Page 23 of Dimitri

“I am glad you like the place. I assume this place feels like it could be home?”

I smiled again. “Absolutely. I do have a question, though, before I bring your things over here.” I took a few steps, bringing Dimitri with me. “Do you think we will be here for some time? I would hate to get settled and then it be time to find somewhere new.”

“This place is ours. There will never be another that lives here, unless we allow it. There will be no more moving, no more remaking ourselves. Here at the council, we do not have to continually worry about not aging. We can be here for as long as you wish.”

That was a relief. If I was going to start a family now that I had my One, I wasn’t looking forward to moving around so often.

“Can you show me the rest of the house? I need to know where I’m putting everything.”

Dimitri took my hand, and when he immediately started toward the stairs, I smiled.Yes, please show me where the bedroom is because I really need to get that amazing bed here so we can get to other things. Specifically, claiming each other.I was a patient man for the most part, but I was more than ready to have the sexy dragon’s bite on my shoulder.

I could admit that it had been a bit too long since I’d been intimate. But Dimitri was so much more than just a random hookup. He was my last lover. He was going to be my forever one. I couldn’t help but send a silent thank-you for the magnificent man that fate had paired me with. Granted, I didn’t know him all that well, but I knew that with him being an enforcer, he had to be a good man. Not only that, but I’d all but passed out on him last night, and he’d been a complete gentleman and had simply gone to bed beside me.

“This is the main bedroom,” Dimitri said as we reached the door at the top of the stairs. There were several doors on either side, but this bedroom was at the end of the hallway. “You cannot see yet, but there is a beautiful view during the daytime. The falls can be seen in the distance. It’s not nearly as close of a view as Dedushka has, but he lives quite a bit closer to the falls.”

“This is to be our bedroom, then?” I asked.

“Ja. Unless you wish for one of the smaller ones.”

I shook my head. “And that furniture? That is all yours?”

“Ja. We can replace it if…” Dimitri trailed off when the room was suddenly filled with everything that had been in the bedroom we’d been in not even an hour ago. I used more magic to bring the sofa and other things that had been at Dimitri’s house. His clothes were now hanging in the closet along with mine. Our bathroom things were here as well. The kitchen was stocked with everything he had, which wasn’t much, but we could and would work on that.

I turned and looked up at my One. “I want you to claim me,” I told him. “We’re both old enough to know that there truly is no getting around it, and in all honesty, I have no issue with who the fates have chosen for me.” Dimitri tilted his head. “I know it’s not romantic, but I don’t need romance.”

Dimitri shook his head, but he reached out for me. “You may not need it, but you deserve it. I will gladly claim you, but I askthat you do not rush it. We can only claim once for the first time. I would like for it to be special.”

I nodded. “I would like that.”

“Good. Then perhaps we can start by removing your coat,” Dimitri said. He slid his hands inside my heavy wool coat, and when he pushed it off my shoulders, I let it drop to the floor. His fingers then moved to the buttons on my shirt, and I wanted to help, but I was going to let him do this. “I cannot tell you how much I wanted to explore you last night. You were sleeping so peacefully though. You barely moved when I joined you in my bed.”

“I’m sorry,” I whispered. “It was a very long week, and it caught up with me.”

“You will not have to worry about long weeks any longer,” Dimitri told me. His hands moved swiftly down my torso, and when he reached my waist, he yanked on my shirt, pulling it from my slacks. The last few buttons were undone, and then his hands once more pushed something off my shoulders. This time, it was my shirt though. Dimitri’s hands were not only incredibly warm against my skin, but his caress was unlike anything I had ever felt.

I let my head fall back and closed my eyes, enjoying the feeling of his hands on my body finally. I moaned when his hands caressed lower to my waist. Because I had my head back and my eyes closed, I didn’t realize he had moved until I felt his lips on my neck. The quiet moan from only moments ago was repeated, only this time much louder and longer. I swallowed hard and held my breath as his lips moved up my neck toward my jaw.

“Dimitri,” I whispered.

“You taste just as good as I imagined.”

His lips moved up under my chin, and then they were gone. Seconds later, they brushed against my lips, and I whimperedwhen the fleeting touch was gone too soon. I should have known he wouldn’t deny us for long though, or at least anticipated when they returned, this time with more pressure. His hands slid around my torso, pulling me tightly to his body as his lips moved against mine. I moaned as I opened my mouth, letting his probing tongue in. We moaned in unison when our tongues touched for the first time.

I had been kissed plenty in my lifetime, but nothing had ever compared to what Dimitri was doing to me. My entire body felt as if it were tingling, and then it hit me—it was. My aura had been talking to me all this time, and I’d simply ignored it. After the first meeting at the bakery, I hadn’t paid much attention to what my body had been telling me. Now, I couldn’t deny it any longer.

My entire body was lit up like it was being stimulated everywhere and not just where he was actively touching me. My own hands moved to Dimitri’s waist, and when I tugged on his shirt, it easily pulled free from his pants. I slid my hands inside, touching that hot, smooth skin once more.

Dimitri pulled his tongue back and then his mouth from mine. “Just to be certain. You absolutely want this? I will struggle to stop if we get much further. I will do it, but it will be difficult.”

I blinked a few times, trying to focus on what he was asking. I knew that as an alpha, he would make certain that I was on board with being claimed. I myself had been prepared to ask something very similar. “Yes. I want your bite, Dimitri. I want to carry your children, to make a home and family here with you.”

That was all it seemed to take. Dimitri’s mouth was on mine again, and then we were moving. I assumed we were working our way to the bed, and when I felt it against my legs, I reached for the button of Dimitri’s pants. He groaned into my mouth as our tongues dueled with one another.

Once I had his pants undone, I slid my hands up, taking his shirt with them. Dimitri broke from the kiss again, and when he pulled his shirt over his head, I chuckled at the ripping sound that could be heard.

“I have others,” he said, seconds before his mouth was on mine again, and then we were moving. I lay back as Dimitri climbed on top of me. It took a bit of maneuvering, but I was able to crawl backward enough to where my body was completely on the bed with a very sexy man hovering just above me.

He gently pressed his hips down onto mine, both of us moaning when hardness met hardness. I couldn’t help my reaction: press upward into his body with mine. That earned me a growl, and suddenly, there were hands that were tugging on my pants. There was more ripping, but I didn’t care. I could fix them, and my mind was simply thinking that the quicker he got us naked, the faster he could bury his cock inside me.

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