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“Yes,” I say. “Yes.”
His teeth are sharp as they graze my flesh, his touch always gentle even when he knows he’ll cause me pain. He doesn’t know I revel in it—that I like a little pain with my pleasure. I tangle my fingers in his thick salt and pepper hair, giggling a little at the way his beard tickles my ribs. “Do it, darlin’,” I groan. “I want it. I…I like it.”
That’s all the encouragement he needs.
His teeth press hard, then sink just barely into my flesh. My pussy throbs and clenches around him, and I start riding him in earnest as he lathes the bite with his tongue, stemming any blood flow. I keep his head pressed to my breast, and the pain makes me euphoric.
I come fast and hard, pulsing around him as he spurts into me. There’s so much of it…I’ve never been this wet. I can feel his spend dripping down my thighs, mixed with my own arousal, my nerves firing like rockets.
I stand on wobbly knees, Reyes catching me as I lose my footing and fall forward. He holds me close, staring at me with passion-glazed eyes, and we both start to laugh.
This whole situation issoabsurd.
He’s a priest. I’m a soldier.
I just asked him to bite me and tore his clothes off in a barn.
“If you keep coming onto me like this, I’m not sure if we’ll ever even be able to leave the den,” he murmurs, stroking my hair back from my face.
I grin. “That doesn’t seem all that bad.”
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
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REYES
It’s easy to forget about the hard parts of this in the haze of pleasure Tilda seems to provoke in me, but Idohave to tell the pack, and I know not everyone will be happy about my decision.
We go to dinner together, Tilda tucked into my chest, my right arm wrapped tightly around her. I stare down the others as we walk in, finding all the people I’m the most concerned about first. Arden doesn’t look too happy, but she and Will appear to be at odds—especially since she knows Will would probably be next in line as Alpha Prime. I don't know how the transfer of power works, but if I were to die, I think it would go to the next biggest alpha…and Will is definitely it.
Arden could challenge him for it though, and I have no doubt she would try.
Grant gives me two thumbs up and a wide grin. Suyin and Peaches are sitting together, smiling too—so they, at least, approve. Mateo leans against the threshold to the kitchen, his best friend Kenji—another alpha—behind him. I think he’s happy for me, but it’s hard to tell when Mateo himself is so sad. Charlotte and Elijah are so wrapped up in each other that I don’t think they’ve even noticed Tilda and I came in together, but I have a feeling they’d be the last people to judge us. I get a few condescending looks from the more devout members of the pack—those who probably disapprove of my decision to abandon my vows of celibacy—but other than that, everyone seems…just fine.
I wonder if they’ll be fine with all this when I tell them we’re going to try for an alliance with Homestead.
I take a seat in my usual spot with Will and Grant across from me, Tilda sitting with us. To her credit, she doesn’t balk at the attention, even when I know she hates it. She’s still got a touch of afterglow about her from our tryst in the barn, our scents combined to the point where no one could doubt what we’ve been up to.
“So congratulations on the fucking,” Grant says, breaking the silence. “It sounded excellent, ten out of ten.”
Tilda blinks her eyes rapidly, staring at the redhead as her jaw drops. She sputters a little as she collects herself, shaking her head. “Wow. Uh…”
“Ignore him,” Will says. “He’s an asshole.”
Tilda recovers quickly. “I never had the pleasure of visiting a frat house before the Convergence, so thanks for enlightening me to whatthatwould be like,” she mutters.
Grant grins. “How’d you know?”
She scowls, and I kick him under the table. “A little dignity, please.”
“You know that’s something I amallout of,” Grant snickers. “In fact, I was born without it.”
“Why doesn’t that surprise me?” Tilda deadpans.
They fall into a back and forth, and I watch with what I quickly realize isjoy. To see her interacting with my closest friends like this…
I still can’t even wrap my head around the fact that she’s here—thatmy mateis here with me—let alone that she actually belongs. For the first time, I start to wonder if we should plan to marry like Charlotte and Elijah did, if she wants children…
