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Lucian began to thrust in and out of her with a hard, pounding rhythm, spreading her wide and driving deep so as to stretch her walls with every single stroke. His eyes never left hers, and there wasn’t a tear to be seen. He quickly found a rhythm that sent tremors of pleasure through her body. Zenya threw her head back and gripped the bedsheets, her nails digging in as he pounded into her relentlessly.

He picked up the pace, thrusting harder and faster, each stroke sending her response higher and higher. Her moans became louder, escalating into gasps and cries of pleasure until everything was too much and he sent her careening over the edge of ecstasy and into a freefall of bliss in a second intense orgasm that made her cling to him as he ground against her, releasing his cum in her as he stayed deep.

“Soon my beautiful mate, I will score your pussy with my barbs and settle the first of our children in your belly.”

CHAPTER 15

ZENYA

When he finally let her out of bed, it was late afternoon. He’d taken a shower after their last romp but seemed disinclined to allow her to do the same. Someone had brought them food and Zenya had hidden under the sheets, wanting to die of embarrassment. She knew all too well that the clan was well aware of what had been going on, so hiding was silly, but still, at least she didn’t have to look them in the eye.

“Zenya, would you prefer that I have food brought to you, sweetheart? I feel I need to go down and have dinner with the clan, but I can make your excuses. I also need to go over some business with Zaiden.”

She growled at the sound of her brother’s name. “You aren’t planning on our having the bonding ceremony tonight, are you?”

“That I will leave up to you,” he said as he leaned over and kissed the top of her head. “I know Zaiden wants it to be a ‘done deal,’ but I think you and I have worked things out, and I know these things are far more important to tigresses than they are to tigers. Feel free to draft anyone you need to do what you want to do. Do you think Friday or Saturday?”

“I’d like to do it Saturday so I can spend a little time at the clinic.”

He nodded as he buttoned his jeans and pulled on a different sweater. “If you’ll get your list to Zaiden or me, we'll get the supplies picked up.”

Again, Zenya growled at the mention of her brother.

“Zenya, that is enough. I understand you are angry with him, but did it ever dawn on you that he made the decisions he made based on believing he was doing what was best for you?”

“Did it ever occur to either of you that I and I alone may be the best and only arbiter of what is best for me? I can answer that: no, you did not. I may, in time, be able to forgive you…”

Lucian chuckled, fisting her hair, tilting her head back and kissing her hungrily. “Every time you call my name when you come for me, I am reassured that you have forgiven me and know that you are my fated mate.” He reached down with one hand to cup her breast and thumb her nipple, leaning further down to take it in his mouth for a moment and make her squirm. “There’s my good mate. I won’t be too long. I think my cock may burst from wanting you.”

I couldn’t get that lucky.

She spent the rest of the week down at her clinic with Lucky patrolling the inside and enjoying the outside area, which was completed rather quickly. Zaiden was doing his best to make amends, but she ignored him. As she said to Lucian, it was the best she could do.

She split her time doing actual work for her clinic, getting Lucian the list of what she wanted two days later than she would have liked, but she wanted to be conscientious. The wedding planning was easy, as the housekeeper and the cook had apparently been planning her and Lucian’s nuptials for years.

“I wasn’t so sure about how we were going to make a key lime wedding cake,” said the cook, “but then we realized we could use an old coconut cake recipe we had and use key lime curd to fill it. The Alpha thought it might be nice if the groom’s cake was that hummingbird one you liked so well.”

“He’s waited a long time to take you to mate,” added the housekeeper. “I don’t know many tigers who would have waited this long.”

“Did it ever occur to anybody that this is not what I want? That he marked me without my consent?” They looked at Zenya in shocked silence. “No. I didn’t think so. If you’ll excuse me, I have some work to do in my lab.”

She started out of her office, leaving them with their mouths open.

“But Milady, what about your dress? The store in Seattle had several dresses that could be sent overnight.”

She stopped and waved her hand. “Pick whatever you like. This thing is for Lucian and the clan. Considering I wouldn’t be doing any of this—I’d be back on the Outer Banks—I don’t really give a damn.”

The mild nausea and dizziness she used to get anytime Lucian was around had morphed into something far more tangible, and for the most part pleasant. She didn’t get dizzy, but if Lucian was looking to get laid, she did go weak in the knees. She’d never really thought of herself as a sexual person, but from the first time Lucian had taken her, she’d craved him in the same way he did her. She knew the clan watched them with hooded eyes, but Lucian assured her that it was because they were all glad to see them together.

She felt the moment he walked into the clinic. He stopped for a moment and allowed the tether that seemed to grow stronger every day to find her—not in her office where she should be but in her lab. As he walked in, he closed the door, but did not lock it behind him and she could feel the lust rolling off of him in waves and being met by her own.

He fisted her hair, giving it a little jerk as he pulled her to him. Much to her surprise, she found that she enjoyed the little nips of pain here and there from Lucian tugging her hair, pinching a nipple, or nipping an earlobe. Lucian knew how to give her just the smallest bite of pain to refocus her or sharpen the experience.

“On your knees, mate,” he growled the command, the sound deep and sexy.

Zenya sank gracefully to her knees, knowing what he wanted with her heart pounding in her chest. She hadn’t really liked the idea of performing oral sex before, but with Lucian it felt right. She doubted anyone would come into her lab, especially if they had any idea Lucian was in with her, but there was just a little bit of the exhibitionist in Zenya so the idea that someone could walk in on them ramped up her excitement.

Lucian stood before her, his cock straining against his fly. Zenya reached out to touch him before unbuttoning the opening and giving freedom to his throbbing cock. He placed his hands on her head, guiding it down. She took him into her mouth, savoring the sweet, salty taste of him combined with the musky, masculine smell he gave off. As she sucked the head in, she could feel him grow harder in her mouth. His hips bucked, pushing his cock deeper into her throat. Zenya found she couldn’t repress the moan that arose from the depths of her soul and vibrated along his shaft.

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