Warning: Mature content in the chapter
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Before Aurora could help it, her eyes closed on their own accord. Yet the kiss she was waiting for never came, instead, she felt his other hand tracing the waistline of her skirt before he undid the knot keeping it in place.
"This is where we began," Zale whispered the world's softly. "I would have you again in the place where I first held you. Where I first knew I would burn the world to keep you."
The skirt was pulled away from her body, leaving her bare waist down. He unlaced her bralet with hands that did not tremble, though his breath had gone rough. The furs were warm under her back when he laid her down.
He looked at her for a long moment - her bare body, the pearls' glow falling to silver her skin. The blue in his eyes turned a shade darker as he finally allowed his desire for her take over him.
"You are the most beautiful thing the sea has ever kept," he said before leaning down.
