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Seconds ticked by between us, a suspension in time that I’m not entirely certain Ajax wasn’t controlling. My heart pounded against my chest as I waited, anticipation curling my senses—
Ajax slammed into me from below with such speed and force I immediately came.
“Fuck,” he growled, pounding into me. “Your pussy feels so good fluttering around my cock.”
His words were like flames bursting beneath my skin, his movements twisting my body up only to untangle it in the most delicious way. I brought my hand back down, digging my nails into his flexing forearm as he held me tight, my neck still exposed to him.
And as his pace increased, his fingers moved faster against my clit, faster than any hand should be able to move and it felt so fucking good. Ajax was riding me up to that edge again, so quick and fast my head was spinning, a dizzy sort of bliss sending me to a place where nothing else existed but him and me and this insane pleasure between us.
“Oh, God, Ajax,” I moaned as my entire body clenched around him. “I’m…I’m…”
How was it possible to already be ready to come again? How was he doing this to me? How—
“Fuck, Grace,” he groaned, that hand between my thighs nearly vibrating as he slammed into me with his cock and his fangs with such a delightful bite I cried out, my orgasm rocking through me so hard I trembled around him. He didn’t feed though, that much I could tell from the bite being too soft against my neck. I hated that he wasn’t taking what he needed, but I couldn’t form any coherent sentence to tell him as much. Ajax pumped a few more times, harder and stronger as he spilled into me with a groan.
Sparks shot across my soul, the delightful sounds of satisfaction rippling along my skin as he slowed his movements inside me. Our bodies were slick with sweat, our breaths matched in rushed heaves as he held me there.
“You’re shaking,” he said after a few moments. He gently lifted me, shifting us so we were laying on our sides on the bed. “Did I hurt you?”
I smiled at him, drunk on pleasure and exhausted from the way he’d taken my body.
“Not at all,” I said, but he eyed me worriedly. I cupped his cheek, shaking my head. “Not at all,” I repeated, then bit my bottom lip. “When can we do that again where you’ll feed?”
Shock colored his eyes. “Feeding is too risky,” he said. “But the fucking?” He smirked, tugging me against his body. “We can do that right now.”
11
AJAX
Irocked on the back legs of my chair as we all sat gathered around the onyx table of the war room.
Zachariah shot me a look full of side-eye, but I simply shrugged and kept rocking as Lachlan went through the orders of the night.
There was a restless energy in my body that only seemed to settle when I was with Grace, and now that she wore my mark in the center of her chest, I understood the reasoning.
She was my mate.
My mind hadn’t stopped racing since I’d spotted the tell-tale magic on her flawless skin.
No wonder my instincts had nearly consumed any logical thought when I was with her. The urge to feed at her throat, to bury myself between her thighs, to claim her very soul—it was all the calling card of a mating bond. I’d simply been too ignorant to see it.
“Which brings us to tonight’s Conclave,” Lachlan said, lifting his brows at me as I started drumming my fingers on the arms of my chair. “Benedict and Ajax will escort Alek—”
“Fuck that, I’m not leaving Grace,” I snapped, shaking my head. There was no chance in hell. None.
“I need to go,” Saint said, and every head turned his direction. He ran his hand over his close-cropped hair. It had grown back after his captivity, but he still wore it closely shorn. “The demons denied me entrance to their territory last night, and I know I felt a trace of Samuel leading there. And the new lycan alpha is a jackass trying to deny us access for Conclave business.” His hands curled into fists atop the table. Had to give it to him, he was holding himself together better than any of us could have imagined, but I had the sense that he held onto his sanity like an unpinned grenade, waiting to take out his twin in his inevitable explosion. That kind of effort could only last so long.
“Oh, did you think that was a suggestion?” Lachlan glared at Saint, then me. “First bringing home humans, and now arguing about what is undeniably a place of honor—”
“She’s not just a human, she’s my mate,” I growled, rocking forward and slamming the legs of the chair onto the floor.
Every hunter jolted upright, tense and ready.
“Enough,” Alek said to Lachlan, leaning back in his chair before looking at me. “Grace, like all mates, is welcome here.” He shifted his gaze back to Lachlan. “And you of all people should know what it’s like for your mark to appear on a human. Stop being an ass.”
Lachlan grunted. “I don’t like exposing the royal family to unvetted people, mate or not.” He sighed, stroking a hand down his red beard. “But Alek’s right. I know what it is to bring home a marked human.” He grimaced. “And in my particular case, she was actually our enemy at the time, as where yours is not, Ajax.”
“I didn’t know where else to take her,” I barked, recognizing that my defenses were up and my body was poised to strike. “They were trying to kill her. I saw the mark. I reacted.”
