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I blushed harder at his words. Straight to the point, almost vulgar but exactly what I wanted to hear. I nodded and Teddy cocked his head to the side waiting for me to answer. I didn’t need our half-open mating link to let me know he wasn’t letting me by with just a nod. Teddy was definitely a ‘use your words’ sort of guy.

“Yes,” I whispered. “And it’s a very enthusiastic yes but I don’t want everyone in the building to know how enthusiastic, okay?”

“Okay,” Teddy nodded and stole another kiss. “I get it. Try not to make you cum too loudly. I think I was loud, though. Habit that stuck from the purple district. Come on. Bed then.” His expression turned seriously as he dropped the towel and patted me on the butt.

“So serious,” I laughed.

“I am very serious about your orgasms, mate. Let’s get this magical energy raised so I can see inside your head.”

I crawled into the bed and a second later Teddy was over me. Our lips crashed together for another long, hard kiss. His tongue danced in my mouth, swirling around mine. I sank into the bed that smelled so much like us. The bed that I first crawled into while trying to hunt him down. Electricity crawled over my skin now too as it did then but no storm dance on the horizon. This time it was magic crackling between us. It was all the time we spent apart before we found each other again coming home to roost.

His was his warm mouth dragging itself up and down my throat as he nudged my legs apart with his knee until I made room for him between them. The change of position reminded me how slick I was. Everything inside me burnt hot for him – needed him. We were a half-open magical circuit and the magic shoved us harder than before. Reaching between our bodies, I took him in my hand and squeezed him. His dick throbbed against my palm and I swallowed hard thinking about how it’d feel with him all buried deep inside me. He rocked his hips, thrusting through my fist and imagining the same. Teddy’s longing rained down over me on our half-open mating link.

“I can’t wait any longer,” I hissed. “It’s all too much. We can pretend we’re still courting and---”

“I plan to spend the rest of my life seducing you, mate,” he whispered against my throat and something deep inside me melted. My patience dissolved and I led his dick home, pausing only long enough to ensure its mushroom-shaped head was coated in my slickness so we didn’t run into friction later because I didn’t plan to let go of him any time soon.

I bit my lip as skin brushed skin, sending a lightning bolt of sensations up my spine. He rocked his hips, slipping his dick out of my hand as it began its journey inside of me. My jaguar froze inside his inner sanctum. He was so close to meeting the dragon who dwelled within Teddy. He spun in a circle looking for any opening he might escape through to meet his mate. Teddy kissed me again and I left him to his own devices. He’d be there soon enough. We were only one bite away from achieving his goals after all.

I kissed Teddy back hard. Our tongues entwined between our mouths even as our bodies found their rhythm. He was girthy, rubbing up tight against my slick passageway even as I tried to grip onto him. I lost myself in the heat radiating between us and spiraling inside of me. My mate pressed his forehead against mine, smelling like sheer pleasure. He was pleasure raining down on me by scent and magic. I wrapped myself around him, so I didn’t fall off the face of Earthside. I held onto him as his hips rocked, sinking his dick deeper into me each time. Had he forgotten about the bite too like I almost did? He hadn’t. His thoughts whispered about it again and again, but he took his time, delivering slow deliberate strokes until I writhed under him, melting into the bed and scrambling for something to hold onto. My nails found his back and he roared softly and nuzzled his face into the crook of my neck. His tongue snaked out between his lips, tasting my skin, and then he remembered my claiming gland as if it all hit him again all at once. I cocked my head to the side, surrendering to him all the room he might need to finish the vows.

I didn’t have to wait long to discover what they’d show him. Teddy kissed my gland, pressing his soft supple lips against it. I winced. It was so full, and the clear magical fluid sloshed around inside it. He glanced at me, checking to see if I were ready.

“Bite me,” I begged aloud, wishing he could be inside the whirlwind that was my brain as his tongue circled my claiming gland. A second later, his dragon let him borrow his canine tooth and the sting was a relief. The clear magical fluid that had pooled and built up under my flesh broke free in streams and rivulets. Teddy licked it up with his eyes closed. Familiar tropical birds called out in my memories and the smell of home surrounded me as he drank down my past to help build our future. It was all so abstract from my side of things. All the faces and places were familiar along with the magic I learned from the moment my eyes opened. Then came the new-to-me places I’d seen and the friends I’d made along the way. We circled back to my parents’ separation and the aching worrying that plagued me then. How could anything last forever when my true-mate parents couldn’t even make it work?

“I’ll never be like him,” the words tumbled over my tongue before I could think about how unsexy they were. “I don’t care if our kids respond to rock golems or three-eyed tentacle people!”

“Me neither. Well, maybe that last one. I hope our grandkids don’t need glasses,” Teddy said once all the clear magical fluid from my claiming gland had run dry. “I don’t know anyone who makes them for three-eyed people.”

I kissed him before either of us could say anything goofier than we already had but his playfulness told me that he understood exactly what I meant. His tongue swept around my mouth as our bodies moved together, our pace growing more frantic with each thrust we shared. My nails dug into him again as everything inside me drew up tight and hot causing my hands and legs to tremble against him. Soon we were both too breathless to kiss anymore. We were nothing but thrusting and pleasure. Somewhere in all of it, Teddy reached between us and took ahold of my dick. I hissed as the new pressure nearly sent me over the edge. He stroked once, twice, three times, matching the frenzied, demanding movements of our bodies before I did cum making a mess of his hand, arm, and my stomach. He grinned and kissed me hard despite my gasps of pleasure. His tongue swirled around my mouth as his dick twitched inside me. I bit my lip as a new wave of pleasure washed over me, drawing out my orgasm as Teddy’s warm, sticky seed spilled into me. I held onto him, rocking and kissing, until there wasn’t a drop of cum left to be drawn from either of us.

He rolled off me, onto his side and still close by. I was lighter now – not for the absence of his pleasant weight but because the shoving pressure from the magic to fulfill the claiming vows had disappeared, satisfied with our effort. Teddy’s energy hummed with pleasure as he rubbed my belly absent-mindedly. We needed another shower but I was ninety-nine percent sure that was going to have to wait until after we took a nap.

Chapter Thirty-Three

Dern

After Mori left for the evening, Ormund settled in next to me. His errands were wrapped up for now. Later, I’d ask more questions, but talking about Marshmallow and Graham left me feeling that delightful sort of sleepy that I hadn’t felt in years. It was the sort of sleepy young lovers felt after rolling around together while trying to make a baby. If you’d asked me a few days before I’d have said I was too damn old to feel anything like that ever again. Sharing the story of my boys had left me feeling that way this time, though. Soon, I’d see them again. They’d have to go on living their lives over there with their mates and pups, but I’d see them again before it was time for me to move on – the big move on. Maybe I’d linger between life and get to know my grandchildren. Would the powers that let over there let me? It didn’t matter that night. I still had time to figure it all out. I hadn’t finished what I’d set out to do after all.

I wasn’t sure how long I slept all wrapped up in Ormund’s arms but it must’ve been a long time. I blinked, feeling lighter than I had in years. I stretched and nothing popped or crackled.

“Must be a really good morning,”my wolf chuckled to himself.

I glanced out the window. The moon was still high in the sky. It wasn’t even morning yet. Ormund stirred in his sleep as I swung my legs off the bed and stretched my arms above my head again for good measure. Maybe whatever doctor ‘Jerk Leem’ gave me was actually starting to work. I stood up and stretched again. My wolf yawned inside his inner sanctum.

“Mate?” Ormund’s voice reached me, laced with concern.

“I’m just stretchin’,” I told him, glancing over my shoulder.

My mouth dropped open, and I spun around quickly enough that I landed on my ass. I might’ve cracked my tailbone if I still had one. There at the foot of the bed was the biggest door I’d ever seen, and someone was whispering behind it. The voices were all too familiar. Had my parents really waited all this time on me? Wasn’t that a little asinine? Maybe not. I’d wait forever on my boys if they needed me to.

The door wasn’t what made my butt introduce itself to the floor. It was the man laying on the bed, curled up with his head inside Ormund’s ghostly chest. That man – no the body – that had once been me. I scooted backwards as if it might jump up and start crying for brains like we were in some fucked up zombie movie.

“Mate, it’s okay,” Ormund said, appearing at my side.

Now that I was dead too he didn’t have to bother with pretending to move like a living man because I had no mortal sensibilities to startle.

“It’s not! I haven’t finished telling them! I haven’t even told Teddy---” I said but couldn’t finish the thought. “I was supposed to have more time! Damn it!”

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