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Chapter

Twenty-Nine

Athena couldn’t help the smile that came across her lips at the low growl when the knock sounded on Draco’s office door. When he gave the order for them to enter, she forced herself to slow down.

That is until she heard the nasally sound of a female voice enter the office. The challenge was on to mark her mate for good.

“Draco, darling. So good to see you.”

“I told you to stop calling me that. It’s unprofessional and it’s an insult to my mate.”

Athena sucked him in deeper, nearly gagging as he hit the back of her throat. She remembered to breathe through her nose before it was too late.

She nearly jumped when she felt Draco’s hand on her cheek as if to comfort her. She slowed her motions, letting it drag out.

“Oh, come now, Draco. You and I have history together. We had fun together in the past. Whatever do you see in that waste of a human schoolteacher? I didn’t realize you had a thing for elephants.”

Athena was about to pull away, ready to hide in the corner under Draco’s desk at the comment. Draco gripped her hair, keeping her where she was.

With his hand in her hair, he guided her up and down his cock. She’d half a mind to bite it off.

“Let me make myself very fucking clear, Sheila. This will be the last time we discuss this. Next time you feel brave enough to insult my mate, my wife, your Luna, remember your position in this pack. I can and will terminate you at my discretion or hers. As for our “history”, there is no history between us. You attempted to kiss me in high school, and I rejected you then as well. You attempted to reconnect when you came back after college and again was rejected. Know your place.”

Athena’s eyes got watery at the way Draco defended her honor. She’d never had anyone do that for her, besides Deidra.

She moved her hands to grip Draco’s knees as she moved to take him deeper in to her mouth. When she felt him hit the back of her throat, she swallowed around the head of his cock.

“Draco!” Sheila gasped at his threat.

When Athena swallowed around the head of Draco’s cock, Draco pounded the desk with an open palm, a low growl emanating from his throat. Athena moved a little further down his cock and swallowed again before she relented.

She didn’t want him to come just yet. She wanted to prolong everything.

She wanted to drive him to the edge. Make him crazy with want.

Crazy with need. She wanted to make him pant and beg for his release the way he makes her.

“Sheila, if you’re smart, which I’ve yet to see, you’ll back off of Draco. He’s told you he’s not interested in you and your childish head games.”

Leo! Athena breathed a sigh of relief that Draco wasn’t alone with the banshee anymore.

Gods, she wished they were alone so that she could scratch her nails down his chest. That always drives him toward the edge.

Draco loves it when she marks him. It was like a badge of honor for him. He marked her just as much for everyone to see she was his and his alone.

Her growly Alpha mate was a bit possessive where she was concerned. Truth be told, she was too, where he was concerned.

Athena had to admit the back-and-forth insults between Leo and Sheila were comical to her. It was clear as could be that Leo couldn’t stand the woman.

“Look, it’s obvious the Maplewoods want an alliance with us.

They want a truce. You mating the human who was promised to the Alpha’s son, the one who is not your true mate, so therefore no true mate bond, is a clear call for a war between the two packs.

Right now, they are the stronger pack,” Sheila yelled out, causing the room to go silent.

“Who the fuck are you to say our mating isn’t the true mate bond?” Draco’s voice went low and deadly at his question.

“She’s a fucking human…”

Athena jumped at the yelp that sounded from several people in the room. She could feel the anger coming from Draco in waves.

She used one hand to rub his thigh while she gripped his cock with the other. She decided to send him over the edge.

“Enough! Everyone out of my fucking office. Now !”

As soon as she heard the door click, she was pulled from under the desk, picked up and placed on Draco’s desk. Soon as her ass was planted on the desk, her dress was thrown up to her waist and her panties tore from their spot on her body.

In one thrust, Draco’s hard, solid steel cock was pounding into her hard, fast, and furiously. All she could do was hold on for the ride.

“ Mine .”

Athena heard both Shadow and Draco’s growled word in her head. She reached up with her hand and repeated the word back to him.

Draco gripped her throat in his hand as he pounded her pussy like he was a man possessed. She reached up and gripped his shirt and pulled him to her.

She leaned up as best as she could and bit into his jaw as she repeated his word, “mine.”

She didn’t know what possessed her to do so, but ripped open Draco’s shirt, exposing his chest, not caring she was sending buttons flying everywhere. As she felt her orgasm fast approaching, she bit his shoulder and marked him the best way she knew how.

When she felt Draco’s teeth sink in her flesh, she came, her orgasm the hardest its ever been. Her body shook from its intensity.

“ Mine .”

“ Mine !” she repeated mentally.

“ We are one. Our bond is officially sealed. Only death can break our mate bond. Even in death, I will follow you. We are eternal .”

“ One heart .”

Athena released her hold on Draco and leaned back to look into his eyes. What she saw there made all the fear and doubt she’d ever had about their mating and relationship melt away. She knew then and there she was in love with this man with every fiber of her being.

“I-I know you don’t feel the same way yet. But I wanted you to know, I love you. I know it’s foolish to say that this soon, but I can’t help how I feel.”