“Vin,” Angelo groaned out, his tongue lapping at the bite mark he’d left on his mate.

“Yes, Angel. Do it.”

Somehow, Angelo managed to wait for Vin to extract himself from his body delicately, as each movement sent shocks like lightning through him. As soon as he felt Vin’s still-hard length slip clear, Angelo flipped them.

A harsh laugh of pure glee escaped Vin as Angelo threw him onto his hands and knees. Angelo might’ve checked in with him again, but the teasing vampire had already dropped to his elbows and arched his back, presenting himself to his mate just like a wolf would’ve. If there’d been any doubt still, it would’ve been erased by the searing desire he could sense from his mate.

Angelo’s hands shook as he tried to check Vin was ready for him, but the vampire pushed his hand aside. “I’m so fucking here for it, Angel. Show me that pretty alpha wolf side of you. Now!”

Angelo almost laughed. And Vin thoughthe’dtried to top from the bottom. He could feel Vin’s smug amusement through their bond. He knew Angelo loved it.

Angelo took him at his word and thrust inside him in one hard movement that slammed the breath from Vin’s lungs.

“Yesss,” his mate hissed as Angelo set a furious pace, concentrating as much as he could on the feedback loop fromtheir bond until he was sure every thrust was hitting just right to drive his mate to the extremes of pleasure only a true mating could find.

It was hard to concentrate on anything but how tight and hot his mate was around his cock, though. How his ass was constricting just right every time he pulled out like it was trying to milk the cum right out of him. He wasn’t going to last. Reaching around Vin’s body, he tried to take hold of his shaft and hissed as something small and sharp pierced his hand.

“What?” he gasped.

“Spines. Like a cat. Ask later. I can come again like this. Don’t need you to touch me.” Every sentence sounded ripped from Vin’s mouth by his gasping moans as Angelo kept fucking into him.

Damn.That was so fucking hot.

Bending over his mate’s body, he tugged at his hair until Vin turned his head back so Angelo could kiss him, his tongue diving in again and again in time with his increasingly frantic hip motions. He could feel the base of his cock swelling, the knot only mated alphas could form starting to grow.

His movements turned desperate as he pushed into Vin’s body, his mate moaning as the swollen knot started catching on his rim with each thrust. Vin was almost there. He could feel it through their connection.

“Come for me, baby. Please,” he begged, shifting their angle again so he could reach up to pinch Vin’s pierced nipples hard as he pushed in deep and lost control.

Angelo howled as his orgasm was ripped from him in floods of pleasure and his knot swelled enough to lock them tight together. Vin stiffened beneath him and let out another howl of his own as the extra girth and stimulation sent him flying for the second time. Their climaxes seemed to go onand on in long waves until, what could’ve been minutes or hours later, they subsided oh so slowly. Finally, they reduced to periodic pulses of teeth-clenching satisfaction that spiked only when Vin’s muscles contracted around him or when he made the mistake of trying to pull back at all and his knot throbbed in protest.

With shaking arms, Angelo shifted them so they could collapse side by side, still connected with Vin spooned in tight to his chest.

“And I thought my thing was intimidating. That knot is a monster,” Vin slurred, sounding like anything but a complaint.

“Are you okay? Did I hurt you?” Angelo asked, just in case.

“I’m perfect. You?”

Angelo took stock of his body. Every muscle ached like he’d overdone it in the gym. His ass was a little tender, but he could tell it was already healing. His wolf was immensely fucking satisfied.

“Yeah. Me, too. So… spines? Do they come out to play every time?”

Vin’s shoulders shook with laughter at Angelo’s wary tone before gasping as the motion made his knot pull tight again. “No, Angel. It’s mostly a mating thing. Although, if you get me worked up enough, I’m sure we could arrange a re-enactment.”

“Not like a knot then.” Once the hormones that formed an alpha knot were triggered, it was a permanent feature.

“No. The spines deliver another kind of venom into your bloodstream to help form the bond.”

Angelo’s brain hitched for a moment. “Are you saying your cock… bit me?”

Vin laughed again. “They’re not teeth! It was more of a stabbing. Or maybe an impalement.”

“You really do have weapons hidden everywhere,” Angelo murmured into his mate’s neck, mouthing over the already healed bite scar on Vin’s neck. Every time he touched it, they both shivered and the bond between them surged.

Vin reached back and gripped the scruff of his neck in a firm grip, holding his mouth where he wanted it, and Angelo groaned in appreciation at the possessive move. The candles surrounding them were starting to burn down, winking out one by one. As the darkness of the night nestled closer, the light of the waxing moon was more obvious on his mate’s skin, making it almost glow.

“Is that knot going to go down anytime soon, or are we starting round two?” Vin asked as Angelo started rutting into him lazily.