tempo until nothing mattered to her but the friction of his skin on hers and the wild tingling that ran through her everywhere they touched. Even his cock was giving off a peculiar static-like charge. She held on as he pounded into her, and when he bucked and pressed his hips into hers, her nerves were still singing with energy.
Rune pressed his forehead to hers, panting to catch his breath. As his chest rose and fell, it pressed her breasts until she was nearly screaming with the urge to orgasm again.
He stayed inside her and shifted so that he could reach between them. Her clit got the attention it desperately needed, and a quick shiver ran through her from head to toe and continued to ripple through her for what seemed like hours.
When she was finally still, Rune gathered her in his arms and kissed her temple. She smiled and rested her head against his chest. She licked her lips and tried twice before she was able to whisper, “Okay, so it started now.”
He chuckled. “Has the future changed?”
She closed her eyes and smiled. “No, this is what was destined. Nothing has changed.”
“Perhaps in our future. My day has definitely looked up.”
She giggled and peeped at him through lowered lashes. “Excellent. Now get me my sandwich.”
Chapter Five
The Guardians en masse were happy about their shift to lovers. Ember and Axis were especially relieved.
Late that night in the gym, Freddy asked Ember what was going on.
Ember grinned. “Well, Rune is notoriously temperamental. He uses the edge of acceptable violence on those we apprehend. I am thinking that he will be slightly more temperate now.”
“Because he has gotten laid?”
“For the first time in centuries. Yes. The Admaryn sleepers took their vows seriously. With all the Guardian groupies here, it has been the work of severe self-control that has kept him from ending up in a local’s bed.”
Freddy looked across the gym to where Rune was working out with some of the others. Ember had loaned her a bodysuit, so Freddy was working out. Life as an Oracle was not exactly an exertion of the physical sort. She had to keep her body up or it would atrophy.
“So, do you get your share of offers?” She smiled at Ember.
“Now and then. It is always awkward to sleep with the untalented. They don’t know what to expect or they expect too much. I consider it a success if I don’t scorch them.”
“That would be awkward.”
“And hard to explain to the emergency medical personnel. I am waiting until a flameproof female is posted here.”
“Do you think one will come along?”
Ember smiled. “Can you tell me?”
Without hesitating, Freddy reached out and looked into Ember’s future. “Oh, dear.”
“What? Is it a Nyal? I would hate that.”
“No, that isn’t what it is. Based on the timeline, there is a connection coming to you quickly.”
Seeing Ember tangling with a woman with bronze and black skin was a visual that was going to haunt her.
“Will you tell me what you saw?”
“I would rather not. It will unfold shortly, and I don’t want to influence you. I influenced myself enough already.”
“Is it someone with powers?”
Freddy smiled. “It is. Don’t worry about it.”
“That is very cruel of you.” Ember settled on a machine and started doing presses.
“It isn’t cruel. You aren’t a client, and it will be better if you don’t force anything. It will happen in its own time, or at least that is what I am guessing. It feels right.”
Freddy focused on her workout for the next half hour until Rune came to her and quirked his lips. “My lady, you need to rest.”
She made a face. “I am not sleepy.”
He wrapped an arm around her waist. “You will be.”
Freddy had to admit that after he worked her over and loosened all of the tense muscles in her limbs with a