by Caris Roane
She sighed as she leaned into him. “I can tell that you’re here, you’re with me and you don’t want to be anywhere else. But I wanted you to have the option.”
“I love you for that. But now there is one more thing we need to do, and a question you’ll have to answer.”
She looked up at him. “What’s that?”
“Bond with me.”
She was never more surprised. “I thought we had.”
“We’re about halfway to the finish line. But there is a special hormone I can release while I’m biting down on your neck that will take us the distance.”
She experienced an involuntary shiver. “Oh. That sounds amazing. Let’s do it now.”
“Just as you asked me, I’ll ask you: Are you sure? Because the bond is permanent.”
Her first thought was to be flippant, and to offer a loud ‘hell, yeah’. But she chose instead to honor the wolf way of doing things. The new wolfish part of her sensed that what he asked was sacred. She cupped his face with both hands. “I want to be fully bonded to you more than anything in the world.”
Love filled his eyes and nothing would ever look more beautiful to her.
He made love to her after that and as promised released the mating hormone at the height of passion. She saw the heavens part and felt herself unite with Cole for all eternity.
She didn’t know what Five Bridges would have in store for them, but it no longer mattered. She didn’t care if they had five days or five hundred years together. She would live out her nights with the man she loved, and it would be wonderful.
The End
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EMERALD FLAME: The next story set in the world of Five Bridges will be the sixth book of The Flame Series and features a beautiful witch and a scarred alpha wolf. Read more about The Flame Series…
About the Author
Caris Roane is the New York Times bestselling author of thirty-nine paranormal romance books. Writing as Valerie King, she has published fifty novels and novellas in Regency Romance. Caris lives in Phoenix, Arizona, loves gardening, enjoys the birds and lizards in her yard, but encourages the scorpions to inhabit elsewhere. Her motto: Live the Fang!
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Have You Read These Books by Caris Roane
The Flame Series…
BLOOD FLAME – Book 1
AMETHYST FLAME – Book 2
DARK FLAME – Book 3
AMBER FLAME – Book 4
A TOUCH OF FLAME – Book 5
CHRISTMAS FLAME, A Holiday Novella
The Blood Rose Series…
BLOOD ROSE SERIES BOX SET, 1-2-3
EMBRACE THE DARK – Book 1
EMBRACE THE MAGIC – Book 2
EMBRACE THE MYSTERY – Book 3
EMBRACE THE PASSION – Book 4
EMBRACE THE NIGHT – Book 5
EMBRACE THE WILD – Book 6
EMBRACE THE WIND – Book 7
EMBRACE THE HUNT – Book 8
EMBRACE THE POWER – Book 9
The Blood Rose Time Travel Series…
A VAMPIRE’S SOFT EMBRACE – Book 1
A VAMPIRE’S EMBRACE – Book 2
The Blood Rose Tales…
BLOOD ROSE TALES BOX SET
To Peruse the Blood Rose Tales Separately…
TRAPPED – Tale 1
HUNGER – Tale 2
SEDUCED – Tale 3
Guardians of Ascension…
The Original Six Books Published by St. Martin’s Press
ASCENSION – Book 1
BURNING SKIES – Book 2
WINGS OF FIRE – Book 3
BORN OF ASHES – Book 4
OBSIDIAN FLAME – Book 5
GATES OF RAPTURE- Book 6
The Dawn of Ascension Novels, Self-Published by Caris Roane, as part of Guardians of Ascension
BRINK OF ETERNITY as part of VAMPIRE COLLECTION
THE DARKENING
The Rapture’s Edge Series as part of Guardians of Ascension
AWAKENING – Rapture’s Edge Book 1
VEILED – Rapture’s Edge Book 2
REVEALED – Rapture’s Edge Book 3
The Amulet Series…
WICKED NIGHT/DARK NIGHT (Boxed Set)
The Men in Chains Series, Published by St. Martin’s Press
BORN IN CHAINS – Book 1
CHAINS OF DARKNESS – Book 2
UNCHAINED – Book 3
SAVAGE CHAINS – A Separate Novel in the Same World
Find Caris at…
Her Website
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Guardians of Ascension Series – Warriors of the Blood crave the breh-hedden
Dawn of Ascension Series – Militia Warriors battle to save Second Earth
Rapture’s Edge Series – Militia Warriors battle to save Third Earth
Blood Rose Series – Only a blood rose can fulfill a mastyr vampire’s deepest needs
Blood Rose Tales – Short tales of mastyr vampires who hunger to be satisfied
Men in Chains Series – Vampires struggle to get free of their chains and save the world
The Flame Series – Hunky ‘Alter’ warriors battle for control of their world
The Amulet Series – Master vampires use special amulets to care for their tribes