Page 38 of The Monster at the End of This Courtship

Once inside, Tuft pulled me toward the bedroom.

"Did I forget we had plans this evening?" I asked. "Are we going somewhere?"

"We've reached our destination," he said.

We'd spent a few long nights naked in my bed over the last two weeks. Tonight, the air seemed supercharged with tension. The scent of Tuft's slick was stronger in the bedroom, especially when he shucked off his pants and magical underwear in one go.

"Are you ready for the next level of our relationship?" I asked. I knew not to get my hopes up about knotting him. He wanted to fuck me first. I think he saw it as a test, but I saw it as something fun to do with my mate.

"Next level." He nodded. "Going where we've never gone before."

I laughed at his misquote of theStar Trekslogan. "Just so we're on the same page, are you ready to fuck me?"

"So ready. Beyond ready. Do you have any idea how sexy you were on that field today?" He gazed up at me through half-liddedeyes. Even without eyelashes, he was the most alluring creature I'd ever seen.

I ran my nose along his neck, loving the smell of his arousal there, too. It was sharper than his slick. It made me want to mark him, claim him. It still smelled too much like Tuft and not enough like me, even though his stripes were now fully the same color as mine.

"How do you want to do this?" I asked. "I want to lie on my back and watch you fuck me, but I think I'd be too tempted to mark you."

He nodded. "I want to mark you, too. Not until we mate for real." He held up three fingers on his right hand, like I was supposed to know what that meant. "I won't bite you, scout's honor."

"You were a Boy Scout?"

"No." He grinned. "My adopted dad was. He used to say things like that all the time."

I loved when Tuft shared little bits of his past with me, even when he winced at each mention of his parents and the eggs that never hatched. I knew it was hard for him, but I appreciated his efforts to share his past with me.

He helped me remove my t-shirt and shorts and shoved me onto the bed on my back. Then, he poked and prodded me into place with a pillow under my back until I lay where and how he wanted me. When he leaned down to kiss me, the glide of his body along mine had me grabbing his neck to hold him in place while I plundered his mouth.

He slapped my hand away. "I'll never get inside you at this rate. Hands up, or I'll have to tie them with something."

"Is this a robbery?"

He kneeled above me with his hands on his hips and gave me a stern frown. He was adorable when he was bossy. "I'm about to rob you of your virginity. Hands up."

We both laughed at that. I grabbed onto the shelf ledge at the base of my headboard and lifted my knees to my chest while Tuft continued to stare at my hole like it was a work of art. I'd done the same thing when I'd had his ass in my hands, too. I'd never been as attracted to anyone as I was to my kobold omega. From the admiration in his gaze, he was attracted to me, too.

He curved his arm around his back and his eyes glazed over. The cloying scent of his slick made my mouth water. With his hand covered with slick, he traced a finger around my rim, making me squirm. No one else had touched me there. When my girlfriend had asked, I'd freaked the fuck out and said no, thank you very much, exit only.

What a difference a few months and some changeling magic can make. I couldn't wait for my mate to get in me, already, but he was making it worth the wait by dipping his slick fingers into me, first one, then two, and finally three to make sure I was stretched as wide as his bulbous cock head. Even with the foreskin pushed back, he was large, and I was going to take it all and love it. I knew it, especially when he found the bundle of nerves that made my eyes roll back in my head. Those strange sounds I heard were coming from my mouth, unbidden.

"I was beginning to worry alphas didn't have prostates."

Tuft chuckled as he continued to rub over that spot until I was babbling incoherently, and my cock had dripped a puddle of precome on my flat abdomen where my belly button should be.

"Get in me," I howled as he prodded the spot one more time, hard enough to make my cock jump. It landed in the puddle of precome and sent droplets flying.

"You're a pushy bottom." He tapped the back of my thigh and crawled into place between my legs.

"I don't think I'm going to last long," I said.

A moment later, I was sure I was wrong. I couldn't do this. His cock head felt massive against my hole. Even with a fresh coat of slick, it would never fit inside me.

"Relax." Tuft rubbed circles along my inner thigh with one hand and smoothed his slicked hand over my cock. The motions soothed my fears, and when the head of his cock popped inside me, we both moaned. I was already so full, but I needed more of him.

I was also taking notes, since my alpha cock was bigger than his. I would need to do all this, and more, to work Tuft open so I wouldn't hurt him, natural slick or no.

He rocked against me, and his cock slipped inside inch by inch until his balls rested firmly against my ass.

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