"Eyes on me, love."
I watched our joining for a while, allowing it to turn me on more than it should have. It felt naughty to look. Technically, I was obeying even if I got the sense he meant it was his eyes I was supposed to be watching. He lifted my chin with a gentle finger.
“That, mate, is how I knew you were mine. When you looked at me just like that, there wasn’t a chance in the realms above or below I would let you go. I will guard your life, your trust, with everything I have.”
“And I could never be afraid of you because of that, love.” I wanted to make a joke because the depth of my emotion sat uncomfortably in my chest, but I let the feelings swirl round with the heat and sensation his dick stroked into me. There was only one thing to do with all that discomfort—tip us both over the deep end with my scariest move yet.
I leaned in to whisper in the shell of his ear. “Let me bite you.”
That spasmed him hard inside me.
“Viper. Don’t play with me like that when I’m balls deep inside you.”
I nibbled on his neck and his sucking breath told me everything I needed to know. He wanted this as badly as I did, and he was being too much of an honorable champion to take it.
“If you don’t tell me how, I will end up hurting you like the monster I am.”
That set his eyes to glowing amber. “Your dragon knows by instinct. She will?—”
I do.I reared back and struck deep with more than my human teeth. The taste of his skin, honey on my tongue. My dragon left her mark on half his body, like the giant beast took him in her jaws and plunged its teeth into my bear. It didn’t seem like it hurt. In fact, Ward’s seed poured into me as he helplessly continued to pump through his orgasm. My soul filled up with light. Better than hanging with Veretis.
When sanity came back into his eyes, a low growl filled the campsite. His bear made his presence known in the bond. Ward pinned me to the cushion. Chest heaving like he couldn’t wait anymore.
“Oh, little viper. You’re in trouble now.”
My mouth formed an ‘o’ because when he rose to bite me back, his cock slid home, jolting pleasure straight into my spine. His bear encompassed my shoulder, chest, and neck. I was right. It didn’t hurt. Pure love poured into my body until both our monsters had marked each other.
The bond bound every part of us together until we were both climaxing again in a haze of light and love. I clung to Ward as we fell back into the nest, working to catch our breath.
“Better than a wedding,” I mumbled.
I lay half asleep when something rumbled through me. The bond breathed as it never had before and it swept me up in its jaws.
“Ward?” I squeaked.
“Yes, love?” He refrained from touching me. The call of the bond was already so strong it overwhelmed me at the slightest brush of the cushions. Godds, just looking at him devastated me. His lickable muscles were irresistible. I was on fire inside and out with the greatest need I had ever experienced. I’m pretty sure Ward’s elbow would get me off at that point.
“Why do I feel like I need to crawl inside you?”
He grinned his smug bear smile. “That’s the fully completed bond, wanting me to paint you with my release and for you to douse my face with yours as many times as physically possible.”
I squirmed in place, hand going between my thighs. “Why did you keep this slut magic from me? We could have been doing this the whole quest? Is this some bear thing?”
He removed my hand, drawing my fingers into his warm mouth so he might taste me. I had never seen anything hotter in my life, and that was before he licked them clean. He said, “The benefits of being a shifter. Veretis blesses us when we seal a bond. And I tried to tell you.”
I shuddered. Ward’s pupils blew as wide as mine felt. “Less ‘I told you so’s’, more kisses.”
It wrapped itself around us—lightning streaking up my body. I kept eye contact with Ward this time and let him in. I was so wet it was effortless. The magic compounded his cock, stroking up and down my g-spot. My head dipped down, because I felt the edges of an orgasm already striking. I tried to keep eye contact, I really did, his eyes were some kind of beautiful, but I think my eyes were rolling back as he took my breast in hand, his hips lifting me off the cushions, his cock hitting the back of my brain. Then he stopped completely, and just as my toes started curling, he started again so fast I short-circuited. He was coming and the sound of his strangled desperation snapped against every nerve, pushing me over the edge. Ward elicited an orgasm so intense, it crested over my consciousness and crashed through every cell of my body.
"Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes!" I chanted in euphoric bliss, like I could summon demons.
I rocketed off into the sky, not shy about screaming around his absolutely stunning cock. He kept fucking through it with powerful strokes that milked my orgasm for a lifetime. I would die with him, firing every nerve ending I had into infinity. My orgasm finally released me from its jaws and I fell, a boneless mess, across his lap.
“Another.” Ward squeezed my breasts like he could just command another climax out of me.
“One second.” I panted, trying to click my nervous system online again.
“That’s it from the woman who saved the realms and shifted into the most powerful creature the Harrowlands has seen in a millennium?” he taunted.
