Total pages in book: 133
Estimated words: 128380 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 642(@200wpm)___ 514(@250wpm)___ 428(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 128380 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 642(@200wpm)___ 514(@250wpm)___ 428(@300wpm)
He shuffled closer to her, his cock so hard it hurt. Everything primitive in him urged him to take her, dominate her, own her so completely she’d see no way out.
Still feasting on her mouth, he pushed her onto her back and then lowered his body over hers, giving her his weight. The level of skin-to-skin contact tantalized his nerve-endings. He brushed his dick over her clit, making her gasp into his mouth.
She shook her head, tearing her lips free. “Don’t tease. Not now. Can’t take it.”
Neither could he. Nor did he have the patience for it. He needed to be in her. Right fucking there and then.
Deke hooked his hand behind her knee, hiked her leg up, and lined up the head of his cock with her entrance. He snared her gaze and held it tight. “Mine.” He snapped his hips forward, ramming his dick as deep as it could go, groaning through his teeth as her fluttering inner muscles clasped him tight. “You’re mine now, Bailey.”
She curled her free leg around his waist and gripped a tuft of his hair, her eyes blazing into his. “And you’re mine.”
The possessiveness in her tone made his lungs burn. “Yeah, I fucking am.” He rutted on her, unleashing the primal need to take; giving free reign to the carnal hunger that twisted his insides. “I won’t let you go.” Not for anyone, not even for his cat.
“Right back at you,” she said, scratching at his shoulders.
He groaned at the sting. “Harder.” He wanted her to break the skin. Mark him. And that was exactly what she did, causing the smell of his blood to blend with the drugging scent of her need.
Spitting out a curse, he quickened his thrusts, still slamming hard. Her pleasure-drunk gaze locked with his, completely unguarded, hiding nothing.
He licked at her pulse. “Once our bond snaps into place, I’m going to leave my claiming mark here.” It was tempting to do it right then, but it wouldn’t have been fair to her. Not when the bond wasn’t yet complete.
That didn’t mean he wasn’t going to mark her at all.
Bailey jolted as sharp teeth sank into the spot beneath the hollow of her ear. That he’d bitten her again was enough to feed the unbearable ache in her pussy, but then he sucked hard, his clear intent to leave a bruise … and the territorial act made pleasure burst over her in giant waves that dragged a scream from her throat.
He groaned into her ear, ramming harder, his cock throbbing against her rippling inner muscles that clamped down on him. Moments later, he exploded.
For a short while, they lay there, panting and trembling. When she finally emerged from her post-orgasm daze, she stroked his back. “I’d have been sad to part with your cock, so I’m glad it won’t come to that.”
His lips curved against her neck. “I think I’m jealous that you’re more emotionally attached to my dick than you are me.”
“Well, it’s a very nice appendage.”
Bracing his weight on his elbows, he released the leg he’d hiked up and then met her gaze, his own all warm and lazy and dark.
“What?” she asked when he kept staring.
“Nothing. Just taking a good, long look at my mate.”
She gave him a teasing smile. “I’m betting you would never have guessed the day we first met that you’d ever refer to me as your mate.”
No, he wouldn’t have. “You’d be lying if you said you saw it coming. I think maybe my mother might have believed it could happen, but that’s it.” He skimmed his nose along her jaw. “We’ll stop by my parents’ place later and tell them. They’ll give us a lump of shit if they find out through the grapevine.”
“We can visit them on our way to Havana and Tate’s house. We’re having a movie night there, remember?” Bailey always gathered with her girls on Halloween, which was one of her favorite days of the year. Now she had another reason to love it: It would be the anniversary of when she and Deke started imprinting.
Her lips thinned as she thought on how she just might come to loathe the day if they fucked this whole thing up somehow. “Disclaimer: if the bond doesn’t progress or it regresses and breaks, I’m going to haunt you like a living poltergeist.”
He did a slow blink. “I guess it’s a good thing that it won’t come to that.”
“You sound very sure it won’t.”
“You and me … It wasn’t an easy road for us to get here. Several things had the potential to knock us off this path, but we kept moving forward. That’s not going to stop now. I’m all in. You’re all in. Our animals are all in. Nothing’s going to change that. So I’m not worried that the bond won’t fully form. Neither should you be.”