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The thought of his teeth deep in my neck?—

I let out a low breath, stared up at him. “Please, if you’re not going to mark me, then leave… then reject me. Because I… I need you to mark me. I need you to touch me everywhere. And I can’t handle it anymore.”

His eyes shifted from gold to brown, and suddenly his wolf wasn’t in control of his emotions anymore, which meant that there was a chance hewouldreject me. And if he rejected me, then maybe this heat would finally die.

Or… it’d kill me.

Instead of walking away, he continued closer until he was grabbing my waist and pulling me toward him again, our bodies flush against each other. I sucked in a sharp breath, his touch so cold yet warm at the same time.

My heart raced inside my chest. This wasn’t his wolf making a rash decision.

No, it was him.

“Please, I know that you don’t love me,” I said in one last desperate plea. “I know that we can never be mated. So please, please…”

Before I could finish my sentence, Alpha Caelan–my father’s best friend, the man twice my age, and my fated mate–sunk his canines into my neck and marked me. Finally claiming me as his own.

CHAPTER 26

LIVIA

Pleasure explodedthroughout my body as Caelan sank his teeth deeper and deeper inside my neck. I dragged my nails down his back, my head rolling back to give him better access to me.

“Alpha,” I breathed, the pressure almost too much to handle.

The heat that had been coursing through my body suddenly evaporated, and I grabbed on to him tighter. Part of me expected him to pull away, to realize what he was doing and regret it immediately, to reject me like I’d had nightmares he would since I met him.

But he continued to sink his teeth into my neck until his gums reached my flesh.

And then he stayed there. Completely still.

Until the mate bond fully snapped into place between us.

His thoughts raced through my head, his energy through my body. Every one of his strengths, his weaknesses, the feelings that he had at this very moment were somehow seared into my body as if I had known this man forever.

“Please,” I whispered, unsure about what I was actually pleading for, but I needed more.

Lycos, I so desperately want more.

I wanted him. All of him. I wanted to finally complete this bond between us.

Still, he stayed inside me, his teeth nestled against my skin, his eyes closed softly, and his body stiff. I moved closer, the pressure building inside my core. And even though the heat was long gone, a different type of heat was now raging inside my core.

“Lycos,” I moaned. “Please, I need it now.”

Suddenly, he snapped his eyes open and pulled his teeth out of my neck. One moment, he was inside me, and the next, he was ripping off my clothes, turning me over so my chest was against the wall, and pulling out his thick, hard cock.

It throbbed against me when he slapped it on my aching pussy, then he shoved it between my swollen lips and into me. Wave after wave after wave of pleasure rushed through my body, and I clamped around him tightly, my nails digging into the wall until my fingertips whitened.

“Oh my Lycos,” I cried. “Oh my Lycos, oh my Lycos, oh my Lycos!”

“Moan for me, little mate,” he murmured into my ear between soft grunts and groans. He slammed into me, getting deeper with every pump. “When you come for me, our bond will finally be sealed, and you’ll be mine for good.”

The pressure continued to build higher inside me. He gripped my waist tightly, pulling me toward him with every single thrust. I pushed back against the wall to give him some help, needing him deeper. It wasn’t just a want. No, something deep inside meneededit.

Icravedit.

“Please, please, come with me. Please!”

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