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The rhythmic pace mesmerized me, but it wasn’t enough. I knew there was more wonder to be had once that final barrier was breached. “More, Roane, please, I need more of you,” I pleaded, my voice sounding raw and husky.

“Love, any faster and I’m not going to last much longer. I don’t want to hurt you.”

I squeezed his cock and he released a deep groan. My body innately knowing what to do, I felt pride at pleasing my mate. My inner walls started pulsing again, and I knew I was getting close again, so close. And dammit, now I realized why he wanted to go slow. So we could savor, but I was too far gone now. Slow and gentle wouldn’t do.

“Doesn’t matter.” I panted. “We’ll go slow next time.” I grabbed on to his shoulders to brace myself, then rolled my hips, riding his cock until he took over. My mate wasn’t having it and I could have screamed. So I did as he pulled from me and took back control, changing the tempo.

With each of his thrusts, I met him full force, but he only pulled himself back.

“Please, please, please.” Barely recognizing the passion-filled voice that could only be mine, I made a demand that would have made the Kara of days ago blush. “I’ll gladly take the pain. Just fuck me. I want you deeper!”

“Oh, I will, have no doubt, love. But I want you ready, and very wet, to ease the pain.” His throaty chuckle and chest-rumbling purr merely enflamed me. Instead of giving me what I’d shamelessly begged for, he rolled one of my nipples between his thumb and forefinger. The new pleasure, along with hissteady and slow thrusting, triggered a sudden rush of liquid heat and incredibly a second,or was it a third?orgasm rolled through me.

Growling my name, Roane pressed inside me another inch. And another. Suddenly, I understood why he wanted to wait until my body was ready as he pushed past my barrier. I’d worried that he would never fit all the way, yet he did. Thank the goddess he did.

“It will hurt for only a moment, love. I promise.”

The sting lasted barely a moment as I took in a deep breath, but on the second, I began moving my hips, rubbing against his harder-than-steel penis, and pleasure returned.

“That’s it, love, take me in. Take all of me.” Whispering sweet words of praise, he pounded into me.

Our gazes locked, the sound of our flesh slapping together filled the room, and I felt something bloom within me.

“Ah, love, almost there.” He growled.

Lost in this wonderous haze, I welcomed the delicious friction of his cock pounding into me, and when he shifted his angle ever so slightly,oh my. “Yes, yes, yes.” My head fell back as I moaned his name.

“Come with me, Kara.” With one last swipe against my swollen clit, he drove into me harder, faster, the divine pressure building, building, until it burst white hot, igniting bright stars behind my eyelids.

When I thought I’d pass out from the intensity of it all, Roane gave a final thrust, roaring his release. His seed filled me, its heat bathing my womb. Virgins no more, we collapsed tangled up in each other.

His head rested between my breasts with our breaths mingling and syncing, and I swore our heartbeats did as well. Would it always be this way? After this, how could I deny that this shifter was my fated mate?

“No words,” I whispered. Sated and happy, I wiggled my hips against him, then, only half kidding, asked, “So, when can we do that again?”

“You’re playing with fire, Kara.”

“Maybe. But I’m not sure how…never having…how was I able to orgasm so many times.”

“I’d love to take all the credit. But it’s the mating bond, love. And yes, we will be doing that again. But first a short rest. It was your first time, and I wasn’t as gentle as I wanted to be. So, in this I will win.”

And he did.

Chapter

Eleven

ROANE

After a few hours of sleep interrupted by another go at each other, I held my mate in my arms, ready for another round.

“I can’t help but feel as if our relationship has run in reverse. Did it happen this fast for your brothers and their mates?” Kara traced random patterns on my chest, challenging my control to not take her again until we had a heart-to-heart talk.

“It’s hard to know and I haven’t swapped stories with my brothers since Britt and Quinn found each other, but I think it’s safe to say the mating bond is impossible to ignore. It eventually gets it way, as do the Moirai.”

She remained quiet for so long, I thought she’d fallen asleep again. But when she ran her foot along my leg, rubbing back and forth, all thoughts of recovery time disappeared.

“I do believe I’ve unlocked your inner vixen.”

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