Her smile was more beautiful than a Christmas morning sunrise. “I said I would trust you, Kenai. Make me yours. Please,my alpha.”
There was no way to resist her—but I’d known that the moment I met her. I slowed my hips even more, rolling against her instead, working my knot into her. I moved again and again as it swelled further and began to catch. But she took it all, writhing for more.
“Fuck, Kenai, you feel so good. Don’t stop, please.”
“I’m not going to stop. I’m going to knot you, and I’m going to show you that you’re mine. I’m going to fill you with my cum until every other alpha who catches your scent knows you belong to me. Is that what you want, omega?”
She cried out my name as she came, and the impossibly tight squeeze of her cunt sent me over the edge with her. With one final thrust, my knot locked into place as wave after wave of pleasure tore through me. I fisted her hair and kissed her, and my magic released in a rush—snowflakes materializing from nothing, swirling around us in lazy eddies. They caught in her hair, on her flushed cheeks, on her eyelashes where they sparkled like diamonds. The air shimmered with arctic light, and I knew neither of us could resist it anymore.
A bite of cold seared the back of my neck as my mark grew, and I knew a twin mark appeared on hers.
The bond solidified, and suddenly I knew her—really knew her. The loneliness she’d carried for years. The exhaustion from always being strong. The desperate hope that maybe, just maybe, someone would see her and stay.
I’m staying. I’ll always stay.
Her eyes went wide, but it was with wonder, not fear, and I knew she would stay too.
“Kenai—oh, my Kenai.” She kissed me as we rode the waves of magic and ecstasy together for the first, but certainly not the last, time.
Chapter Twelve
Sylvie
Kenai and I had been at it for hours. Ever since the bond snapped into place, everything had been more intense, and I couldn’t get enough. I never wanted it to stop. I loved that every part of me smelled like him now—and that he smelled like me. I was currently very grateful for my IUD.
He kept licking that newly sensitive spot on my neck as I rode him. I circled my hips, trying to work his knot back into me again.
“Slow down, Sylvie.” I could feel his grin against my throat. “What’s the hurry?”
“Need it—need you—” Coherent sentences weren’t an option right now. His knot had been intimidating when I’d first seen it, but let’s just say I was ruined for anything else now.
His arms wrapped around me as he kissed across my collarbone. “You’re going to wear your alpha out.”
“Don’t seem—to mind—” I threaded my fingers through the hair at his nape, running my nose up the side of his neck, practically high on his scent.
He leaned back, lying on the nest of pillows on the bed, as he grabbed my hips and thrust up into me. “That I don’t.”
I threw my head back, bouncing up and down with him until my legs shook. His thumb circled my clit until I was throbbing, and just as he pushed me over the edge, I stretched around him until his knot slipped into place.
Pulsing around it was like nothing else, and my whole body trembled, my orgasm racing through me as I felt Kenai twitch inside me. But it wasn’t enough. As the last wave broke, I wasn’t fulfilled; I was ravenous. I wanted more. Ineededmore.
Kenai was beneath me, panting and flushed, his knot pulsing as his eyes rolled back. I shifted my hips against him, trying to get just a little more friction.
“Careful, we’re knotted, Sylvie. If you keep doing that?—”
His warning came too late. I shifted too far and tugged, and we both hissed. Tears of frustration rose in my eyes. “I’m sorry. I just…I just…”
“You need more, don’t you?” He looked at me with such concern, and through our bond I felt how much he wanted to comfort me—to give me everything he could.
I nodded.
“It’s not uncommon for an omega to need more than one alpha during their heat.” He gave me a smug smile. “And a woman like you? I’m not surprised I’m not enough for you.”
“Kenai, that’s not?—”
He grabbed my hand, gently kissing the fingertips. “Before, you seemed upset when you found out you were an omega, like it was an insult. From your human perspective, maybe I couldunderstand that. But the truth is, Sylvie, being an omega doesn’t change how fierce you are. How…insatiable.”
“Kenai!”
