Page 169 of Bound By Song

I don’t know how long we stay like that. Could be minutes. Could be hours. But then I feel it.

A soft sound. Barely more than breath.

Whimpering.

Her hips shift, rocking forward on instinct, grinding her cunt against my thigh where it’s wedged beneath her. Once. Twice.

Then again.

I stiffen, breath catching.

“Evie,” I murmur softly, but she doesn’t wake.

She’s asleep –but her body isn’t. Her scent’s changing, blooming thick and sticky in the air, sugar-slick and flushed with heat. She perfumes the space around us without even meaning to, and it hits me like a fucking freight train.

Need.

I grit my teeth as her bare leg slides over mine again, her cunt catching the muscle of my thigh. She whines again, desperate even in sleep, and rocks once more – frantic now, like her body’s trying to get itself off.

Fuck.

She doesn’t even know she’s doing it.

I press my hand to her stomach, trying to still her, but she gasps softly in her sleep and chases the pressure. I can feel how soaked she is. The slick coating my thigh is unmistakable. She’s feverish again, burning up.

Another whimper. A little sob. And then?—

“Alpha,” she breathes.

My control fractures.

She doesn’t say my name. Doesn’t need to.

It’s me she’s curled around.Meshe’s scenting.Meshe’s grinding against like she’s starving for friction.

“Fuck,” I whisper, jaw clenched.

I promised I’d wait.

I promised I wouldn’t touch her until she asked.

But this – this isn’t just need. This is pain. She’ssuffering.

And I can’t stand it.

“Evie,” I murmur again, brushing her hair back, nuzzling into her temple. “Omega. Wake up for me.”

She moans, eyes fluttering open, glazed and glossy and raw.

“Dane— Hurts?—”

“I know, baby.” I cup her cheek. “You’re burning up again.”

She trembles, rocking her hips helplessly. “Please – just – something. I can’t?—”

I roll us gently, easing her onto her back, my thigh still pressed between hers, my hand stroking down to cup her slick, swollen sex.

She sobs with relief, hips jerking against my palm.

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