“You don’t need…”
He cut me off, voice dropping an octave and going raspy, “Besides, it might be fun to be watched. Let’s give them something worth watching.”
I was not shocked, exactly. Surprised. Very definitely surprised. Xander was nothing if not unpredictable. Would he never stop surprising me?
“Well, I’m game if you are.”
He couldn’t nod his head fast enough. “It’ll be hot,” he grinned wickedly. Mischief danced in his eyes.
Moments later we’d forgotten our audience, so caught up in each other were we. Pushing one of his knees up, I slid my hand between his thighs, pressing a finger gently into his hole as he whimpered, his hands clawing at the air as he tried to keep still. My finger triggered another gush of slick. Goddess, he was responsive!
Leaning down, I sucked on his cock, distracting him from the stretch as I added a second finger. Then a third.
Once I was sure he could take me, hitching his legs over my shoulders, I lined up my cockhead with his hole, slowly pressing in.
“Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck,” Xander chanted, as the head slipped past his tight ring. And I was in, his tight hot channel gripping my cock like a glove.
“Okay?” I asked.
“Yes, yes, just… oh, fuck,” he panted. I paused, gritting my teeth. Beads of sweat ran down my face, as I waited for him to adjust. He had me on a hair trigger, I was so fucking turned on.
“Fuck me! Fuck me!Now!” he demanded loudly.
I did. It was obvious that he knew what he wanted. I pushed in further until I bottomed out, then I fucked him, slowly at first, then harder and faster, until my balls were slapping against his ass, and the wet primal sounds filled our ears. Blood thundered in my head, and my chest labored; sweat slid down my neck and chest, a few drops landing on him, darkening the brown hairs curling around his bellybutton.
I was getting close. Gathering slick on my fingers, I gripped his cock and began to stroke him off in time to my thrusts. Xander moaned, and whimpered, and thrust into my hand. I kept fucking him, gritting my teeth as I struggled not to come.
And then with deepest, lowest, most drawn-out groan I had ever heard, his whole body tensed and Xander erupted, spurt after spurt after spurt. I watched, fascinated, as the thick liquid covered my hand and trickled onto his flushed, sweat-drenched skin.
I licked the back of my hand, and it was all over. The heady taste of my mate was all it took to tip me over the edge. My muscles tensed, my knot began to form. As my knot stretched his tight tunnel even further, I shuddered, Xander moaning softly as I came inside him.
I slumped down on the bed beside him, panting, muscles trembling. Xander rolled over to face me, the knot tugging a little painfully where we were joined. The brief flash of pain as his incisors punctured the skin at the base of my neck was all the warning I had, and then I felt the surge of energy as he bit deeper, into my mating gland.
“Alpha, you are my bonded mate. I will come to you for protection. I am honored to be your omega. Until the end of days,” he recited the words of the ancient ritual, words I hadnever expected to hear from him. Hot tears leaked from the corners of my eyes and dripped onto the covers as I held my omega tightly against me.
Chapter 19
XANDER
Afterwards, wrapped in each other’s arms, my head snug against his chest, his heart going steadilythump, thump, thumpunder my ear, no longer racing, and the odor of sex in the air – semen and slick and sweat – I broke the peaceful silence that had fallen between us.
Without lifting my head, I asked, “When did you change your mind about me?”
I didn’t want to look him in the eyes right now, fearing some of the answers.
“What do you mean?”
I sighed. “Well, I was just a business transaction, wasn’t I? You were mating me to save the pack.”
Darius drew in a sharp breath, the hiss a tell-tale sound. A little part of me started to shrivel inside.
“Wait a minute.” Darius rose from the bed and went to the open door. I looked past him as he surveilled the corridor, but there was no movement in the dim walkway, and it seemed empty.
“No-one there,” he stated simply, the lock clicking as he secured our privacy. He climbed back onto the bed and pulled me into his arms again.
“The Council’s edict was the reason I started looking for an omega, yes,” he admitted, slowly, “but as soon as I saw your picture, I knew I wantedyou. Even if it hadn’t been required by the Council, I would have wanted you anyway. And…” Darius hesitated, then added, “I hoped you’d feel the same way when you saw the photo of me, but you didn’t and that…”
I pushed myself up off him, and looking down at him, shook my head, “What photo? When we met in your office… that was the first time I knew what you looked like, or anything about you really. I didn’t even know your name.”