Page 133 of Fated or Knot

I rubbed my face, blowing out a sigh in the process. “It’s Marius and his ‘injured and unclaimed’ bit again.”

“Aye. Wonder if we all feel that way,” Fal teased.

“You, agreeing with Marius?”

He smirked back. “Happens a bit more than you might think. Tell me you’ll stay here,mo stór. We’ll make it worth your time.”

I shivered from the intent look he gave me. I was getting knotted today, hopefully more than once, if I agreed. Thinking with my pussy, I said, “I’ll stay here.”

“Good omega,” he purred in his special voice. His alpha presence didn’t quite stroke me head to toe with the same kind of pleasure as when we were mid-sex yesterday, but it was still pleasant without that context. He left me feeling warm and a little slick, and I slumped back on my bed with a little whine.

Now what? My only mate around was Kauz, and I didn’t want to wake him again before he was ready.

Or I could abandon my needy thoughts and try calling on one of my new nixie sisters to come visit me. Happy Fins would be here in a heartbeat and could teach me more Serian games. There was also gossiping with Jani and Lon. At the thought of them, I hoped someone dismissed them before they overheard me screaming last night.

Just as I was getting set to call to the two house moths to help me get ready for the day, the privacy curtain rippled. “It’s me,” Marius said on the other side.

“You can come in,” I said, puzzled.

“But I want you to cover your eyes first.” He sounded playful.

“Oh, a surprise!”

After I promised I wasn’t looking, I knew when he entered the nest and spotted me by his rippling growl. My nipples tightened while I recognized the sound as nonthreatening, just a lusty rumble that told me the kelpie liked what he saw. I was being lazy when he’d arrived, so I was sprawled on my bellynaked, with a layer of covers tossed to the side. “I think you just gave me the better surprise. Stay right there. I want to try something.”

His clothes started plopping to the floor. “Can I look?” I asked.

“Hmm. Nay.”

He didn’t necessarily warn me that he wanted to try a new position, but I got the idea quickly when he climbed on top of me, kissing up my wings. He nipped his way to my ear to whisper what he was about to do, which I nodded eagerly to. I tucked my arms into my sides, and he put his full weight on me. If we weren’t on top of several plush layers in my nest, I’d probably get a little crushed. All that muscle made him a heavy male.

His feral side took over the moment I lifted my hips and he slid inside me. Lowering my hips back to the bed, he took a testing thrust, and my mouth hung open at how deep it felt he went from this angle. I gasped when he pressed a possessive bite on my shoulder to hold me pinned and prone while he rocked his hips. The pain was short-lived; he hadn’t sunk his fangs in too deep.

He made love to me from there, slow and intimate. It didn’t last very long. It felt too good for both of us, and his knot didn’t fit from this angle. He licked the small punctures he’d left on my skin afterward, rasping, “Mine. Now we match.”

I purred my approval, and he sat up, grunting in surprise. Without his weight on my back, I turned over and giggled. His front was even more coated in pixie dust than Fal’s had been. He also had the shadow of small twin bruises on his neck from yesterday. “That washes…oh.” I’d looked up at his face and discovered the surprise.

Marius posed for my perusal. He’d gotten some of his hair shaved off, signaling to the world that he was a claimed male. It wasn’t exactly half his hair, as that would’ve looked terriblewith his face shape. It was more like an angled undercut that left a fuzz of blue stubble, with the rest combed over to form the pseudo kelpie mane that hung over the right side of his face. I admired the effect, hoping he could sense how much I approved of the look on him. With his other asymmetrical angles, the hairstyle just emphasized his more savage beauty.

“Handsome beast,” I purred.

His slow, predatory smile was all Niall. “Yours.”

I held my middle as a sudden burst of heat and pain clenched my insides. The cramp came out of nowhere, and I curled up while keening quietly. Marius nudged me onto my back and buried his face in the crook of my neck as I rode out the pre-heat symptom. I sweated from both my internal temperature and the spike of feverish heat rolling off his skin.

He inhaled, considered, then sniffed my neck close enough that it tickled the little hairs on my nape. When his tongue darted out to lap up my sweat, I moaned and reasoned that he was tasting my pheromones. Another rippling growl rumbled from low in his chest at what he tasted.

“I know what you need,” he said in that smoky feral voice. His scent changed subtly as he nudged my legs apart. It was like mint and waterlily in bloom, the green scent of him enriched with fertility and male musk. I drew him closer to take a deep smell of him while also accepting his cock as he slid back inside of me.

He smelled incredible, and I licked his neck thoroughly as we went at it for hours with him nearly knot-deep in me. The only reason he held back was my cast, unfortunately. We both wanted to seal the kelpie bond properly, which meant I needed to swim with him in his animal form before I could take his knot.

That didn’t mean he didn’t satiate my need for him. It was like hecouldn’tstop until the pre-heat pressure faded in my belly. But I couldn’t get enough of him, either.

Hiding away for a few days while part of the royal pack heard criminal appeals wasn’t as much of a challenge as I expected. I’d never been so needy in my life, but thankfully, my mates were enthusiastic to help.

Kauz woke up again after a solid day and a half passed out on my nest’s divan. He left to wash and returned with a carafe of water, which he drank from directly. We mated in an enthusiastic tangle of limbs, thenhe turned my wrist over to observe the damage to the heat suppressant tattoo his father had inked on my skin.

“The more sex you have, the faster this breaks. And the more broken it is, the more you’re going to crave your pack. It’s already going to degrade quickly with how pent up your heat is,” he reasoned.

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