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Early the next morning, I straddled his hips and took his morning wood inside me. Sleeping next to him always made me so wet and aroused.

“Fuck!” Nikolai gripped my hair and kept our mouths fused as I rode him until he came. Ever since I had felt him inside me the first time my hunger for him only grew.

“Wow, baby. That’s the best way to be woken up.”

“I’m glad you enjoy it. I will never stop.”

Nikolai snorted and pulled me down on his chest.

“I want you to meet my mother, Jules.”

“What?” His arms around my back stopped me from sitting up.

“I don’t know yet how we can manage with Barney and the chickens. Maybe we could ask Vee and Nate to take care of them?”

“Do you think they would do that? Or that your mother will want to meet me at all?”

“Believe me, she does. I told her about you, and she’s so excited to meet ‘my Jules’.” Bunny pecked me on the forehead.

“If we can manage to find someone to take care of my pets, I’ll try to be brave for you.” He cuddled me closer.

“Thank you, baby boy. It would mean the world to me.”

I knew. And I would move mountains for him if he needed me to.

We agreed on a weekend at the end of July before Bunny would travel to Scotland for three weeks. The thought of being away from my forest for three days scared me, but I knew how important it was to Nikolai.

I will be brave for my mate.

Vitus, who had already visited me in my forest, agreed to come by to feed the chickens. He and his husband would take care of Barnabas at their house. I was sure they would do fine with him. My Wolpertinger adored Vitus’ human, Nate.

Just like he adores Bunny.

Nikolai and I agreed that the long drive wasn’t ideal for him to do by himself, but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t looking forward to being in the car again. It had grown on me, being Nikolai’s passenger.

Watching Bunny prepare for the trip was so cute. It made me feel all mushy inside how excited he was.

“I’ll get to introduce my two favourite people to each other,” he’d said when I asked him what he looked forward to the most.

When I visited him in his tiny flat the week before our trip, it was taken up by boxes.

Fear enveloped me when I spotted them.

“Are you moving, Nikolai?”

Don’t leave me, Bunny.

“Oh my God, no. The only move I’d ever consider is in with you.” He bit his lip and leaned in to gently bump his nose against mine.

“You would?” I breathed, unablenotto ask.

“Well, yeah. I’ve been thinking about it, to be honest. I’d have to drive a bit more, but I’m staying at your place most of the time anyway. I mean, I don’t know if you even want that. Probably not, and it’s fine.”

“Bunny,” I ended his rambling with my hand on his heart. “You have no idea how happy it would make me if you moved in with me. It’s the only thing I want.” I didn’t know what made me say it, but when I probed the spot the words had escaped from I found I had spoken my deepest truth.

“Seriously, baby?”

“Seriously.” I cupped his scruffy cheek in my palm and kissed him. “Being with you is the only thing I truly ever wanted.”