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Six weeks later.

Mated life is better than I expected.

Business is good. Uncle Uzzi has me running down background checks on some of the new Date to Mate applicants.

He’s testing the accuracy of his software, and I appreciate that.

But nothing beats good old-fashioned PI work.

I enter our newly renovated apartment complete with a rooftop garden and studio where my beautiful mate can be inspired and paint to her heart’s content.

She’s got one more class she’s taking this summer before her degree in fine arts is in the bag, and I am just so damn proud of her.

I’m throwing her the biggest graduation party at Pizza Girls, but I’m keeping it a secret.

Spoiling my mate is just one of the perks I wasn’t expecting when the Fates, along with Uncle Uzzi’s Date to Mate , paired us up.

“Where you at, Mate? Don’t make me huff and puff and blow your socks off?” I call out, hunting her sweet scent all the way to her studio.

The door is open and when I see her standing there in a pair of denim cut-offs and a paint-splattered tank top, all my blood immediately travels below my belt.

“Goddamn, Baby Girl. You look good enough for this Wolf to eat.”

“Promises, promises,” Dina teases, her lips curving in that way that kills me.

Challenge accepted, Sunshine.

I growl low, already stalking her across the room. I cage her in against the far wall, using my body as I hoist her up and crush her lips to mine.

My muscles are tight and yeah, I’m hungry in all the ways that matter.

“Bed. Now,” she commands.

Who am I to deny her?

Her eyes heat, and that grin turns breathless as I drag my mouth over hers in a slow, claiming kiss.

She squeaks as I grab her ass and carry her down the stairs to our bedroom.

I don’t stop kissing her. Well, I do. But only long enough to strip us bare and lay her down before me like a goddamn sacrifice.

I hover over her and kiss her again, just because I can.

Deep and thorough.

The kind of kiss that says mine without a single word spoken.

By the time I pull back, she’s panting softly, cheeks flushed.

“Doug, don’t tease me.”

“Nope. Never,” I cut her off, voice rough and edged with need as I press my hips into hers, letting her feel exactly how far gone I am for her.

“Tell me again how it’s you and me forever and how I’m your good luck charm.”

She squirms beneath me, arching just right, and my control unravels.

“I love you so fucking much, Sunshine. You are the best thing that ever happened to me. My forever kinda good luck charm and I am never letting you go.”

I lean back, dragging my palm down the valley between her tits and over her soft belly and mound. Then I give her hip a playful slap.

“Now get on all fours, so I can fuck you hard and deep from behind. Make you come screaming my name.”

“Fuck. Yes, Doug,” she gasps, voice going all high and needy as she moves to obey me.

I love her like this. So damn submissive and hot for me.

Dina is—well, she’s sensual—the sexiest woman I have ever seen.

Her body is designed to take me and when she’s in this position, I can watch my thick dick disappear inside her glistening pussy as I take her.

We both moan.

I growl deep in my throat, jaw clenching gently, and I move my cock in and out of her heavenly body.

“Good girl,” I rumble, sliding my hands down her back, lower until my thumb is circling her pretty little rosebud.

There’s nothing I won’t do to please her. She knows this. And while we’ve dabbled, I have yet to take her here.

But I will. Soon.

Right now, I content myself with teasing her pretty little circle until she’s pushing back, begging me to move.

“Look how good you take me. So fucking wet. You need me, don’t you Sunshine? Tell me.”

“I need you, Doug. So much,” she whimpers.

Her gasp turns into a moan as I cage her in, bringing one hand up to cup her tits, teasing her nipples.

My teeth lightly scrape over our claiming mark, and I know she’s close. Her pussy squeezes me, and I am so fucking ready to blow.

But not without her. My mate is so hot and turned on, she’s writhing and clutching at the blankets.

“Doug! Oh my god.”

“That’s right, Sunshine.” I move faster, harder, and deeper.

I can feel her flowing through me.

Her presence. Her passion. Her love.

Our matebond is strong, and it just keeps getting stronger.

I can see it when I close my eyes. The golden rope is so thick, and it glows with blue and amber hued magic.

“Doug!”

“Yeah! Say my name while I fuck you like you deserve.”

Her head falls back, and I swipe my tongue across her shoulder.

The feel of her is so addictive.

Better than anything I’ve ever had or will ever need.

“Please, Doug... more.”

I give it to her.

I give her everything.

Fingers sinking into her hips, I hold her still as I drive into her, then I reach between her legs, stroking her clit again until her whole body tenses.

“Doug, I’m?—”

I don’t stop.

I don’t fucking stop until she shatters for me, sobbing my name as she falls apart, hips bucking, pussy fluttering around my cock, like her body is clinging to me, holding me inside even as she breaks.

She gasps, looking over her shoulder with a dazed, needy look that wrecks me all over again.

“Claim me again,” she whispers.

My Wolf roars at that.

“Always,” I growl, thrusting deep in one hard, brutal push that has us both gasping.

She’s tight, soaking wet, her pussy clenching around me like she can’t stop coming.

I’m—well, I’m rough, rutting into her again and again, setting a fast, filthy pace that has her crying out into the sheets, her body giving me everything.

“Mine,” I snarl, leaning down to bite at her shoulder again, but not quite going through with it until she tells me what I need to hear.

“Say it, Dina.”

“Yours,” she sobs, pushing back to meet every hard thrust.

“Yours, yours, always yours.”

I lose it.

I fuck her hard and deep, grinding against her clit until she’s shaking again, body tensing before she screams my name and comes violently around my cock.

That’s it.

That’s the end for me.

I slam into her once, my canines slice through her skin. I buck twice more and then I’m spilling inside her, filling her so deep I swear she’s going to feel it for days.

We collapse together, still joined, tangled up in sweat and kisses and everything we are.

Breathless, wrecked, and completely fucking happy.

She turns her head just enough to whisper, “I hope our luck never runs out.”

Tugging her closer, pressing kisses to her damp hair, I give her the only response I have.

“It never will, Sunshine. We’re forever.”

“That’s right. Forever. No takebacks,” she agrees sleepily, already drifting.

And me?

I hold her tighter, our bond humming between us like a living thing, knowing I’ll never let her go.

Because this?

This is home.

This is mine.

This is us.