Page 168 of Defiant Beta

He takes over, repeating the rub and stroke that explodes my brain.

With a desperate moan, I explode, bucking against him, and he rears up, wrapping arms tight around me. His hips piston into me. His mouth finds mine, desperate, tongue diving as he jerks and spills deep within me.

We stay locked together. Not because I’m an omega and he’s an alpha who knots her.

He drags me close. Heart to heart. And he keeps me there as if he can’t bring himself to let me go.

As if there isnothinghe wants more than to stay locked deep inside me.

“I love you,” I whisper as he drags the comforter over both of us and kisses my hair. “The L-word used to scare me until I found you.”

“Me too,” he quietly admits. “Not anymore.”

Suddenly, I smile.

“What is it?” he asks, noticing my amusement.

“Just thinking of Ms. Arkwright.”

He kisses my forehead. “I must have done something very wrong for you to be thinking of the head of school now.”

I laugh. “Not like that. She said alphas always want to do the mounting.” I consider it. “Just curious if I should go back to the school and tell her she has that bit of her omega class wrong.”

For one long second, he’s completely silent.

I’ve never seen him laugh like this before. His joy pours out of him. It's contagious, and I can’t help but laugh too.

“Della,” he says, wiping tears from his eyes.

“Yeah?”

He looks down at me, still smiling. “Never change.”

Chapter 49

Xavier

“Della,there’s a hot guy at your counter,” a blond woman loudly calls, staring at me.

There’s no sign of Della.

I grin at her. “Thanks.”

She eyes me curiously. “So, you single?”

“Nope. Happily taken.”

“Shame,” she mutters.

Seconds later, Della pops up from the back, yawning into her hand. “Xavier? What are you doing here?”

She looks tired.

That doesn’t surprise me. Vincent came home mid-morning, also yawning into his hand. He didn’t hear a word of my and Levi’s complaints about him leaving a bunch of candles lit when he took Della home last night.

Idiot couldn’t stop smiling like a lovesick fool.

Levi and I were beyond jealous.

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