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“No, like this,”he said, again in my head. It was so…intimate, his voice echoing inside me.
“How are you doing that? Are you reading my mind?”
“Not reading your mind. All Archai have the ability of basic telepathy. You have it too.”
“No I don’t.”
“Sure you do. Try it.”
I closed my eyes, trying to focus with the distraction of Sun surrounding me, touching me.“Like this.”
“Just like that.”Another suck, a gentle bite.“Fuck, Rissa. What you do to me.”
I gripped the back of his neck at the same time that my legs surrounded his hips.“What I want to know is whatyoucan do tome.”
His thick cock slid between my wet lips. He traced my jugular with his tongue.“Right now?”he teased.“Are you sure?”
“Right now.”
My words were rough, hoarse. He angled his cock, and as his tip separated my lips and began the smooth slide inside, his fangs punctured my vein. I threw my head back, a cry escaping as I convulsed around his thick shaft. My heels dug into his ass, pulling him hard into me, grinding against him as he took that first long suck of my blood.
My nails dug into his skin. “Sun!”
Everything became a blur. Sun nursing at my neck; his body thrusting over and over; my body rising to meet him every time. I needed more of him, more of everything. It was a roar in my head, a fire burning through my veins. I couldn’t take him deep enough inside me, and I found myself longing to be inside him as well. Our bodies were bound together; I needed the same for my heart. It felt like my very soul was open, seeking his, needing his. I tried and tried, reaching for him, hungering for that connection.
And then he was there, reaching for me, as if everything he saw in me was everything he needed. Our souls met, clicked—
And a link snapped into place.
“Rissa!”
“Sun!”
My mate clutched me to him as pleasure hit like a tsunami. I choked, drowning in it, feeling my entire body implode in climax. I squeezed down around Sun, strangling his cock, and I felt that too, as if I were in his body as well as my own, both of us riding out that high, both of us in an agony of pleasure almost beyond enduring.
Blood filled his mouth—I could taste it. He swallowed instinctively, and I convulsed again, screaming out his name. The jumble of sensations—mine and his—jumbled my head and my body until finally, a long, long time later, I found myself limp beneath Sun’s weight, his body slumped onto me as I struggled to breathe.
“Shit.” He pushed up onto his hands and knees. “Rissa, are you all right?”
I sucked in air, opened my eyes, and stared up at him. “What the hell was that?”
A grin burst over his face, and I thought, incongruously, that this must be what he’d looked like when he was younger, carefree. Before the weight of the world settled on his shoulders.
“That, my Rissa, was the matebond.”
A matebond.A freaking matebond?I eased my claws from his shoulders, fighting to make sense of the words he’d used, trying to make sense of the past few moments.
And then brought my hands up to cover my face. “Holy hell. What have I done?”
ChapterThirty-Eight
RISK
“Why do I feel like a human shield?” Raine asked, lounging on the couch in the suite I’d been assigned to after returning with Sun. Probably because my mate wanted to keep an eye on me.
My mate. If that didn’t totally blow my mind…
“Probably because you are?” I tugged on the cord I was holding with frustration. The cable to plug in the computer just…wasn’t…long…enough. Ugh! I got off my knees, grabbed the edge of the table Sun had ordered to be moved in here for me, and pulled. A loudscreechechoed as the table legs skidded across the floor.
