What had to happen next.

The sensation of my teeth elongating and growing sharper was a pleasurable tingle, but when my bite connected with his neck, everything in me blew wide open. It was like I was breathing for the first time, like the world around me shifted and aligned. I’d been walking on uneven ground before this moment. I worked my mouth on the mark I'd left until my tongue was coated in his blood, until he was all I could taste, could smell, could feel.

Beneath me, Kai spasmed as orgasm overtook him. The hot wash of his cum spilling between us felt like fire on my skin, and his ass clenching around my cock drew me to the edge.

I pulled back, but Kai’s fingers in my hair didn’t let me go far. He jerked me to him and his teeth—sharper from the magic of fated mates finally finding one another—sank into my neck. The feel of our bond finally falling into place overtook me, and I lost control. My hips snapped, and I fucked him hard enough that I felt him growling and groaning against my skin where he sucked, hard enough that his fingers bruised my shoulders where he held on.

“I’m going to breed you, Little Mate. I’m going to fill you up until you’re swollen with my seed. Until you can taste it. Fuck…fuck.” I snarled the promise against his ear, and it made him squirm, rocking up against me harder, his already cum-slicked cock jerking against me.

“Do it… fuck. I’m yours… yourmate.” He dug blunt nails into my shoulders. “Now show me you’re mine too.”

His demand was hot and sharp, a rumble that tore straight to my bones. I came in a burst of pleasure that was almost too much. The shout that tore from me echoed off the trees, and Kai wrenched back as another flood of heat spilled against my torso when he climaxed again. His legs wrapped around me as my cock began to swell, my knot expanding and locking us together as my cum flooded him.

“Fuck… fuck, oh,fuck. Nash. I can feel it… I can…god damn it.” He whined in my ear, dragging me closer as my hips gave shallow thrusts, forcing my length deeper and deeper into his ass until my knot was fully locked in place—our bodies joined, incapable of being separated.

It was everything. Pure bliss. All I’d ever wanted as my hips continued to give little spasming twitches so small spurts of cum filled him. I held Kai as my cock fed him every drop of pleasure I had. I could feel it trying to spill from his entrance, wanting to escape, and it made my hips rock forward again to press us even closer and keep it all trapped inside his heat.

“You’re so full, Kai. So warm… mmm…” I leaned down and licked the line of blood I’d left behind from his neck. His fucked-out expression was everything, and his fingers trailing up to trace along the bite he’d left on my skin made me shiver.

“I can feel it… all inside me. I can feel you everywhere.” His lips slowly lifted into a soft smile. Sweet. Warm. My Kai. “Mate, huh? Is this what it feels like to be whole?”

The tenderness in his words was everything, and instead of answering, I responded by leaning down and pressing my lips to his own in a soft kiss that spoke words I didn’t have the language to express.

Whole. Complete. This was everything.

He was everything.

I kissed him until we were both breathless, until our heartbeats had slowed just to speed up again when I licked into his mouth and the taste of our blood mingling together hit our tongues.

I kissed him until my knot slowly started to go down and the cum on my stomach started to cool.

Reluctantly, I pulled out of his ass. My arms were greedy when I drew mymateagainst me, my slowly softening cock hungry to nestle between his cheeks so I could feel the mess I’d left behind there as it slowly slicked out… and Kai seemed more than happy to let me, though I wasn’t sure if it was out of a need to touch me or because he was trying to catch his breath.

Kai was still shivering in my arms when I finally shifted so we were sitting up. His back was to my chest, and it was easy enough to drop my head to his throat and run my tongue along the mating bite that I’d left behind. That connection spilling between us was perfect. It was everything I’d ever dreamed of… everything I’d ever wanted.

And as Kai lolled his head to the side and looked up at me, I knew he thought the same, because I could feel it.

“That was…” He bit his lower lip to hide a smile, but the flush on his face gave him away. “Wow…”

“Mmmm… just wow?” I murmured, wriggling my hips to slide my limp cock against the cum oozing from his hole like a threat. If he gave me a few minutes, I’d get hard again—I’d fuck the spill back into him.

“More than wow. It was…” He winced as he moved, shifting to straddle my hips so he could face me. In the moonlight, I saw a long scratch across his face where he’d probably caught it on a branch while running. The long golden tresses of his hair were disheveled… but his eyes were bright and alive. “Like… do orcs redo their mating bites like humans redo their wedding vows?” I had no idea what he was talking about, and it seemed like he realized it after a second because he leaned forward, brushing his lips slowly across mine so I could feel it when he smiled. “I mean… can we do that again?”

Oh.

My fingers trailed up along his back and I pulled him flush against me—the heat of his body was so perfect, every curve of well-defined muscle fitting against me like a piece of a puzzle.

“Little Mate…” I pressed another kiss to his lips and nipped the lower pout with a groan. “I’ll chase you through the trees every night and fuck you under the stars if you want me to. Forever.”

It was a promise I would do anything to keep, and the shiver it elicited from him made me want it all the more.

“That… mmm… yeah.” He looked up at me again and trailed his fingers through my hair to draw me in for another kiss. “That sounds just about perfect.”

Chapter seventeen

Kai

Ifitwaspossible,Nash was evenmoreprotective and insatiable than he’d been before, now that we were mated. If I was being honest, though, I was too. Whatever reservations I might have still had about staying here were gone—whatever worry I might have had that I was making the wrong decision when I told him I wanted to be with him didn’t exist.