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She would never be alone again.
She was forever connected to this man who loved her with his whole soul. She could feel the connection. She knew it so deep in her heart that none of the darkness from her past would ever dare question the truth again.
The tension in her body faded and her muscles relaxed beneath his massive form, but he wasn’t finished. He kept moving and thrusting. He’d come, but his body was still hard. She could still feel every beat of his pulse through his cock.
He released her shoulder and licked over the bite.
She was so relaxed the sting didn’t phase her at all.
His beast had bitten her. Marked her. But unlike her other scars, marks that represented her past pain and survival, his marks she would treasure. His marks were the promise of a wonderful future with him at her side.
He licked over and over the place until there was no pain at all. Then rolled to the side, all the while keeping her locked against his body and his cock buried deep inside her. He wrapped a leg around the back of her thigh and slid his other arm behind her back, palming her ass. She wasn’t quite on top of him, but she wasn’t quite lying on the mattress either.
“Shuarra, I—”
“No regrets, Aarav. None.” She whispered out the words to calm the worry in his tone then sunk into the embrace, happy to use his chest as a pillow. She was warm and content and wrapped in his arms. And she couldn’t imagine there being a better place in the entire world.
She was safe.
She was his.
She was possessed by this man and his beast. A beast that had made a feral promise of commitment and protection she would never take for granted.
He had given her something special. That bite had done something, locked something between them. But there was more even than the connection he’d created, she could still feel the faint burn in her blood, but exhaustion and contentment shut off her brain and she fell asleep to the softthumpthumpof his heart.
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AVA
Ava walked out of the MCC with Gaven right behind her. Ryder had stayed inside to help the SAR crew pack their gear and get it back to their chopper.
Her feet stopped walking the second she looked up at their truck.
A dragon.
Well, not a literal dragon. He wasn’t shifted or anything. But his scent didn’t lie. And he was leaned against her truck waiting for her. All the snow around the truck had melted. He was wearing combat boots, black pants and a tight t-shirt. His long dark hair was pulled up into a messy bun on the back of his head. He had a scruffy almost beard growing. He reminded her a lot of Novik, the chief from the Seattle Tribe.
Gaven nearly ran into her back. “You okay. What happened?” He stopped next to her. “Know that guy?”
“No.” Ava stared at the stranger.
The guy perked an eyebrow but didn’t move.
“Pretty cold out for a t-shirt.” Gaven pulled his coat tighter around his body.
Ava held in a snort and studied the dragon male carefully.
She didn’t remember him from Novik’s tribe, but that didn’t mean he hadn’t been one of them. There had been a shit-ton of strangers all over the town when Saul saved Lorelei and Aarav and his brothers had joined the Tribe and pledged to Col.
“What do you want?” She hollered out across the parking lot.
He straightened, pushed off the truck and approached.
Shit.
Nobody was in town with her except Ryder. Thewholetribe was out at the cabins. She slipped her tongue between her teeth and bit until she tasted blood and then took a slow breath to keep from whining at the pain.
The doors flew open behind them so violently they smacked into the frames. “Ava.” Ryder’s voice called out. “What happened?”
