“Shit.” Her eyes widened. “I’m so sorry, I just got lost in the heat, and I wanted to bite you so fucking badly. I couldn’t control myself.”
The way my heart leaped around my chest was downright schoolgirl giddy, and I felt a tad ridiculous. But I couldn’t helpit. Hearing Flora’s words did something to me. I couldn’t deny I’d wanted the exact same thing. I’d wanted to claim her, to mark her, to let the entire world know that she wasmine. I was just having a hard time believing this was real.
I mean, I was me, after all, and I’d… heard the opposite about myself a fair amount over the years.
Still, this was so new, and we had hardly discussed how all this was going to work, how we felt about each other. Of course, I knew how I felt about Flora. It was no secret that I was obsessed—not to my pack mates, anyway. And they were in just as deep, especially Spencer. But Flora had only recently worked out what was going on, learned that we’d been keeping an eye on her, and now her stalker had broken into her apartment and tampered with her suppressants.
That’s what had gotten us here in the first place.
“I understand what you mean, but…” I looked at her, running my gaze all over Flora’s face as we reclined in the bed, still united, still tangled in each other. “… are you sure this is what you want? We haven’t known each other for long, and there is so much going on. I’d understand if you didn’t mean to?—”
“I meant to,” she said simply, her eyes still glassy with heat. “You’re mine…”
Every cell in my being felt so full. I took Flora’s face in my hands, lowering my forehead to hers, and breathed her in. I’d known I wanted Flora since the beginning. I’d known I was a goner when it came to her within seconds. Realizing that she actually felt that way about me, too, was a miracle I never would have expected.
“You’re incredible, you know that, right?” Flora chuckled, and I stared into her eyes.
She smiled, tilting her chin up as her eyes closed playfully. Itook advantage, meeting her with a kiss. It was chaste at first, but slowly shifted, becoming a slow, intimate dance. I needed to taste her, to show her how much this mattered to me. There was no denying how much I enjoyed this, having my sweet, feisty omega wrapped around me, knot and all, and sliding my tongue across hers.
This was perfect.
My cock, which had never truly stopped responding to Flora, twitched inside her, even more alive and hard than ever. A warm, rising tide of arousal crept up my spine, and I draped an arm around Flora, pulling her even more tightly against me as we kissed. The room was quiet, aside from the sounds of our connection, and I didn’t want it any other way.
Now that I was fully erect again, Flora moaned against my lips as I rocked her in my lap. She squeezed around me, my knot aching in the best way as it remained snuggled inside her. As we moved in a pointed, gradual rhythm, Flora leaned back just a hair, resting her forehead against mine.
“Fill me up,” she whispered, and I growled in response, then Flora gasped as I thrust into her pussy a bit harder. “God… you feel so good inside me.”
“You feel like heaven itself, my omega.”
Warmth rose in the air around us, nearly as thick as Flora’s perfume, and I sucked in every lungful I could of her sweet honey-rose scent. I never wanted that smell to go away. I wanted to wear it on my skin for the rest of time, smell it in the apartment, in my car, on my clothes.
Everywhere.
“Bear,” Flora moaned, and I smoothed my hands over her hair and back, then around to her front, finding her breasts and brushing my thumbs over her nipples. “Oh God… yes. It’s so good. I’m so close.”
“I want to feel you, Flora. I want to make you feel incredible.” I pumped up and down, our pace still unhurried but purposeful. I used one hand to scoop under her ass, helping Flora to ride my cock, my knot rubbing inside her and already throbbing with need.
I nuzzled into her neck as I held her against me, dragging my tongue along the skin there. Flora’s hand came down over mine on her breast, and she arched back, moving us into position right over the bite mark I’d given her.
“Again. Bite me again.”
I didn’t hesitate, wrapping my teeth around her gorgeous skin, and I bit down gently, just enough to stimulate the mark. A rush of ecstasy drilled through our bond. It was mind-blowing, and in seconds, I was coming, filling my precious omega up yet again.
“Yeeesss…”
She surged around me, squeezing every drop out of me as she found her own release. We swirled through this land of bliss and connection, everything feeling magnified and intense. The bond I had wished for, hoped for, and dreamed of was so intense, it made my mind spin.
My climax felt as if it lasted for an hour or more, but I didn’t care how much time passed. I was thrilled to be in the seemingly never-ending moment with Flora, the two of us riding the high until we stilled, holding each other as contented sleep rushed in.
Chapter 37
Flora
“Ifeel like I should be apologizing to you,” I whispered as Bear led me into the shower. After turning on the water, he held me out of its reach for a moment, checking that it was warm enough before letting me step under the spray.
“What on earth do you have to apologize for?” he asked.
I pointed at the bite mark on his neck. “I instigated the bond. I essentially trapped you.”
