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"Then do it."

He sighs. "You are a temptation, my dearest. And I'm a fool. But I won't."

Reaching down, he twists his fingers around his cock with a grimace. I cry out assomethinghe does with his magic makes it soften and fall out of me. The emptiness, after being so full, feels like being torn open.

He soothes me through it, pressing gentle fingers to my sides and raining kisses down on my body. Then, slowly, he fucks me with his cock, grabbing onto the base so the knot doesn't slip in again.

I whimper as I press up towards the knot, engorged and slick from my wetness. Heat is stoking beneath my skin, powerful and undeniable. Thale groans—but keeps his self control, shuddering as he comes inside me. His orgasm is silent but strong, thick drips of cum spilling out of my body as he releases himself in me for several long, agonizing moments.

When he pulls out, I whine, my channels clenching around him. His seed drips from me, warm but impotent, and I feel the sting of his denial.

"Hush, sweet omega. You will have your knots when you're ready. This hunger inside you is nothing–your heat will show you that, and when it happens, you'll be ready. Then and only then will I give you your heart's desire, and I promise you, I will make it worth your while."

Gathering me against his chest, he purrs, reaching between us to play with my slick as I sigh and writhe against him. With slow, deep strokes, he brings me over the edge again and again, my body clenching and trembling for him, each orgasm longer and quieter than the last.

When I finally can't take anymore, drenched with sweat and shivering, he draws his fingers out, cleans me off, and kisses me into I feel like myself again.

Sighing, I look around us and comment, "You're going to have to buy me a lot of new outfits, if this is how you plan on getting me undressed from now on."

Thale chuckles, then waves his hands around us. I blink as the torn pieces of my clothing come back together, threads re-weaving, stitches re-stitching.

"Nature magic for the fibers, and telekinesis for the rest." He hands me a folded pile of clothes, and kisses me on both cheeks, his breath warm, his body scented like hickory and caramel. "I'm sorry that you're struggling so much with your false heat, Dearest Rina. I want to make it better, I swear. I just—"

"Don't want to hurt me." I huff as I pull my clothes on, my mouth twisting down. "I keep hearing that, but it'll hurt me more if Klaus takes me again and I'm unmated."

His fists clench and his eyes flash. "I willnotlet that happen. The fact that it happened in the first place is unbearable. I would rather be dead than let it happen again."

"So would I," I agree with him, raising my chin defiantly. "Now, let's go meet up with Lucian to save the Sky Pack. Hopefully this time, Klaus won't be able to steal me away."

If he does, I'll throw myself off the nearest cliff.

There should be plenty around this time.

Chapter27

Adar

They won't mate her.

I can smell her on them, sweet hickory and smoke. But I don't feel her through our warrior bond, as it should be when an omega is marked and claimed.

While Thale is off in her room, his bond closed off to me, I interrogate Everett. "Why the fuck is she still unclaimed? After everything, all the risk? I know you spent the night with her."

"She only wants it because she's afraid," he says, crossing his arms over his broad chest. "That isn't a good reason to make the choice to become mated. Not when she's so close to her natural heat."

I snarl at him. "So she wants it, but you deny her."

"Yes, she wants it. Begs for it even. And I give her my knot, but I don't mark her, so it isn't permanent." He watches the jealousy that flashes across my face and shakes his head. "You don't need to be so possessive—she'll beg you just as much as she's begged the rest of us. Her heat is near."

"And you didn't claim her with your bite."

"No, and I'm certain that Thale isn't going to either."

"You're both absolute idiots," I tell him. "Fools through and through."

"She isn't in heat yet, Adar," he says, his tone full of that I-know-better-than-you warning. "Even if shethinksshe can take the full knot, she can't. Just having a half-engorged knot inside her makes her whimper with a moment of pain. Tearing a fully-engorged knot out of her body would scar her for life."

I've seen that happen to omegas, know what it does to them. The thought of precious Rina flinching at an alpha's touch and crying out in pain during her heat makes me want to destroy things.

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