“Come with me, Luca,” I pant. “Please, my alpha.”
He draws my bitten hand away from my breast and presses a kiss to his bite before sucking hard against the faint pink scars while driving into me.
I see stars. Bright, white-hot shooting stars.
I come, begging for his knot, and he thrusts into me with hard, quick strokes until I feel him release inside me. He eases me down over his knot while my orgasm is still fluttering through me, and the perfect stretch of him triggers another orgasm, sharp and sudden.
“Not done with you yet,” he growls, thrusting his hips up to meet mine, pressing his knot deeper.
I want to beg him to relent. I want to beg him to never stop.
“Touch yourself for me, princess.”
I whine and do as I’m told, as he grasps my hip in one hand, rocking me on his knot. He still holds my other hand in his, my bite pressed to his lips. He licks and sucks, teasing the double crescent moon scars.
My fingers jerk over my too-sensitive clit, and I’m not even sure Icancome again, but my alpha is determined.
“Fuck,” he groans as I begin to flutter around him. “Fuck, princess, you take my knot so beautifully. My mate.”
“Yours,” I gasp, as I crest, moving my fingers faster, rocking hard against him until I’m spent, until only aftershocks quake through me.
He rolls us until we’re on our sides and we twine our legs together, and even though we’ve both found our pleasure, even though our desire is sated, he kisses me deeply, his tongue stroking against mine.
“I can’t fucking get enough of you. Fuck, Juniper, we’remated.”
I nuzzle against him. “You’re mine, and I’m yours. Forever.”
Forever with this alpha is better than any shooting star in the world.
* * *
A tentative knocksounds at the door to my nest as we drowse half an hour later.
“Um,” Simon calls through the door, and I can hear him cringing, but I hear the urgency in his voice, too. “Junes? Luc?”
I kiss my mate once more, wrapping a sheet around my shoulders while I stand, and even though my beta is on the other side of the door, I can’t help but admire the alpha god, stretched out in my nest, tattoos painted across his arms and chest.
My mate smirks and nods to the door, and I open it a crack.
“Hey, so, um, Ireallydidn’t want to disturb you, but, um, I knew the main event was over?—”
Oh, saints. Did Cassian feel all ofthatthrough our bond?
I color, but Simon pushes onward.
“And the, uh, second event was over too. Look, I really didn’t want to bother you two. You just mated, but shit…”
“Simon, what is it? Are you okay? Is someone hurt?”
“I found it,” he says. “I found the facility.”
CHAPTER35
There’s coffee waiting for me and my new mate by the time we dress and get downstairs. I take my usual seat around our dining table and duck my head, a blush tinting my cheeks. It’s not as though I’m embarrassed that I’m mated to Luca, or even that we’d been heard. By now, I’ve gotten used to being both seen and heard by my men.
But Cassianfeltit.
I look up at him and grimace. “I didn’t know you would feel it.”
