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“That doesn’t make it any easier,” I whisper, stepping closer and reaching out to set a hand on his arm.
“No. It doesn’t.” He lifts his head, his eyes meeting mine again. I wish there was some way I could take his pain away and alleviate his burden, but since there isn’t, all I do is step closer, winding my arms around his waist and pressing my cheek against his chest.
His arms fold around my body, pulling me in snugly as he rests his chin atop my head, breathing out a heavy sigh. “So have they reached a decision?”
“Not yet,” I murmur, pulling back to look up at him. “But I think I know how to sway them.”
He arches a dark brow in question.
“Just tell me one thing,” I say as I stare into his eyes intently, searching for any flicker of doubt. “Was it real? You and me?”
His lips turn down in a frown like I’ve offended him by even asking. “Of course it was,” he growls. “There were things I should’ve been more up front about, but I’ve never lied to you, Lo. Not about how I feel, never aboutus.” He slides a hand up between us, cupping my cheek in his warm, rough palm. “This right here, what you and I have? It’s the reason I made that deal today. Because loving you made me see the world differently, and it was time to step up and become the man you truly deserve.”
Tears spring to my eyes as I lean into his touch, soaking in his words like oxygen.
“I love you, Lo Anderson,” Javi declares, the deep rumble of his voice vibrating from his chest into my own. “And no matter what happens from here on out, that’ll never change.”
“Then mark me,” I breathe, looping my arms around his neck and tugging him in closer until I can rest my forehead against his. “Make me yours, and they can’t turn you away. They’ll have to accept you.”
“I can’t ask you to do that,” he mumbles, jerking back.
I slide my hands from around his neck to cup his face, staring into his eyes earnestly. “You’re not. I’m telling you to.”
His brows furrow. “Why?”
“Because I know who you really are, Javier Cruz, and I don’t want to lose you,” I say, the strain in my voice tinged with desperation. I sweep my thumbs over the stubble on his jaw, holding him captive in my gaze. “You said you love me.”
“I do love you,” he murmurs. “It was real, Lo, all of it.”
I lean in closer until our lips are brushing. “Then prove it.”
Javi surges forward, claiming my mouth in an urgent, demanding kiss that makes my knees wobble and my toes curl. It’s the kind of kiss that sears itself into your memory the moment it happens- every twist of his lips and sweep of his tongue echoes the sentiments he just spoke to me, like he’s trying to carve those words into my very soul.He loves me. This is real.And damnit, I don’t want it to ever end.
It isn’t like me to be reckless and impulsive, but forthisman, for thisfeelingI get when I’m with him, I’m ready to throw caution to the wind. I don’t hesitate as he strips my clothes from my body, don’t balk as he carries me over to the bed and lays me down upon it. And when he positions himself between my legs, fitting the head of his cock against my center and pushing inside, I’ve never felt so complete. I relish in the stretch, in the feelingof fullness as he pounds between my thighs, knowing for certain that fate didn’t make a mistake when it put this man in my path. He’s the missing piece that makes me whole.
Mine.
With every hard grind of his hips, my orgasm builds within me like an approaching storm. I dig my fingernails into his biceps, I kiss his face, I wrap my legs around his waist to draw him in closer. And just as I’m wondering whether my wolf has regained enough strength to cooperate with this half-cocked plan of mine, my mouth tingles with the descent of my canines, telling me that she’s just as ready for this as I am. I yank Javi in closer, his chest crashing against mine as I sink my teeth into the junction of his neck and shoulder, officially claiming my mate.
The coppery tinge of blood coats my tongue as stars burst behind my eyelids, my body shuddering in an earth-shattering, mind-numbing climax. I release Javi’s shoulder, licking the blood away, and he pushes up on his forearms to gaze down at me with a look of pure desire and adoration, his pupils blown wide.
“I’m yours,mi amor,” he croons, punching his hips forward to bury himself to the hilt as my inner walls flutter around his thick cock, every thrust drawing out my orgasm until it feels like it’ll never end. “And you’remine.”
The savage bite to his tone ripples through me like a shockwave as he lunges down to sink his canines into my flesh, marking me and sealing our fate. I swear I can feel our bond suddenly burning brighter in my chest, fortifying into a permanent, unbreakable tether between our souls as the mating serum is deposited beneath my skin. Javi roars out a curse as he empties inside me with a final hard thrust, his body trembling as he ridesthe wave of his own climax and soothes the wound on my neck with gentle laps of his tongue.
Black spots dance in the corners of my vision as I start to come back down, both of us breathless and sweaty and spent. Javi pushes up on his forearms to gaze down at me again, and my eyes snag on a drop of crimson caught at the corner of his lips. I thread my fingers into his hair and pull his face to mine, licking it away and giggling against his mouth as a wave of giddy euphoria washes over me.
We did it. It’s done.And though we’ve yet to go out there and face the music, one thing’s for sure.
Now that we’re bonded, there’s only one answer I’ll accept from the council.
I won’t allow anybody or anything to come between me and my mate.
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“Now?”
“Now.”
