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Chapter Twenty-Two

“T hank you for the dress. Okay, for everything, but I can’t accept all of that,” Brooke said .

He took her hand in his and walked back in the direction of the bedroom she’d woken in. He said nothing as he entered, taking her with him and then shutting the door .

“Malik?”

He faced her, still holding her hand. “I love you. And I want to hold you right now so bad it’s killing me .”

Brooke closed the gap between them and put her arms around his neck .

He lifted her off the ground and spun her in a circle. “I love you so fucking much. I get your trust in me is shaken. I deserve that. I chased you away and then you went through something horrible .”

Brooke tried to speak but he kept going .

“I will beg you to stay with me. I can’t lose you and Bethany,” he said, his hand skimming her cheek tenderly .

She put her hand over his. “ Malik .”

He stopped talking .

“I did go through something horrible. But I came out the other side with a beautiful baby girl. I would never change her or wish her away. She was worth every second of everything I went through .”

“She’s perfect. You’ve done such an amazing job with her,” said Malik, lowering his head. “I should have been a part of that. I can’t change the past but I can beg for the future. Let me be part of your lives. Let me love you .”

She pressed her mouth to his, surprising herself .

He growled and lifted her again, walking her towards the wall, as he’d done five years ago .

She tugged at his shirt, wanting it off him .

He pressed her to the wall and then put his palms to it, grinding his hips against her .

She broke the kiss and Brooke laughed as she wiggled to get down .

He set her on her feet and she put her back to him. “Help me out of the dress .”

“Brooke?”

“How long will your friends keep Bethany occupied for?” she asked .

“For as long as we need,” he confessed. “They’re all mated—except for Striker. But they all know how important this is for us .”

“Then take your clothes off, Tut,” she said with a wink. “I need to feed the side of me that requires sexual energy and I want you to be the man with me when I do it .”

Wasting no time, he tore his shirt off. He then slid his pants off, kicking them aside. He stroked his cock, watching her a moment before unzipping her dress and kissing the shoulder he’d bitten years ago. He put his lips to her ear. “I didn’t understand that I’d claimed you fully .”

She let the dress fall to a puddle at her feet, keeping her back to him still. “What does that mean, exactly? How did you make me your wife ?”

“When I bit you during sex and told you that you were mine,” he said, bending and easing her panties off her. He kissed her bare ass cheek as he did .

She remembered it well. “ Yes ?”

“That is how a shifter male claims his woman. How he marks her and binds himself to her for all eternity,” he said, pressing his front to her back. “I knew what I’d done was a claiming, but I thought you were human. I couldn’t understand my loss of control with you. I blamed it on suppression drugs I was testing for work. I’m so sorry, my sweet .”

She reached back and ran her hand over his thigh. “I thought you used me. That you played a game with me .”

“Gods no,” he said, pressing his lips to her shoulder again, his cock nudging at the cleft of her ass. “Tell me how to do this, how to give you what your body needs .”

A sultry laugh came from her. “Malik, you just have to fuck me .”

He moved her hair away from her neck and smiled against her skin before nipping it playfully. “I think I can handle that .”

She knew he could .

He took hold of her wrists and lifted her arms above her head, pressing her palms to the wall before her. He rubbed against her and used one hand to stroke himself. Then he pressed the head of his cock to her wetness and lifted one of her legs enough to raise her body off the ground slightly .

Malik pushed his cock into her pussy and Brooke moaned, trying to move her body to counter his move, but the way he had her held and pressed to the wall, she couldn’t move. He was in total control of the situation. He pushed in all the way and she gasped .

“Malik,” she whispered .

He kissed the spot he’d bitten years ago. “Brooke,” he said his voice deep. “Give me this. I need to sate the beast .”

“Yes,” she returned .

Suddenly, he was moving at an inhuman speed, in and out of her, being far more sexually aggressive than he’d been five years prior. And she loved it. Loved him thrusting into her so hard and fast that her breasts pressed into the wall. She used her hands to keep from being totally flatted against the wall and to push back at Malik, wanting more .

Her toes began to tingle and tiny shockwaves of pleasure began to work their way up her body, heading to her core. The darker side of her that craved sex and sexual energy came out to play, soaking in what Malik was giving her. It too wanted more .

He gasped and fucked her harder, seeming as if he’d drive himself right through her. Or push them both through the wall. Her power built. As it did, Malik’s rhythm began to waver .

He lifted her leg higher, and in turn, lifted her higher as well. “W-What is that ?”

Sweat slicked her skin lightly as he pummeled her body with his, making her power wrap around him, filling her with what she needed. “Sorry. Can’t control it .”

Growling, he pushed in deep and held, but she knew he wasn’t coming yet. “It feels so fucking good .”

“Mm, I know,” she murmured with a lazy smile .

He pulled out of her slowly, teasing her, making her whimper before he shoved in deep again with a growl. As he drew out of her painfully slow once more, she hit at the wall, wanting more .

“Please,” she begged. “I need this .”

He licked her shoulder and then gave it a tiny kiss before he began pounding like a piston into her .

Brooke cried out loudly as pleasure raced through her. She tried to pull off him, her orgasm that strong. She wasn’t sure what was going to happen and her first response was to run from it. Malik didn’t let her. He kept going, kept thrusting into her. Her entire body spasmed. She cried out again and he roared, slamming into her, jetting seed into her .

Her body ate up the energy around them. She hadn’t felt this good in years .

Malik’s body twitched as he remained in her, continuing to come .

“Malik?”

His whole body trembled. “My sweet, it’s been a long for me. Sorry .”

“Sorry? I want to do that again,” she said with total sincerity .

He chuckled, his body starting to calm. He eased out of her with great care and then turned her to face him. He lifted her again and kissed her mouth, making love to it as he carried her to the bed and laid her out on it. He eased up alongside of her, facing her as he pinned her to his frame .