Page 52 of Galaxy Between Us

Our breaths become labored and ragged by the warm bolts of electric love our bodies generate. It’s a feedback loop of pleasure, powered by each thrust, producing unsurmountable energy. Arius wraps his legs around my waist as I grind into him torturously slow and intimate. His gasps develop into moans. The stars glitter above us. It feels like we’re exactly where we’re meant to be.

Folding Ari in half, I give him deep strokes as I graze his neck with my teeth.

“I think I’ve always loved you,” I mutter my revelation against his hot skin.

“You think?” Ari bites, shuddering from anticipation.

Chuckling, I place a tender kiss where I’ve decided he’ll wear my mark for the rest of his days.

“I love you, Arius. Always have, and I think you know that. We just make sense together.”

“I love you, too, Knox,” he whispers sweetly, turning to sprinkle kisses on my cheek.

“Hold on to me.”

Trapping me in the grip of his legs, Ari wraps his arms around my head, tucking his face into my neck.

“Ready?” I ask against his skin, picking up my rhythm.

He licks the spot between my neck and shoulder in response.

“I’m ready, Knox. Bite me. Make me yours.”

With a groan, I drive into him with everything I’ve got. His cock is trapped in the grinding friction between us, leaking precum to make it slide easily against my abs. It takes no time at all to bring us both to the edge, and once we’re there together, we bite down and let ourselves fall into forever with one another.

I sink my teeth into him, cumming with force as he does the same to me. Our bites send us into something similar to a mini heat and rut. A lot of warm wetness gushes from his hole and between our bodies. The base of my cock expands like a balloon when I ram myself inside him as deep as I can go. Ari moans into my shoulder, teeth still imprinting on my skin. Each vein in my body comes alive, pulsing with his love in every blood cell.

Locked together, I slouch on top of him and his fingers tangle aimlessly in my hair. Now that we’re so close, I can’t wrap my mind around how I went so long without him all those years. How did I not go mad? How did I go about my career and my life without Arius by my side?

It makes no sense, but I have him now. He’s mine forever. We’ll never be apart again.

“What are you going to name our son or daughter?” Arius mutters after several long minutes in which I’ve nearly drifted asleep on top of him.

It’s customary for any respectable Alpha to name their first-born, though the question stumps me. I didn’t know I’d be a father so soon.

“What do you think of Luna?” I mumble tiredly, kissing the spot where I marked him while the moon casts a blanket of soft light over our connected bodies.

“And if it’s a boy?” Ari nuzzles into me, unbothered by his contorted position as he presses his lips against the new mark on my neck. My knot is already receding slowly, so it won’t be too much longer before I can dismount him.

“I feel like it’ll be a girl, but if I had to pick… Triton.”

“Luna or Triton,” Arius repeats, feeling the names on his tongue. “I like those.”

“Luna and Triton,” I correct him. “We’ll be making more than one.”

I’ve never seen Dr. Ritza smile, but the corner of her mouth lifts when Ari and I walk in holding hands and freshly mated. Both of us are wearing informal shirts that show off our bite marks so there’s no doubt we belong to each other.

“I’m assuming you’re aware of your prognosis, Omega?” she shakes her head at Arius with amusement, and I unintentionally bare my teeth at her.

We’d been cooped up in my office for a few days, but I’m still not sure if I’m ready for other Alphas to be near my mate.

“Yes, we’re so excited,” Ari says softly, but keeps his attention on me, leaning heavily into my side.

Mine.

“Congrats. Both of you are overdue for a checkup,” she scolds us, situating supplies around the exam room.

“Why me?” I wonder aloud as Ari props himself up on the bed. I stay glued to his side, rubbing his back with one hand and interlocking our fingers with the other.