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He wanted to make her forget anyone else existed but him. If there was a chance he

could bind her to him, he had to take it.

Right now all he wanted was to slide into her. The bed was too far away. As he

covered her mouth with his, he took the few steps until they collided with the wall.

Keeping her up with the weight of his body, he quickly unhooked his belt and

shoved at his pants. He felt a little foolish with his boots still on, but before his pants

had even fallen all the way down, Nissa lifted up and impaled herself on him. He

groaned at the feel of her closing around him.

She let out a sharp hiss as he thrust inside her. Her sheath was wet but still tight. So

fucking tight.

The way her inner walls stretched and molded around him told him it had been a

long time since she’d been with anyone. He shouldn’t care but the most primitive part

of him roared in satisfaction.

Nissa was
his
.

“Oh my…I’d forgotten how good you feel.” She took a ragged breath as she lifted

herself up and tried to adjust to him.

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As he stared into her startling green eyes, he held her hips and kept her still against

the wall. Then he pulled out until just the head of his cock was in her. He paused before

sliding fully back inside.

The movement was slow and measured.

Her mouth parted slightly as he moved into her again. His chest tightened as he

watched the pleasure play across her face. He could watch her all day and not get tired.

Nissa’s hands splayed across his chest before her fingers traced over every inch of

him. She looked like a kid on Christmas morning and he was her present. She’d always

been like this when they made love. It touched him that at least this much of her

attraction hadn’t changed.

Cupping one of her breasts with his hand, he captured her nipple between his teeth

while still slowly thrusting. Her moist heat and tight embrace made it damn near

impossible not to come but he held back. He traced a wet path around her areola, loving

the feel of it hardening under his tongue.

She arched her back, pushing her breast farther into his mouth. With each lick he

could actually feel her inner walls tighten around him. Every part of her body was

receptive. Something he’d missed, but never forgotten.

It didn’t take much to stimulate Nissa. He’d already put that satisfied smile on her

face twice but it wasn’t enough. If he could, he’d keep her in that state forever.

They’d never leave the bedroom if he had his way.

When she let out a loud moan, his balls pulled up even tighter. Her legs tightened

around him and it was all he could do not to come right then.

Thrusting into her hard, he held himself there, filling her completely. She tried to

move against him but he stilled her with his free hand. He wanted to feel her

contracting around him.

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Her breathing was becoming shakier so he knew it wouldn’t be much longer until

he felt her explode around him. Having her come around his fingers was nothing

compared to the experience of her on his cock.

When he switched breasts, she dug her fingers into his shoulders. “I’m so close.”

He smiled against her soft skin. Lightly, he sucked on her pebbled nipple. She jolted

and tried to grind against him.

Using his weight, he pressed her harder against the wall and lifted his head so that

their faces were inches apart.

“Who’s inside you?”

Her green eyes were bright with need. “You.”

“Say my name.” His voice was rough and uneven. He didn’t know why it was

important, but it was.

“Thomas.” She said it like a prayer. Soft and reverent.

His throat tightened. Unable to say anything else, he reached between their bodies

and rubbed his thumb over her clit.

The bud was already swollen, just begging for his touch. When he began softly

massaging it, her eyes glazed over and her pussy began wildly contracting around him.

With each contraction, she moaned. Each one was louder than the last.

Her fingers, which had already been digging into him, tightened even more. He

savored it, knowing he was the one giving her the pleasure.

Finally he started moving. She was tight but so wet. And it was all for him. As he

began rocking into her, she abruptly arched her back. With her eyes closed, her head fell

back and sent her blond hair cascading around her shoulders.

As the climax tore through her, her eyes snapped open. Her expression was a little

dazed but she didn’t take her gaze off him as she came.

There was something so intimate, so real about the moment, he wanted it to go on

forever. But he knew it couldn’t.

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As her orgasm subsided, she slumped against him. She draped her arms around his

neck and nuzzled him sweetly. With her teeth, she nibbled and scraped across his skin.

The subtle action made his already taut balls ready to explode. But he couldn’t

come in her. With things so uncertain between them and after the way he’d treated her,

he didn’t feel like he deserved it. He didn’t know that he ever would. He should just

fucking suffer.

When he started to pull out she straightened and her grip around him tightened.

“What are you doing?”

With his jaw clenched, he didn’t say anything. His entire body trembled with the

need to let go. To claim her. To mark her while he came in her. But he couldn’t. He

desperately tried to tame his inner wolf.

It was no use. Nissa seemed to understand. Somehow, she’d always seen right

through him. Her legs constricted even harder around him. Holding on to his shoulders

she began grinding against him.

With her pussy tightening around his cock and the feel of her breasts rubbing

against his chest, it was too much.

All the good intentions in the world were nothing compared to Nissa naked and

willing in his arms. He didn’t bother biting back the curse that tore from him. Giving in

to his need, he met her stroke for stroke. They fell into a raw rhythm that had him

coming long and hard.

Hot jets of his come shot into her, filling her and soothing his most primal side.

Even after his climax had subsided, his hips still blindly thrust against her. He hadn’t

realized how desperately he’d wanted that.

After what felt like an eternity, Nissa untangled her legs. Unsteadily, she leaned on

him and kept her arms wrapped around his neck. “Do you realize that’s the first time

you’ve ever come inside me?”

“I know,” he said, struggling to catch his breath. When they’d first gotten together

she’d been fertile. He’d believed her to be human and had been working up a way to

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reveal his true nature to her before he asked her to mate with him. There was no way he

could have admitted he’d known she was basically in heat, so he’d used the excuse that

he was being careful. In reality it hadn’t been an excuse at all.

Back then times had been different and if she’d gotten pregnant before she’d been

married she’d have been ostracized by her village. Of course she hadn’t been a simple

human living in a tiny seaside village like he’d assumed. She’d run away from her royal

fae family. And she’d come to tell him just that the day he’d discovered her true

identity.

But he’d turned on her.

A shudder rolled through him at the memories of their fight. It had been brutal.

Even thinking about it now made him nauseous. He’d have erased those memories if he

could have. Instead he was determined to show her how much he loved her. Shaking

the thoughts away, he stepped back and pulled off his shoes.

She laughed lightly under her breath. “We made quite a picture.”

Despite the intense emotions running through him, he grinned at her as he finished

stripping off his pants.

She revealed a perfect row of white teeth as she returned his smile. She opened her

mouth to say something else when she stepped back unsteadily.

Alarm jumped inside him. “Are you okay?”

When she nodded and smiled again, the light didn’t quite reach her eyes. “I’m fine.

If you’ll excuse me a second.” She nodded toward his bathroom before hurrying past

him.

Instinct told him to go after her but if she wanted privacy he’d give it to her. It was

the least he could do.

Nissa shut the heavy bathroom door and sagged against it. But only for a moment.

She wasn’t sure if Thomas would follow her. A brief but searing pain had shot across

her right shoulder moments after they’d finished making love.

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Walking to the full length mirror, she brushed her long hair back and turned to the

side to get a better view of her shoulder.

A crushing weight settled against her chest and she fought to breathe as she stared

at the intricate Celtic symbol that had formed on her skin. Though lighter in coloring

than a tattoo, it was still visible.

She didn’t know if she wanted to curse or cry. This was her own fault. She’d felt

Thomas pulling out of her and she’d desperately wanted to feel everything he had to

offer. Just once she’d wanted to experience him releasing inside her. Now she wanted to

kick herself as reality crashed over her head.

Mates.

They were honest to God,
true
mates. Bondmates to be exact.
How was that even

possible?
She was fae and he was a shifter. It didn’t make sense. She knew his kind

mated differently than hers. The male took the female from behind and marked her

with his teeth as they climaxed. That bonded them for life and usually linked them

telepathically. Even though most shifter mates recognized one another before bonding,

there was always a choice. With her kind, however, bondmates were rare and

oftentimes had no idea they were fated for a certain mate.

Reaching up, she ran her fingers over the symbol. It was raised enough that she

could feel every line and groove.
The bonding symbol.

The very thought was ludicrous but she’d seen it before on other mated fae so she

knew exactly what it was.

A flash of cold snaked through her. Would he have one too? He hadn’t reacted at all

so maybe he didn’t. The males of her kind developed an identical symbol but it usually

appeared after the official bonding ceremony.

Something she’d never thought she’d have to worry about with Thomas. “Shit,” she

muttered.
Shit, shit, shit.

Thomas had turned his back on her once because she hadn’t been honest about

what she was. What if he thought she’d lied about this too in some attempt to trap him?

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Straightening, she turned away from her reflection. She wouldn’t tell him. That was the

simplest answer. Even if he loved her, they’d never have a future together. She was

destined to be queen and her people would never accept a shifter as her mate. If they

did mate, he’d become a target. Maybe not at first but someone would eventually come

after him.

And he probably wouldn’t be willing to leave his family anyway. Even if he was,

she couldn’t tear him away from his pack. He was destined to be Alpha and whether he

admitted it or not, he couldn’t live without his loving family surrounding him. No,

she’d just keep this to herself. If he hadn’t been marked with the bonding symbol then

he’d never have to know. Now she’d never be able to mate with anyone else but maybe

that wasn’t such a bad thing after all.

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Nissa slipped on her light cardigan as she descended the stairs. Thomas was in the

shower, giving her a little time to decompress and come to terms with…holy crap, she

was mated to a shifter.

She didn’t know if she’d ever come to terms with
that
.

As she entered the kitchen one of the women she’d met the night before was

pressed up against the center island by a very lustful-looking shifter. The woman’s

name was Caro but she didn’t know the male’s name.

Her head snapped up as Nissa faltered in the entryway.

“I’m sorry. I… Uh, I’ll come back.” She started to backtrack when the dark-haired

she-wolf pushed against the male’s chest.

“No, please come in. I was just leaving anyway. Please tell Thomas I stopped by.”

She ducked out from under the male who had his arms caged around her.

Nissa bit her bottom lip as she looked at the tall shifter standing almost bereft in the

middle of the room. “I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to interrupt.”

He shook his head and sighed. “Don’t worry about it. We’re just friends anyway,”

he muttered. “I’m Ethan by the way. I don’t think we met last night.”

Smiling, she crossed the distance and took his extended hand. “Nissa.”

“Nice to meet you. At least now I don’t feel like the only freak outsider.”

Her eyes widened at his words.

Almost immediately he held up his hands apologetically. “Shit. I didn’t mean you

were a freak or anything. I just meant it’s nice to have another outsider.” He scrubbed a

hand over his face.

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She couldn’t help the smile that spread across her face. “It’s fine, trust me. You