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DEXTER

A s soon as my shadows dissipated, I pinned Pandora against the wall in her room. "You smell like Bram, which is hot, but...I’d rather you smell like me right now."

“Dex, what?—”

I slammed my lips over hers, swallowing any protests she might’ve had. I devoured her mouth with my tongue, loving the taste of her.

She melted against me, her hands sliding up my chest and tangling in my hair as she gave herself to me. I felt her desire through the bond, blooming hot and needy.

It was so hot that she just let me devour her the way I needed to.

Breaking apart only slightly, I slid my nose down her neck and inhaled the spicy bourbon scent mixed in with her caramel one. My blood-like scent was mixed in now, too.

The scents of all her mates from the pendant she wore around her neck invaded my nose, but mine and Bram’s scents were stronger on her skin than the others right now.

“Are you okay, trouble?” I bit down on my lip, staring into her big red eyes. “Really?”

Her breath hitched, but she nodded. “I’m okay, Dex.”

“The shadow?” My voice broke, but I searched her gaze for the truth. I knew she was scared of shadow magic, and I didn’t know how to help her cope with having her own. I felt fucking useless. I wanted to help her, but I didn’t want to scare her, either.

She squeezed her eyes shut for a moment before opening them again. “I don’t know. I haven’t tried to use it...I can feel it, though. I know it’s there.”

“I’ll be with you every step of the way, okay?” I wrapped my fingers around her wrist and pulled her hand between us, keeping eye contact with her as I licked my mark embedded into her palm. “Because this marks you as mine, and I’m never letting you go. I love you.”

“I love you, too,” she replied in her soft, raspy voice.

“Fuck,” I moaned from the pure devotion in her tone.

She loved me.

I dropped to my knees and tugged her panties down, thankful she wore a dress. “I’m desperate for you, Pandora.”

“Then take me.” She stepped out of them like the good girl that she was, using my shoulders to steady herself.

“Gladly.” I stood back up, unbuckled my pants and pushed them to my knees before reaching down and grabbing her thighs. I picked her up and wrapped her legs around my waist before lining up with her soaking core.

I bucked my hips and entered her in one thrust to the hilt. Moans spilled from us both as she reached up and grabbed hold of my horns.

I didn’t hold back—I fucked her wildly.

“Do you know what you do to me?” I sucked in a ragged breath. “You fucking control me, Pandora. Every single move I make, every word I say...all of it depends on you. I am desperate to know that you are okay, and now that we’ve bonded, I can feel you in ways I’d only ever dreamed about.”

“I do?” Disbelief etched into her features before pleasure contorted them again.

“Of fucking course you do.” I thrust into her fast, loving the way her pussy clenched around me, pulling me deeper, tightening on me. “Knowing that you’re okay quells the madness. How many times do I have to tell you? You’re my sanity.”

“And you’re mine,” she moaned.

The way she responded made my psyche calm.

“I want to be buried inside of you forever.” My fingers bit into her ass as I fucked her against the wall, pumping in and out with a brutal rhythm.

“I’m not stopping you,” she rasped between uncontrollable moans.

I was drowning in her, and it was the best feeling ever. Maybe it was crass, but I never felt more at home than I did when I was balls-deep inside of my fated.

“Ah, Dex,” she gasped as her body tensed.

“Yes, baby, come around my cock,” I urged her on, keeping my pace. “Lose yourself to me because you fucking know I’m lost to you.”

She shuddered around me as her orgasm ripped through our bond, coaxing me to do the same. Her head fell back against the wall as I spiraled right after her.

I buried myself inside her deeper, and my release crashed over me.

“Fuck, trouble. Fuck,” I moaned, ignoring the sound of footsteps somewhere close. Someone might’ve been walking down the hall, but I honestly couldn’t care less.

The pleasure exploded in our matebond, overwhelming me, drowning out everything else. She was the only thing I cared about right now, and I fucking mated her—truly marked her as mine.

We remained like that, against the wall as I stayed buried inside of her.

All we did was breathe for a few beautiful moments.

“At least you kept your clothes on,” Nebula scoffed.

We turned to see that her bag had fallen to the ground, and his skull had rolled out to where his eye sockets were pointed at us.

“Shit, sorry, Nebs.” I carefully put Pandora down and pulled my sensitive cock out of her, moaning as I did. “Sorry.” I sheepishly grinned at my mate and bent down to pull my pants back up.

Pandora’s face was scarlet as she bent down and picked Nebula up, walking him to the nightstand for him to sit on. “I’m so sorry, Nebula. You weren’t supposed to see that.”

Four consecutive bangs sounded on the door, and it literally almost fell off the hinges. “Don’t I get an apology, too? I didn’t need to hear that!”

“Babe, we do worse,” Jenni replied, and Pandora made a grossed out face.

“But she’s still my daughter, damn it!” he practically wailed as Jenni’s voice came through, soothing him. “No sex in my house!”

“You can’t do that,” Jenni argued. “It’s her house, too, and if you ban sex, you don’t get any, either.”

Death sputtered something I couldn’t hear as Jenni forced him away from Pandora’s room.

Pandora and I made eye contact, and we couldn’t help but smile at each other.

“I guess no more of this, then?” I moved forward and cupped her pussy, using my fingers to slather our cum all over her lips and thighs.

Her legs wobbled, and pleasure burst through our bond. “I wouldn’t say that.”

I tossed my head back and cackled. “That’s my fated.”

“Ew,” Nebula hissed. “Stop marking her in front of me.”

Pandora’s face flamed red again, and I bent down and took her lips with my own, making her forget her embarrassment and only feel me instead.