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“Of course, Red. But I wasn’t going to bite you without us even having this conversation. You’d need to bite me too to complete the bond, remember, but I wasn’t going to pressure you based on assumptions in the moment. This was our first time together and it was deeply special to me.”
“It was to me too,” I add in quickly. I don’t want him to think it meant any less because he didn’t bite me. He smiles down at me.
“Would you have bitten me, if I’d bitten you?” he asks.
“I think I would,” I reply honestly.
“And that answer makes me glad I didn’t. Red, a mating bond is only breakable by death. My parents were together as a couple for years before they mated. It's not something to rush into or to be taken lightly.”
“Wouldn’t it solve some of our current issues?” I ask, thinking about how if Ty and I formed a mate bond Adicious would have to back off.
“Maybe.” Ty looks away for a second and I wonder where his thoughts go. He doesn’t leave me waiting for long. “It would certainly send a message. However, Adicious would probably just kill me. I’m no longer protected by a pack. I couldn’t takeon all of them.” I see the pain in his eyes. It disappears after a second.
“Plus,” he says as he smiles down at me again, “I rather consider myself a gentleman, and until you’re sure you want to be tied to me forever I won’t pressure you into it. No matter how much I want it.”
I smile back. Something I read earlier comes to mind.
“Is it true mates can read each other's thoughts? Or know each other's emotions?”
“It is.” Ty nods. “My parents could read each other’s feelings, even if they were miles apart.”
His face lights up at whatever memories are playing through his head.
I think of my own parents. I wish I’d seen how they were together. My father always spoke of my mom with such love, even though it had been years since her death. He never moved on. I wonder if they would’ve been mates if they had been turned.
“Tell me more about them,” I say.
“I will,” he replies. “But we need to get up.”
He places a sweet kiss on my lips before sitting up on his knees, about to get off the bed.
His naked form really is something to behold. So much tan skin and those swirling tattoos which accentuate the muscles in his arms and chest.
It takes a lot of effort but I tear my gaze away and heave myself up from the bed.
CHAPTER 27
TY
Red stands from the bed and stretches her arms high above her head. I’m momentarily dazed by her naked form. She grabs a blanket, going to wrap it around herself.
I launch from the bed and steal it out of her hands, throwing the offending item back on the mattress.
“Hey!” she squeals, trying to reach over me.
“I need one more touch,” I say, softening my voice to a soft plea as I grab her hips and bring our bodies together.
Her skin, slightly sweaty from sex, feels euphoric plastered against my chest. I take a deep inhale and relish in the heady mixture of our scents. She might not be permanently marked with mine yet but this is deeply satisfying to the beast in me.
“I need to go clean up.” She squirms in my hold, her thighs pressing together. I remember that I came in her.
Moving my hand down her body I push my middle and index fingers between her legs. My cock gives a valiant pulse when I feel my cum dripping out of her. I swirl it around her sex before pushing it inside her.
“Ty, what are you doing?” Red pants into my chest, her hands clinging to my shoulders.
“Just ensuring you’ll smell like me all night Red,” I growl in response.
“Are you going to be even more possessive now we’ve slept together?”
