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I close my eyes and feel myself sheathing and unsheathing my mate, over and over, faster and faster until I can’t handle it a moment longer. I take control. Hooking my feet under his muscular thighs, I grasp his shoulders and begin to bounce, dictating my own rhythm.
Erik growls deep in his throat and thrusts under me to match my frantic need. “Oh, Goddess, baby. I’m going to come.” His words sound almost pained.
I don’t fully understand what he means, but I think I feel it too. I feel an unbearable fullness, like a song building to its crescendo. A fiery orb of ecstasy explodes within me, and a wave of heat follows. It rushes through me, curling my toes and causing my back to arch.
“Erik!” I cry out his name as the pleasure drowns out all else. There’s nothing left in the world but the feel of us—connected, gasping, and calling out to the Goddess—as the waves crash over us relentlessly.
Erik stiffens under me. His head falls back, and he digs his fingers into my hips, slamming himself into me—hard—three more times before his beautiful body arches, shaking. Several heartbeats later, he relaxes and opens his eyes. “Goddess… Asha, you are everything I ever dreamed and so much more.”
I feel my cheeks flush, and my gaze drops as I smile. “I don’t know what that was,” I admit. “But I liked it. And I’d love to do it again, sometime. I’ve never felt such power.”
“We are mated, Asha. We are one, mind, body, and soul. I am yours, as you are mine. Always and forever.” Erik rests his forehead against mine.
I feel him slowly softening inside me.
“With this blood, I bless you, Asha Ravensong. I crown you Queen Alpha of the Rosewood Valley Clan. And with the Goddess as my witness, I mark you an emissary of Chaos.” Erik clenches his jaw, biting his tongue. Staining his index finger, hedraws a pentacle on my forehead with his sacred shifter blood. “The ritual is complete, my mate. There is no greater magic than sex magic. I have no doubt that the Goddess will grant you her gift. Now, I will find you clothes and you can begin your vigil.”
Speechless, I take hold of Erik’s chiseled jaw. With more love and gratitude than I feel I can ever truly convey with mere words, I catch his mouth with mine, infusing my kiss with all the passion, promise, and hope of a beautiful future together—as alpha and queen.
Chapter Ten
Erik
I follow the familiar track through the forest, the one known only to the beasts of the wild. Asha has been on vigil for hours, on her knees beneath the full moon, awaiting the Gift of the Goddess. And though I have given her peace and privacy, my Alpha instincts are flaring, beseeching me to go to her without delay. Like a hot hook in my guts, I feel the pull. It lures me through the night and toward my Fated mate.
Lush ferns and fragrant wildflowers brush past me as I go, dampening my black fur, releasing their perfume into the darkness. The clearing lies ahead, an almost perfect circular grove of ancient trees. Through the shadows, I spy a great expanse of perplexing snow-white.
What am I seeing?I peer, slowing my pace, and pad silently toward the inner tree line. What confronts me causes my heart to leap in my chest and my mind to go utterly blank. I stand frozen, caught between breaths as a magnificent she-bear turns to face me.
Her scent washes over me, and incredible, familiar violet eyes glitter under the starlight.“Asha?”I can scarcely believe my eyes.“Am I dreaming?”She’s the single most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
“You are as awake as I am, Alpha.”
My breath rushes out of me in wonder as I hear my mate’s voice in my mind. I enter the sacred grove and approach, circling her, drinking in her majesty. She is small and slight for a bear but remarkable beyond compare, like dreams made flesh.“How is this possible?”I ask.
“I am a Chaos witch, Erik. My magic knows no bounds. My powers encompass all others, and so much more. The Goddess spoke to me … just as she did to you. She told me thatdanger is near, and that I should embrace my clan as I would my own coven.”
Asha nudges me with her head.
It’s a comforting, typically bear gesture of love. It makes my heart smile and my cock stir.“So, you can shift at will? Be just like us?”My heart races as I lick her face, tasting her fur and drinking in her Otherworldly scent.“It seems too good to be true, mate.”
Asha circles me before touching her wet nose to mine.“Someone once told me that sometimes, Fate throws you a bone…”
I can hear the playful laughter in her telepathic voice as she reminds me of my own words. My soul burns with renewed fire and I can’t contain my joy.She can be a bear! My bear. She is truly my Fated mate!
“Mate,”says Asha, her tone more serious.“I have my Gift of the Goddess. I have been blessed with a more beautiful jewel than I have ever seen. You were right. She granted me her favor.”
“Then we should go,”I suggest.“If the Goddess has given us fair warning of danger, we would do well to heed it. Let’s head home, back to our cave.”
“Home.”Asha sighs before launching herself past me, a blur of brilliant white in the darkness of the Rosewood.
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The clan stands in awe of their queen. One by one, they shift as we come before them until the cave is filled with bears of all sizes and colors. Little cubs at their mother’s sides, men, women, and our elderly all wait with bated breath as Asha and I stand together on the threshold of the den, just as we did in mortal form a day earlier. We rest our foreheads together, and then I stand up on my immense hind legs and roar.
My queen rises, following my lead, and adds her voice tomine.
The clan stands as one, their roars joining in our chorus. It’s a sight that will no doubt be forged into my memory for the rest of my life. The Rosewood Valley Clan is finally, once more, whole and strong, united under the leadership of a worthy alpha and queen.
