Zodiac Aligned

36

"Do you want this?" he asked, and I understood everything he meant in those words. It was one thing to want him because of the mate bond, and it was another thing entirely to want him of my own free will. After everything that had happened between us, he wanted to be sure. He wanted me to choose him.

"Yes." I took his face in my hands and met his eyes. "I love you."

He sucked in a breath. "I love you too, little wolf."

Then he claimed my lips in a searing kiss, and I clung to him as his c**k slid into me in one long movement. We both sighed as we joined together, as he filled me up so completely that I felt every single hard inch of him. More than that, I sensed him on a new level, now as my mate. I felt his love and his desire and his sense of how right this was, and I knew he felt all of the same things from me.

Kaden looked down at me like I was a revelation. As he traced my bottom lip with his thumb, his wonder and awe hit me through our bond. I felt it too, but need pulsed through me even stronger, and I tightened my legs around him, begging him to move.

"Hurry up and f**k me," I said, as my hands gripped his broad shoulders, my nails digging into his skin.

He grinned. “We have the rest of our lives. We don’t need to hurry.”

“Kaden,” I cried out, howling his name to the stars. I had no idea how he could hold himself so still while his c**k pulsed inside me.

“Anything for you, Ayla."

Then Kaden growled and grabbed hold of my hips as he let the beast inside of him awaken once more. He pulled out of me and then slammed back home, forcing my hips down into the cool, soft ground. Yes, my body screamed. Yes. This was what I’d been wanting, what I’d been missing and needing. Later, there would be time to take it slow, to marvel at each other's bodies, but right now I needed him to claim me as his mate.

He pulled me up, so he was on his knees and I was wrapped around him, riding him under the bright moonlight. He kissed me hard as we moved together, his hands stroking my breasts, my hips, my ass. He f****d me on his knees like he was worshiping me, making sure that every thrust brought me greater pleasure. He claimed me like a god, and I cried his name to the stars as he made me his goddess.

The climax swept through us both at the same time, pulsing through the mate bond, and all we could do was ride through it together. I'd never felt anything so intense before—a mixture of my pleasure with his, a love that had no end and no beginning.

When it was over, we stared at each other as we gasped for breath, while the mate bond settled between us. The intensity of it faded until it was simply there, comfortable and familiar, as if we had always been bound together like this.

"Mine." Kaden pressed his forehead against mine. "I said it before, but now there is no doubt. Every inch of you is mine."

"Show me."

With a wicked grin, Kaden set me down on my back in between the fruit trees, and then he moved down my body with his mouth. He kissed me everywhere, leaving no inch of skin untouched, from my n*****s to the curve of my hips. He took his time on my breasts, running his tongue around my n*****s before taking one into his mouth and brushing his teeth across it, knowing it would make my back arch and my voice cry out. He took just as much time on my c**t, teasing it until I was practically sobbing for release, though he wasn't ready to let me come again.

Then he flipped me over and did the same thing on my back, trailing his mouth across my naked flesh. When his teeth brushed the curve of my butt, I gasped. Then he parted my ass to slide his finger inside my back hole.

"Every single inch," he growled, and then slid another finger inside, stretching me wider. Preparing me for what was to come. He'd warned me once that he would take me here one day, and my heart pounded faster in anticipation.

"Show me," I repeated. I wanted to belong to him in every way possible, and I wanted him to know that I trusted him completely.

He pulled my hips up and rubbed his c**k against my p***y, sliding between my folds just enough to coat himself in my slick. I moaned at the feel, trying to angle my body to get more, my hands pressed into the dirt. But just when I thought he might make me come like that, his c**k pulled back and positioned itself at my back door, seeking entrance.

His c**k was so much bigger than his fingers, and I stopped breathing as he slowly made his way inside. He stretched me until I thought I couldn't possibly take any more, and I arched my back against the bright spots of pain mixed in with the pleasure. When he bottomed out inside me, I nearly wept with relief, and then the real claiming began.

With one hand, he gripped my hip, holding me in place as his c**k slid in and out of my ass. With the other, he touched my c**t, his fingers inside my p***y. I'd never felt anything like it before, and all I could do was succumb to what he was doing to me.

“Please,” I cried. "More."

Kaden pushed me down, my face pressed against the dirt, and my fingers dug into it uselessly as he thrust harder, rutting me from behind like the animals we really were. I reveled in the feel of it all, the stretch around his c**k, the slap of skin against skin, and the sound of his heavy breathing above me.

As his fingers increased their pressure, I knew I wouldn't last much longer, and I sensed Kaden was close too. He growled and leaned over me, his teeth brushing against my shoulder, and I closed my eyes and shuddered as pleasure washed through me. Kaden threw back his head and howled his release to the moon while his c**k surged.

My limbs gave out and Kaden followed me down, tumbling us into the earth in a tangle of naked skin. I nestled up against my mate as soft moonlight fell upon us, like Selene's hand reaching down to cradle us. No words were needed, and none were spoken, as we held each other and simply felt the mate bond thrumming between us, tying us together for the rest of our lives.

We were truly mates now, and nothing would change that.