“Oh, I want that. I want you to cum.”

I groan. “Babe, I’m trying to hold back here. Don’t you know I’d do anything for you?”

Reaching down with her other hand, she slips two fingers into her soaking pussy. She shudders. Then she holds her breath and squeezes her eyes shut tight and I know she’s there.

“That’s it, baby. That’s right. Imagine my mouth on that sweet pussy. Imagine me sinking into you.”

She lets out a long, keening cry and I’m done for. My cock spurts, spilling all over the sheet. All over Mia’s leg where she’s laying in front of me. Pleasure tightens all my muscles and I let loose the biggest load I’ve ever blown, despite how many times I came earlier in the day.

I half expect her to complain about the mess I made, but when she opens her eyes, she just smiles. She looks up at me with flushed cheeks and it about melts my heart.

Then she reaches down and gathers my cum on her fingers and rubs it into her skin.

Another surge of pleasure draws my balls tight and another dribble runs over my knuckles. Bloody hell, how was that so damn good?

I wipe the cum away before the moisture makes me shift, finding a towel to help clean Mia. She flops back against the pillows with a giggle and a long sigh. “Oh, that was good. I can’t believe it was that good, and you didn’t even touch me.”

“Tell me about it. Just imagine what it’s going to be like when you’re mine.”

I wince at the slip. We haven’t exactly talked about the whole fated mates thing yet, but she just moans and presses her legs together around the hand still touching her pussy. “Believe me. I am imagining, and it’s pretty incredible.”

I sit on the side of the bed because my legs won’t hold me up. I’d be better off with my tentacles if I’d been able to shift. God, I think she might have drained some of the life from me with how hard and how often I’ve cum for her over the last few days. All without a touch from her hand or mouth, and without ever once getting inside her sweet pussy.

“So, have I redeemed myself yet?”

She frowns. “What do you mean?”

“I mean have I shown you I’ve learned a thing or two since that night on the beach ten years ago?”

Her eyes widen and her mouth drops open. “Oh! Well, I mean you’re amazing. I’ve never cum like this with anyone else.”

My fucking heart just about explodes in my chest and I grin.

But she’s not done. “There was nothing to redeem, though. You don’t know how many times I thought about that night afterwards. You were amazing then, too.”

“I was?” I stare, trying to take in what she’s saying. Here I was thinking my teenage fumbling probably did nothing for her; now she’s telling me it was good. “Then you really liked it?”

She laughs. “Well back then I had nothing to compare it to. You were my first. But since then, well... Nobody else ever quite lived up to you.”

My whole world implodes and expands back out again like a demolition and rebuild all in one. I was her first! I can’t even fucking compute.

“Mia...” I get lost trying to work out what else to say.

She rolls to her side and grins up at me. “Luke, do not-just-the-rebound guys sleep over? Because I’d really like a cuddle.”

Fuck my life!

What can I do but pull back the sheet and get in behind her? She snuggles back against me and, while I’m too tired to be in agony now, I know without a doubt I’m going to wake up in torment. It’s not good for my skin to go so long with being wet, but that’s not my biggest worry. My biggest worry is getting through a whole night with that perfect ass pressedagainst my groin the way it is. It’s going to be almost impossible to actually sleep.

I know it and I do not care.

There’s no place I’d rather be than right here right now.

FIFTEEN

Mia

The first thing I notice when I wake up is the warmth. That’s unusual. I’m a restless sleeper. Usually, I wake up cold, having flung the doona off in the night.