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“I’m going to come!” I immediately stop moving, lifting my head slightly to look at her wide eyes. “Don’t stop!”

I chuckle, then, without looking away, I start to move my fingers again, but slower this time. She swallows, her eyes wide as her hips start to move in rhythm with my hand. When I add in a third finger, she drops her head back, her breasts arching off the bed as she gasps.

I give her clit a little love before I stand, pulling my fingers from her and wrapping them around my rock-hard cock, stroking it firmly. Then I place my free hand beside her and line myself up, my eyes finding hers as I ask, “Are you ready for me, angel?”

She nods. “Always.” I start to press in, my hand moving to her thigh and lifting her leg as I push in. Her eyes widen and I grit my teeth.

“So fucking tight,” I hiss, loving the feeling of her wrapped around me. Once I sink all the way to my base, I move my free hand to her clit and rub a few circles there, helping her adjust to my size. Maybe we shouldn’t have started tonight with her biggest mate, but I no longer have the control to sit back and wait.

I need her.

Now.

Grabbing both her thighs, I lift her hips right off the bed and start thrusting. “Bain!” she gasps, her arms flying to her sides to keep herself steady as only her shoulder blades and head are on the bed. I growl in approval. Seeing her body on an angle like this is mesmerizing, and I’m unable to stop myself from thrusting faster and faster.

As I feel her core squeezing me harder, and my own balls clenching tightly, I quickly lower her legs, pressing my chest to hers and kissing her. It’s rough and hard and everything. I tear my mouth from hers, moving to lick her neck, the bare spot where I first placed my mating bite.

For a second, I wonder if I’ll be able to do it, to mark her, but as my teeth graze over her skin, she screams, her own orgasm surging, and my fangs drop. Not willing to waste a second, I sink them into her, in the same place as before, as I start to come, my own release shooting out of me and straight into her.

I groan as I feel my knot start to thicken, and she gasps, her fingers digging into my back.

That’s when it happens. The bond that was severed, that we lost when she was killed, snaps back into place. The jolt is enough for my mouth to release her, my tongue licking at the wound to heal it as we desperately cling to each other.

Suddenly, a rush of emotions surges into me. Happiness, joy, relief, and love. And I realize they aren’t my emotions I’m feeling, they’re hers.

I move my face over hers, cupping her cheeks and wiping her tears away. But I know these are tears of happiness. If feeling her emotions inside me didn’t give it away, the huge smile on her face would.

And in this moment, I know that my life will never be the same again without her. I love my pack, my brothers, but Cherry, she’s my everything.

Chapter 19

Cherry

“The bond. Is it back?” Hunter asks as literal happiness pours out of me in the forms of laughter and tears. I don’t think I’ve even seen Bain smile this big before, even the first time we mated.

I throw my arms around him, pulling him in for a tight hug as he rolls us to our side.

“It worked,” I say with a small laugh of joy. I’m not sure if I’ve felt this happy before. Top three definitely, up there with finding out they’re my mates and the first time I bonded with each of them. Okay, so maybe that made it like top ten, but still, it was up there.

“What worked?” Maddox asks from our side.

I tilt my head and look at him. Like the other three, he’s dressed in only his boxers, and the sight of him has me ready to climb him and reclaim him as mine, but I know I have to wait for Bain’s knot to die down before that can happen. So instead, I decide to answer his question and explain what Lillian told me.

“Erica’s grandmother, Lillian, told me that the bonds were still there. We just needed to reconnect them, the same way we made them.”

“It was really that simple?” Gage asks from the other side and I nod.

“Apparently, we were the only reason it hadn’t been fixed. Which is why I came home and, well… you know…” I trail off, referring to how I put on the sexy red underwear and practically threw myself at them. To be honest, I thought I’d have to do a lot more begging to get them to agree.

Thank Goddess for Bain.

Speaking of which, the way he’s sniffing my neck and his cock is twitching tells me his knot won’t be going down anytime soon, so I decide to tell them what else I learned from Lillian.

“I asked her about my shifting too.”

“What’d she say?” Gage asks eagerly.

“It’s like we thought, the reason I couldn’t shift is because I had spent too long as a wolf and my body couldn’t remember how. But the reason you five were able to make me shift was because I needed your power to balance mine.”