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Who in their right mind would ever give this up?
I move against him, wiggling to urge Dominic on. He buries his face against my mark and moans, the sound shooting straight through to my core. I'm not sure there's any better sound in the world than this Alpha's pleasure.
Everything else fades away as Dominic and I come together, his every move matched equally with mine. If I thought our first time was perfect, it pales in comparison to this moment where every move is escalated. I'm more sure, more ready to meet each move of his body with my own.
And something happens.
Light appears. It’s our own personal light show as that green aura settles around us, not actually doing anything except highlighting this moment.
"Look," I manage to whimper out even though I can barely catch my breath.
He tilts his head slightly, lips tilting at the corners when he sees it. But very seriously, he says to me, "Don't you dare fucking split the earth open right now, do you hear me?"
I let out a light laugh that turns into a long moan when he manages to scratch an itch inside of me I didn't even know existed. My whole body convulses. No warning. Just the biggest orgasm I've ever had sweeping over me and rendering my entire body useless.
I cry out half a dozen things. Dominic's name. A promise to never again sneak out of bed on him. Some nonsense that I'm pretty sure neither of us understands. And I'm not even sure what else. The man has literally screwed me senseless. He manages to wring every ounce of life out of me with my orgasm.
By the time I stop whimpering and writhing, it feels like there’s nothing left of me but a shell.
When I'm capable of moving again, I touch him as I wait him out. Running my hands over the slick skin of his back until he comes so hard that the muscles in his arms shake with the effort it takes for him to hold himself up. He's beautiful when he loses control.
I keep my eyes open, watching him until he's so spent that he practically falls over to the other side of the bed. We lie there, the sides of our bodies pressed together, our breathing in sync as we both recover from our second time together.
I somehow feel drained and renewed all at the same time.
When he catches his breath, he laces his fingers with mine. I keep my eyes shut, but I can hear the smile in his voice when he says, "For a minute there, we were really about to learn what it means for sex to be so good the earth moves. Glad you managed to hold it together."
All I can do is laugh at the absurdity of it all. Of sex with the mate I didn't even want. And powers I might have never known I even had if I hadn't wound up here. I didn't understand the fates’ decisions before, but I do now.
Chapter Forty
Tess
Six weeks later…
“Stop reading over my shoulder,” Dominic grumbles at me. “This is why I made sure to give you your own copies of everything.”
I look at my desk on the opposite side of the office from his—he told me I was too much of a distraction to have any closer—and side-eye the neat stack of paperwork in the center of it. Instead of moving, I lean in closer. “I like sharing with you.” And I’m way too nosey to sit all the way over there when I know he’s over here making notes as he reads through the contract.
“You just can’t stand not seeing what I’m writing.” Dominic smirks, practically reading my mind. He sets his pen down and swivels his chair to face me. “I told you I’m happy with the plans. There are a couple of questions I have for the lawyers, but overall everything looks brilliant. You did a good job.”
I slide onto his lap, relieved to hear him say that. I’ve needed something to focus on these past weeks. I’m getting tired of spending all my time looking over our shoulders. Waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Dominic letting me take over a remodel of a shopping center in the nearby town has given me something else to do with my time. We’ve worked through a complete gut job of the inside of the six storefronts, and I’ve started leasing the spaces so we can figure out what kind of construction we still need to do.
Once Dominic and the lawyers sign off on this newest contract, I’ll have filled five of the six spaces. There’s only one left. A bakery space on the corner of the center that I’ve been quietly holding onto. There’s a part of me hoping that maybe Morgan will feel up to taking it now that she’s been doing a little better. That is… if I can convince her to stay. She’s the only person I know that likes baking more than my sister.
The last we heard, there isn’t much left to go back to with the North Summit Pack. The only other place she might go would be to be with her brother Hunter, but he’s been living as a rogue in a big city while he attends university.
Doing that could potentially mean turning her back on her wolf—possibly indefinitely. Big cities don’t leave a lot of room for shifters to actually shift.
“What are you thinking about?” Dominic asks, smoothing my hair with his hand.
“Morgan,” I admit. We don’t talk about her often. I think he’s torn between being pleased that Luca is too distracted to be around me, and worrying that Luca’s going to get too attached. He’s never said the words, but I get the idea he doesn’t think Morgan would be worthy of his Beta.
I wish I could take him back in the past and show him the person she really is. The person I’m certain she’s still capable of being.
My vibrant, loyal friend is still in there somewhere. When I think about what Warner has turned her into, I daydream about killing him over and over again. Morbid? Yes. But loyalty to family is everything, and Morgan is my family.
