Then his big body covered her, but he kept his weight off her, kissing her with what felt like too many years of bottled-up need.
He wasn’t the only one.
She brushed her tongue over his lips and ran her hands down the carved muscles covering his chest. How could a man who possessed that much power and strength handle her so gently?
He kissed her face and neck, moving across her shoulders and making a deliberate stop at her breasts. They’d missed him like he’d just returned from a month-long trip.
Sucking her nipple coiled the tension deep inside tighter.
She’d thought last night was incredible. It had been but now felt different, like a bigger moment. Maybe getting loved by him with the knowledge that she’d been chosen as his and Titan’s mate made every touch feel deeper and more special.
She’d hesitated to discuss being mated, but she wanted Bosse to know she was in this with him for however long it lasted. Maybe, just maybe, her dream would be wrong.
She scraped her nails over the skin of his hard abdomen and reached for his cock.
He sucked in a deep breath of air, releasing a sound she loved being able to draw from him. He shuddered and kissed her breast, then dropped his head to hers. “I want you every minute, with every breath,” he said on a shaky exhale.
Grasping his length, which was as much as her hand could hold, she stroked across his velvet skin and whispered, “I choose you as my mate.”
“Oh, Alifair.” His hands gripped her shoulders, and his lips plundered hers in a kiss that went on and on, filling her heart with love she’d never be able to contain. Shouldn’t have to when she held the only person ever to deserve her heart.
When he slowed the kiss, he nipped sweetly at her lips and placed a palm on her face. “I never dreamed of having anyone like you. Then you climbed into my dreams and saved me.”
“You saved me back,” she replied in a hushed voice.
“Now, I will make you mine.” With that vow, he moved his lower body, pulling out of her hand.
She opened her mouth to complain but lost her thoughts when he licked between her legs. His tongue teased her back to that edge, the one place her body wanted to stay, no matter how difficult it was to hang on.
Reaching for his shoulders, she dug her nails in, clinging to him but wanting to let go at the same time.
He pressed a finger inside her and stroked his tongue over her clit with laser precision.
She arched, and her body splintered into shards of pleasure zinging in all directions. He would not relent, his finger and tongue continuing a mix of torture and ecstasy until she was spent.
Her body flopped back on the blanket, boneless and ridiculously happy. She heaved breath after breath. “Before was terrific, but... making love with a mate is... mind-blowing.”
With his body again stretched out over her, he rubbed his hard cock against her. His gruff voice whispered close to her ear. “I love how sexy you are.”
No one had ever told her she was sexy. With Bosse, she felt hot and desired. His confidence turned her on. His need for her made her weak in the knees.
“I love how hot you are,” she countered, then added, “How big and hard you are, too.”
Brushing a soft kiss across her lips, he said, “All yours.”
“Finally.” She could imagine being with him like this every day for eternity.
He chuckled, and then she could feel his mouth lose the smile and take on a more serious shape when he slowly kissed her neck.
Lifting her hips, she rubbed his hard length.
He made a deep groan.
“Are you in pain, mate?” she asked in a coy voice.
In answer, he rubbed his cock through her wet folds, and she gasped. “Me, too. I’m ready.” Her nipples puckered for him, probably worried he might forget to come back.
Licking one nipple then the other, he sucked hard then lightly bit a beaded tip.