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“River…” She barely whispered my name, but I heard it anyway. “River, I—”

“I know,” I rasped back. “I know.”

She must have been filled with a need to string this out, make it last forever, because the same need burned in me, but neither of us could manage it She was too hot, too sweet, felt too damn good, so when her cunt flexed around me, I was gone. My hands slapped down on her hips, not letting her pull back as far, and I jerked up harder, slamming into her. Fireworks of pleasure burst behind my eyes, right as she felt the same.

“You’re gonna come all over his cock, aren’t you?” Adam appeared by our side. “Because that’s the way it would’ve been, if I’d waited. All four of us coming together, joining together.” She sought him almost blindly, caught up in the sensations we stirred up together, but his voice still drew her forward. “Like this, baby.”

His hand slid between us, finding her clit and working it, my stomach pressing his fingers down harder with every thrust. I didn’t get our girl off and neither did Adam. We did. I could see it now, how it might be, all the way we could work together to make her life better. To make her happy. That’s what ached in my chest, taking the physical pleasure of being inside her and transmuting it into something so much more.

Love.

I fucking loved Freya and I didn’t want to just blurt that out, not right now when we were all so totally vulnerable, so I found her eyes instead, telling her mutely over and over what I felt. And when her eyes locked with mine, I think she knew.

Her cunt clenched down tighter, her fingernails pricking the skin of my chest as she lowered her lips to mine.

“River…” She whispered my name against my lips, right as everything came rushing to a head. “River, I need…”

“That’s it,” Adam said with a smile, right as Kaine scrambled to move.

“Hang on,” he growled. “We need to talk this through first.”

“River, I need you to…”

But I knew. I rolled us over, so I loomed above her, pistoning in and out of her body, feeling her cunt grip me tighter with every pulse. I’d always been told that a man unleashed his baculum at will, but that was not what happened here. She gripped me tight, forcing it out of me, my breath sucking in as the bone jutted out. The blunt spur dug in and that’s when she screamed my name.

“I’m here, beautiful,” I told her, my voice a shaky fucking mess. “I’ll always be here. For now and forever, as long as you want me.”

People were talking, so much talking, but I shut out each and every one of them to focus on her. The way her hips squirmed, as she tested the bond between us and let out breathy little sighs as a result. The way her head rolled sideways, baring her neck to me. Her fingers raked across my back, right up until she said the words.

“Now, River.”

That’s it, that’s what I’d been waiting for my whole fucking life, let alone this night. My lips peeled back and my fangs were bared. But she didn’t care, stroking me much more gently, then digging her fingers into my hair as my mouth closed around the skin on her neck. When my fangs bit deep, I erupted and she was there with me, tugging me along with the rolling waves of her pleasure that seemed to go on and on for a million blissful moments, until finally they petered away. It was then I pulled back to stare at her.

Did she regret this? Had I hurt her? I searched her face for answers and her neck for blood? What if she was just caught up in the moment and this was not what she had planned at all? What if—?

River.Her voice inside my head, that’s what stopped me cold, blinking as I stared down at her.You’re just what I was waiting for.She stroked my cheek then and I leant into the caress, catching the moment tears pricked her eyes.I feel like I’ve been waiting for so long—

I scooped her up then, sitting back and holding her to my chest, my arms wrapped tight.

No more waiting, I promised her, the bear promised her.Never ever. You need something—

Just this.

She settled against my shoulder, collapsing against me and that’s when I saw Adam nod and smile. It seemed farfetched to think he’d known this was going to happen, but that’s what it looked like. But I didn’t care. I’d spent my whole life waiting to find the one woman that was the other half of my heart and now I felt that connection throbbing between us, I didn’t care how I got here.

Mine, that pulsed with my heartbeat, over and over.

Mine, she agreed, nestling in closer with a sigh.

Chapter45

Freya

It was now I realised what the guys had been making such a fuss about. With Adam the connection was instantaneous, but it was a superficial one. It could’ve been built on, become deeper with time, but he hadn’t allowed that. River however… He lived up to his name, feeling like someone I could dive down deep into, never finding the bottom of his depths. I sighed as I snuggled into him closer.

“Freya…”

My brow creased and I made a plaintive little sound. I was sinking down, down, down and I didn’t want to come up.

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