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“Not until you answer me.”

“Unlike some…” Nika’s giggles ran over the words for a minute. “People…” She huffed but couldn’t stop the giggles. “I have…” She made the cutest little growling mewl that did more to make my dick hard than it did to threaten me. “Self control.” My mate finally managed to get out.

“Is that so?” I stopped tickling her and turned her body so that she faced me. “Well, I guess it’s good that I lack it when it comes to you.” My lips crashed against her and I pulled her evencloser, so that our bodies touched from head to toe. Her lips were warm and pliant beneath me as she gave in to my silent demand for her to open up for me. Our tongues tangled as her fingertips explored around my waist, up my back, and over my shoulders. I wrapped my hands around her hips and tugged so that she had no choice but to slide up my body and wrap her legs around me.

“Nika, love,” I whispered against her lips when we both came up to breathe for a minute.

“Thorin, I don’t want to wait.”

I shook my head. “Made you a promise, sweetheart. Gonna live up to it, so you know I’m a man of my word.”

“I already know that.”

“Well, then I’m not going to disprove it now. We can do this without the marking.” She nodded her head in agreement at the same time she worried her bottom lip between her teeth. Her canines had elongated during our make out session and they were prominent in her mouth. I couldn’t look away and leaned back in to swipe my tongue across them. Nika moaned her pleasure at the intimate gesture. “Soon, love. Soon you can sink those beautiful teeth of yours deep into my flesh and we will finish what was already started.”

I moved back up toward the head of the bed and placed Nika on the cool sheets where she had turned down the bed only moments before. “For now, I’m going to pleasure my mate. By the time I’m done with you, you won’t even remember your own name, let alone that your deepest desire is to claim me in every way.”

“Or, you could just stay still long enough for me to…” Her teeth grazed across my neck and sent a shiver of pleasure up my spine. We both knew she wouldn’t bite without my consent, but that didn’t mean my little minx of a mate wouldn’t play dirty. She teased me again and then nibbled on the shell of my ear.Each time her teeth grazed my skin, it sent another shock of sensation through my body and became harder for me to resist the lure of the mate bond.

“Nika!” I called out to her as I backed up and slid her leggings down. She hadn’t put anything on underneath them, so I was treated to the sight of her bare pussy and that was when the last bit of my control snapped.

I hungrily dove in and lapped up all the sweet nectar between Nika’s thighs. Her moans grew louder with each swipe of my tongue, and then when I leaned in and sucked hard on her clit, her hips bucked up to meet me. I slipped a hand between us and managed to slide one finger into tight, silky depths of her pussy as she continued to buck against my face.

“Thorin!” She called out, but there was no way I would stop. I used one hand to push down on her lower abdomen while I added another finger to brush over the wondrous bundle of nerves inside her pussy that I knew would be extra sensitive thanks to the pressure I applied from above as well. After I grazed her clit with my teeth and sucked it hard again, Nika exploded in a way I had never experienced before. She showered me with her sweet release and I didn’t let a bit of it go to waste.

I continued to lick her as I eased my fingers free from her contracting pussy. “What just happened?” She asked, clearly astounded.

“You just squirted, beautiful.”

“I didn’t think that was a real thing.” Her voice was a little rough and throaty as she came back down from her orgasm.

“Seemed real enough to me,” I teased as I moved up her body and planted kisses along all of her exposed skin as I went. She still wore the tank top, though I could see one rose nipple peeking out from the gaped armhole. While I wanted to pop it into my mouth and suck it until she throbbed with need for moreof me, it was evident that we needed to dial things back just a bit before someone got carried away.

The promises I made to Nika were worth the torture of dealing with the mess I’d made in my pants when she released all over my face.

“What about you?” Nika finally asked as I bundled her up in my arms.

“Sweetheart, I was so turned on by how hard you just came that I matched your energy.” Nika glanced down, as if she could see the mess inside my pants and giggled.

“Maybe we should both get a shower?”

“It can wait for a minute. I want to hold you for a minute because when I get up, it will be to go back to my room before we both go against your previous wishes. You’re not ready to become the Luna of this pack yet. Almost, but not quite.”

“How do you know me so well?”

“Because you’re important, so I pay attention.”

“You keep telling me that I’m perfect, but I’m beginning to think it’s just the opposite. You’re the perfect one.” The last two words were said on a yawn before Nika closed her eyes and snuggled deeper into my side.

Chapter 14

November

NIKA

The council membershung around for the last week of October and put a damper on any further fun Thorin and I could have. They were given access to the prisoners being kept in the cells and we all learned a little more as they questioned each of them in further detail than Thorin or his beta had done previously.

By the time they were done with Miriam, she was a sweaty mess and appeared to be pained by the process. It was clear that she fought the impulse to tell the truth, as they demanded, every step of the way. It cost her until she finally broke and blubbered the whole sordid thing. She had always known, even when she dated Johann who her mate was. The goddess who had been hanging around at the edges of the pack’s lands had convinced her that the mate Selene picked for her wasn’t good enough and that she was meant to be the Luna of the Grasslands Pack.

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