“Are you ready, Amara?”

“Yes,” she said with a breathy sigh.

Capturing her mouth with mine, I maneuvered my underwear down my thighs and let my dick drop between her legs. She squeezed her eyes together tightly.

I licked a path to her neck and stopped at the hollow of her collarbone. “Do you want my mark here?”

“I want it where everyone can see it.”

My wings fluttered outward, the tip of my right one sliding against her skin until it found the spot.

The spot where I’d mark my mate.

Where I’d make her mine forever. This was different—more intense—than marriage. It was a forever bond that you couldn’t break, and I’d never been more excited about anything in my life.

She would be mine forever.

Slowly, I positioned myself against her sweet heat, and I interlaced my fingers with hers, bringing them above her head. “We’re all alone out here,” I whispered. “Scream as loud as you need to, Little Mouse.”

Amara’s eyes rounded as I plunged inside of her, breaking her innocence, and my wing piercing her skin.

Sweet liquid fire licked at me from the inside.

My entire body tensed at the tightness wrapped around me, and the feeling of my bond crashing into her.

Amara’s legs tightened around my waist, and a scream ripped from her mouth. The first few seconds felt like diving into a swimming pool, slicing through water and silence enveloping me.

Barricading me from the outside world.

Nothing mattered at that moment other than Amara.

The mate bond was deafening.

It consumed me.

I felt the excitement rush through Amara’s veins and into mine. The painful bliss that shocked her core and slithered up her spine—I felt it all.

“Are you okay, Little Mouse?” I asked into her ear. I listened to her heartbeat quicken and the soft rasp of her voice.

“Yes.”

Dipping my head lower, I rested my lips against the hollow beneath her ear, and whispered, “Do you feel that?”

Amara nodded swiftly, rubbing her chest with her knuckles. “I feel it in here. My entire body feels heavy and connected to you.”

“That’s because we’re bound now. You’re mine forever.”

Carefully, I pulled back and pushed into her further. She locked her legs around me and moaned deeply.

The more she moved, the easier it was for me to push it further. Her tightness clung to me, making my eyes flutter closed and my dragon took the front seat.

His eagerness spilled over until my thrusts were quicker, and Amara’s entire body was screaming in painful bliss.

Rain began to tickle my wings, but I couldn’t stop the feeling of sinking into her, demolishing her innocence. Destroying another’s man opportunity to court or win Amara.

Because she wore my mark, and in the morning, she’d wear my fingerprints on her hips, and my bite marks on her neck. My dragon was pushing so hard, wanting so much more from her, but I held him back.

Lifting her hips with my palms, I sank deeper, listening to the curses fall off her tongue, and the bounce of her breasts in the moonlight.