The trust and love between them had blossomed into something stronger and more durable than either of them could have imagined, a perfect match to the marks that encircled their wrists and her throat, and she would be grateful for the rest of her rotations that he had caught her in his net and dragged her into his lair.
*
Cheim tightened his grip on his female, ensuring she could not slip away.
He wasn’t a fool. He knew exactly what his female was doing—and he could not have been happier. Nothing made his chest swell more than the knowledge that his female wanted him almost as much as he wanted her. No hunt, no kill, no triumph would ever be greater than that or the certainty that his mate and family were safe and happy.
He had spent much of his life as a destroyer, but that had all changed with her.
But as much as he loved a good chase, he would never risk such play when she was heavy with his young.
But he was still the wily hunter he’d always been.
“I will chase my tongue down your sweet skin. Pursue your pleasure with single-minded ferocity.” He grinned as she shivered. “Bring my prey to ground with her screams of pleasure and my cock in her sweet, wet core.”
“Yes, Alpha.” She wrapped her legs around him. “Do all of that. Please.”
Aggression and the thirst for destruction still roiled through his veins, a searing fever that had never fully abated, but now it was honed toward one purpose: the protection of his mate and his young.
Ah-nara was his first and last, the totality of his purpose and his reason for being. He was her Alpha and she was his omega.
Before her, he’d had no past or future. Just an unrelenting rage that never abated. Now, he had all he’d never known he wanted.
She was his beginning. He’d only truly come into being with her touch, the creature he’d been shedding its skin as something better took its place.
She was also his end. He would love her even after the warrior’s heart inside his chest ceased to beat.
She was his everything, for all time—and he intended their love to glow so bright and strong, they never stopped soaring together.
And what he wanted, he took.
*