Page 93 of Harvest Moon

“Now?”

I swallowed hard. “Whenever you’re ready. We can wait until we have a wedding ceremony if you want, or we could do it tonight. As long as I have you, as long as you’re happy, Lex, I don’t give a damn about the details.”

He swallowed, and that was the first time I realized he was nervous too. He’d been waiting for me to say all of what I felt, lay it out bare.

After a few seconds passed, he nodded. “Okay. Now.”

He didn’t have to ask me twice. I sure as hell wasn’t going to question him. Tugging my shirt over my head, I sat down there at the edge of the bed.

“I want your bite first,” I whispered, reaching for him, drawing him between my legs. His hands combed back my hair gently. “When I mark you, I want you to know I’m already all yours. My whole heart belongs to you.”

He whined, but that was it—all either one of us needed. With his hands pressing my back, digging in right under my shoulder blades, he pulled me in and dropped his mouth to my bare shoulder.

His fangs were sharp. They sank right in and burned, but fuck if that didn’t make my blood all rush down south. I was Lex’s. Everybody’d see that the second I wore a V-neck, and I’d never been more proud.

Or more turned on.

I moaned, my eyes fluttering shut, and Alexis finally noticed. He licked the red off his lips and smiled down at me.

“So that does it for you?”

I laughed breathily and shrugged. “You do it for me, Lex. Just you.”

He ran his hands up my thighs, undid my jeans. I pushed them out of the way, kicking off my shoes in the process. He stepped back long enough to get undressed, and there was my mate, golden skin bare and glorious, for me to hold and keep close and care for until the last of my days.

He swung his leg up and crawled into my lap. The backs of his thighs were slick, his ass already wet for me.

“I like that,” he said against my lips, “the sight of my mark on your skin. That you’re mine.”

I gripped his ass as he moved in my lap, thrusting together, working our throbbing dicks side by side.

I liked it too, but it was too late for the kinds of words I’d need to tell him that. Instead, when I nuzzled his neck, he bared his skin to me.

With bared fangs, I sank my teeth in just as he lifted himself and sank down on my throbbing cock.

Everything was heat and pleasure and the slow roll of our bodies. We stayed like that, sat at the edge of the bed with his legs bent on either side of my hips, so I could fuck him deep while we held onto each other.

I swear, we didn’t come up for air with all that kissing, but we didn’t need it. Only needed each other.

When I reached between us and stroked his cock, Lex moved faster, riding me hard, dropping down with force as I pulled him closer.

He came, wet and hot on my belly, clenching hard all around me until the only thing I could see were his bright eyes. The only thing I could feel was the connection between us.

More, deeper, faster. Forever.

My knot swelled in him with a tingling surge that left me breathless.

Stunned, I stared up at my mate—mymate—while he smiled down at me. Gently, he rocked his hips until I came down, and even then, we stayed locked together a while, unwilling to move while we could stare into each other’s eyes.

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Alexis

“That should do it,” Dad said, smoothing one last piece of tape into place. He looked down at me from his spot on the ladder, confused concern on his face. “Are you sure you don’t want cable, though?”

Ahh, my dad, television addict from way back.

“Ridge and I aren’t really TV people, Dad, and I only need an internet connection for my podcast.” I reached down and patted my laptop. “We can always use Netflix and my computer if we want to watch something.”

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