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Chapter Twelve

Juno

“Hi, Juno!” Charlotta greeted cheerily. “I’m so happy to see Remi is okay! Did you get home safe?” I’d missed seeing her face, it wasn’t the same when we had a team call, this was just us, and Remi too, but much more private than the recent calls between us.

“We did,” I smiled, pleased that she cared, she always had, but it was still nice. “You did call at a rather bad time though,” I began hoping she would catch on.

“Oh! Sorry! But that was actually why I called.”

I looked at Remi, then back at her. “Why?”

“I researched as you asked and um… I’ll just send you the link.”

“Okay?”

“Okay! Have fun!” She ended the call with a sweet little wave to us both and before I could question her weirdness, I got the link.

“That was my friend Charlotta,” I explained, clicking on the link. There were a lot of naked people. “What’s porn?” I asked aloud, scrolling down the site. A choked sound behind me had me looking at Remi who blushed even more.

“Did Charlotta say anything embarrassing?” I didn’t think she did, but Remi was different, maybe he felt embarrassed that she knew he’d fainted?

“Um, no,” he coughed lightly. “It’s just, um, that site,” he pointed to my slate. “We won’t, um, be needing that.”

“Oh, okay,” I replied, closing it down. “I hadn’t found the educational part yet anyway, just a lot of naked people.”

Remi made the choking sound again, so I kissed him, hoping that would help his unease. It did. He melted against me, his taller frame slumping down so we were at the same height. I backed him further into the room and pushed him down on the bed, leaning over his beautiful body.

“Please tell me I can have all of you now?” I begged, kissing down his neck as I waited for his permission. He had a green hoodie on, which meant he had to sit up for me to remove it.

“You can,” he replied, helping me rid him of his clothes. I’d “stolen” one of his hoodies, it had a light grayish-blue color. It was a little too big for me, but when we packed, I knew I needed to wear something less constrictive than my preferred leather jacket.

Remi pulled the hoodie off me and then attacked my pants. He had already stripped down to his boxers, his stunning body on full display in front of me. I’d waited on this day since I learned I would get my own mate one day. It was mostly the knowledge of getting my person that excited me. Not knowing what lust and attraction felt like, much less romantic love, made it hard to imagine how I would feel towards Remi. He was my everything.

“How, um,” Remi looked unsure as all our clothes, except our boxers were now off. “How do you want to do this?”

I frowned. “What do you mean?”

He waved a finger between us. “With us.” He was blushing again and now I could see the color was running down to his chest too. I really liked him blushing.

“I’m afraid I still don’t understand, Remi. Do you not know how to mate?” We were taught in school, but maybe they weren’t? It seemed rather rude to just trust people to know how to do things when they were old enough.

“I um, I think it’s the same for us as it is for you. I was asking about positions, Juno.” He seemed more comfortable now.

“Ah, I know normally you try both to see what you prefer,” I didn’t care who did what, it didn’t matter much to me. I just wanted Remi.

“You truly don’t care?” he tilted his head, looking confused.

“I just want you, Remi. Do you have a preference?” He looked shy again, so I caressed his cheek gently, forcing him to look at me.

“I um, I would prefer if you fucked me,” he looked at me as he said the words, those perfect words.

“I would love that.” I kissed him softly, getting myself mentally ready to claim my mate. I would be inside of him soon. I couldn’t think too hard on that part, or I would explode with want. I wanted this to last but just his words and my imagination weren’t helping with that.

He pushed me away softly, “I have a question.” I nodded, always ready to answer whatever questions he had for me. “I thought kissing mated us? I got magic from it. So why is it required we have sex then? Not that I mind that part, just curious.”

I shook my head. “You unlocked your own magic, now we need to combine our magic, sharing it between us, making it ours . We’ll be stronger and offer this world some of our magic to help sustain it. After we’ve mated, we’ll go outside and lay down on the ground, letting the earth take what it needs from us.” It was a cool sort of ritual, we got magic from our world, and gave some back, but whenever matings happened, we got magic ourselves, making the world stronger, brighter, because of it.

He just blinked at me. “Cool. Can we please start touching now? I’ve never been harder.” I grinned. He was getting more comfortable around me. I truly enjoyed seeing more of his personality come out.

“I would’ve claimed you as mine as soon as I saw you, remember?” I teased him as I resumed kissing his neck.

“I had to run,” he rasped, stretching his neck so I’d have more access. “I had Hayley.”

That put a stop to the kissing. “You can’t talk about her just before our mating, Remi.” I knew he didn’t mean anything by it but telling me about a person he’d been with still felt like a blow. Especially now when we were about to join our magic and bodies, I didn’t want anything or anyone else between us.

I sat up, not feeling the mood anymore, hating that the thought of his ex-girlfriend had ruined this for me. “I need some fresh air,” I said, leaving Remi confused on our bed. I walked out to my garden, allowing the sun to warm my nearly naked body as I sat on the grass, letting nature calm my thoughts. Maybe I was overreacting, but since being with someone other than your mate wasn’t normal here, the thought took some adjusting. I’d never heard about anyone else touching someone that wasn’t their mate. They didn’t get anything out of it, and neither did the other person. Just thinking that someone had touched my Remi, and he’d touched them too… It did something to my chest that made it nearly impossible to breathe.