“I couldn’t come to you. You needed time. So, I waited.” His thumb brushed Ludiin’s cheek. “A doctor friend helped me sleep through my heats. It wasn’t easy, but it was the only way. I wantedyou.Only you. My mate.” He bit out the last word, a growl vibrating through his chest, making Ludiin shiver.
Tears stung Ludiin’s eyes. His throat tightened. “You waited for me…” His voice cracked. “I love you.”
“I love you too, baby,” Tarymn said, dragging him back into his arms, mouth crushing his in a kiss that made up for all the years and the aching wait they’d had to go through.
Ludiin pulled back and turned toward the stairs, his fingers still intertwined with Tarymn’s.
“Come on,” he said, tugging him along the hallway until they reached Tarymn’s room—their room now.
Inside, he released Tarymn’s hand and reached for his shirt. Tarymn groaned low in his throat, the sound rippling down Ludiin’s spine, leaving goosebumps in its wake.
He kept his gaze locked on Tarymn as his pants, then underclothes, fell to the floor in a careless trail. Finally, he moved across the room and sank on the bed, back braced against the headboard, thighs spread wide.
His skin heated at the way Tarymn was looking at him—eyes dark with hunger. It made him feel reckless, bold. Like he could do anything.
“Take off your clothes,” Ludiin commanded as he ran his hands down his chest to his leaking cock.
“Fuck,” Tarymn groaned, ripping off his clothes and he was on him in seconds.
Ludiin clung to him desperately as Tarymn’s mouth consumed his. Heat spiraled through him, twisting his insides until he couldn’t tell where he ended and Tarymn began. His head swam, his body trembled, and for a moment he thought he was going mad.
He needed him.
“Please,” Ludiin begged.
“Aren’t you sore?” Tarymn asked as he slowly moves between my legs, his fingers running over his hole. Ludiin shook his head opening his thighs wide for him.
Tarymn stared down at him, his eyes glowing molten gold, shimmering with something wild and unrestrained. Ludiin’s breath caught as warmth filled his chest, his hand lifting almost on instinct to cup Tarymn’s face.
“I love you,” he murmured.
Slowly, he drew his fingers from Ludiin’s hole only to replace them with the searing press of his cock.
He leaned close until their foreheads touched. “I love you too, baby,” he said just as he buried his cock deep inside him.
“Ahhhh…” Ludiin moaned arching into him, surrendering not just his body but his soul. After all the longing, all the doubts, Tarymn was finally his. Ecstasy pulsed hot and wild through his veins as he wrapped his thighs around him and Tarymn started to move. “Fuck,” Ludiin groaned.
“You feel so good,” Tarymn growled, rocking his hips faster and harder. Cries tore from Ludiin’s throat, his body overwhelmed by sensations so achingly good, they bordered on unbearable. Every nerve burned, every heartbeat thundered, until he shattered—falling headlong into the abyss of pleasure.
And when he knotted him, a scream ripped from his mouth as another orgasm hit. Pleasure seared through his veins, white-hot and merciless, until it consumed every thought, everybreath. He stared up at the ceiling unable to do anything but take it.
“Are you okay?” Tarymn asked once they’d caught their breath.
Ludiin nodded, his gaze on the alpha’s face.
God, he was gorgeous, even with sweat clinging to his temples, chest heaving, eyes blazing like molten gold.
Before he could overthink it, Ludiin rose on his elbows and pressed his lips to Tarymn’s. They both hissed at the slightest movement as Tarymn’s knot pulsed deep in his hole.
Ludiin dropped down as pleasure washed over him.
“I love your knot,” Ludiin murmured, reaching down to run his finger along his stretched hole, Tarymn’s cum and his juices coating his fingers.
“Damn, Ludiin,” Tarymn groaned, his hips moving on instinct, pounding into. “What’s gotten into you?”
“You,” Ludiin whispered breathlessly, eyes glinting with heat and mischief.
Tarymn froze, then a laugh rumbled out of him. “I knew there was a little menace hiding under that shy exterior.”