The Elven King's Love by Devon Vesper

Author:Devon Vesper
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Magelight Press

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DUSTIN

Casersis’s thumb ghosted along my cheek. I stared into his gorgeous cobalt eyes, fascinated as every emotion that passed through Casersis, I could almost feel it by looking into those soulful eyes. I felt like I was falling into them but couldn’t look away, even as I pressed my cheek more firmly into Casersis’s hand.

Then shit went weird. Everything seemed to fall away, or stand still, or something. Everything stopped like someone flicked the switch on a time machine and stopped the stream and flow of time. I couldn’t make any sense out of it. I really couldn’t.

I also couldn’t move. I tried. I fought to blink, to move my fingers, anything. Nothing would work. And in my peripheral vision, it looked like the fire stopped crackling in the hearth, the flames in suspended animation. It looked like the trees outside the window stopped swaying with the autumn breeze. It looked like Casersis had stopped breathing.

What the fuck was happening?

An indescribable panic started to bubble up in my gut. Nothing would work. None of my muscles, none of my attempts to break eye contact with Casersis. Nothing. I wanted to scream, but nothing would come out. I couldn’t even open my mouth. I fought. Fought to blink. To move. But I was pinned in place by Casersis’s body, and by whatever force kept me from moving or breathing.

It hit me like a ton of bricks. Casersis had told me that just looking into each other’s eyes could initiate a soulbond if we were fated. We were bonding, and it terrified the ever-loving shit out of me. I couldn’t stop it, and I wasn’t sure I wanted to. But Casersis said he didn’t want it to happen on accident. He wanted it to be planned. Unfortunately, it looked like we’d failed there. It was both of our faults, too. I couldn’t blame him and didn’t want to. So, while the world held still for however long it would, I tried to keep the panic at bay and relax into it.

Then my solar plexus roared with a sudden heat that rivaled the surface of the sun. It rocketed up through my chest and made it feel like I was engulfed in a wildfire. Something blinded me, like lightning shooting between my eyes and Casersis’s. It punched a hole in my head, feeling like I got shot at close range by an ancient style pistol. Then suddenly, an explosion knocked the wind out of me as that electricity struck back, stronger than before, through my eyes, down my neck to that place in my abdomen just below my chest before forking out to my fingers and toes, and up through the crown of my head.

I worried that I might be having some kind of weird-ass elf-style heart attack. Did elves have heart attacks? I hoped the fuck not. Jesus, this hurt worse than falling two stories into that pile of dirt at a job site last year. Fuck.

The fire in the hearth roared back to life.

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