Total pages in book: 24
Estimated words: 21858 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 109(@200wpm)___ 87(@250wpm)___ 73(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 21858 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 109(@200wpm)___ 87(@250wpm)___ 73(@300wpm)
I blinked at her in shock, trying to wrap my head around what was happening. Wondering if it could possibly be true. “I thought that was all just a bunch of fairy-tale bullshit.”
“If only it were that simple.” She shook her head with a sigh. “Except then I wouldn’t have been here to meet you, and I never would’ve known what I was missing.”
I didn’t understand what she meant by that but didn’t think to ask her to explain because I had bigger things on my mind.
“You really shift into a unicorn? With a magical horn that can heal people? And you can choose your fated mate?” I rasped, my heart racing so hard that it felt as though it would beat its way out of my chest.
She nodded, her lips curving into an understanding smile. “I really shift into a unicorn. When I’m in that form, my horn does have healing properties, but not in the way that most people expect. I can even draw on that power a little as a human and imbue it into a healing hug. And not only can I choose my fated mate…I just did. You.”
She was the answer to my every dream and prayer. But I was afraid to believe what this gorgeous woman was telling me. “This better not be a fucking dream. I’m not sure I could survive missing out on the chance of forever with you.”
6
CRESSIDA
My mom had told me that my inner animal would know when the time was right to claim a mate, but I hadn’t understood how that was possible when there wasn’t a man out there who was fated for me. The last thing I ever wanted to do was steal someone from another woman by making them mine, but an instinct deep inside me had somehow known that Aaron belonged to me before I even learned that he’d been rejected by the woman who was supposed to have been his.
With his dark hair and eyes, tall body bulging with muscles, strong jawline, and plump lips, there was no denying that Aaron was hot enough to turn human female’s heads. But it was the pain in those brown eyes of his that called to me.
I made the choice to claim Aaron as my fated mate before I even realized what was happening. My heart and soul knew that he was meant to be mine.
“Nope, this is very real,” I said, my hand trailing down his arm, his biceps flexing as my fingers ran over each rope of muscle. Then I pinched him so he’d know that he wasn’t dreaming. The slight sting was enough to ease his fears, and his lips crashed to mine as he took me in his strong arms.
I gasped into his mouth, and my whole body shivered against his.
I was warm. Protected.
I had found my fated mate. My forever. Finally.
Aaron’s lips didn’t even break from mine as he lifted me off my feet as though I weighed no more than a feather, carrying me out of Keane and Laina’s kitchen.
I didn’t even know where he planned to take me. Nor did I care. I was drunk on his touch as I let my body float against his. Feeling every part of the hard lines of his muscular frame against mine.
Then his lips quickly pulled from my mouth, and I immediately missed his touch.
“Can’t take you here in the alpha’s house, sweetness. We’ve gotta get to my cabin,” he growled, adjusting my body so I was pressed against the wall as he quickly opened the front door.
“Yes, please. But you know I can walk,” I protested as he scooped me up again, already trudging forward.
“Not when I can take care of you,” he grunted, still going forward.
Twining my arms around his neck, I etched the moment into my memory. The feel of his arms cradling me against his chest. The sun shining down on us as my lips grazed Aaron’s cheek. The snow crunching under his boots as he carried me to his home. Our home now.
He groaned, shifting me against him so my legs wrapped around his upper thighs and his bulge pressed against my belly button. “You’re making me want to take you right here.”
He felt so big against me. I wasn’t sure how I would ever even fit his hard length inside me. I was more than willing to find out, though.
“Why don’t you?” I whispered, running my tongue down his earlobe, desire coursing through my veins for the first time in my life.
He shivered but kept going, already at the front porch of his cabin. “Because this moment deserves a bed.”
As soon as Aaron pushed the door open, his lips were back on mine, sucking the air from my lungs and my soul.
This was really happening.
I’d dreamed about finding the perfect man to claim as my mate for so long, and now this was it. Aaron was mine.