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LIVIA

While the heat soared inside my body, goosebumps were somehow still rising on my skin. There was something so polarizing in the most delicious way possible about being with someone I could never have.

My nipples hardened underneath my shirt, and I gulped.

Fuck.

Fucking Caelan was all I wanted to do.

Caelan’s gaze dropped down to my chest, and he stepped toward me, a small smirk traveling across his lips. The air between us seemed electric, the tension building quickly. Those dangerous eyes were teasing, taunting me.

More warmth spread through my body at an overwhelming rate. I stepped back, attempting to have some sanity in this situation, though I had none. I needed to stop this right now, because something deep inside me was about to snap.

Maybe it was finally my wolf. Maybe she had come out to play.

Or maybe… it was that wicked heat.

Every time I had gone into heat, I had locked myself away in my room, and he had buried himself in office work. But today, I shouldn’t have been in heat. No, it wasn’t a full moon, and I… I had just gone through heat less than two weeks ago.

Before I could stop him, he trapped me between him and the wall, capturing my wrists and pinning them above my head, his firm grip cooling my skin anywhere and everywhere that he touched. I bit back a whimper.

I hated and loved this: my wolf, his wolf, the mate bond that he would never recognize.

“Tell me,” he murmured against my skin, his body now flush against mine. His other hand drew circles around my right hip, cooling me off just slightly, yet my core was burning with pleasure. “Tell me how much you want me.”

I opened and closed my mouth, wanting to say something bratty to him, but my wolf wouldn’t let me. I didn’t want to fuel his ego any more than I already had, but Lycos , I wanted him. I wanted him so badly.

“Tell me,” he repeated, his lips traveling up and down the column of my neck, both cooling and searing my skin. The soft spot on my neck ached, and I just wanted him to… to… mark me. “Tell me. Tell me. Tell me.”

When the words left his mouth, a moan left mine. My eyes fluttered closed as his lips hovered over my soft spot—the spot that someone would mark one day. Just… not him. Yet something deep inside me—the heat, my wolf—was burning hotter and hotter.

I wanted this, and I couldn’t deny it anymore.

“Please,” I whispered.

I had been fighting him all day, hell even the past few days, and I was so tired of it all. He was tired of it too; I could see it in his eyes. He wanted me just as badly as I wanted him, but neither of us wanted to admit it to each other.

Because if we admitted it to each other, then we’d also have to acknowledge that we weren’t going to mate. The reasons why. And honestly? I didn’t want to believe that he just wanted to protect me.

What I thought… what I honestly thought was that he was embarrassed of me.

What alpha would want a mate who couldn’t shift?

Thinking that was easier, somehow.

“Please, I need you,” I whispered.

After swiftly picking me up, he dumped me onto the bed and crawled between my legs. He was already ripping off our clothes, his golden eyes glowing, which meant that his wolf was out to play, like he usually was in times like this.

I dug my nails into his muscular shoulders, and he positioned himself at my entrance. I inhaled sharply, spreading my legs even wider. He growled against my neck, the sound warming my skin. I tightened and tightened and tightened at the mere sound of how possessive it was.

At the thought of it one day truly being mine.

But it never would be.

A low grunt left his mouth, and he slid inside me.

My head lolled back against the pillows, and a soft moan left my mouth as I clenched around him. “More,” I said in a breathy moan. “Please…”

He thrust in and out of me, filling me then leaving me empty, over and over and over until I lost count. My pussy was clenching hard on to his cock, my mind buzzing. And I was desperate for him. Desperate for all of him.

I wrapped my legs around his waist, pulling him closer every time he thrust into me. My wolf—something that I had never really felt before—was clawing at my insides, desperate to come out too, but something was holding her back.

“My mate,” he grunted and growled in my ear, getting deeper and deeper inside me. His mouth was all over my throat. The moonlight was flooding in through my windows, bouncing off his skin. “I’m going to fill you up with so much of my cum… that you’ll be pregnant with my pup by morning.”

“Holy–” Before I could finish my sentence, pleasure exploded through my body. Wave after wave after wave rushed through me at the thought of him wanting me so much that he’d try to get me pregnant with his pup.

He let out a low groan and stilled, deep inside my pussy, pumping me full with his cum. I closed my eyes, wishing, hoping that one day things would change. Hoping that one day, I’d actually be able to call him my mate. That one day, we might actually have pups together.