Chapter Forty-Four
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URZRA COULDN’T BELIEVE how fortunate he was. He felt guilty that he’d ever doubted Fate even though he couldn’t have known two cambions would show up to save his mate’s life. He’d gone from utter despair to supreme happiness in the space of a couple of hours.
“This doesn’t feel real yet,” Bria said when he opened the door to their new bedroom. “Am I dreaming?” she asked.
“If so, then we’re sharing the same dream, female,” Urzra replied.
He put her down, then shut and locked the door.
He concentrated, then muted the bedroom so they could have some privacy.
“I knew things were different this time because of how much stronger I am than usual,” he said.
“But I never anticipated I’d find my fated mate. ”
Bri put her hands on her cheeks and shook her head in disbelief. “This is straight out of one of the romantasy books I love so much,” she said. “You’re the perfect hero and I’m the messed up main female character.”
Urzra flashed her a grin, then approached her like a predator about to pounce on his prey. “Each couple has probably gone through their own harrowing story,” he figured. “We’re all the heroes of our own tales.”
“I hope none of the other cambions had to die like I did,” she said, putting her hands on the now healed spot where she’d been shot.
“If my brothers love their females as much as I love you, they’d have bargained with death itself to get them back,” Urzra said gravely.
“Is that what you did?” she asked, taking a step closer to transfer her hands to his chest. Her head tilted back to see his face. “Did you make a deal with death?”
“I didn’t get a chance to,” he said. “Amaros turned up with our allies and saved us both.”
He put his hands on her narrow shoulders, amazed all over again that this tiny female was his to keep forever.
He had to bend awkwardly to kiss her, then slid his hands down to cup her ass.
Bria wrapped her legs around him when he lifted her up.
She pressed her chest against his and her arms went around his neck.
He moaned at the sensation of her breasts pressing against him.
The warrior couldn’t wait to see her naked.
As if reading his mind, his female tugged on his t-shirt.
She pulled it upwards and he lifted his arms up.
Clutching him with her legs, she stripped it over his head before dropping it to the wooden floorboards.
“You have the most perfect body I’ve ever seen,” she breathed, running her hands over his chest and shoulders.
Urzra didn’t need to work out to stay in peak physical condition, but he was glad he’d been given a form that his mate found pleasing.
“Now it’s your turn,” he said. Easily holding her with one hand beneath her butt, he waited for her to put her arms above her head, then pulled her t-shirt off.
His eyes dropped to her breasts and his shaft went even more rigid.
Bria reached behind her back to undo her bra and sent it sailing over her shoulder. She moaned in need when he lifted her up and sucked her nipple into his mouth. Her hands clutched his hair and her legs squeezed him tightly. “I want you to feel what I’m feeling,” she said in a husky tone.
Urzra felt her reaching for his mind and reciprocated.
They felt the potential to become bonded at the same time and simultaneously succumbed to it.
Their bond snapped into place and their emotions became intermingled.
It was hard to tell which feelings came from each of them, but it didn’t really matter. Their love and desire were mutual.
Now that their minds were irrevocably linked, the warrior knew exactly what his female wanted.
Bri knew what he wanted her to do to him as well.
Grasping hold of his hair, she tilted his head back and lightly sank her teeth into his earlobe.
“You like a bit of pain with your pleasure,” she said. It was a statement, not a question.
“Only if you’re willing, my mate,” he said, suddenly hoarse.
“Oh, I’m willing,” Bria said with a grin, then bit him almost hard enough to draw blood.
Urzra sucked in a breath, hoping he wasn’t going to explode before they even took the rest of their clothes off.
Bri unlocked her legs from behind him and he lowered her to the floor.
They shed the rest of their clothes, then she took him into her mouth.
His female was so tiny she didn’t need to kneel.
Clenching his fists, his head fell back as his new mate tortured him. She took him as deep as she could, then bit him lightly. His hips bucked in reaction at the slight sting of pain, then he almost came when she palmed his balls.
Bria drove him so close to the edge that he was sure he was going to orgasm, then she stepped back. Her beautiful face was flushed and her chest was heaving with the same desire he felt.
Growling in need, Urzra picked up his female and strode over to the bed. He dropped her onto it, then spread her knees apart and took her nub between his teeth. She didn’t like pain like he did and trusted him not to hurt her. His tongue went to work and she began moaning and grinding against him.
When they were both worked up to the point of climaxing, the knight kissed his way up to his female’s mouth.
He kept his feet on the floor so his weight wouldn’t crush her as he guided himself into her.
Just as he’d figured, it was a tight squeeze to enter her.
Bria wriggled a bit and grabbed hold of his wrists to anchor herself.
Their eyes met and their love deepened even more.
“I can take it,” Bri said. “It’ll hurt at first, but I’ll adjust.”
Clenching his teeth, Urzra slid in deeper, feeling her slight pain. It didn’t inflame his lust, but made him even more cautious. He never wanted his mate to suffer in any way. That was his kink, not hers.
Sweat beaded his forehead as he slowly worked his way in and out of his female. Bria began to relax as her body adjusted to his size. Slick with desire, she wriggled again, but this time it was to encourage him. “Go faster,” she requested.
He complied and they both groaned as they felt each other’s bodies respond.
Bria neared the edge before he did, so she turned her head and sank her teeth into his wrist. Urzra roared and pumped his hips faster, loving the sensation of the small amount of pain mixed with his pleasure.
He realized it was hurting her, too, but she didn’t mind as much as he’d expected.
Bria came hard and he followed her into an orgasm so intense that they both almost grayed out for a few seconds. Collapsing onto the bed, Urzra tucked his mate next to him. “I wish I didn’t have a kink for pain,” he said regretfully.
“It’s okay,” Bri said. “I kind of like it. I think it’ll grow on me the more often we explore our limits. I doubt we could hurt each other on purpose if we weren’t into a bit of pain.”
He could read her thoughts now that they were bonded and knew she wasn’t just saying that to make him feel better. “Should we go and speak to the others yet?” he asked reluctantly.
“Nah, they can wait a bit longer,” Bria said with a grin, then twisted his nipple and shared the slight stinging sensation. “Yeah, I can work with this,” she said with a pleasurable shiver of anticipation.