The alpha’s body jerked with surprise.‘That is so strange! But it’s so cool too!’
I grinned, loving the way his words seemed to spill out of him. Before our conversations had always been the most stilted because he struggled with ASL, so it was like I was unlocking a whole new facet of Ranieri’s personality.
‘Just wait until everyone starts talking at once,’I told him with a chuckle.‘It gets really overwhelming really quick.’
‘I can imagine,’Ranieri replied with a disbelieving laugh.‘I still can’t believe I can actually hear your voice. It’s beautiful.’
I shivered with pleasure at the compliment, leaning back into his chest as he finally released his mouth from my shoulder.
‘Cini, look at me for a second,’he said, gentle hands turning my face so I could look over my shoulder at him.
‘I love you and I’m sorry I’ve been such a stubborn ass.’
Tears burned in the corner of my eyes and I tried in vain to blink them away.
‘What changed your mind?’I asked, but before he could answer another clenching heat cramp reminded me that I was still very much in heat.
Ranieri, now feeling the pain I was feeling down our freshly created bond, pulled my back flush with his chest, the length of his cock sliding up in between my thighs.‘I couldn’t imagine living my life without you in it. I realized there wasn’t a future for me if I didn’t have you and our pack.’
Ranieri slid back and forth, his cock becoming soaked with the ridiculous amount of slick that seemed to be leaking from my body thanks to the heat.
I gasped as the ridged head brushed past my clit.
Then he was banding his arms around me, one above my breasts and the other underneath as his hips shifted back enough so that he could notch his cock as my soaked entrance and begin to slowly push inside.
‘Let me know if I do this too roughly, Cin,’Ranieri said as he rested his forehead on the nape of my neck right over Nico’s bondmark.‘I think these heat pheromones are driving me into a rut.’
I didn’t care how hard he thrusted inside of me, as long as he did it.
Ranieri pushed me forward until my face was pressed into the sheets and he was hunched over me.
It felt. So. Damned. Good.
The motion seemed to stoke the flames that had been steadily licking up my skin ever since I’d awoken to Dante trying to make me drink water and I was lost to it as Ranieri continued to thrust with abandon.
As we writhed together amongst the sheets which were steadily becoming soaked with our combined scents, Ranieri pressed kisses down my spine, his facial hair creating a scratchy friction that made me shiver.
Before I could even register it, I was coming and my back arched underneath him as I clenched down around his long cock.
‘This, Luscinia,’Ranieri purred into my mind once the spasming in my legs stilled enough for him to start moving again.‘Is just the beginning.’
Twenty-Four
“How’s our girl doing?” I asked an hour later as we made our way back into the room with baskets of what we would need to ride out Cini’s heat.
Truthfully, it was probably for the best that Ranieri took the first shift. It gave us time to go through the house and unpack our supplies and to make sure everything was secure.
No one knew where we were, but I still wasn’t going to chance it after letting my guard down on the island.
Cini’s heat would put us out of commission for at least a few days, which meant that our security systems would need to do the bulk of the protection.
‘She’s fine,’Ranieri said, his voice sounding exhausted even inside of his head.‘Felt like she tried to wear my cock bloody, but she settled down for a nap once I knotted her.’
Cini was currently sprawled out across Ranieri’s chest, her head tucked into the crook of his neck as she slept.
I grinned at him.‘Congrats on joining the mental group chat. I’ll show you how to control it later so you don’t have Nico in your head all of the time.’
‘That’s offensive,’Nico’s voice joined the foray as he put down the basket of meats, cheeses, and fruits on ice that we’d prepped to eat so we wouldn’t have to leave the room too much.‘I don’t talkallof the time.’
