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He reached over to my nightstand and produced the bottle of lube. He popped the top off it and then his eyebrows raised when I held out my hand. But he poured a fair amount into my hand. Then he sucked in a sharp breath, his face tilting heavenward as I coated his shaft with the lubricant, working my hand up and down him, marveling at his hardness and length.

Fuck, that feels good.

I wasn’t quite sure whose thought it was because I had sucked in a breath as well, as the phantom sensation of my own hot touch on his cock rippled through the blood bond, the pleasure of it causing my own toes to curl.

I hastily spread some lube on my hole, then pulled him down on top of me.

He laughed, getting into position over me, one hand on either side of me. “So eager. So demanding.”

“Always,” I agreed, wrapping my legs around his waist. I pulled him in for a kiss while he guided himself into me.

Then, we both sucked in a gasp at the same time as our combined ecstasy, the overwhelming sensation of being both inside of another man and having another man enter us at the very same time, shot through the telepathic link.

It was the hot, wet tightness of sliding into me that Pierce felt, the feel of making love to another man. But it was also the delicious fullness and the jolts of almost-too-much full-body pleasure I felt at having him moving inside of me, at having him work himself in and out of my body.

Pierce let out a groan of pleasure, gripping my hips as he drove himself into me again and again, tearing little moans and gasps from my lips.

Holy shit, that’s incredible.

Pierce must have heard my most secret desires, or perhaps he felt precisely the same way I did, because while he was a bit too gentle at first, he made up for it by setting a devasting pace that caused me to whimper and writhe with pleasure on the bed beneath him, my body his for the taking.

I felt a familiar tingling in the base of my spine, accompanied by a tightening sensation in my balls, but every time I got too close, he slowed his pace down, refusing to let me orgasm too early.

And when he, at last, found his release inside of me, his orgasm sent me over the edge too, and I shot hot ropes of white across my stomach.

The explosive combined pleasure of our shared orgasm, echoing between us, left both of us gasping and clinging to each other for dear life.

After the mind-bending pleasure of our combined orgasm had fully faded, Pierce carefully pulled himself out of me. Then, using vampire speed, he vanished from the room and returned a few seconds later, carrying a towel. He dried me off first, then himself.

This blood bond is dangerous, Pierce told me silently, arching an eyebrow. There was the ghost of a smile on his lips, but his eyes were dancing with mischief. However, I didn’t need any of that anymore to know that he was mostly kidding. The connection between us told me everything I needed to know.

He added, just so you know, this has entirely ruined any other type of sexual experience for me.

Good, I replied with a grin, pulling him back down into the bed beside me and throwing my arms around him. Because you belong to me, vampire.

The connection between us told me that his surprise at the simple way I had laid a claim to him was eclipsed only by how much he found he liked it. No one had ever claimed him before. Not really, at least.

Well, that was going to change. I was planning on claiming Pierce every single day for the rest of our lives.

For starters, at least.

And then, even as this thought echoed between us, I felt his love for me. It was fierce, and it was new, but it was real, and I don’t know how I could have ever doubted that love existed in the first place. And some last, lingering piece of resistance broke in me as well, swept away on a wave of pure emotion. For the very first time in my life, I knew that my heart was fully open, and I didn’t feel like a sucker at all. I knew that he would never hurt me.

“My brave, foolish human,” Pierce whispered aloud, drawing me close with his powerful arms and kissing my neck. He whispered, right into my ear, “You’re everything I’ll ever want and everything that I’ll ever need. And I promise that I will love you for eternity. If that’s okay with you?”

“Yes,” I replied, feeling my own love swell in my chest, filling every part of me so completely that I felt like I might burst with it. Pierce was everything I would ever want as well, for as long as I lived. “Yes. Eternity sounds about right.”

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