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Tears fill my eyes, and when the shocks stop, he sags and his eyes roll shut. “Cato,” I sob.
“Tally.” He groans. “Don’t cry.” He cups my face, and I cradle his hand in mine. “No tears,” he rasps out, forcing himself into a sitting position and pulling me into his arms, where I feel safe.
“Please, your tears kill me, Tally.” He pulls my face back and wipes my cheeks. I cry harder at how kind he’s being, despite the situation he’s in all because of me.
“Please, mate, stop,” he pleads.
I still at the word, my breath freezing in my throat as I stare at him. “Mate?” I croak out.
He frowns, his brow furrowed as his tail wraps around me. “Huh?” he asks, sounding confused, but he’s happy I’m not crying anymore.
“You called me mate, as in friend or…” I trail off. He has a mate out there somewhere, a monster, so why is he calling me that? I know where I stand with him.
“Mate as in my forever, as in my destined. I mentioned mates, Tally.” He scratches his head, watching me. “Did they do something to you?” Anger flares in his eyes.
“Wait, wait, I’m…I’m your mate?”
“Of course you are.” He frowns, watching me carefully. “I told you that. I told you how amazing you are.”
“I-I thought you were talking about someone else!” I yell, smacking his chest. “I was insanely jealous. I kept thinking I was going to have to give you up and that’s why you never took things further, because you knew there would be someone you loved one day and it would never be me.”
His eyes narrow with each word until I squeal when he pins me on my back, his arms on either side of my head. “As if I would ever let you give me up,” he snarls. “I wouldn’t let it happen. You could try to run, and I would follow you. I followed you over the fucking wall into the human city, Tally, because you are mine. I knew it the first moment I met you and every moment since. Every smile you threw my way, every time you laughed at something I said, and every small touch and kiss only solidified that. You. Are. Mine.” He kisses me, but I pull away, grinning.
“I really thought you meant someone else,” I whisper.
“Foolish little human. How can one person be so smart but also so dumb?” He huffs a laugh. “It’s always been you, and it will always be you. Do I need to tell you every moment of every day?” I shake my head. “When I mentioned mates and what I spoke about that night, I was talking about you.”
Tears fill my eyes again, and he panics, pressing his lips to mine.
“Please, Talia, stop crying. Your tears kill me.”
“It was just what you said was so sweet, and I thought it was about someone else,” I whisper. “I was so jealous, but I couldn’t give you up, even then. I was determined to make the most of it and keep you while I could, even if it broke my heart.”
“Oh, my little Tally,” he purrs, pressing his lips to every inch of my face in small, loving kisses. “My foolish, brilliant Tally.”
“But… But you never fuck me.” My cheeks heat, but I refuse to be ashamed.
He groans and grinds his hard cock into my stomach as if to show me how much he needs me, and desire slams through me so hard, it steals my breath. My legs wrap around his waist as I grind against his length, my body catching up with our words and the fact that this huge, strong, brilliant monster is mine.
All mine.
“I wanted you to be ready. I wanted it to be your choice, Tally, to give yourself over to me, because once that happens, I could never give you up. I also wanted you to have the life you want, even if it meant going back home over the wall. But I’m selfish,” he snarls. “I realised it that night. I could never let you go, not even if that’s what you wanted. You are mine to keep, mine to mate, touch, and kiss. You are mine, and there is not a place in this world where you could ever escape from me. Even if we haven’t fully mated yet, that doesn’t matter to me, all that does is that you hold my very soul, my heart, in your tiny human hands, and I willingly put them there. If you are mine, then I am yours with every fibre of my being.”
“Prove it,” I demand as I meet his eyes, needing him so badly. I thought I had lost him. I thought he wasn’t mine, and then I did lose him. We might not make it out of here alive, and I refuse to have regrets. I want Cato. I have since that first moment he turned those soft eyes on me.
From when he danced with me.
From when he made me laugh so hard, my stomach ached.
From when he held me so tightly and promised to protect me.
“I will not mate you in this tiny little cell, Tally. When I take you for the first time, it will be in our nest, where I can spend hours making you scream.”
“Fuck,” I whisper, even as he continues that slow grind, digging his huge cock into my pussy. I groan at the friction. The pressure is great but not enough, and it just winds me up further until my pussy is throbbing in time with my heart.
“Tally, baby, if you don’t stop, I’m going to slam into that tight little cunt and pump you full of my seed,” he warns, biting my lower lip with his fangs until I’m gasping. Moaning, he rolls free of me. I get to my elbows and see him on his knees. His head hangs down, and his eyes blaze red as he watches me.
Flopping back, I cover my face, trying to breathe through my desire. He’s right—they are observing, and the last thing I need is to give them more ammunition. We have waited this long, so we can wait a little while longer.
