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Slowly, I move up her body, savoring the taste of her still on my lips and the way she looks up at me in wonder. “I’ve never—” she breathes. “That was beautiful, Ren.”

Gripping my length, I drag the tip through her slick folds, groaning as I fight the instinct to thrust deep and knot her. I meet her gaze evenly. “Are you sure you want this?”

“Yes,” she breathes. “I want you, Ren. Make me yours.”

Intense need claws at my control as I notch myself at her entrance. Her gaze holds mine as I slowly push inside her.

She’s so tight, I grit my fangs, worried that I’ll spill before I’m fully sheathed. Breathing hard, I press my forehead against hers, fighting for restraint as I slowly sink deeper. This is the most exquisite torture I’ve ever known.

A deep growl vibrates in my chest as her warm, wet heat envelops my stav like a tightly fisted glove. Every nerve ending in my body is on fire, my inner fox demanding that I claim her, mark her, and bind her to me so that every male will know she is mine.

“I love you,” she whispers as she touches my face. “I choose you, Ren.”

She arches up into me as I push through her maidenhead, and the world shatters into light.

CHAPTER 50

RAPUNZEL

My breath catches as a sharp flare of pain ripples through me when Ren breaks through my barrier, my body instinctively tightening.

He stills. “Are you all right?” His entire body trembles with restraint, his breathing ragged as he stares down at me in concern. “Rapunzel?”

When I don’t answer right away, he starts to pull back, but I tighten my legs around him. “Stay,” I barely manage. “I just… need a moment to adjust.”

The pain ebbs, melting into something new. Somethingdelicious.My earlier discomfort replaced by an intense fullness as my body yields to his invasion.

Pleasure builds as he eases deeper with small, careful thrusts, giving me time to adjust as he fills me, claiming places inside me I never knew were hollow until now.

Enveloped in his masculine scent, I love the weight of him over me. I trace my hands down his back, feeling the powerfulmuscles beneath his skin. Closing my eyes, I revel in the sensation of each thrust of his hips as he claims me.

He’s so strong. So perfect. And all mine.

“Look at me, Rapunzel,” he murmurs, voice low and rough. “I want to watch you as you find your release.”

I open my eyes. Moonlight filters through the willow branches, carving his body in shadows and light, highlighting the muscles of his powerful form as each stroke becomes longer and deeper.

It’s too much.Almost too much.

His fox-fire eyes are molten gold, glowing with a fierce, possessive devotion as he stares down at me. Ren slips one hand beneath my thigh, hooking under my knee and lifting it higher, opening me even wider. “Mine,” he growls as he sinks impossibly deeper.

I sob his name as pleasure ripples through me with each claiming thrust.

His every movement is worship and reverence as he creates a delicious friction between us, his thick length, dragging against places inside me that I never knew could feel sogood.

Burying my fingers in his hair, I pull his mouth back down to mine in a passionate kiss. He growls, his thrusts deepening as he quickens his pace.

“Need to mark you,” he rasps, baring his fangs. “Need to claim you as my mate.”

“I’m yours,” I whisper.

A strange pressure builds in my channel, tightening almost to the point of pain, but not quite. “What is that?”

Ren grips my hip, surging deep with rolling thrusts. “My knot,” he rasps.

He closes his mouth over my neck, and I feel a sharp sting of pain as his fangs pierce my skin, giving me his claiming mark. But the pain is quickly replaced by pleasure as his knot locks ustogether, and I cry out his name as a powerful climax ripples through me.

My release triggers his own. “Mine!” he roars. Heat erupts deep within, in thick pulsing bursts as he fills me with the delicious warmth of his seed.