Withoutwaiting another second,Ipulled up her pajama tank.Mybeauty lay before me, eyes hooded and full of fire.
“You’rebeautiful.”Islid down and kissed and licked her breasts, caressing each one and capturing each tantalizing hard peak in my mouth.
Shearched up, releasing breathy sighs and encouraging me to continue.Ikissed down her soft belly and along the top of her pajama shorts.Islid them down her hips, and she raised her lower body to help me.OnceItossed them aside, her feminine aroma stirred me.Icouldn’t wait to taste her again.Shewatched me with anticipation, her chest rising and falling in rapid succession.
Ibent down and licked her inner thighs, her scent making me raging hard.Abreathy moan fell from her lips.Ilicked up each thigh, circling the side of her sweet pussy, working her up as she squirmed on my bed.
“Hugo.”Hervoice was husky.
Yes,Iwas teasing her and driving myself crazy.Unableto wait any longer,Irelieved us both whenIlicked her full length.Sheshuddered and exhaled on a long moan before her body sagged deeper into the bed.
WhileItasted my sweet mate,Islipped a finger inside her tight channel.Shewrithed on my bed, moaning.AsIstroked her, she released breathy moans that sounded like the sweetest of music, soundsIburned to memory with the scent and taste of her.Whenshe reached up and brushed my horns with a delicate touch, it stirred such a bolt of desire to shoot through me, andIalmost came then.Noway, not before bringing my mate to sweet ecstasy.Notbefore burying myself into her tight flesh.
Icontinued to work her, driving us both crazy as she climbed closer to her peak.Shelet out incoherent sounds as she alternated between grasping at the sheets and at me.Thenher entire body arched and stiffened as she cried out my name.
Aftershe peaked,Iclimbed over and slid the tip of my cock inside her, easing in at a relaxed pace so she could adjust.Herbody didn’t resist as much as the first time, as she was relaxed and so wet.Ipushed in slowly, inch by inch, so she could accommodate me, and she continued to pulse around me as she came down from her climax.Thefirst of many more.
Oncein as deep asIcould go,Ipaused, starstruck with the sense of being with my mate once more.I’dalmost lost her and would never take a second with her for granted.
Slowly,Ibegan to push in and out of her, and soon she began to move with me.AsIthrust harder, she stroked my horns again, andIgroaned in pleasure.
“Ilove when you do that.”
“Ilove to touch you,” she replied in a breathy voice. “Iwant you.”
“Fuck, yes,”Irumbled in agreement.
“No,Imean more than that.”Sheran her fingers through my hair. “Iwant to be your mate,Hugo.”
Ipulled away just enough to look into her eyes. “Doyou mean it?”
“Yes.”Shesmiled. “Weshould take our time getting to know each other better.I’myours.Yourmate.”
Yourmate.Anya’swords replayed in my head.I’dnever heard anything so magnificent.Herwords ignited such elation in me,Ikissed her hard.Shesaw me in my true form, and her acceptance meant the world to me.Everything.
Mythrusting grew more urgent, the edges of my climax heating my muscles.Theyhardened asIrocked in and out of her.
“You’remine,”Igrowled.
“Yesss,” she hissed, the word barely audible among the heavy sounds of our moans.
“Sayit again.”Ithrust harder into her, flesh slamming against flesh.
“I’myours,Hugo,” she cried out.
Apart of me that had been yearning for so many months had finally been fulfilled, andI’dnever felt so content.AsIpounded into her, adrenaline surged through my veins.Iroared as the climax ripped through me, seemingly endless asIemptied every last drop inside my wondrous little human.Mybrave witch.
Ilowered my forehead to touch hers and vowed wordsI’dbeen too afraid to admit before now. “Ilove you,Anya, my mate.Youhave my soul eternally.”
Sheran her delicate fingers over my back, where my wings were retracted. “Ilove you too,Hugo.Mygargoyle.Mylover.”Afteranother breath, she added, “Mymate.”
Sheclaimed me, asI’dclaimed her.I’dnever felt such elation or fulfillment.I’dnever let her go.
CHAPTER17
ANYA
Afew weeks had passed since the incident with the phoenix.Hugohad learned from theStoneSentriesthatCalixwas indeed the sorcerer who’d manipulated dark magic to acquire more power, including that to shift into a phoenix.Theone small fear with him choosing that form was whether he’d be able to regenerate, like the legendary phoenix.
