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“Go home and make me some grandbabies,” Ma said, grinning at her son.

Connor nearly tripped over his feet.

“Ma!” he said, blushing.

“Come on, stud, before you short-circuit Rian again,” Madison said, blowing kisses at Rian.

“Seriously though, Connor, if you know some guys that need a shoulder to cry on, or any other body part, send them my way,” Rian offered magnanimously.

Connor walked into the house behind Madison and locked the door behind him. When he turned back around, his mate had slipped out of her dress and was walking up the stairs naked except for a pair of thigh-high stockings and her high heels.

Connor jogged up the stairs behind her. He had plans for his wildcat. She was going to be giving herself to him tonight, all of herself. Her heart included.

When he walked into the bedroom she lay back on her elbows, watching him with a sexy smile.

“Want to frisk me?” she asked. He shook his head. Instead, he went to the closet and pulled out four silk ties. She watched him come back into the room and looked at the ties.

“What are they for?” she asked.

“You’ll see. Lie back, baby. I would cuff you, but the metal would hurt that gorgeous ivory skin of yours.” Connor walked over to the far side of the bed.

Lazily, he secured one wrist to the solid oak bedpost then the ankle. He walked around to the foot of the bed and secured her other ankle and then finally her other wrist. He walked to the foot of the bed and stood there looking at his mate.

“You know this is doing nothing for me,” Madison said, shaking her wrist at him. He smiled wickedly at her.

“Connor?”

“I may not have told you everything there was to know about me, but I never lied to you. You, however, have been a very bad mate. You lied to me about something important.” Connor crossed his arms and watched her face. As predicted, she got angry.

“I never lied to you,” she seethed.

“Yes you did. I asked you if you were ready to be claimed and you said yes. That means opening your heart to your mate. You held that back. I said I love you earlier and you brushed me off. Now, you’re at my mercy.” Connor slowly removed his jacket.

“Connor, what are you going to do?”

“I will have my mate, all of her. I won’t be satisfied until I have your complete surrender.” Connor untucked his shirt and started to unbutton it one button at a time.

“Okay this isn’t funny, untie me,” Madison demanded.

“Are you uncomfortable? Have some place to go?” Connor asked, slipping another button through a buttonhole.

“No, I just don’t like this,” she admitted. He paused and watched her face carefully.

“Are you afraid I will hurt you? Are you afraid I will do something you don’t like and won’t stop?”

“Aren’t you kinda doing that right now? I’m asking to be untied.”

“You have to learn to trust me, Madison. I will never hurt you, never betray you. Can you give up some of that control?”

Her eyes went from defiant to troubled. He undid the final button and walked to the side of the bed. Gently, he trailed a finger around her collarbone between her breasts and down to her belly button. He bent over the bed and placed a soft kiss on her lower belly right above her mons.

“What if I can’t?” she asked quietly.

“Close your eyes, I’m going to talk to you, and you’ll have to listen to what I say,” he said. She nodded and closed her eyes.

Quietly, he removed his shirt and his pants.

He pulled off his boxer briefs and let them fall to the floor before climbing onto the bed with his mate.

Slowly, he began to make love to her. First he lay beside her and placed a hand over her heart.

He wanted to feel what got her heart racing. She smiled at his touch.

He leaned in and began at the top of her ear and traced the delicate curve before trailing down her neck.

She shivered. He kissed his way down, paying special attention to the place where he had bit her in their claiming.

Carefully, he nipped the bite mark. Her heart rate picked up and the scent of her arousal increased slightly.

He bit down her neck and ran his tongue along her collarbone.

Moving lower, he nudged the side of her breast with his nose.

He ran his nose around the light-pink areola, ignoring the hardened nub.

She tried shifting her upper body to move closer to him, but he moved back.

He waited until she settled back down before continuing his quest.

“Do you know what I love the most about you? Your unfailing loyalty and your deep sense of right and wrong. The way you look after your brother and sister, I can tell you have always watched over them. The work you do. Taking cases where people couldn’t pay, but you made sure they had justice.

You are amazing.” He slowly ran his tongue over her nipple. She moaned.

“When you stuck up for me in Griffin’s office, putting Wendall in his place.

Baby, you got me so hard, I was afraid I would forget my own notes.

I’m not asking you to change who you are.

I love when you are ball-busting people, as long as it’s not me.

” He smiled and moved to her other breast. He repeated the same torturous pattern.

“In the diner, I knew you wanted to put me in my place but you didn’t.

You would never go against me in public.

You listened patiently and took my hand when I needed you.

You made sure we appeared to be a united front.

I wanted you so badly I could almost taste that sweet honey you give only to me. ” He nipped playfully at her nipple.

“When you saw my pain you put everything you were feeling aside to comfort me. Do you have any idea how rare that is?” Connor looked up to see a trail of tears dripping down from the sides of both of her closed eyes. He ran his hand down her belly and rested his palm over her womb.

“Someday, we’ll have a baby. He’ll grow right here. I hope he is as strong as his mother,” he whispered. She began to cry harder.

He crawled between her legs and began to kiss down the inside of her right leg from her ankle bone to the silky skin of her inner thighs.

He parted her dripping folds and ran his tongue from her pulsating slit up to her clit. Slowly, he circled each, never quite touching either.

“Your sweet honey shows me how much you want me.” He got to his knees and reached behind him to free both her ankles.

He opened her legs wide and began to tongue fuck his mate.

With each dip inside her, she released more of her sweetness.

When she began bucking her hips he stopped.

He watched her face carefully. She shook her head from side to side in frustration.

He wrapped her legs loosely around his waist and leaned forward so that he lay nestled between her thighs. He lay there patiently admiring her delicate features until she opened her eyes. He smiled at her.

“Do you know what I value the most?” he asked. She shook her head.

“Your heart. It’s the part of you that you are keeping from me. Will you leave me cold and alone much longer, my mate? Is surrendering to me a fate worse than death?” he asked. She shook her head, crying.

“I love you,” she sobbed.

“Are you sure, my wildcat? There’s no going back. You’ll be mine, forever,” Connor said, his heart swelling. She nodded her head over and over again.

“I love you, you stubborn idiot,” she said and opened her eyes. Her bottom lip trembled.

“I love you so completely it scares me. You can never leave me now,” she said, her face growing fierce.

“Finally!” he whispered and let his tears fall on her chest. He reached down between them and guided himself to her saturated opening. He slid home in one thrust.

“Connor, oh god. It’s never felt so good before,” Madison wept, tightening her legs around his waist.

Slowly, with a lazy pace, he plunged deep inside her pussy. He pulled back, dragging the head of his cock along her inner walls before slamming home again. She screamed out her pleasure. He mercilessly kept them both on the edge of orgasm until she was screaming his name over and over again.

“Connor, my love, please,” she yelled, her voice strained.

There! That was what he was waiting for.

He went to his knees, grabbed her hips, and began to slam into her.

He felt the head of his cock tap her cervix and she went wild.

His mate was gorgeous as she cried and begged for release.

He thrust twice more before she clamped down on his prick and screamed wordlessly, her entire body shaking.

Roaring, he pushed as far inside her as he would go and leaned down to savagely bite the side of her neck.

Stream after stream of cum emptied from his body.

Breathing heavily, he slowly pulled out of his mate and she moaned with every inch.

On unsteady legs he went to the bathroom and quickly wiped himself clean.

He gently untied her wrist restraints and kissed each palm.

He made sure she was clean and dropped the washcloth in the bathroom sink.

When he got back into bed she instantly wrapped herself around him.

“God, I love you,” she said as she ran her hands over his chest.

“That’s all I wanted,” he said and kissed her hair and fell asleep with his mate in his arms.