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GUNNAR

I lay in the small tent with my stubborn mate in my arms. My horns no longer burned the same as his chest no longer hurt. His head was more painful than he wanted to admit, but I was too happy to have him here to argue with him. My mind raced with images of what had happened while he slept. Einar had been brutal in his slaying, showing no mercy as he tore Drummond apart and ate him alive. The blade had not helped him in the least against an ancient troll who was not afraid of dying.

“I’ll take the blade and make sure it’s destroyed,” Gene had said as he reached his hand out for it. But this weapon was far too dangerous.

“No, I want to take care of it myself,” I had said.

But now I wondered if giving it to the institute was the smartest thing. It wasn’t that I didn’t trust them. No one there had made me feel unsafe or under threat. But that knife would give too much power to any human who found it. It was then I decided to hide it out here in the woods and with that decision I finally fell asleep.

“Good morning,” Flynn whispered just as the sky was starting to lighten with dawn. “I think I’d like to start back to the camp early. Would that be okay?” he asked as he rested his head in his hand to meet my eyes.

“Of course. I also want to leave early. I have decided to hide the troll killer in the woods. The trees will hide it better than any human ever could and the chance of one of them finding it would be minimal.” He thought about it a moment before leaning in to kiss me.

“Whatever you want to do, mate,” he whispered. “I trust you.”

I started to lean in to kiss him but stopped myself. “Are you in pain today?”

“Only if I touch where he hit me. Otherwise, I’m right as rain,” he said with a smile full of mischief and promise. “Let’s eat and then we can get going.”

“I want something other than food from you, but only if you are not in pain.”

“My mate, I want you to fuck me like you want to against a tree. Claim me like no one has ever claimed me before. Show me who owns my heart and my body,” Flynn whispered against my lips.

My cock swelled with his words. I pressed his hand against me, and he squeezed just enough to make me want more but not enough to satisfy the burning need I had for him. “I want you,” I growled.

“I want you too, but not yet. Let’s make it special,” he said, and I agreed with him. The trees would amplify our pleasure and push us both to a level of excitement neither of us had ever felt. I pressed the heel of my hand against my hardness and hoped for patience because I wasn’t sure I was that patient.

“As you wish,” I finally managed to say. Both of us slid out of the small tent and while I packed everything away Flynn unpacked the breakfast he’d brought. He’d wrapped it in aluminum foil and put it in the dying embers of the fire and by the time everything was packed back into our bags breakfast was ready.

“Here, it’s a breakfast burrito. I thought we might need a good meal for the hike back,” he said and handed one to me. I watched as he unwrapped the foil before taking a bite and I did the same.

“This is good. Breakfast burrito might be my new favorite food,” I said and tried not to eat it all in one bite.

“We have food at the cabin when we get back,” Flynn said. We both ate quietly and for once didn’t worry about who was watching us or what danger we might be in.

The walk back was harder for Flynn than the walk here, it was mostly uphill, and the thick undergrowth made it hard to gain much ground, but finally after a few hours we entered a perfect grove of ancient trees. This was where I would claim my mate. Slipping my bag off, I then slid his off his shoulders.

“What is it, Gunnar? Oh, this is pretty,” he said once he caught his breath and looked around.

“My love. I want to claim you here,” I said, as he walked to the middle of the small grove and looked around at all the ancient trees that surrounded us. The floor of the grove was covered in thick lush ferns and thick moss. Flynn headed back to me and pulled his shirt off as he walked. His skin was beautiful in the muted sun and when he bent over to take off his boots, I rushed to help him. Between the two of us he was quickly naked and relaxing on the ground while I pulled my own clothes off. His hand moved to his cock, and he glided his fingers across the shaft before gripping himself and slowly stroking as he watched me.

“Fuck me, Gunnar,” he growled. I knelt over him and lifted him enough to kiss him. His tongue swirled with mine as he reached up for my horn, making me gasp in his mouth. “Fuck me hard.” He wrapped his legs around me, and I stood, never breaking our kiss while he gripped both horns. “No one else can touch you like this.”

“Only you, mate,” I said and kissed him hard before spinning him around and pressing him against a tree. He gripped the trunk while I lifted his legs and spit on his asshole before working my finger in. “This is just mine. No one else can have you the way I can,” I said, and didn’t take my eyes off my finger as it slid in and out of his ass.

His hips started to move, and he groaned before I slid my finger out and shoved my cock in. My hand trailed down his back as his muscles bunched and moved as he gripped the tree as best he could while I filled him with my hardness. “You are all I want,” I whispered, making him groan.

“Make me yours, Gunnar,” he murmured. He could not touch his cock in this position, and I wanted to fuck him until he found his release without either of us touching him. I held his legs and fucked him the way I’d wanted to since the day we’d met. Hard and fast and deep enough he’d feel it for days.

“You will remember every time you feel the burn of my cock how hard I fucked you in this moment.” Grunting with exertion and the need to come, I thrust even harder and reached under him and brushed against his straining cock making him hiss.

“Fuck, Gunnar, I need to come. Please make me come,” he begged while shoving his hips against me. We were both hungry for more even in the middle of fucking each other. There would never come a time when either of us didn’t want more of the other. Leaning closer to his ear while still thrusting into him. I said one word.

“Come.”

His body locked up immediately and he shook as he shot his load all over the ground beneath him. Feeling his ass tighten on my cock I came inside him and slid freely in my own spend making me want to fuck him again. I helped him stand before turning him to face me.

“Can we do that again?” he asked as soon as his eyes met mine. “I mean now, before we leave.”

“Yes, my love. I will never say no to fucking you.”