Mature Content for the whole chapter, so skip if not your thing.
Alex
Nora was wrapped around him. Their lips and tongues entangled between them. It almost hurt to do this, to not be able to assure her that things would work out for them. Of everything he could give her in the world, the one thing he could never promise aloud was that they could be joined as one under the gods.
That was, by far, the greatest travesty.
Nora pulled away from him and sat up in the bed. Immediately, Alex hated the breaking of contact. The loss of her body touching his.
“Nora, what are you do—”
The words stopped as he watched her wordlessly finger the straps of her nightgown down her shoulders. She watched him as she slowly pulled them down her sides, revealing her bare breasts.
“Nora…”
