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He palmed his cock, which throbbed and pulsed, tipped with pale golden liquid.

She bent forward, unable to resist, and licked him. Then swirled her mouth over his jeweled head.

He groaned, pushing her shoulder back and away from him.

‘Nada. I’ll blow,mi reina. If I come, I’m inside you.’

‘Thenfokkme, baby,’ she begged.

He knelt by her thighs, canted her pelvis to him, wrapped her legs around his waist, and with a groan slid into her.

She welcomed him with a soft cry as he pumped, hard and fast.

Every thrust pushed her into the divan, as their mouths ground together, hands gliding over each other as their passion ratcheted.

Seconds later, Xander roared as he came, splashing her insides with scorching hot cum.

She convulsed as her bliss hit, moaning as her thighs trembled and shook through the waves of ecstasy that engulfed her.

He kept slicking in and out of her, mouth still on her in a passionate meld until they both shuddered into stillness.

His head moved as he buried himself in his favorite dip of her neck.

She pushed her face into his hair, stroking the tresses, their limbs still plastered together with sweat and need.

After a few moments, he lifted his head to stare at her.

‘How can you run from this, Savvine? What we have is beyond incredible.’

Her eyes locked with his, her chest heaving. Then she reached a hand to stroke away the lock of amethyst on his forehead. ‘Don’t you think I know that? I’m well aware.’

‘Then how can you walk away from it, from us?’

‘I’m not walking, Xander, I’m working through what it means for us.’

‘You’re worried about the claiming aspect of me?’

Her breath hitched, then she nodded.

He growled, shaking his head. ‘You assumed the claiming was one way. In our lycan thinking, we cannot be mated unless both partners claim, mark, and knot each other. You mistook my statement to think I was proposing an archaic one-sided union.Nada.’

He held one of her hands over his heart, even as his spectral wolf form rose into view above him. It was not snarling but thrumming at an aetheric vibrational level that sounded like rumbling thunder.

‘I cannot mate with you until you agree to my claim on you by claiming me back with your mark. Hear?’

‘What does that look like? Will I have to sink teeth into you?’

His chest rumbled at the horror in her face as his aetheric wolf shimmered away.

‘All you’ll need to do, my love, is nip me on my neck, even my ear, while making love, and the lycan spirit in me will do the rest. Our shared imprint will appear on your nape and mine, as a sign we are knotted for life.’

‘So because I haven’t done this, we’re not joined.’

‘Nada. Not yet. Not until you’re ready.’

She closed her eyes in relief before opening them again to gaze into his warm flames. ‘It means a lot to me for you to wait.’

‘Bueno, but know this. Your musk, perfume, and scent only ratchet my power and need. If you can do this before we knot each other, I barely dare to hope how it will be once we have.’