Page 123 of In Knots

“I love you, hot cheeks,” Bear tells her. “I don’t know what we did to get so lucky to deserve you, but I’m fucking grateful for it. Grateful every damn day.”

She reaches up to cup the back of his neck and he nuzzles her throat.

Then her eyes flicker open and connect with Cam’s.

There are tears in his eyes and he can’t find the words. He shakes his head, but he doesn’t have to say anything, it’s all there written over his face. Alexa kisses him before lifting her head, the curve of her throat exposed.

The feelings creasing over her face are so intense, I don’t think she’s even aware of the first nip at her neck and then the second, both their teeth deep in her flesh.

I sense the bonds of the others slotting into place. And now it’s done. Now we are whole.

I meet Buzz’s eyes through the darkness, the moon a silver sliver in the jet black sky, and I motion to him.

Together we draw our pack mates towards us until we are a tangle of love, a knot of limbs, bobbing in the ocean, our kisses salty and wet, our hearts full to bursting.

~ THE END ~

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