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I let out a small groan of frustration. I felt like I was hovering on the edge of orgasm and it’d be fucking amazing if I could just fall off that cliff.

But he had to come with me.

“Kaine…!”

“Our mate needs you.” Adam said the words through gritted teeth. “Time to put up or shut up, Brother. You would never deny her a thing, but what she needs is something else. You.”

“Kaine…!”

He moved in then, pulling me away from Adam, his dick dragging free, right as he spun me around and plastered me against the tile wall. Water streamed all over me, him.

“You need me?” Kaine asked, but there was an intensity to his voice, his gaze, that I’d never seen before. “You need me, Freya? Tell me that and I’ll give you everything. Just that.”

I smiled as I wrapped my arms around his shoulders, then I opened my mouth to reply.

Chapter46

Kaine

I never wanted Freya to be dependent, to put her in a position where I was strong and she was weak, but as I spilled my guts to her, I hoped she’d understand. The only way I knew how to care about those I loved was to look after them. Make sure River actually ate some breakfast before work, that Adam wasn’t pushing himself too hard. They didn’t always appreciate the fuss, but it happened anyway. It was something that just fucking came out of me, just like this did now.

“Need you?” Freya asked. I felt guilty then. She was wet, tired, crumpled looking and I’d dragged her away from River because some niggling feeling behind my breastbone wouldn’t let me leave them alone and— “Of course I need you.” She ran her hands across my shoulders, then wrapped her arms around me. “You make me feel safe.”

Some blokes would’ve thought that was a total passion killer, but not me. It was all I needed. If she was safe, she was OK, had space to be happy even. If she was safe, she had what she needed—

“And achy.”

Those two words shoved all good sense to one side, my dick jerking hard in response.

“Achy?” I pulled back to study her face. “You hurting?”

“Not in any bad way,” she said in a hurry. “Not in a way you couldn’t… Ohhh…”

I reached down and pushed my dick back inside her, hissing at that warm clasp of her body around mine.

“What’re you aching for?” I asked her in a low voice. “Freya? What do you need?”

“You…”

Her face seemed to scrunch up in pain right then, but that wasn’t what it was. It was pleasure so acute you instinctively flinched away from it. Too much and not enough, all at the same time, I knew exactly how she felt. Because fucking her wasn’t enough, nor was crowding in close, watching her expression shift and change. Even making love wouldn’t have been enough. Freya demanded everything I had to give and I was helpless to do anything other than deliver.

“Don’t worry, baby.” Adam landed on the tiles beside her, turning her lips his way. “He can’t hold out on you. None of us can. If you need—”

“Yes, that, I need—” she said urgently.

“Then Kaine will deliver.” He shot me a sidelong look. “People can say a lot about my brother, but he never lets anyone down, especially not you.”

He turned back to her then, stroking her and kissing her, soothing her through this, but it was now that I realised only I could give her what she really needed.

I had thought, planned, then revised those plans and then run a ton of scenarios through my head about how claiming my mate would go. This hadn’t been in it. Part of me had hoped, deep down in my heart, that she’d want this tonight, but I’d assured myself I would wait, be patient, ensure the relationship was rock solid. But as she tightened around me, my body had a whole lot of other ideas. The baculum shifted back and forth inside me, the temptation to let it jut out driving me insane, right as the sense that I had to let it go grew stronger.

“Freya…”

I’d tried to wake her as gently as possible and I did the same now, seeking to break the spell we’d wrought and bring her back down to earth. I’d been furious at my brother, because I couldn’t countenance this. The thought of her regretting what happened, of waking up and sneaking out the door of the apartment again, ghosting us because we’d rushed things. Not when my fingers cramped with the need to grab her, drag her off to my bedroom and lock her up inside, holding her close until the need, the worry, finally faded. But she blinked, look at me now, seeing me clearly and then smiling, something so fucking beautiful my heart felt like it stopped.

“You want to give me what I need?” she asked. I nodded sharply. “Then gimme this. Give me you.”

The bear was done, shoving against my boundaries, forcing my body to move. My cock bucking up deep inside her, dragging a scream from her, right as my baculum shot out. My teeth buried themselves into the curve of her neck, the small burst of blood like nectar on my tongue and then I came, she came, over and over in long, galloping ripples that never seemed to stop.

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