Page 33 of Act of Command

She tugged at his shoulders. “Don’t stop.”

“Mae,” he managed through a partially shifted mouth.

“Corbin, please,” she said in a sing-song voice a second before she began to hum. Corbin was powerless to stop himself then.

Giving in, he rooted there and she wrapped her legs around his waist, holding him there as every muscle in his body strained to hold onto control. He wasn’t sure if he’d shift forms or come.

Maybe both.

He didn’t want to do either.

He wanted to enjoy every second of being in her. Of being one with his mate.

My mate, he thought as his lion unfurled more, pushing upwards, demanding he do more. It wanted him to mark her. To claim her.

Fuck.

He wanted it too.

He pounded into her, his cock spearing her again and again. She was heaven to him. Molding to fit him with precision. Corbin’s nails lengthened, his lion winning out more and more. He struggled, pounding into Mae, needing release and soon. She tipped her head to the side at the very moment his lion roared inside him.

Claim her!

“Mine,” he managed, though the word was barely recognizable due to his teeth.

“Yes,” she whispered. “Yours.”

The smell of her cream drove him over the edge. He buried his cock deep in her, his balls drawing up a second before he began to jet seed into her, filling her completely. He pressed his mouth to her shoulder and bit, her blood coating his tongue at once.

She clung to him, her nails digging into his upper arms as his cock continued to pulse, spurting seed into her. Mae’s hands found his hair and she held him to her shoulder as her pussy milked his cock.

“Mine,” she whispered back. The second the word left her, power flared between them. Corbin gulped, releasing her shoulder, his mouth reforming quickly, his cock still nestled in her. For a moment, he thought they’d fused. That their entire bodies had melted into one another. As the reality of what had happened hit him, he froze.

She looked up at him, her cheeks flushed and her lips swollen. Well-sated and thoroughly claimed.

The burning need to fuck lessened inside of him and he strongly suspected it was because he’d spent his seed in her. That and he’d claimed her, making his beast happy, but causing his stomach to tighten with worry.

She’d hate him.

He hated himself.

He’d done this when he should have been getting her out of the facility, away from harm. Instead, he’d been weak. He closed his eyes and withdrew from her.

She gazed up at him through tear-filled eyes, making his heart shatter. He’d hurt her.

“Mae, I’m sorry.”

Confusion coated her face. “Sorry?”

“I hurt you. I took you on the floor like an animal when I should have been focused on escaping with you.”

Lazily, she touched his cheek, the edges of her lips curving upwards. “Do shut up, Corbin.”

He did, his eyes widening.

She grinned, looking so sexy that he wanted to fall upon her and fuck her again. “We should get off this floor and be ready for the escape to start, but if you dare act like you regret this, I will claw your eyes out.”

“Wait? You don’t regret this?”

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