“Fuck,” he gasped.

He’d thought it might be uncomfortable at first. That it might hurt until he figured out what he was supposed to be doing. He hadn’t counted on the ongoing effect of Vin’s venom that was now so concentrated in that area.

“You did that on purpose,” he groaned, as he felt his body softening and relaxing to let Vin inside without any resistance or intent on his part. He might’ve been creeped out by it if the vampire hadn’t been so careful to ask his consent.

Somehow, Vin had followed his train of thought. “Of course, Angel. I told you I wouldn’t hurt you and I meant it.”

“Sometimes a little pain can be good,” Angelo said,groaning as Vin finally pushed all the way in and paused so deep inside him, he thought they might’ve become one person.

Vin kissed him then, soft and just as deep, before smiling against his lips. “Maybe next time, Angel. This time, there will be only pleasure like you’ve never known.”

He followed his words up by pulling out until just the head of his cock was still inside Angelo and then driving back in at an angle that had stars dancing in his eyes and more of those whimpers he would never admit to later falling from his lips.

“Faster. Harder,” he begged, but Vin settled into a teasingly frustrating slow and shallow rhythm.

“Grab the lube, Angel,” Vin said, voice sounding strained.

The vampire looked like he could barely hold himself back. Angelo wished he wouldn’t. Without even meaning to, he squeezed the muscles of his ass around the cock invading it and was rewarded by a string of swearwords and a hard, fast thrust that was everything he wanted before Vin regained control again.

“Why?” Angelo whined as his mate slowed right down again.

“So, you can open me up, baby. You’re not going to be able to hold back once you bite me and as much as I may have a touch more experience than you at this, I’m not taking a fucking alpha shifter knot with no prep.”

Angelo’s mouth dropped open and then he was snatching up the bottle of lube so fast he almost knocked Vin away from him.

“Mmmm… someone likes that idea,” Vin chuckled, his eyes trained on Angelo’s cock that was looking about ready to explode as it twitched against the muscles of Vin’s abs like it could find its own way into his mate’s body if it tried hard enough.

Angelo let his feet fall back to the bed and pulled Vin closer so he could reach where he needed to. They both groaned as the move drove Vin’s cock deeper inside him. Fast running out of patience, Vin reached back to help prep himself. The feel of their fingers sliding against each other inside his mate’s body while Vin buried his cock deep inside Angelo was almost enough to bring the whole thing to a premature conclusion. Although he suspected there was nothing that would get rid of his erection before this mating bond took hold and probably for a long time after.

Both their control was fraying as they worked against and inside each other. Vin started biting along Angelo’s collarbone, the move simultaneously renewing the still potent pleasure venom running through his veins and simulating the kind of biting the shifter side of him was desperate to feel to complete their bond. He whined in frustration.

“What’s wrong, baby?” Vin asked.

“Want your mark on me forever. Need it,” Angelo said, frustration ringing in his voice because that wasn’t how Vin would bond him.

Vin smiled against his skin. “I can give that to you if you don’t mind a little pain with your pleasure. A mix of my venoms will make it scar. It will hurt a little, but if it will help the distress I can hear in your wolf, I’ll do it. You need to be sure, though.”

Angelo’s body flooded with relief, and he realised just how stressed his wolf side had been at the thought people wouldn’t be able to see their connection on his skin. “Yes. That. I want that. Need that,” Angelo said.

“Before or after? I can’t do it while I’m distracted by completing the bond. I might damage you.”

“Now,” Angelo said.

Vin didn’t hesitate. His fangs sank deep into Angelo’s throat and pleasure rocketed through him that was so intensehe barely felt the drip of pain around the edges of the wound that stopped his skin from flawlessly knitting closed the way it usually would.

The bite set off a chain reaction between them that rocketed everything into stratospheric intensity within moments. Vin started pounding into Angelo’s ass like his life depended on it and he’d barely pulled his fangs clear when Angelo was turning his face into Vin’s neck.

“Please, Vin. I need to bite you. Mate you. Need the bond. Now. Please,” Angelo whined.

Vin growled. “Wait, Angel. Just a few. More?—”

Vin never finished his sentence, his thrusts growing even more erratic until he gave a howl worthy of any wolf and Angel felt spikes of sharpest pleasure deep inside him, followed by a flood of warmth as Vin finally let loose inside him.

Angelo’s fangs descended without thought and he drove them into the muscle where Vin’s neck met his shoulder the second he felt the mating bond forming between them, biting deep as his body throbbed with pleasure. Vin was still thrusting in short movements impossibly deep inside him. Every thrust sent an exquisite drag of spinelike sensations that felt similar to the venom of Vin’s bite spreading from the vampire’s cum that was spilling into him. As the effects of his bite and whatever Vin had done took hold, he felt their two essences that were fundamental to their nature reach out to merge, forming a bond that only death could ever break.

Vin’s essence curled into his mind, and it was so much more than he could’ve imagined. He could feel his mate’s wonder echoing his own as the bond snapped into place. He’d known there was more to Vin than he showed the world, had seen enough glimpses of him to fall hard and fast despite the fact he was a vampire. Now layer upon layer of his complexity was there for him to sense, and aboveeverything was a fierce loyalty and love bordering on obsession. All for him. It might’ve been scary if he didn’t feel exactly the same way. Exploring the bond would have to wait, though, because the base of his cock was swelling and he was going to scream if he didn’t get inside his mate soon.

Vin was still thrusting inside him with that delicious inexplicable friction that was giving him goosebumps all over his skin and coiling his pleasure higher and higher, but his mate could sense his need through their bond.