The bond pulsed warmly in response, and Eve felt energy flow through it....not feeding, exactly, but connection. Reassurance. The permanent knowledge that she was theirs and they were hers and nothing would ever change that fundamental truth.
"How do you feel?" Raphael asked. "Beyond the mark. The bond completion...that's a significant magical event. Your body and mind processed something enormous while you were unconscious."
Eve took inventory honestly. The ache in her muscles. The tender satisfaction between her thighs. The bone-deep contentment that had nothing to do with physical sensation and everything to do with the bond humming steadily in the back of her consciousness.
And underneath all of that...power.
More power than she'd had before. Considerably more. The completed bond had done something to her energy reserves, had amplified them in ways she was only beginning to perceive.
