Page 52 of Love Bites Hard

“Do I?”

“Hell yes. I’m going to be inside you for the next twenty minutes—just think about how many times I can make you come.”

“Youaregood at that.”

“Just look into my eyes and focus on the way your body feels, baby.”

“I’m not your baby,” I breathed, as I neared my edge again.

“Whatever you say.” He dragged his thumb around my clit, and I jerked my hips, swearing at the slight burn as his knot wedged deeper. “Drink from me.”

The command caught me by surprise enough that I followed it, tugging on his emotions. And the moment I tasted him, I lost it, taking him over the edge with me as I did.

After that second climax, I was putty in his hands.

He brought me to climax again and again, until his knot finally softened and the magic holding us faded.

“Shit,” I gasped, lifting my hands away from his shoulders and finding blood beneath my nails. “Holy shit. I’m sorry.”

“Don’t apologize. That was incredible.” His hands slid down my waist and over the curve of my bare ass. “I’ll send someone to get you a new pair of swim bottoms.”

I wrinkled my nose. “No way. I don’t want someone going through my swimsuits. And you don’t like having people in our room. You can just give me your shirt when I get out of the lake.”

His eyes narrowed. “Not happening. Definitely not while your magic is doing what it’s doing.”

“What do you suggest, then?”

“I carry you to our room, and you change there.”

“Absolutely not. I amfullof your release, remember?”

His lips curved upward, just a little.

It was one of the first smiles I’d seen from him, if not the very first, and it lit up his entire gorgeous face.

“I remember.”

“Then give me a better option, or we’re going with mine.”

His hands moved over my ass slowly, making me want to curl into him even more than I already was. “I’ll run back for the swimsuit. You stay in the water. When I get back, you put it on underwater. The pack’s already away, and Hale will come back over so he’s nearby just in case.”

“Finally, a reasonable solution.” I patted his ridiculously thick pectorals. “Deal.”

A squeal escaped me when he stood up suddenly. I clutched his body as he carried me to the edge of the water, lifted me off his erection, and unceremoniously dropped me in.

The lake was already significantly clearer than it had been before, but deep enough that it still hid my nudity as I sat on the rough sand with water up to my chin.

“I’ll be back soon. Stay right there.” His words were neutral, but there was a bit of warning in his voice that I didn’t think I’d ever heard before. Something about the show of emotions made me want to push him harder, but I rolled my eyes and nodded.

He shifted, ditching his clothes before he took off toward the manor.

I watched him leave—and Hale stride back to retake his chair. The rest of the guards were far enough away from the lake that we couldn’t see them, but close enough that I was pretty sure they were patrolling the forest around it to make sure my sisters stayed safe.

“Can’t say I expected that,” Hale remarked.

“You and me both.” I looked back out at the water, letting out a slow breath as my body tingled with the memory of the way Porter had felt.

“You ready for the full moon?”

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