Rosalind blushed again, her cheeks blazing in a way that drew a smile from Vail.
“It is settled then,” Loren said to Rosalind and she nodded, and Vail nodded too. “You will take care of my brother while I deal with the council… you will take care of him?”
She smiled and touched Loren’s hand. “I will. I would never let anything happen to him. You can visit anytime you want… but alone… or with Olivia. Bleu isn’t allowed to come.”
Loren dipped his chin. “Agreed.”
Vail’s heart filled with light as he looked at his mate, his fair Rosalind, his Little Wild Rose, and saw the stunning depth of her love for him in her eyes and realised that his home truly was wherever she went. He would never part from her. They would always be together.
Just as destiny had desired.
Loren stood and squeezed his shoulder. “And when you marry, I shall crash your wedding.”
Vail chuckled, the sound so alien that it startled him, and apparently startled his brother too.
“You cannot crash what you will be invited to attend, Brother,” Vail said, brushing off how both Rosalind and Loren stared at him as if he had grown two heads, all because he had found his laugh again.
Rosalind had given it back to him.
His Little Wild Rose had given everything back to him.
His smile.
His laugh.
His heart.
She had filled his soul with light that held back the darkness and gave him the strength to keep fighting the beast within him.
She had shown him how to love again and how to live again.
She had given him everything.
She was his now, and he was hers.
And they would finally have their forever.
“Who says we’re getting married?” Rosalind said in a flat tone, the link between them calm and devoid of her emotions and her face a picture of seriousness. “I don’t recall you asking me to marry you.”
Vail growled, dragged her against him and kissed her hard to silence her.
Loren sighed and teleported from the room, leaving him alone with his mischievous witch.
She moaned into his mouth, wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him down on top of her, the ferocity of her kiss matching his passion. She nipped at his lower lip and he growled again, and pulled back before he gave in to the temptation to do the same to her, with his fangs.
Her blue eyes only held more temptation, the wide chasms of her pupils speaking of the desire he could feel in her now, flowing through their bond, demanding he kiss her again and satisfy her every need.
He lowered his head to do just that and she pushed a palm against his chest, stopping him. He growled at her.
“I thought you had something to ask me?”
Vail pressed his forehead to hers, his heart beating wildly in his chest, dark thoughts crowding the back of his mind. He squashed them and erased them, shoved them out of his head. This was no trick. This was no ploy to lure him into lowering his guard so she could hurt him. This was a reach for him and for reassurance, and he would give that to her and mean every word that he said so she could feel it in him and know he spoke from his heart.
“Little Wild Rose… fair Rosalind… I love you… my perfect, brave, strong and beautiful ki’ara. Be mine forever.”
She wrinkled her nose. “Forever. I like the sound of that.”
“It is ours, Ki’ara.” He pressed a kiss to the tip of her nose and she smiled up at him, her blue eyes sparkling with stars.
She tunnelled her fingers into his hair, brushing the points of his ears and sending a hot shiver down his spine, and slowly drew him back down to her, a playful smile teasing her lips.
“I will be yours, Vail, because I love you… my perfect, courageous, powerful and handsome elf prince.” She pulled him closer still, until their lips brushed as she spoke in a low whisper, tormenting him and making him ache to kiss her. “What was it you said before, back in the woods after we shared blood? Mine now.”
He growled and finished it for her before seizing her lips in a kiss that relayed every drop of his love for her.
A love that would never die.
“Mine forever.”
The End
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Felicity Heaton is a New York Times and USA Today best-selling author who writes passionate paranormal romance books. In her books, she creates detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action, intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot demons!
If you're a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter, Larissa Ione and Christine Feehan then you will enjoy her books too.
If you love your angels a little dark and wicked, her best-selling Her Angel romance series is for you. If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm romance series or any of her stand alone vampire romance books. If you’re looking for vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and erotic then try her Vampire Erotic Theatre romance series. Or if you like hot-blooded alpha heroes who will let nothing stand in the way of them claiming their destined woman then try her new Eternal Mates series. It’s packed with sexy heroes in a world populated by elves, vampires, fae, demons, shifters, and more.
In 2011, five of her six paranormal romance books received Top Pick awards from Night Owl Reviews and Forbidden Blood was nominated as Best PNR Vampire Romance 2011 at The Romance Reviews. In 2012, she was awarded the GraveTells Author of the Year Award, and Heart of Darkness was announced as a 2013 Epic Ebook Awards finalist in the Paranormal Romance category. Many of her books receive five star reviews from readers and review sites alike.
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PARANORMAL ROMANCE BOOKS BY FELICITY HEATON
Stories in the Eternal Mates romance series
Book 1: Kissed by a Dark Prince
Book 2: Claimed by a Demon King
Book 3: Tempted by a Rogue Prince
Book 4: Hunted by a Jaguar (Coming in 2015)
Stories in the Vampire Erotic Theatre romance series
Book 1: Covet
Book 2: Crave
Book 3: Seduce
Book 4: Enslave
Book 5: Bewitch
Book 6: Unleash
Stories in the Her Angel romance series
Book 1: Her Dark Angel
Book 2: Her Fallen Angel
Book 3: Her Warrior Angel
Book 4: Her Guardian Angel
Book 5: Her Demonic Angel
Book 6: Her Wicked Angel
Book 7: Her Avenging Angel (Coming in 2014)
Book 1: Prophecy: Child of Light
Book 2: Prophecy: Caelestis & Aurorea
Book 3: Prophecy: Dark Moon Rising
Book 3.1: Spellbound
Book 3.5: Reunion
Book 4: Seventh Circle
Book 5: Winter's Kiss
Book 6: Hunter's Moon
Book 7: Masquerade
Book 8: Hunger
Books 1-3 are also available in one anthology ebook: Prophecy Trilogy
Stories in the
In Heat romance series
Book 1: In Heat
Book 2: In Heat: Mating Call
Stand alone paranormal romance books
Blood and Snow
Love Immortal
Ascension
Forbidden Blood
Heart of Darkness
Vampire for Christmas
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
About the Author
Paranormal Romance Books by Felicity Heaton
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