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Grif

H is teeth clamped down on my neck. I whimpered, my body aching for him to complete the bite.

He bit down, the bite warm and burning as it rushed through me, setting every cell of my body on fire with pleasure.

“AJ,” I moaned, my body writhing with need.

His hand pressed down on me, and I stilled. When I was with him, he was in control. I gave him that because a tiny part of me occasionally needed that dominance, that care.

Sparks of him filled my heart, right next to Dean.

“You took my bite so good, Boo-Boo.” He licked the bite as he continued to thrust in and out of me.

The uneasiness brewing inside me for days settled, not unlike when I’d bonded with Dean.

One more thing had been made right with my world.

“You’re mine.” He stopped licking the bite, eyes on me as his hand wrapped around my throat.

“I was already yours, Pepperjack. And you’re mine. My alpha. Mine .” My pleasure rose as he continued to fuck me, ride me, and kiss me with his hand still around my throat as the other stroked my chest, my cock.

I gasped.

The need to claim him back consumed me. “Where can I mark you?”

“Right here.” AJ pushed my head down to his throat, hard, holding it there as the motion sent another jolt of need and desire right to my cock. “Don’t you dare come before I knot you. Claim me. Mark me back.”

Oh, I would.

While no harm would come to either of us from a one-sided bond, like when alphas claimed betas, that long-dormant part of me rose up in vengeance, needing to mark him back.

“Mine.” I bit down on his neck, my body aching for him. His blood filled my mouth as my desire built.

Knot, my body screamed. Knot now.

“Oooh, I felt that. Someone needs to be knotted?” he moaned, my teeth still clamped down on his neck as his pace increased. “Good. Because I’m going to knot you hard. When it deflates, I’m going to have you again and again.”

“Yes, please, Alpha,” I groaned as his balls slapped against my ass as I licked the bite mark.

AJ withdrew and slammed into me, hard, pushing his knot past the ring of muscles as my pleasure, my world, exploded in a burst of stars. His desire pulsed through the bond as I came all over myself and him.

He pulled me to him, locked in me as he filled my ass with his cum.

For a moment we laid there, curled in each other’s arms, breathless. Warmth, reassurance, and possession came through our connection.

Our lips collided, and I put everything into that kiss. How happy I was that things were right between us. How amazed I was to finally be here in this moment with him after everything we’d been through.

Everything I’d been through.

“I’m yours,” he whispered to me, as we cuddled in the darkness, locked together. “No matter what happens, I’m yours forever.”