Be selfish because I want to keep you, too.

I was already naked so it was a simple matter for her to nudge me onto my back and kiss me until my cock stirred to life. I unraveled the robe barely containing her, and gently pulled the silk from her hair as she sat up, her curls tumbling down. Straddling me let her glide along every piercing, a shudderrolling through her with each brush of the metal. She teased both of us until she was wet enough to take me.

“I’m a little jealous she was able to take your knot the first time.”

Don’t be. She’s designed for it. I promise it feels just as good when you hold it and grind on it.

“I was going to say I don’t know if I believe you, but there will be no room for any lies or secrets in the bond. You’re still sure you wouldn’t rather keep your privacy?”

I bucked against her.If you don’t get a move on, I’m going to have to channel some alpha energy and do it myself.

“No need for that, my love. I want to keep you as much as you want to be kept.”

With a simple shift in position, she lined me up and carefully worked herself down. Each piercing made her shiver, and once she was fully seated, she started a slow grind that had my eyes closing and my fingers digging into her.

“You look so good steeped in bliss.”

I couldn’t make many sounds after the damage to my throat, but that didn’t stop me from trying. Broken moans filled the quiet.

With the intention set to make Yelena mine, my fangs descended, ready to stake my claim.

More often than not, this was exactly the position Yelena and I ended up in, with me stretched beneath her, my lioness taking pleasure for both of us. Sometimes it was more theatrical, but given the gravity of what we were about to do, she must have felt, like I did, that it would be best to keep things simple.

I maneuvered my hands around so that each thrust down had her clit stroking against my thumbs. Sweat glistened on Yelena’s skin. The nerves I had expected to go along with this momentous occasion were strangely placid. I had known from the moment I met Yelena that we were meant to be together, and the bite wewould wear on our skin was a declaration into the world that we had given each other our souls. I wanted everyone to know. I’d been her chosen since my arrival at the nest, but this was so much more than that.

Yelena picked up speed, chasing sensations, her pussy tightening around me. “I love you.”

I love you.

Desire and electricity poured through me as she slammed her hips down and pulled me up to her, sinking her fangs into the curve of my shoulder. The orgasm took me off guard with its strength, stealing my breath and pulling my muscles taut. My knot surged inside her. She’d always pulled back before, but not this time. I bit down hard, my fangs claiming her in return. Her pain roared across the bond, dancing violently with my pleasure. Overwhelmed and shaking, I couldn’t do a damn thing except hold still and take all of it.

Yelena washed over me like a wave on the shore, her joy and worries, pleasure and frustration, all buffeting me in the surf of the bond. I couldn’t pull together more than a word or two at a time, thoughts blitzed out of existence as quickly as they could form each time her pussy clamped onto my knot.

Oh gods.Yelena moaned against my skin.How can something feel incredible and also hurt like a fucking bitch? I think it feels so good to you that it’s spilling over to me and dulling the pain of taking a knot unprepared.

You weren’t supposed to take my knot,I admonished.It’s hurting you.

That was exactly why we’d never pushed knotting in the past. Not every body was suited to it, and that was completely fine. I didn’t need to knot someone to be satisfied and Yelena had certainly never left me wanting.

I was busy thinking of other things, and maybe I was a little jealous.

You were a very naughty alpha.I detached my fangs so I could kiss up her throat.You never need to be jealous, love. You feel fucking incredible.

She groaned and rocked experimentally, the ache in her cunt filtering through the bond, mitigated by the pleasure pouring through from me.

I’m going to walk like I’d been on horseback for a week.

Everyone was going to know from the bite marks that we’d claimed each other, but pride kindled that they’d be able to tell from how she moved too.

Yelena kept her fangs inside me, trembling and breathing hard through her nose. I wrapped my arms around her, offering my comfort and anchoring myself in the physical. Privacy wasn’t really a true concept within the bond, but I didn’t want to let my mind wander and flit through emotions she might be trying to keep under wraps.

I was so high on adrenaline when I bit Logan, but this is different. I love that it’s not life or death. It’s just a choice.

I lost track of how long we sat clinging together. The strength of my lioness was like a monument I couldn’t help but stare at in wonder.I think I died for a second there.

Yelena’s laughter rebounded in my mind.

Don’t let me knot you again. We can keep playing with prepping your body for it, but don’t push yourself.