Page 130 of Blood and Ruin: The Complete Series

Pulling a gasp from me, he bites down on my ear, hard, sending a bolt of heat straight to my core. I feel his smirk as he continues a path back down my neck.

Pulling away, I see more than just lust in his eyes as he stares into mine.

“So fucking beautiful,” he says just before he slams his lips back to mine, with a renewed fever.

I grab the top of his shirt, answering him with every thrust of my tongue, every brush of my lips.

“Come out now and I won’t kill you all… slowly.” King’s creepy voice breaks the spell we’re under, bringing us back to reality.

We freeze in place, realising where we are and what we were about to do.

“Fuck.” Axel bangs his head against the crate wall behind me. Our ragged breathing is the only sound as I try to get my overheated body under control.

“We’re finishing this later.” He looks at me with longing, the promise a vow he will not break.

I nod a reply as he pulls me in the opposite direction of King.

“Let’s get you out of here.”

We make it back to the guys in no time, seeing nothing but destruction and chaos. Metal crates are destroyed and ripped apart. Shifters are laying in pieces around us.

“Baby!” Jax rushes forward, pulling me into a tight hug. “You’re okay?”

I nod, looking around and finding all my guys back in their human forms, each injured and breathless, but alive.

Luka pulls me into him next, holding me like I could disappear any second. Kai drags me out of Luka’s grip, placing a hand on each side of my face as he drops his forehead to mine.

“You’re okay.” His voice is a whisper, a plea and promise to us both. Taking a deep ragged breath, he reluctantly pulls back, searching me over once more for any injuries.

“I’m fine, I promise.” I lift my head, searching for my injured Basilisk, when he steps forward, pulling me into an embrace. Nuzzling my neck, I feel his bunched shoulders ease.

The tension I didn’t realise I was holding drops like a weight off my shoulders.

They’re okay. Everyone is okay.

“We need to get out of here. I overheard them calling in backup and I don’t know about you, but I doubt we can hold them off for much longer,” Jax says as Rion releases me.

“I feel fucking drained. I don’t understand it,” Luka says, frowning as he looks down at his body.

“It’s the bonding,” Rion says. The guys narrow their eyes on him.

“And you couldn’t have told us this before?” Luka fumes.

“It was our only option at the time. I didn’t realise we’d be heading into battle, or I would’ve mentioned it. Usually, a complete bonding leads to a more… intimate occasion.”

The guys look at me with desire-filled eyes.

“Something that will definitely be rectified… very soon,” Rion says giving me one of his lust-filled looks.

A charge of excitement and anticipation spears through the air, igniting a wild need and hunger between us.

I shudder as desire courses through me at the thought.

Soon.

Rion cuts Luka a sharp look. “Besides, I wouldn’t change the outcome for anything.”

Luka’s eyes widen as he whips his head to me. “I didn’t mean I regret it. Just that it would’ve been nice to know.”

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