Irrevocable.
It's not just physical. It's deeper than that. Cellular. Neurological. Like every atom in my body just recognized every atom in his and saidyes.
He collapses forward, his weight pressing me into the furs, his cock still buried deep inside me.
His wings tighten around us, blocking out the rest of the world.
"You have ruined me," he whispers against my hair. "Eight hundred years of isolation. Eight hundred years of control. And you have destroyed it all."
I reach up and cup his face with both hands.
"Good," I say.
And then he kisses me.
Not gently.
Not carefully.
I claim her mouth the way I claimed her body—completely, utterly, without restraint.
My wings tighten around us, blocking out the rest of the world.
There is only her.
Only us.
Only this.
The fated-mate bond settles into place like a lock clicking shut.
Permanent.
Unbreakable.
Mine.
Chapter 13: Tamsin
Iwake up in a velvet cage.
That's the first coherent thought my brain manages to produce.
NotI just had sex with a gargoyle.
NotI'm pretty sure I just got biologically claimed by a seven-foot mythological security titan.
Just:velvet cage.
Because that's what it feels like.
I'm completely surrounded by something soft, heavy, and warm. My face is pressed against a surface that feels like heated marble—smooth, solid, radiating a steady, comforting warmth. There's a deep, rhythmic thud beneath my ear. A heartbeat. Slow. Steady. Impossibly loud.
I try to move.
I can't.
My arms are pinned against my sides. My legs are tangled in something thick and plush. And there's weight pressing down on me from above—not crushing, but definitely present. Like being wrapped in the world's most expensive weighted blanket.
