The praise sent another spike of pleasure through me, my inner walls clenching around him, and I felt more than heard his groan of response. His hands guided my hips, helping me find the perfect angle, the perfect rhythm, his fingers digging into my flesh with bruising intensity.
"Faster." The command was rough, desperate, his control finally starting to crack. "Need you to go faster." I obeyed, my pace increasing until the sound of skin slapping against skin filled the room, mixing with my broken cries and his harsh grunts. The wet sounds of our joining were obscene, slick and rhythmic, punctuated by the creak of the nest beneath us.
"Close—" I gasped, feeling the tension coiling tighter and tighter in my core. "Alpha— so close?—"
"Come for me." Jin-ho's thumb found my clit, pressing and circling with perfect precision. "Come with my name on your lips."
"Jin-ho!" I screamed his name as the orgasm crashed through me, my body convulsing around him, my vision whiting out as pleasure consumed everything. I felt him groan beneath me, felt his hips thrust up to meet mine, but through it all his eyes stayed locked on my face, watching me fall apart with something like reverence.
He didn't let me come down. Before the last tremors had faded, Jin-ho was moving — flipping us over in one fluid motion until I was beneath him, my legs wrapped around his waist,his body pressing me into the mattress. The change in position drove him even deeper, punching a cry from my lungs.
"My turn." Jin-ho growled against my ear, his voice barely recognizable — rough and raw and primal. "Kept my control long enough. Need to take you now. Need to make you mine."
His hips began to move — not the measured pace he'd maintained before, but something desperate, driving into me with a force that had the nest shaking beneath us. Each thrust hit deep, hitting spots that made me scream, my nails raking down his back hard enough to draw blood.
"Yes— alpha— yes—" I was babbling, lost to sensation, my omega singing with satisfaction. "More— harder— please—" Jin-ho gave me harder. His rhythm became punishing, his hips snapping against mine with a ferocity that stole my breath. I could hear myself screaming, could feel tears streaming down my face, but it all felt distant — overwhelmed by the pleasure crashing through me in endless waves.
"So long." Jin-ho groaned against my throat, his teeth grazing my pulse point. "Waited so long for this. Dreamed about this. Wrote songs about this. And the reality— god— you're more than I ever imagined."
"Alpha—" I couldn't form other words, could only gasp that single syllable over and over as he drove into me with increasing desperation.
"Going to knot you." Jin-ho's voice was strained, cracking. I could feel it now — the swell at the base of him, growing with each thrust, catching at my entrance. "Going to lock us together. Fill you up. Make you mine."
"Yes— please— need it—" I was beyond thought, beyond reason, my entire existence narrowed to the sensation of him inside me and the knot that was growing larger with each thrust. The first catch made me gasp, the stretch intense and overwhelming. The second catch held longer, the knot tugging atmy entrance before slipping past. Each thrust pushed it deeper, stretched me wider, pleasure and pain blurring together until I couldn't tell them apart.
"Almost—" Jin-ho groaned, his whole body trembling with strain. "Almost there— so close— you feel so fucking good?—"
With one final, powerful thrust, the knot locked inside me. The scream that tore from my throat was primal, raw, echoing off the walls of the nest room. My body convulsed around him, inner walls clenching rhythmically around the massive knot as orgasm after orgasm ripped through me. I could feel every throb of him, every pulse of release as he filled me, the warmth flooding my core in wave after wave.
"Jin-ho!" His name was the only thing I could say, the only thing that existed in my shattered mind. "Jin-ho, Jin-ho, Jin-ho?—"
"Mine." He groaned against my throat, his whole body shuddering. "My omega. Mine. Finally mine." The knot pulsed inside me, each throb sending another wave of pleasure through my oversensitized body. I was floating, drifting, completely overwhelmed by the sensation of being so full, so claimed, so complete.
"The bite." Jin-ho's voice was rough, wrecked, his lips brushing against the curve of my neck. "Need to claim you. Need to make you mine forever."
"Yes." I tilted my head without hesitation, baring my throat to him. "Mark me, alpha. I'm yours."
His teeth found the curve of my neck — a different spot than Hwan had claimed, another secondary point that flared with sensation as his teeth broke skin. The pain was sharp and bright, and then pleasure crashed through it, transforming it into something transcendent. The bond snapped into place — a deep violet thread joining the golden one already humming in my chest. Jin-ho's emotions flooded through me: longing finallyfulfilled, devotion so deep it took my breath away, and a fierce, protective love that made my heart ache. I could feel him now, feel everything he felt, and it was overwhelming and perfect and exactly right.
Mine,my omega purred.Alphas. Ours.
"Now you." Jin-ho pulled back, his amber eyes wet with tears, and tilted his head to bare his neck to me. "Claim me, Keira. Write me into your soul."
I surged up as much as the knot would allow — the shift making us both gasp — and sank my teeth into his neck. The taste of copper and salt and Jin-ho flooded my mouth, and I felt the bond double, strengthen, become something unbreakable. Jin-ho cried out, his knot pulsing inside me, another wave of pleasure crashing through us both. When I released him, breathing hard, his neck bore my mark — teeth indentations already bruising purple, blood welling in the deepest punctures.
"Look." Jin-ho whispered, holding up his left wrist. The teal flower that had been waiting, unfinished, was now complete — fine lines tracing every petal, every leaf, every detail of the delicate branch. The bond had finished the soulmate mark.
"It's done." I breathed, reaching for my own collarbone. I couldn't see it, but I knew — the fifth flower, the violet one closest to my heart, had gained its fine lines too. Jin-ho's flower. Complete.
"Forever." Jin-ho pressed his forehead to mine, still locked inside me, his amber eyes shining with tears. "I'm yours forever now."
"And I'm yours." I whispered back, my thumb tracing the bite mark on his neck. "My alpha."
"My omega." He pressed a kiss to my lips — soft and reverent, tasting of salt and copper and claiming. "My mate."
We lay tangled together as the knot slowly released, Jin-ho pressing gentle kisses to every inch of skin he could reach. Theviolet thread pulsed warm and steady beside the golden one, two bonds now thrumming in my chest like a heartbeat.
"Rest." Jae-won's voice, steady as always. "The next wave will come soon." Even as the words registered, I felt the heat stirring again — building slower this time, but no less inevitable. I had two bonds now, two golden threads anchoring me, but there were still three more waiting.
