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And for the first time, I knew I was exactly where I needed to be. With her. Always.

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Elisabed

I hadn’t fully forgiven him yet. He’d have to work a lot harder for that.

But this wasn’t about forgiveness. This was a reminder that we were alive, that he was here withme, and that there was nothing he could do to push me away. Ever. Again.

I straddled him, being careful of his wounds, and his eyes gleamed up at me with arousal, affection, and love. He lifted his hands in a submissive gesture that made my inner wolf squirm in delight.

“I’m yours,” he said quietly. Take what you need from me, Omega. Anything you want. I’m yours. Do you understand?”

I didn’t answer with words. I leaned down and pressed our lips together again, and I reached down to pull my clothes off with a frantic energy. His hands only remained by his head as long asit took for me to get my shirt off, and then he was touching me, his hands sweeping up and down my back, over my ribs, cupping my breasts. Touching me everywhere, as if he were reminding himself that I was alive just as much as I was doing the same to him.

“Mine,” I said, shoving my pants down. I could see the urge inside him to reach for me, to take, grab, and conquer, but he surprised me yet again.

His hands settled on my hips, and he looked at me steadily as he kept teasing me, kept offering himself to me without asking for anything in return. He thrust up against me, the pressure of his still-clothed cock delicious against my clit, and it was almost too much. God, I needed him.

I ripped away from him with another growl and tugged on the hem of the loose pants he had been wearing while he recovered in the ward. “Off. Now.”

He lifted his hips, chuckling softly as he did so, and I dragged his pants off his hips, my mouth watering when his hard cock sprang free, red and leaking at the tip. I didn’t wait, didn’t ask permission.

I just leaned forward and took the head of his cock into my mouth, my tongue diving into the slit at the head so that I could drink down every bit of his flavor, and my inner wolf purred at the blatant claim I was putting on my alpha.

He might be reckless; he might go off and decide that it was up to him to save us. He might need to be dragged back and shown how stupid he was for thinking that he could act alone. It might happen again and again and again...

But he was mine. He was mine, and there was nothing anybody could say that would change my mind. My wolf knew it, and I knew it too.

I sucked hard on the head of his cock, and August hissed at me, his hand flying to my hair. “Fuck, Elisabed...”

Before he could grip my hair and take control of the situation, I pulled off his cock and struck with my teeth. I sank them into the flesh of his hip, and he gasped, the sound making my pussy clench. I sucked a mark into his skin, tempted to dig my teeth in just a little more so that I broke the skin and claimed him permanently, but I refrained.

I wanted him to decide that for us when he was ready. I would do my damnedest to convince him that it was the right thing to do for our pack, forus, but I would never force him to fully claim me before I was ready.

“Fuck, baby...” August’s fingers flexed against the back of my head, and I gently detached my teeth from his skin, licking at the new marks I’d left there in satisfaction.

“You’re mine,” I said quietly. “You won’t be stupid and put yourself in danger anymore. Do you understand me? We have to make decisionstogether, as afamily. If you keep going off on your own—”

“I won’t,” he said firmly. “You don’t need to worry about me anymore, Elisabed. I know I’ve made mistakes. A lot of them. But I’m changing, I promise.”

He pulled me down for a kiss before I could protest more or argue with him and point out all the ways that he hadn’t trusted me in the past.

But I was so tired of fighting. And when August finally rolled me over, gently laying his body on top of mine and covering me with his warmth, I didn’t fight him.

His scent filled my nose, his cock nudged up against my hip, andfuck, I wanted him. I wanted him so badly that it was almost too much. It was driving me to distraction.

I wrapped my hands around the back of his neck, sliding them into his hair, and I tugged firmly, getting his attention. He released my lips from the kiss with a low growl, and when he pulled away, his pupils were huge, dilated so wide in his eyes that I could barely see any green around them, and his cock was hard andthrobbingagainst me.

“I want you,” I whispered, my voice thready and needy. I thrust my hips up against him as if it weren’t clear what I meant, and he growled again, making me clench. “Help me forget everything. Now. Please, Alpha.”

August’s eyes flashed, and he leaned down to press our lips together again, groaning against me as he shifted so that his cock settled between my legs. He gave me a few teasing thrusts, his shaft moving smoothly through the slick that had already dripped out of me, but it wasn’t enough.

God, it wasn’t enough. I wanted him so desperately; I needed to erase the memory of everything that we had just gone through; I needed...

I tugged on his hair again and sank my teeth into his lower lip so harshly that the copper tang of blood burst out over my tongue. It should have been repulsive; it should have made me pull back and reminded me of everything that we had just gone through...

But all it did was make my inner wolf preen, reminding me that we were here, together, andalive.

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