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Then she did, and her eyes… I swear, I was drowning in her eyes and all the emotion there. “I can feel you,” she whispered, small hand pressing to her chest and then to mine. “Inside. I can feel you inside.”

I swallowed thickly. “I’m sorry, Sloane. I’m so fucking sorry.”

Her face fell, smile crumbling and brows puckering in confusion. Through the bond, I felt the first notes of discord. Her gaze lowered to my throat, eyes widening now, following a trail as she passed over the marks she’d put upon me.

“Jesus! I—” Her eyes dropped, as I knew they would, to her chest, her creamy tits littered with marks and…bites.

Then she did something I wasn’t expecting. She lifted her hand, fingers brushing over the nearest welt tentatively before she pressed firmly against the skin…and groaned.

She fucking groaned like she was in the throes of ecstasy.

Her fingers moved up, skimming over her collarbone all the way to her throat, pausing just below the mutilated flesh.

I swallowed, and our eyes locked, only hers weren’t filled with revulsion. They were filled with heat.

“I need to see,” she whispered.

I shook my head.

“Jace, I need to fucking see.”

“No,” I growled, letting out my alpha bark and stilling her instantly. I’d told myself I was ready for her revulsion, that I would handle it, but I wouldn’t fucking handle it. Seeing my marks on her, my claiming mark in particular, drove both the man and beast in me fucking nuts, only we were perfectly aligned in this because I loved seeing my mark on her and I wanted it to leave a scar.

“Will it scar?” she asked like she could read my mind.

I nodded once, slowly.

Her lips tugged up, like the cat that got the cream. “Good,” she said. “I want it to.”

I was supposed to be cleaning her up, but I was out of the tub with the slippery bundle of woman in my arms and striding off to the bed. Here, I dumped her, sopping wet, upon the ruined nest and buried my nose between her thighs, filling my lungs with her scent. Later, we would talk. Later, I would unpick the nuances of her reaction and work out what the fuck it meant, but now, I needed to soothe her poor, sore pussy with my mouth and tongue.

I needed her to come apart for me.

He wanted to remind her why I was her alpha.

He wanted to remind her of why she should stay.

“Nummnnnn.” Her mumbled cries of pleasure as I lapped at her soreness, her fingers tearing into my hair, told me this wasn’t unredeemable.

I needed to get her off, and I needed it hot and fast.

She did, wet pussy riding my face, gifting me her sweet slick in a great rush, and I was fucking greedy for it. If I lived to be a hundred, I would never tire of this, and my beast agreed. I got my tongue deep into her hot cunt as she rode out the last of her climax before I turned my attention to her clit and took her tumbling again. I was a fucking addict, and I was getting my fix.

The third time, she screamed herself hoarse, and finally, her fingers ripping into my hair registered enough for me to come up for air. I swiped a hand down my face, taking in the beautiful woman sprawled out on my bed, soapy in places, hair wet where it had dipped in the water. Her body was still littered with the evidence of my possession, but her eyes were glazed with lust…and love.

“Jesus, Jace. Are you trying to kill me?” she murmured with a contented sigh. Her reprimand lost its edge when she performed a lazy, catlike stretch. “I want to be held. I need to scent you close. Then after, when I can think straight, you’re going to tell me what that bullshit in the bathroom was all about.”

Like a good alpha, a slave to his omega mistress, I did exactly as she asked, climbing over her, gathering her in close, and letting her breathe in my scent as I purred for her.

The bond, I realised, didn’t just go one way.

I had some explaining to do.

Chapter Fourteen

Jace

We fell asleep wrapped up in each other, but I woke up feeling alone. Bright sunlight streamed through the window, showcasing the marks upon the sleeping omega’s body. She still hadn’t seen what I’d done to her, not properly.

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