Chapter 21 #2
He kicked them off, then settled back between her thighs, his hardness pressing against her entrance but not entering yet. “I want to take my time with you tonight and learn every inch of you. I want to make you come so many times you forget your own name.”
“Ambitious,” Petra said breathlessly.
“You’ll soon learn that I’m a very goal-oriented man.” Seth kissed down her neck, pausing to nuzzle the fresh bite mark. It was still tender, and when he licked over it, Petra cried out, her entire body jolting with pleasure.
Interesting. The mark was even more sensitive than he’d expected.
He did it again, scraping his teeth gently over the sigil of their bond, and Petra writhed beneath him, her nails raking down his back. Through the bond, he could feel her pleasure spiking, could sense how close she already was to the edge just from him teasing her mark.
“Seth, please,” she begged. “I need you inside me.”
“Not yet.” He kissed lower, across her collarbone, down to her breasts. Her nipples were already tight peaks, and he took one into his mouth, sucking hard while his hand kneaded her other breast.
Petra’s hands fisted in his hair, holding him to her as she made those desperate little sounds that drove him wild. He switched to the other side, giving the same attention, then kissed lower still. Down her ribs, across her belly, pausing to dip his tongue into her navel.
“I told you I wanted to learn every inch.” Seth spread her open with his thumbs, exposing her completely. “And I didn’t get nearly enough of this at the cabin.”
He licked into her with long, slow strokes, savoring her taste, the way she trembled and gasped above him. Her thighs tried to close around his head, but he held them open.
“Seth,” she gasped. “I can’t. It’s too much.”
“You can.” He sucked her clit between his lips, flicking it with his tongue. “And you will. Come for me, my mate. Let me taste your pleasure. Let me feel it on my tongue.”
The command combined with the pressure of his mouth pushed her over. Petra came with a sharp cry, her body bowing off the bed, while Seth worked her through it, gentling his touch as the aftershocks rolled through her.
When she finally went limp, he kissed his way back up her body, settling his weight over her. His cock pressed against her entrance, slick and ready, but he still waited.
“Okay?” he asked, searching her face.
“More than okay.” Petra wrapped her legs around his waist, tilting her hips in invitation. “Now please, Seth. I need to feel you.”
He entered her in one smooth thrust, and they both groaned at the sensation. She was so tight, so perfect, fitting around him like she was made for this. Made for him.
“Mine,” he growled, pulling back and thrusting again, setting a slow, deep rhythm.
“Yours,” Petra agreed, meeting him stroke for stroke. “And you’re mine.”
The bond flared between them, golden and bright, amplifying every sensation. He could feel her climbing toward another peak. He sensed the tension coiling tighter in her body, and he adjusted his angle, hitting that spot inside her that made her see stars.
“Yes,” Petra gasped. “Right there, don’t stop.”
Seth had no intention of stopping. He thrust harder, faster, chasing their shared pleasure. His hand slipped between them, his fingers finding her clit.
Petra shattered, clenching around him, and their bond went supernova. Seth followed her over the edge, his release tearing through him with devastating force as he spilled inside her, marking her in the most primal way possible.
They stayed locked together as they came down, hearts racing, breath mingling. Seth pressed his forehead to hers, overwhelmed by the intensity of what they’d just shared.
“I love you,” he said without thinking, the words pulled from somewhere deep and true.
Petra’s eyes widened, then softened. “I love you too.”
They hadn’t said it before. They hadn’t put those life-changing words to this thing between them. But now, with the bond singing between them and their bodies still joined, it felt right. It felt inevitable and somehow sacred.
Seth rolled them to their sides, keeping them connected, and pulled the covers over them both. “Sleep, love,” he murmured against her hair. “I’ve got you.”
Petra’s eyes were already closing, her body relaxing into slumber with the easy trust of someone who knew they were safe, protected, and most of all, loved.
Through the window, moonlight continued to paint silver stripes across the bed.
Outside, Seth’s team kept watch over the castle.
Tomorrow would bring new challenges. Judy would continue training Petra for the magical showdown sure to come when the mages returned, and Katje would, no doubt, have more legal maneuvers to make trying to smooth out all the complications of Petra’s new life.
But tonight, in this quiet room with his mate in his arms and the bond warm between them, Seth allowed himself to simply be content.
Tomorrow they’d face whatever came at them. Tonight, they had this. And it was everything he’d never thought he’d have in his life. Seth sent up a prayer of thanks to the Mother of All for gifting him with such a perfect mate, and then he slept, holding her close in his arms.