“Oh,yesss!” she cried out, her spine arching, her eyes shutting as her orgasm exploded, hauling her into incredible pleasure…
By the dark stars!She was perfect. So damn beautiful. Her head flung back, her skin slick with sweat, glistening like warm honey in the firelight—lightning arcing all over them.
And his. Forever.
He cupped her breasts, lightly thumbed her nipples, and her body shuddered as her core fisted his dick like a vise. Need garroted him, his entire being desperate to claim her as his own.
He flipped her onto her back, and her eyes snapped open. He kissed her fiercely and deeply, millennia of need tearing through him. More, something primal and ancient clawed within him to claim her body as his.
“Race,” she gasped. “You wanted my storm, now let me feel your wildness. I won’t break.”
He shifted them higher up the bed without pulling free, grasped her hands, and guided them to the bars in the carved headboard. “Hold.”
Braced on his knees, he gripped her thighs and lifted, driving into her. Her core squeezed around his shaft like a living flame. He snarled, his dragon’s ether bleeding through. He grabbed the top of the headboard for leverage and pounded into her?—
The wood cracked beneath his strength. He didn’t give a fuck, not with her body clutching, milking, and welcoming him deeper.
Ash cried out, arching into him, her moans mixing with his growls until she shattered again beneath him, her core fisting him like a garrote.
His own release broke. Heat and power roared down his spine, his balls tightening, his body stiffening as his orgasm tore through him—exploding like a geyser. A luminescent white light flooded his entire being with warmth, and all he could do was hold on to her.
“Race?” she gasped, gripping his arm, her eyes wide and blazing a radiant white. “Your eyes—they’re white.”
He couldn’t even respond. His breath ragged, feeling a little dazed, as if all his molecules had erupted into billions of atoms before resettling into him. “So…so are yours.”
Her body trembled, and his cock thickened, grew harder at the base, locking them together. And the truth unfurled like a long-lost secret.Ah, fuck.
“Something’s happening.” Her brow furrowed. “You’re getting bigger inside me. Isn’t that…sort of reverse?”
A rough chuckle. “Half beast, remember? We knot with our true mate—damn. I’d forgotten that part. So here we are.”
She huffed, her kiss-swollen mouth widening into a smile. There was no fear in her eyes, only wonder.
Stars! This female.She undid him.
Finally, ours,his dragon rumbled.
Indeed, she is.
Race couldn’t stop his satisfaction from spilling free as he brushed his lips across her temple, her cheeks, tasting the salt of her earlier tears. His beautiful, brave mate. She shifted a little, the tug where they were still joined sending another jolt through him, and she gasped.
“This is…unusual.”
“Not for my species,” he murmured, still braced on his forearms to keep from crushing her. “The knot will ease soon. Takes about twenty minutes or so, from what I heard.” He gently traced his already healing bite mark on her neck with a fingertip. “Any pain?”
“No. It just feels…warm. But your semen is rather hot.”
Laughter rumbled out of him, the sound vibrating into her where they were joined. “It means you can handle me now.”
“Good.” A languorous sigh escaped her. “I feel different.”
“Indeed, you do. I’m still inside you.” He swept lazy circles around one of her delectable nipples with his thumb.
A smile tugged at her lips, her eyes half shut with drowsiness. “There is that.”
He chuckled and buried his face in the crook of her neck, breathing in her scent tinged with the aftermath of their lovemaking, then stilled.
Something felt different.
