“Say you’re mine,” I demand, pulling back only to drive into her again.
“Yours,” she gasps, her head falling back against the stone. “Only yours.”
The words unlock something primal in me. I set a punishing pace, each thrust driving her higher up the wall, the sound of our bodies meeting echoing through the room. She meets me stroke for stroke, her nails raking down my back hard enough to draw blood.
“More,” she commands breathlessly. “Harder. Please, Kier.”
I give her what she wants, what we both need. This isn’tgentle or romantic—it’s claiming, pure and simple. The desperate hunger of two people who’ve found their perfect match and refuse to let anything stand between them.
Her first orgasm hits without warning, her body clenching around me as she cries out. But I don’t slow, don’t give her time to recover. I carry her to the bed, never breaking our connection, and lay her down beneath me.
“Turn over,” I order, my voice rough with command.
She obeys without question, rising to her hands and knees, presenting herself to me with a trust that makes my chest tight. From this angle, I can see everything—the elegant curve of her spine, the perfection of her ass, the evidence of her arousal glistening between her thighs.
“Beautiful,” I murmur, running my hands over her skin. “So fucking perfect.”
I enter her again, this position letting me go even deeper. The angle has her gasping, pressing back against me for more. I give it to her, setting a rhythm that has the bed frame creaking with each thrust.
“Is this what you wanted?” I ask, my hands gripping her hips hard enough to leave marks. “To be taken? Claimed? Owned?”
“Yes,” she pants. “Yes, gods, yes.”
I can feel her building toward another peak, her body tensing beneath me. This time, when she comes, I let myself follow, buried deep inside her as we both shatter.
But we’re not done. Not even close.
Before she can catch her breath, I’m moving again, rolling us so she’s straddling my hips. Her eyes are glazed with pleasure, her lips swollen from my kisses, and she’s never looked more beautiful.
“Your turn,” I tell her, hands spanning her waist, my cock already rock hard once more. “Show me how much you want this.”
She doesn’t need to be told twice. Rising up on her knees, she sinks down on my cock with agonizing slowness, taking me inch by inch until I’m fully seated inside her. The view is incredible—her head thrown back, breasts bouncing as she begins to move, the place where we’re joined slick and swollen.
“That’s my good girl,” I encourage, watching her find her rhythm. “Take what you need.”
She rides me with increasing confidence, her movements becoming more desperate as another orgasm builds. When she’s close—so close I can feel it in the tremor of her thighs—I flip us again, driving into her with renewed intensity.
“Now,” I growl against her throat. “Come for me now.”
This time, when she breaks apart beneath me, I sink my teeth into her shoulder at the exact moment of her climax. The mating bite—claiming her as mine in the most primal way possible.
She gasps, then leans forward, sinking her own teeth into my neck.
The shadow of the bond that was already there snaps into place with the force of a lightning strike.
Suddenly, I can feel everything she feels—the echoes of her orgasm still pulsing through her, the overwhelming love and satisfaction and rightness of being claimed. Her emotions flood through me. Relief, joy, a bone-deep contentment the likes of which I’ve never experienced.
And underneath it all, her wolf finally settles, recognizing her mate.
“I can feel you,” she gasps, her eyes wide with wonder. “Inside my head, in my heart. I can feel everything.”
“Good,” I murmur, licking the mating bite closed. “You’ll never be without me now.”
The truth of it rolls through our connection—this isn’t just physical joining anymore. We’re mated, bonded, two halves of the same whole. I can feel her wonder at the connection,the way it settles something restless that’s lived inside her for years.
Mine,my wolf says with deep satisfaction.Finally.
Ours,her wolf responds, and the rightness of it makes us both shudder.
