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" I want to do a transfer with you. I want you to feel what he is feeling right now without the worry of a lie as he can not lie to me. I want you to feel what he feels for you. Can you do this for me?" Raphel asked.
" How can it work? You aren't my marker or my mate." Winter said.
" I don't know if it will but I want to try. My hope is that it will work because you have so much of Jerry's blood in you. I feel a slight pull to you and there have been times I have gotten flashes of emotions that did not belong to my children or mate. I think they belong to you. I think that because you are Jerry's night child and mate I am able to pick up things from you." He said. When she looked uncertain, Raphel took her hand.
' I can break through your shields.' Jerry's voice went through her head, making her close her eyes. She held her breath.
" Is he talking to you?" Raphel asked.
" Just to tell me my shields are nothing." Winter snapped, looking at him again.
" They aren't nothing. He respects them that is why he hasn't broke them. He is trying to tell you things, be open with you." He said. " Something I think you need to think about is you have only been back together for a little over three months. You are nine months out of the change. You were apart from one another for six months. When you returned to him, I believe he was so grateful to have you back that he didn't think about the maker/child relationship. I think the two of you did little more then feed from each other and have sex. Am I right?" Winter blushed and looked away. He was right.
" We talked." She said softly, making him smile.
" When he told you he wanted to be a mated couple, a real mated couple, did you not wait until the night of your mating to ask him what would happen?" Raphel asked.
" Well when he asked me to be his mate I asked him what it meant." She said.
" But you didn't ask him how the ceremony was going to go, did you?" He asked. Again Winter blushed.
" After he asked me and I said yes, we got busy." She said quietly. He had asked, explained what being mated meant, she had said yes and he had carried her to their bed where they stayed most of the night that night.
" I don't think our Jerry meant to lie or deceive you. I believe he was so caught up in having you back, setting up your new life, and your upcoming mating that he couldn't think about anything. Does that make sense, My Darling?" Raphel asked gently.
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Jerry was laying in their bed again, close to dawn that night. He was on his left side, staring at her pillow again. He ran his hand over the pillow and the bed were she would usually be laying on. He felt a small slip in her shield suddenly. He rolled over onto his back and stared at the ceiling. Jerry closed his eyes as his hands came to rest against his stomach. He could feel her struggling with herself and he hated it.
' I...' Her voice started but paused.
' I'm here.' Jerry reassured her.
' I miss you.' He closed his eyes and squeezed his hands against his shirt.
' I miss you, too, Love.' He sent back.
' Do you think you could come to get me at sun set?' Jerry's heart jumped into his throat. ' I think we need to talk.'
' I could come to you in your dream, we could talk then.' He offered.
' I want to talk in person.' Winter said. A few seconds went by before she spoke again. ' But if you want to enter my dream, you can.' Jerry smiled and opened his eyes.
' Then hurry and go to sleep, please. I need to see you.' He said. Winter's laugh was soft and filled him. ' I love you, Winter, so much.' He hadn't meant to say it. He thought she wouldn't want to hear it yet but her sigh of content filled him.
' I love you...my Mate." Jerry brought his hands to eyes and rubbed them.
' God, say it again, please.' He begged her.
' I love you.' Winter said. He could feel her smile.
' And the other part.' He begged.
' My Mate.' She whispered.
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After the sun pulled her under, Winter found herself sitting on the couch in their house. Jerry was starting a fire in the fireplace. She loved it when they snuggled on the couch and talked in front of the fire. When it was burning good, he stood up and faced her with a small smile. He wanted to rush her and grab her, Winter could feel his need but he didn't. He walked over to her and sat down beside her.
" Hello." Jerry said.
" Hi.' Winter said. She reached her hand out to him. Jerry took it and moved closer to her. He brought it to his lips. He opened her hand and kissed the inside of her palm. Then he flattened it to his cheek. "It's like you're touching me lin real life instead of in a dream. I can actually feel you." He smiled with his eyes shut as he nestled his face into her hand.
" I haven't been thinking." He said, keeping his eyes shut. " I wasn't thinking. I was too wrapped up in being with you to sit you down and tell you everything I should have."
" I know. Raphel and I spoke." She said. He continued to rub his cheek against her hand.
" I'm sorry. This is all my fault." He said.
" Raphel and I did a transfer." Winter said. Jerry opened his eyes and nodded, still nestling into her hand.
" It worked then?" Jerry asked.
" Yes. Raphel said none of his night children's have ever mated with their children so he thinks that's why it worked. I saw you through his eyes. I felt what you have been feelings since we met." Winter said.
" Can you trust me, Love? I never meant to hurt you." He said. Winter brought her other hand up and let it rest against his shoulder. She moved closer to him.
" I know, I'm sorry I freaked out." Winter said softly. " I want to come home."
" I want you home." Jerry agreed. She smiled, making him smile while they looked at each other. It was his turn to touch her face. " You haven't been feeding well, Love. Have you?"
" I have been feeding a little. Raphel said I'm not taking enough but I am feeding." She said.
" You remember what happen at our first house when you didn't feed."
" I know I just haven't want too. Raphel said I'm depressed but not just from the fight but because we are apart." Jerry nodded.
" Mates aren't supposed to be apart from each other. We are drawn to each other, we need each other." He said. " I want you to feed from me as soon as I get to the house. We will go into your room and you drink. We don't have to have sex but you need to feed. It will strengthen you and make you feel better." Winter smiled and slipped her arms around his neck. Jerry grinned as he brought his hands to her sides. They hugged tightly.
" You and I know we are going to have sex." She said, making his grin spread. " We can't feed together without having sex."
" I'm not going to turn you down." He said, making her laugh. She kissed the side of his neck. " But we don't have too."
Winter kissed her way up his neck to his jaw to his cheek and ended up at his mouth. He tighten his hold on her while bring her into him more. Her mouth opened and he entered it with a groan. Her fingers brushed against his neck while they twisted around each other. Winter shifted her position at the same time Jerry laid back, pulling her on top of him.
" Can we be together?" She whispered, grinding herself against him. He was hot and hard.
" Hell yeah we can be." He said. Just as he said it, Winter's clothes were gone and his disappeared next. Winter pulled away and laughed down at him. " Something new to tell you, mated couples need sex from each other like they need blood."
" You're making that one up!" Winter accused playfully, making him laugh.
" No, I promise. We have been apart a week so we have a lot of sex to make up for." Jerry said.
" Then I guess we need to start now." She said.
Suddenly they were in their bed in the middle of the woods with the night sky over them. Jerry was sucking against her neck while he laid over her. Winter's hands were in the hair at the back of his neck. She only a second to stare at the beautiful landscape before he was inside of her and thrusting hard. Her eyes snapped shut, her head went back and she moaned. His breath went across her neck.
" I missed you." He whispered. Words were lost to her while he took her. " Shatter apart for me, Baby. Break apart around me." He didn't have to say another word to her. Winter was slammed down into the bed with the force of her orgasm. She squeezed her legs against his side, pulling his own out. He rushed into her through burst of hot seed.
When they were done, he kissed all over her face and neck. He muttered and whispered to her. She whimpered and answered him with tears in her eyes. New promises were made from both, new commitments were given and they both felt a sense of peace come over them. They talked together while they laid in the bed in the forest. After a while he pulled her up and to a waterfall he had created. They swam together, he held her close and took her again in the cool, clear water.
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" We go to him at sunset." Nickolas whispered to Giselle.
" His pain will bring his mate and maker." Giselle said.
" They both love her so much we will make them watch while I rape her." Nickolas whispered into her neck. Giselle smiled.
" Then I will drain her."