Soul Bound by Ella M. Lee

Author:Ella M. Lee [Lee, Ella M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: demons, Romance, vampires, Paranormal
Published: 2020-12-29T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 23

I hid in my bedroom for nearly an hour, trying to figure out what to do with myself.

Why, why, why had I kissed him? And why, why, why was I trembling just thinking about how much I wanted to do it again?

But I guessed the answer to that was obvious. The thread that now bound us together was drawing me to him. Or maybe it was just showing me his feelings and my brain was agreeing with them? I had no idea.

Either way, the tiny voice in me was right. This was a job for me, and for him. It had been wrong of me to kiss Ren, although he hadn’t seemed too displeased by it, so I didn’t think I’d need to do too much apologizing. We’d just been…surprised by the bond.

That was all.

But when I closed my eyes and remembered his lips on mine, it did feel nice to be wanted. To be admired as more than blood or sex or amusement. Ren’s eyes on me had meant something much deeper than that.

I knew that, because now I knew him.

I could feel Ren.

The intensity varied, but that tether was always there, orienting me to him, bringing my mind to him, pressing me to recall him.

If I forced my mind to focus on something else, he was almost ignorable. But if I brought up an image of his lovely eyes, he ricocheted within me. I could sense the direction he was in, the general tenor of his mind, the vague idea of his movements and emotions.

And if I tugged on that thread between us, I could get so much more. I could feel his knowledge, his power, the slight oddness that told me he wasn’t actually human. I could push even further. I could turn that tug into something much more tangible, and I wondered what would happen if I did. Would I be able to read his thoughts? I imagined he’d push me to experiment, but for now, I didn’t want to overstep again.

Kissing him unexpectedly was enough.

He tugged back here and there, responding to my prodding, sending along feelings that seemed vaguely like questions.

Primitive communications between two very different creatures.

Did I feel as weird to him as he felt to me?

Just as I was drying myself off and making sure every trace of that gold paint was gone, he’d done something I could only liken to stroking that thread between us. The resulting tumult of feeling had pulled a strangled cry from my throat and nearly sent me jumping out of my skin. I didn’t know if I actually had anything like a soul, but that gesture touched it, painful and pleasurable in ways I’d never felt before. It disappeared quickly, leaving me trembling and aching, and I knew he felt my response because a glimmer of shock reverberated through our connection.

I was left standing in front of the bathroom mirror for minutes, trying to calm myself, when I felt another soft tug.

Come? it seemed to ask.

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