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“Tell me more about this mating bite.” I gingerly touch the swollen puncture marks in my shoulder. I’m on my back in his bed, and Brick is sucking my toes, one by one, determined to deliver me to death by multiple orgasms.
We’ve been holed up naked in his apartment for two days now, and every minute, I fall more and more in love.
“It means I claimed you, Madi. I embedded my scent permanently into your skin. Every shifter who comes near you will know you belong to me.” The moon shines through the glass of the window, bathing the bed in pale light, making Brick’s eyes glow amber.
“Belong to you? What century is this?”
“It means I belong to you, then.” The warmth of his gaze on my face makes my heart flip-flop in my chest. “A mated wolf will do anything for his female. Everything. Your happiness, safety, and sexual satisfaction are now my highest concern.”
There’s so much for my brain to wrap around. I’m still trying to assimilate it all.
“So it’s like the shifter form of marriage?”
“Yes. But it’s far more intense than a human pairing. Wolves mate for life. They only have one fated mate. That mate is everything to them.”
“Like Eagle and Ruby.”
He kisses up the inside of my ankle, sending tingles straight up my inner thigh to my core. “Actually, they aren’t fated mates. Their love was conventional. The human variety. Eagle fell in love with the pack princess at a young age and worked his ass off to prove he was worthy of claiming her.”
“Oh.” I digest this information.
“My father wouldn’t condone the mating, but after his death, I allowed it.”
“You allowed it?”
Brick grins. “Ruby is pack royalty. If I forbade the mating, Eagle would’ve had to challenge me, and he would’ve lost.”
“Medieval.”
“Yes. But I was a young alpha. Eagle made himself indispensable to me and was a rock for Ruby. There’s no way I would’ve denied their happiness. Especially not after watching my parents’ miserable mating.”
“So…Ruby doesn’t have a fated mate?”
Brick shrugs. “She might have one out there somewhere. I think both of them fear one of their true fated mates will show up and blow their lives up.”
I stare at Brick. “That would be terrible.”
“Yes. But finding one’s fated mate isn’t guaranteed. And as you know, when a male wolf doesn’t mate by the time he reaches his prime, he runs the risk of going moon mad. Eagle and Ruby were meant for each other whether their biology clicks as fated mates or not.”
My mind reels as I take it all in. I remember what he told me about his parents–the Romeo and Juliet of rival packs. “So your dad needed your mom to stay alive, but they were sworn enemies.”
“Yes, exactly. Ruby, Scarlet and I were born from a loveless match.”
“It’s so crazy. You would think the three of you–their offspring–would be the ones capable of joining the two packs together.”
“Yes. That’s exactly the prophecy the Adalwulf’s seeress had and why they had to orchestrate my father’s murder before I was old enough to lead.”
“But you did lead.”
Brick’s jaw hardens. “Yes.”
I stroke away the tension in his face, pull him down for a kiss. Our tongues mate and tangle. Brick pushes me to my back and climbs over me, nudging my thighs open once more.
“I guess stamina isn’t a problem for wolves.” I grip his cock with my hand and guide him in.
“Stamina will never be a problem when you’re in my bed, Madi.” He pushes in deep, then eases back and repeats the action. “I have a perpetual hard-on if you’re in the same room.”
“Don’t forget I’m human.” I rock my hips up to meet him.
