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Alina

I’VE NEVER FELT SO FULL.

Back in the greenhouse on the night of Samhain, when Raelan slipped his hand into my panties and pressed his finger inside me, I thought I couldn’t stretch any farther. But now he’s on top of me on the couch, in this firelit little cottage, and his cock has me filled to the point of breathlessness.

At first, I tensed up, but as his lips skate across my skin, his breath caressing me as he breathes, I soften to him, and the pain that first blossomed as he pushed into me begins to dim.

And soon, it’s gone altogether.

Raelan pulls out, then sinks back in slowly. His mouth finds my breast, and his tongue works its own kind of magic, rolling along my nipple, teasing it and flicking it as his cock still moves in slow delicious thrusts.

As my nervousness fades away, the hunger inside me builds .

I’ve wanted this man for so long, have dreamt of him kneeling between my knees. And finally, I have him right where I want him. Finally, he’s mine.

“More,” I whisper.

This draws his gaze up, and he ceases heaping attention upon my breasts for long enough to say, “Are you sure?”

A breathy laugh slips out of me. “Why do you keep asking me that?”

His eyes soften. “Because you’re precious to me. The last thing I want is to hurt you.”

I choose not to tell him how excruciating his claiming bite was, how my body burned as if I were facing trial by fire, how at one point I thought I’d never be free of the torment of his magic searing my veins. Instead, I say, “I’m not as breakable as you think.”

His lips pull back into a fang-filled smile, his eyes still slitted and flecked with gold. His arms and chest glimmer with partially shifted black scales, and his fingernails have transformed into long sharp claws.

Slowly, he sits up, leaving his dick buried inside me. Then, with what looks like some effort, he banishes the long talons. When his hands are human once again, he presses the pad of his thumb against my clit, making me jump.

“I never said you were breakable,” he whispers as his thumb works circles against me. At the same time, he presses his hips into mine, fucking me slowly, tenderly. “I said you’re precious. That’s different.” His thumb dips down, to where he’s buried inside me, and he drags my wetness back up my slit, making me shiver. “If anything,” he continues, the words rumbling low in his chest, “you’re the one who can break me.”

I can’t bring myself to respond. I’m too lost in the pleasure of his touch, the heat and trembling building in my low belly and between my legs. My hands slip down Raelan’s body, over his glossy scales. Beneath my touch, his muscles are firm, and they flex with each thrust of his cock into my pussy. The couch cushions dip beneath us, cradling us, absorbing each movement as Raelan grits his teeth and fucks me faster.

My body accepts him, draws him in. His balls slap against me, and the sound makes me moan. I want more of him, all of him. I want him to take me and claim me in every way he can.

“I’m almost there,” I whisper, closing my eyes.

His groan is a rumble in the firelit darkness. Then his mouth is on mine. His kiss burns like flame, and the mark on my throat, where his fangs pierced my skin only minutes ago, flares with heat. I thread my fingers around his neck, as if I can hold him here, keep him with me forever.

We’re bonded now , I realize. Forever.

My breath catches. Raelan presses his forehead to mine.

His thumb massages my swollen clit as his cock works inside me.

“Raelan,” I whisper.

And he sends me into a deliciously warm spiraling bliss. My magic causes snowflakes to fall around us, and they melt as soon as they make contact with our naked bodies. I throb and clench around him, tipping my head back on the couch cushion, exposing my throat. He presses kisses along my flesh, still working me through my orgasm. His tongue darts out to drag along my heated skin.

Inside me, he gets harder, bigger .

My pussy feels stretched to its fullest. I cry out as he pumps in and out of me.

At the last moment, he pulls out and releases his cum across my belly, spilling everything he has onto my still-trembling body. His hand goes to his cock, stroking it, working it until his body ceases spasming. We both gasp for breath, and when his eyes meet mine, a lazy smile curls across his lips.

He’s so damn beautiful, it almost hurts to look at him.

But he’s mine now. Mine.

Forever.

I pull him back down, pressing my mouth to his, though with less fervor this time, my body fully spent after the pain and pleasure he gave me.

And I feel something then, a twirl of emotion through my brain, one that feels like mine yet is not. I stop kissing Raelan, caught off-guard.

“What is it?” he asks. He braces himself on his forearms, hovering over me. His scales are disappearing slowly, leaving bronze skin in their wake.

“I feel...” I blink at him, and he cants his head slightly. “I think I feel... you . Your emotions.”

He softens, lifting one hand to push a sweaty strand of hair off my cheek. “It’s the bond. I can feel yours as well.”

Catching his hand, I flip it over and press a kiss to his palm, then his wrist. His pulse beats against my lips. And in a moment of abandon, I whisper, “So, you know how I feel... about you?”

My eyes flick up to his cautiously. The lazy smile is gone from his mouth. He regards me seriously, though with a tenderness I’ve never seen on his face before. Our bond thrums with pleasure.

This will take some getting used to.

Raelan leans down, his chest pressing to mine, and kisses my forehead softly. As he pulls away, he whispers, “I do. And I love you too, Alina Ravenscroft.” His eyes glitter with gold flecks. “More than all the stars in the sky. More than the feeling of wind over my wings.” He traces my face with his thumb, brushing my cheekbone, my jaw, the dip at the top of my upper lip. “More than you may ever know.”

And in that moment, with him atop me and the fire burning in the hearth, I feel more whole than I ever have.

Between one breath and the next, I wrap my hands about the back of Raelan’s strong neck, and I pull him in again, feeling his heat curl through the bond as I wrap my legs around him, intent on never letting go.