I leaned over him, placing a reverent kiss against his flesh. "Mine."
He nodded. "Yours." He let out a shaky breath and whispered, "I wish I could mark you, too."
"You're my fated mate," I said. "If you bite me when I bite you, it should take."
"But it'll hurt you!"
"Not for long." Human teeth were blunt and pinched like hell before they broke skin, but the mate bond was supposed to be orgasmic, and my meerkat healing would take over before he did any permanent damage.
"But—"
I interrupted him with a kiss, letting instinct rule. Logic would only confuse us.
Gabe tugged me closer, pulling on my ears and lifting his legs until he had me where he wanted me, with my cock sliding along the slick split between his ass cheeks. It caught on the rim of his channel, and he sucked in a breath. "Please," he whispered. "Now."
I raised up on an elbow, my gaze locked on his blown pupils and kiss-slick lips as I guided my cock to his hole with my free hand. Too late, I realized I should have prepped him for me. He'd told me he'd never been with an alpha, and my cock was a lot to take, naturally lubricating channel or not. I bucked my hips backward, but he circled his legs around my waist, pulling me down until his tight rim spread and let me in.
"I've been practicing with a knotted dildo for a week," he said. "Don't pull out now."
I groaned into his neck as I imagined him riding a silicone knot. "Did you enjoy it?"
"It wasn't as thick as yours," he said. "Left me wanting more."
I kissed over the spot I would mark, but it was too soon. Trailing kisses up his neck and along his jaw, I rolled my hips, working my way inside until my balls slapped against his ass.
"Move," Gabe said before I could catch my breath. "I need to feel it."
Unsure what "it" was, I pumped my hips, losing myself in the sensation of his channel squeezing around my cock like a hot, wet mouth. "You feel amazing."
His only responses were tiny whimpers when my cock grazed his prostate. I changed the angle until his whimpers became grunts, and then cries for more over the obscene squelching sounds our bodies made together.
I leaned up on my elbows, watching Gabe thrash beneath me with his eyes pinched closed and sweat dampening his hair. He looked lost in the best way. My chest felt too tight around my swelling heart.
I smoothed his hair back from his forehead and held him in place for a sloppy kiss. He kissed me back, equally frantic, each breath a long wordless moan as he neared the edge.
Too soon, my knot flared. I slipped a hand between us, scooping up some excess slick before sliding it over his straining cock, which had left a trail of sticky precome on my abs.
Gabe's eyes sprang open. He cried out as his cock kicked, and warm spurts of cum sprayed my torso and dribbled over my fingers. His channel constricted around me, and I tumbled into ecstasy, tucking my head against his neck as my cock spurted repeatedly, filling him with cum and locking it inside with my knot.
Twisting my head, I partially shifted so my snout full of sharp meerkat teeth could bite down on the flesh at the slope where his neck met his shoulder, leaving my distinctive alpha mark on him and binding us forever.
Gabe's cock kicked again when I returned to my human form, licking the trace of blood away from the already-healing mark. Then, I rolled onto my back, taking him with me, my handsclamped on his hips to avoid hurting him. Once he was securely on top of me, I bared my neck. "Mark me."
He hesitated for a second before diving and clamping onto my skin. It hurt for a moment, but then the bond tightened between us.
I didn't know which way was up or how long we stayed suspended in orgasmic bliss, but I never wanted to leave it. Our hearts beat as one, our thoughts aligned in harmony, and our bodies seemed to shatter apart and reform as one entity.
When my cock softened and slipped out of him, I still felt the connection between us, as though my body wasn't entirely my own. It belonged to him now, too.
Gabe flopped against my side, tucking his head in the crook of my arm and kissing my pec. "I have a way we could spend more time together," he drawled, "but you'll probably hate it."
"I won't," I said. "I'd do anything to see you more."
"Let's move in with your parents."
To be fair, I didn't hate the idea. "For you, anything."
I couldn't waituntil Sunday dinner to drop the news on my mom. For one, she'd never forgive me for waiting that long. For two, she would take it out on us by being aggressively cheerful for the first month, making it a living hell.
