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“Everything,” I whispered, dropping to my knees before him.
I wrapped my hand around his impressive length.When I took him into my mouth, his groan of pleasure sent a thrill of power through me.I worked him with a sensual rhythm, using every trick I’d learned over our time together, the twist of my hand at the base of his shaft, the swirl of my tongue around the sensitive head, the gentle scrape of teeth that made his thighs tremble.I relished the way his hands fisted in my hair, guiding my movements with just the right amount of dominance.
“Enough,” he growled when his control began to fray.“This isn’t how I want to claim you tonight.”
He guided me onto the soft grass, kneeling between my thighs as moonlight painted us both silver.His fingers explored me with knowing precision, drawing desperate sounds from my throat as he built my pleasure with masterful strokes.He played my body like an instrument he’d spent years learning, knowing exactly where to touch, how much pressure to apply, when to ease back and when to push harder.
“Please,” I gasped, back arching as his thumb circled my clit, while he curled two fingers inside me, finding that spot that made stars explode behind my eyelids.“I need you inside me.”
“Not yet,” he murmured, lowering his head to replace his thumb with his tongue.The wet heat of his mouth against my core made me cry out, hips bucking against his face as he devoured me with single-minded focus.He held my thighs apart with strong hands, not allowing me to escape the pleasure he was determined to give.
When I was writhing beneath him, balancing on the knife’s edge of release, he finally positioned himself at my entrance.“Do you take me as your mate?”he asked, his voice strained with the effort of his restraint.
“Yes,” I breathed, my body aching for him to fill me completely.
“I take you as my fated mate,” he said, sliding inside me with one perfect thrust, “my other half, and the only woman in my bed.”
“And I take you as my fated mate,” I replied, wrapping my legs around his waist to take him deeper, “my other half, and the only man in my bed.”
He set a punishing rhythm that had me clawing at his back, leaving marks that would fade within minutes thanks to his shifter healing.Each thrust sent waves of pleasure radiating outward, building toward a climax that felt spiritual as much as physical.He knew exactly how to move, how to angle his hips to hit that spot inside me that made coherent thought impossible.
“Mine,” he growled, his teeth finding the mating bite on my neck.The sharp pain followed by pleasure pushed me over the edge, my inner walls clenching around him as I shattered beneath him.
“Brody!”I screamed as the orgasm crashed through me, more intense than any we’d shared before.Wave after wave of pleasure washed over me, each more powerful than the last, until I was reduced to sobbing his name as my body convulsed around his still-thrusting cock.
“Yours,” I gasped when I could form words again, my own teeth finding the spot where I’d claimed him a year ago.The moment I broke his skin, the connection deepened further.I could feel his heartbeat syncing with mine, his breathing falling into perfect rhythm with my own.
He continued his relentless pace, drawing a second orgasm from me before his own control finally broke.When we shattered together under the moon’s light, it was with the absolute certainty that nothing would ever separate us again.We were mated, bonded, eternally connected in ways that transcended the physical.
But Brody wasn’t finished with me yet.
Before I could catch my breath, he flipped me onto my stomach, pulling my hips up until I was on my hands and knees before him.“Again,” he commanded, his voice carrying the dominant edge that made my inner walls clench with anticipation.
He entered me from behind, the new angle allowing him to hit all the right spots.He snaked his hand around to find the sensitive bundle of nerves between my thighs, working it in time with his thrusts.
“You feel so good,” he groaned, his rhythm becoming more erratic as our combined pleasure spiraled higher.“So tight.So perfect.”
“Harder,” I begged, pushing back against him with desperate need.
He complied with animal ferocity, his thrusts becoming punishingly deep as he claimed me with primal intensity.The sound of skin slapping against skin filled the clearing, along with our mingled moans and growls.When his teeth found my shoulder again, biting down with possessive intent, I came with a scream that echoed through the clearing.
“That’s it,” he growled against my skin.“Let me hear you.Let the whole forest know who you belong to.”
His words pushed me higher, the pleasure almost too intense to bear as he continued to thrust into me, his hand still working my clit with devastating precision.When he followed me over the edge, his release triggering aftershocks that left me trembling beneath him, I collapsed onto the soft grass, unable to support my own weight any longer.
We lay tangled together, our bodies slick with sweat and satisfaction, the mate bond humming contentedly between us.He cradled me against his chest, his lips pressing gentle kisses to my shoulder, my neck, my temple, tender counterpoints to the primal claiming we’d just shared.
“Now we’re officially mated,” I whispered against his neck as we lay entwined on the soft grass.
“Yes, we are,” he agreed, rolling us so I was sprawled across his chest.He traced lazy patterns along my spine with his fingers, his touch both possessive and reverent.“I love you, Dr.Rozi Thornbern.”
I was leaving behind the trauma of the legacy of my last name.Dr.Rozi Thornbern.My new name felt perfect on his lips, a blend of who I’d been and who I’d become—mate, independent and connected, individual and part of something greater.
“And I love you too,” I whispered, pressing kisses to his mating bite.“More than I ever thought possible.”
He drew invisible formulas and equations on my skin, a habit he’d developed over our year together.
“So, Dr.Thornbern,” he murmured against my hair, “now that we’ve cured pre-feral symptoms, revolutionized shifter medicine, and gotten properly mated… what’s next on your agenda?”
