The Instinct was a special kind of madness. But we could both descend into it together because the bond between fated mates was strong.

Lyra felt it too. Iknewshe did. How could she not when it was this intense?

“You feel sovraxinggood squeezing my cock like that,luxiva,” I growled to her, my sweat mixing with the mist fromthe waterfall. I felt the wet slide and slip of our bodies as I steadily pushed her up the bank with the ferocity of my thrusts.

“Gods, Droxan,” she breathed, her eyes wide. “I need more!”

Even though she’d just orgasmed, she needed it again. And I knew the only thing thatwouldsate her was my come.

Dropping low, I nipped at her neck, sucking on her flesh as my hips wildly snapped between her thighs. A desperate, constant stream of moans was tumbling from her throat, mixing with my purrs.

My mouth trailed up to nibble at her ear. I groaned, feeling her practically suck me into her cunt, and she shivered.

Raggedly, she breathed, “I love the sounds you make. I love how you sound when you’re about to come.”

“Mmm, and you know when I’m about to come, don’t you, Lyra?” I rumbled. “You canvraxingfeel it, can’t you?”

“Yes!”

Pulling back, I met her gaze. Our faces pressed close and she licked at the seam of my lips, huffing with every deep thrust, the sound of our mating filling the clearing.

“You want me to breed you,luxiva?” I growled at her. She gasped, her cunt clenching down on my cockhardat the wicked, forbidden words. “Tev, you like that. You want me to shoot my seed deep inside you? To get you heavy withmychild?”

And I knew she was truly too far gone because I saw the wild snap of need and lust in her eyes as she cried out, “Yes! Please, Droxan!”

It was my undoing. The fiery path of my seed was shooting up my shaft. My abdomen clenched. My hips bucked. I fucked her harder, faster, chasing that pleasure that I knew only she could give me.

Her orgasm came first, enticing me to join her. Clenching around my cock, squeezing.Demanding.

“Vrax,” I bellowed, the edges of my vision going black. “Lyra!”

And then at the very last moment, I roared as I pulled out from her cunt, thrusting over her clit as she thrashed and moaned, before my come shot out. Hot and thick and shimmering.

Lyra’s eyes were wide as she watched me spill. As she watched me mark her cunt and her belly with my seed. It lashed over her skin, shooting all the way up to her breasts.

I groaned. My Instinct was frustrated that I hadn’t spilled inside her and yet, it was supremely satisfied at seeing her marked like this.

Soon, I thought. Soon, I’d be able to mark her fleshandcome deep inside my mate, satisfying both of those primal needs.

Lyra was watching me as we caught our breath. As the crazed moment began to fade, her cheeks went pink. Was she embarrassed? Embarrassed that she had asked me—beggedme—to come inside her?

“Nix, none of that,” I told her, leaning forward to brush my lips against her, murmuring the words into the kiss. Our eyes held. I could see every glimmering strand of her multi-colored eyes, every thread of brown, gold, and green. I blew out a harsh breath, finally coming down from the pleasured high. In a low, intimate tone, I confessed, “I shouldn’t have asked that. You want me to come inside you? You want me to give you a child,luxiva? You’ll ask me when you’re not in the throes of this desire we both share. When you have a clear mind.Tev?”

A soft gasp came as she stared at me.

She was at a loss for words.

“Come,” I murmured, softly. Sucking in a breath as I backed off, even though it was thelastthing I wanted to do, “Let me get you cleaned up and then?—”

“Would you?” she whispered, staring up at me with an unreadable look on her beautiful features. Looking at her made me ache, she was sovraxinglovely.

I stilled, flickering my gaze between her eyes. “Would I what?”

“Give me a child? If I simply asked?” she wondered.

I inclined my head. A soft laugh broke from my throat but it came out more like a pained huff.

“I’d give you whatever you wanted.”