The second he shut the door, I was all over him. Hands in his hair, I jumped up and wound my legs around his waist as he caught me under the thighs. He spun our positions and pressed my back flat against the door, kissing his way hungrily down my neck. He scraped over my pulse point with his teeth, and I moaned at the delicious sensation.
“Brute, if you do that again, you’d better be about to bite me.”
I felt his grin against my skin, and it was the hottest thing I’d ever experienced. Everything he did turned me on, made me frantic for him. Trust changed the smallest experiences in a relationship in amazing ways. I knew I could trust him with my life, and he could trust me with his. We’d walked through the flames together, and all that was left on the other side was us.No shame, no holding back, no secrets, no mistrust. Two people wildly in love and ready to bond.
He slipped the shoulder of my dress down, baring my entire chest with a low growl of approval. “You’re so beautiful, Firecracker. How did I ever think I knew what beauty was, before you came into my life?”
I trailed my fingertips along his jaw, considering. “The same way I thought I didn’t need this bond, didn’t need you. We didn’t know what we were missing. And now that we do… I don’t want to spend another minute missing you ever again.”
His eyes lit from within, his wolf showing his approval of the sentiment.
“Hey, Brute?”
“Hmm?” he murmured, trailing his nose along my neck again, huffing my scent happily.
“I want you to bite me. Pretty please?” I practically purred, rolling my hips against his erection, not above playing dirty to get what I wanted.
And I meant it: I didn’t want to miss another minute. He was my future, my destiny, and I was beyond ready to step into it.
He nipped my shoulder, making me gasp, as he spun and walked me out one of the side doors, instead of to the bedroom.
“Where are you going? The bed’s back there, and—” I fell silent, staring up at the moon shining bright overhead. “What is this?”
There was a small, walled garden, plush with greenery and flowers still blooming despite the chill in the air. In the middle, a plush bed sat tucked under a shelter just big enough to cover it, gauzy drapes blowing in the breeze, making it look like something out of a dream.
“An outdoor bonding bed,” he whispered, looking up at me with those dreamy eyes, and I melted just a little more. “Ithought you might prefer to be under the moon with me, since we already spent your heat in the cottage.”
I sighed happily. “It’s perfect. I don’t know how you always know what I need before I do,” I murmured, pressing a kiss to his lips, then getting lost as his tongue teased the seam of my lips and delved deeper.
He rumbled, the vibration in his chest turning me boneless as he carried me through the fragrant flowers to the oversized bed, reverently laying me back in the plush covers.
“Breathtaking,” he murmured, carefully peeling the lace dress off me, baring me for his heated gaze. “Absolutely breathtaking.”
He peppered kisses up my legs, starting at my ankles and working his way up my inner thighs, until I was wild with need. I gripped the back of his neck, urging him closer, higher… until his lips found my pussy, and I arched into the sudden grip of pleasure.
Once he started, he didn’t stop, driving me over the edge with relentless attention, licking, sucking, circling… Stars burst in my vision, I arched and moaned my pleasure as I stared up at the moon in the velvet sky.
But the first orgasm was only the beginning of the story. He used his fingers to bring the next one, smiling up from between my thighs with my release still shining on his lips and chin in the moonlight. After that, I was a boneless creature of need.
“Please,” I begged, trying to drag him up my body to where I wanted him so I could feel him stretch me into mindless bliss. “I need you.”
He was over me in a second, and I didn’t even notice when he’d shucked his own bonding clothes. But his bare skin was smooth and warm and perfect against my own. I trailed my fingertips over a hard pectoral, then the biceps next to it, my canines suddenly too big in my mouth.
Startled, I looked up, realized both of our eyes were glowing with our wolves.
“Anywhere you want, Firecracker. I’m yours,” he said in a guttural voice, gesturing down the long, lean expanse of his body. Yet again, he knew without me saying a word.
I turned and sank my teeth into that biceps, groaning as I felt the bond jolt in my chest, a golden shimmer expanding inside me.Yes.
Valens jerked over me with a pained groan, and for a moment, I worried I’d hurt him, bitten too deep—but then he pulled me back and buried himself inside me in one deep, hard stroke. I gasped at the sudden fullness, arching up to chase every bit of delicious friction.
His eyes were glowing, and I could just see a hint of fang poking out over his bottom lip, but still, he didn’t bite me, as if he was mindless with lust.
As much as I was enjoying it, I wanted that last piece to fall in place, wanted the connection to be permanent.
I reached up and pushed on his shoulder, urging him to flip over. He did, rolling me seamlessly with him so I was on top, with him somehow even deeper inside me. It defied logic how that was possible, but it felt divine.
I rocked my hips over him as I leaned down, offering myself up to him now. “Anywhere you want, love.” I stroked his hair, smiling when his eyes met mine. “I’m yours too.” I was on the sharp edge of pleasure, my next release brimming, ready to spill over, but I wanted to wait. Experience ittogetherthrough the bond.
