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Fuck. Woman switched gears faster than I could keep track. My fault for bringing him up.

“When I’m ready.” That was all I would say on the matter.

She knew it by the spikes that sprang up on the bond between us.

“I saw a part-time nursing role advertised today.” Keeping up with my woman’s speed and redirection was impossible. Damn speed demon.

I stroked her leg. “If you want to apply, go for it.” The club didn’t deserve a woman like her the way the others treated her.

“I don’t want to let Slade down, but I think it’s the best thing for me.”

“Fuck Slade and the club. Look out for you and Mia.”

Sorrow leaked onto the bond, blending with the joy she felt at my support. Her joy dispersed some of the darkness from my soul.

“I love you,” she whispered.

Those three words, backed with truth, fire, and fierceness, were better than any romantic notion. Better than sex. Better than kissing. Fuck, I loved this woman more than anything in this world. I showed her in my kiss, too. Rough and needy.

“I love you too, baby,” I croaked, her sweet scent robbing me of my senses. I hardened beneath her, needing to be inside her to show her what she meant to me with my body when I couldn’t always form the words.

“Hellhound Bitch,” she corrected. “Your bitch.”

Our mouths met in a fiery clash of lips and tongues that left me breathless and fucking hard and aching. The countdown in the back of my head neared its timer. I wanted my mate. To claim her. Make her mine once and for all.

“Baby, I can’t wait for us to be together properly.” I climbed off the seat with her in my arms. “The things I’m going to do to you.”

CHAPTER31

Aaliyah

The momentI waited for so long was finally here. My body thrummed with anticipation, the beat between my legs a steady pulse. I sucked in a little breath at his words.The things I’m going to do to you.Damn. I didn’t let the air out of my lungs until Zethan lay me back on a palatial-sized bed.

He wasn’t a man for public displays of affection. A man of deep romantic sentiment. Or a man to tell me how he was feeling. But when he said something, he meant it from the bottom of his haunted heart. He refused to let my darkness drag me down.

He stroked the growing bulge beneath his shendyt. “Fuck. Look at you. Like a damn goddess in the flesh.” His words went right to my core, trapping me in a trance.

Skin bronzed, hair like silk fanned around my face, pillowed lips throbbing for his kiss. Pretty sure I looked close to a goddess. But to hear it from his lips was like a drug to my body and soul.

I stretched out a leg to rub the side of his thigh. He adjusted my leg so that my foot stroked his thickening length. Rough fingers dug into my calves, turning me to liquid.

“I need you naked, baby.” He snapped his fingers, and my outer clothes were gone, the dry, desert air caressing me like his body would be soon.

He didn’t need to touch me anywhere when his eyes caressed every inch of me, regarding me like I was a lost precious treasure. The fire in my chest burned hotter.

I loved him despite what he did for a living, and the justice he sought for defenseless, abused women. Police officers swore to protect the safety of civilians and prevent crime. Zethan exemplified that creed regardless of whether he wore a badge or a cut. He would never leave me unprotected or unsafe. Never let any threat near me or my daughter. Correction—our daughter.

Muscles flexed and bunched as he crawled over me. A damn god. Brutal. Unapologetic. Fierce. All mine.

“Before you, I was just existing,” he admitted, setting my veins aflame with so much love I felt about to burst. “Going through the motions. Breathing, eating, talking, and sleeping… as much sleep as an Underworld avatar can get.” He laughed at the irony, and I felt the darkness that anchored him to the bottom of the sea floor. “But I wasn’t living. I was fucking dead inside.”

Goddess. Maybe he was a secret romantic after all. I fell deeper into him.

He slipped a finger beneath the bra he brought me, treating the everyday item like it was the most expensive silk. “You showed me the value of family. Of life. Of love. You brought me back to life.”

Exactly what Alaric said to me.

“Now I’m going to make you mine forever.” Long, sharp hellhound teeth extended. “There’s no running from me, Hellhound Bitch. I’ll cross the desert to find you.”

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