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But there was no time to dwell on it, not while he placed his mouth on mine and captured my complete attention.
Distracted by his lips, I hardly noticed as he pushed his way inside. Immediately, I felt a rush of something I couldn’t explain, like something divine snapping into place. That warmth consumed me with a sense of comfort and affection I had never felt before.
Given how Levi tensed the same way I did and how he looked just as surprised, I knew it was our bond completing. While its presence had been weak before, it felt more concrete then. Like we had no choice but to acknowledge it.
Even if the act had only just begun, we were officially mated.
It wasn’t until I had to stretch to accommodate him that I felt a subtle pain. But that burn quickly subsided as he followed through and slowly filled me completely.
“You all right?” Levi asked in a hushed voice as he held back his groans.
At my nod, he gave me a moment before he withdrew his hips, then repeated it with another careful thrust.
It didn’t take long for me to be reduced to a mess of moans and desperation as I clung to him, taking in each and every pleasurable thrust he had to offer me. Every movement of his hips pumped me full of bliss, pushing me closer and closer to the edge, longing to reach that high lingering ahead of me.
Levi cursed under his breath as he pressed further against my thigh, achieving a new angle that felt even more incredible than before.
That haze had turned into a full fog as I dug my fingers into his back, rocking with his powerful thrusts capable of creating even more arousal within me.
The knot forming within my stomach tightened even more as he couldn’t hold back his sounds of appeasement, reminding me that it was because of me. I was the one he was making love to, and that felt like a powerful thing to me.
One moment, I was feeling close to release, and the next, I was hit with blinding pleasure as I clenched around him, forcing more groans out of him.
Focusing more on his thrusts, Levi rolled his hips into me at a faster rate, and there was no denying how sloppy they had become. I knew he was close.
My jaw went slack as that bliss hit me like a wave, projecting me straight into cloud nine. My whole body tensed while pleasure reverberated through me, rippling with its intensity.
Levi grunted against my skin as he thrusted, pausing once he, too, was able to give in. His thigh twitched as his orgasm ripped through him, and he released, filling me completely. The breathless moans that trailed out of him before they turned to pants caught my attention, and I had no doubt I’d be recounting that sound in my mind later.
As we caught our breath, laying in the sand as water lapped at the shore, Levi looked down at me with softer eyes than before, as if he were seeing me through a completely different lens.
I recognized the same thing in myself, noting how the bond made him feel more familiar—like a source of comfort I could pull from if I ever needed to. It was like that connection had come to life, and we both had to learn what it meant to live with it inside us.
Before either of us could say anything, his lips were on mine, and I felt I’d never get sick of that sensation.
Chapter 12 - Levi
Something about being mated and its resulting high made everything else seem so mundane and irrelevant.
As much as I wanted to stay on that beach forever and continue connecting with Jane, my more demanding responsibilities couldn’t be ignored.
The morning meeting at the office went as it normally did. We reviewed numbers, discussed profits, and attended to whatever needed our attention. Overall, the mood was fine, even if my mind was still with Jane.
As good as everything was, I was suppressing more complicated feelings—the overbearing, instinctual desires that I had to keep within me. Completing a mating bond was the most volatile time for any male, and I ran the risk of something minor setting me off.
With the urge to protect what was mine circling within me, it was no wonder I was tense. At the same time, the lingering effects of that euphoria had me on edge and desperate for another fix. Both of those things came from a time when wolves had to more diligently secure what was theirs and make sure no others would try to take it from them.
A mate bond was one of the most precious things in our world, and having that stolen from you was a good enough reason to fight to the death.
Before our ancestors became more civilized, it wasn’t uncommon for several males to end up dead after messing with a newly mated wolf’s bond. Even if times were different now, that instinct was still present in every shifter after initiating the bond.
Even if they were my good friends, I was more than aware of their alpha statuses, and it had my inner wolf on edge despite there being no real risk.
Before the meeting ended, I felt Sebastian’s curious gaze on me. Seemingly catching on to what was happening, his brows lifted with curiosity.
“Everything all right over there?”
“I’m fine,” I muttered, actively smothering the urge to prove to everyone in the room that I was willing to do whatever it took to keep them away from my mate.
