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“On everything that I am,” he replied.

With a sigh, I leaned forward, let the surge of want take over. Lloyd rolled me under him in one languid movement. Our lips fused together, and I moaned into his mouth. Sunshine-warmed ocean, skin slick with salt and hot from golden sand. Lloyd’s scent whipped me away. His hands tangled in my hair and his tongue danced against mine. With all the tender love Lloyd was capable of. My cheeks spilled over with tears, and he kissed the moistness away, trailing his lips down my neck.

“I can’t tell you how many times I imagined you in our nest. My honey girl,” Lloyd muttered, and the awe in his voice made my throat choke with a rush of adoration.

His touch and taste took me under the swell of ocean waves. Where the world dropped away. Lloyd nudged his knee in between my legs and settled his weight on top of me.

“I want you.” I pressed little kisses over Lloyd’s face, unable to stop a giddy smile. He rocked against me, his hard bulge pressed to my heated core.

Lloyd’s fingers scrambled at his buttons. He revealed a surfer’s body, lean, tanned muscle. On his chest, above his heart, was a tattoo of a shooting star.

“What’s this?”

“It’s my reminder. There was a time when I was ready to give up. I thought no one was coming to our rescue. So, I snuck out and stared at the stars. There was one that lit up the sky, and I swear, it was like a sign.”

I trailed my fingers over the tattoo. My chest throbbed with pain. And the need to be close to him.

“I need you, Lloyd.”

In more ways than one.

I flicked open the button of his jeans and he shed them. A beam of sun bleach blond trailed down to his long, narrow cock. I pulled him down against me, feverish with desire. He was my star, my sign, and he’d blown my world open for joy again. AsLloyd captured my mouth in a tender kiss, I knew he felt it. The warmth in my chest, the flutter in my stomach. We were sweet like spring morning dew. The way my heart burst, I expected petals to fall out of the sky and rain down on us in slow motion.

I was giddy.

“Promise?” Lloyd pushed my dress up and sank back on his haunches. Vulnerability scored lines in his face, and I wondered how anyone could ever find him wanting. The handsome beta who never let me forget him, not from the moment we met. I spread my legs and nodded, desperate to feel him inside me.

Lightning coursed through my veins, and it cleansed.

Lloyd rubbed his cock through my soaked slit and sank into me. His eyes crashed closed, and his mouth dropped open on a low moan. His weight fell forward, and arms bracketed my head. I wrapped my legs around his waist and met his jerky thrusts.

This was lush. It was ripe raspberries making my teeth ache. This wasn’t my first time, but it felt like it was. Each tender thrust carved my body anew. My channel strangled his hard length, hungry for every steel inch.

“L-Lloyd, kiss me,” I begged, as his hips rocked.

He pulled down the collar of my dress and latched onto my breast instead. His tongue pebbled my nipple, and I arched into the scrape of his teeth. It was only the two of us in the entire universe. Everything dropped away and my chest caught.

“My perfect girl,” Lloyd muttered in a fevered tone, tracing his tongue to my other breast. I met his thrusts with a whimper, seeking something only his body could give me. “I want you in every way.”

“S-soon,” I promised, and the delicious throb between my legs blanketed my entire body with velvet desire.

This gentle joining unlocked my heat, and with each roll of his narrow hips, the crevice widened. My heart crashed like waves on the shore, and salt flooded my tongue. Lloyd drowned me inpleasure. The sound of our bodies slapping together filled the room, as did the chorus of our moans. The nest was a bubble, and we rocked against each other with no barriers in our bodies and our hearts.

Contained heat throbbed through my body, like sunburn stretching my skin. Lloyd’s fingers slipped between our bodies and coaxed a waterfall of pleasure. It grew and grew until I gasped, the soft lust turning hungry. Sharp. I needed more. Lloyd felt the change as I did. His pupils blew out as he stared at my face. How was it he could look right through me? From the first instant he’d seen to my core and desired me despite everything.

“I’m going to fill you up, Tully.”

Our movements turned primal, seeking oblivion in flesh. I tangled my fingers in Lloyd’s hair and tightened them into fists as he bellowed his release. Warmth flooded my insides, and Lloyd sank into me. Our chests kissed each other with sweat.

Lloyd pressed a featherlight kiss to my jaw. “The way you hold my cock inside you, g-gods, Tully.” He stumbled over his words as my pussy clenched around him. Lloyd circled my clit, tender like the start, and my orgasm unfurled inside me until I sagged underneath him.

“That was…” I gulped, still boneless. “Nobody else has ever made me come before,” I admitted in a whisper.

Lloyd made a strangled noise.

“Nobody?Nobody?” Lloyd leaned back, still hard. “What about that alpha?”

I shook my head. “I’m not a virgin, but the guy I was with never thought about making it good for me.”