“I have hungered for you for every moment that I searched for you, and now that you’re here, I will never have enough power to let you go again.” He leaned forward, his lips pressing soft, searing kisses along my collarbones, up my throat, until his breath was hot against my ear. “It was you,” I whispered. “You are the only thing that kept me alive, the thing I clung to desperately through our bond whether I was imagining it or not. I only had you, and it was the only thing I needed.”
