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“Both. I, uh . . .” Elena presses her lips together, as if trying to find the words. “I haven’t actually donethisbefore.” She gestures between her body and my cock, and slowly, the realization hits me.

“You’ve never . . .” I suck in a breath. “You mean, you’re avirgin?”

Elena rolls her eyes. “I hate that word. It makes me sound like a princess who’s been locked in a tower her whole life.”

But an odd feeling is rising in my chest. I’m still furious with myself for going too fast with her, but I’m also elated.

My mate is a virgin. I get to be her first. Her last. Heronly.

Before I can say or do anything stupid, I sit down on the bed and gather her into my lap, pressing a kiss to her temple and working my way down to her mouth. “Baby, you should havetoldme.”

“I just did.”

I snort and bury my face in her sweet-smelling hair. “I meanbeforeI used my belt on you.”

“I actually liked that.”

“I could tell,” I rumble, the words coming out more like a growl.

Elena playfully swats my chest, but I capture her hand and hold it against my heart so she can feel how hard it beats for her. She presses her face into my neck, planting a kiss and whispering, “Please don’t stop.”

And my heart fucking bursts.

“Stop?” I gently grab a handful of her hair and pull back so I can look her in the eye. “Baby, I’m just getting started. I’m gonna eat your sweet little pussy until you come so hard that you scream. Then I’m going to take what’s mine.”

Elena shivers at my words, but I scent only excitement.

Setting her on the bed, I drop to the floor on my knees. I can’t remember ever kneeling in my life. I bow to no one excepther.

Slowly, reverently, I push her knees apart and stare down at her weeping slit. She’s bare except for a thin strip of dark hair, and nestled in the center of that is her swollen pink clit.

Elena squirms under my gaze, but I position myself between her thighs so she can’t snap her legs together.

“Lie back,” I whisper.

She does, and I hitch both of her legs over my shoulders and bury my face in her folds. She jerks violently at the overload of sensation, but I grip the tops of her thighs and lap up her juices before parting her lips with my fingers.

I lick a sensuous trail up her center, lavishing attention on her sensitive nubbin before licking my way back down to her entrance. A soft gasp escapes her when I flick my tongue inside, swirling and tasting and teasing. I reach upand pinch her nipple between my fingers, and Elena bucks her hips wildly.

Grinning, I move up to her throbbing clit and take the little bundle of nerves between my teeth. Elena groans and grinds against me, and I slide two fingers inside her to deepen the sensation.

I continue to nip at her clit and stroke her insides until she’s a trembling wreck beneath me.

“Jake —” she rasps.

“Not yet, baby.” I growl the words against her mound. “Not until I tell you to come.”

My mate makes a sexy little note of protest. I slide my fingers out of her and deliver a sharp smack to her beautiful cunt.

Elena squeals and bucks against me, and I slide out from under her thighs. Army-crawling over her hips and torso, I stare down at her smooth golden skin and those rock-hard nipples.

My balls ache at the sight of them, and I dive down and take one into my mouth. I lick and kiss and nip and suck until Elena’s hand wanders down toward her pussy.

“What did I tell you?” I taunt.

Elena’s hand freezes before she reaches that swollen pink nub, and I mentally kick myself for stopping what would surely have been its own sweet, sweet torture.

But I don’t want her to get herself off. All her orgasms belong to me.