The sickened luna’s last chance

Ella

Alexander’s arms were warm and secure around me, his heartbeat steady beneath my ear. The calm rhythm

of it chased away the fear, the doubt… everything outside that room.

“How did you know where to find me?”

“Lilith managed to get a picture of the car,” he replied. “I recognized it immediately. It was Sophia’s.”

I jerked my head up to look at him, making it spin. “Did Sophia hire someone to kidnap me?”

As soon as I blurted out those words, I feared I’d overstepped. Alexander still adored Sophia above all else-

he wouldn’t take kindly to such an accusation. Surely he would say that Sophia hadn’t had anything to do

with it. Perhaps her car had been stolen.

“I don’t know,” he replied. “But I’m going to find out. And if that were the case, then I assure you, she’ll be

punished.”

I blinked in surprise. I hadn’t expected him to even entertain my statement, let alone promise that he would

punish her.

For a moment, I just searched his face in the moonlight streaming through the window. There was something fierce in his green eyes, something possessive that made my heart flutter.

“Thank you,” I breathed, leaning up to press a soft kiss to his cheek. “Thank you for saving me.”

But just as my lips touched his skin, Alexander turned his head. Our mouths met in the middle, and suddenly we were kissing.

It wasn’t like our fake kisses for the cameras. His lips were too warm and soft against mine to be performative, and here, with no one to watch us, it couldn’t possibly be for anyone except us.

This was real.

And, Goddess, how badly I wanted this,

In that moment, a force shot through me that wanted nothing other than to hold onto this moment with all my might and never let go.

And so I kissed him back without thinking, my hands fisting in the fabric of his shirt. When his tongue traced the seam of my lips, I opened for him without hesitation. The taste of him flooded my senses–bourbon and

woodwire smoke.

My mate. My husband.

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Alexander turned to face me, and without even meaning to, I hooked my leg over his waist. He gripped my hip and tugged me closer so our bodies were flush.

arousal against my groin. The evidence of his desire sent heat racing through my veins, and my body responded instinctively. Something deep inside of me stirred- something that

because then he was shifting so he was on top of me,

he pull back to look at me. His gaze wandered unabashedly across

hips, where the fabric was bunched up and wrinkled.

those green eyes

what we

the world. Two mates

for the first time.

was precisely why, without

was wearing nothing underneath.

nightgown over my

across his lower lip. My heart

gaze.

tossing aside my nightgown, “but I’ve only seen you once. We’re not

chest, pushing me back against the

me taste you first.

raw power in his voice was enough to make my toes curl. He slipped his hands down my body, over my breasts, lingering briefly on the gentle swell of them, then skimmed through the dip of

shivered again and again until my thighs were practically trembling, but he warmed them quickly

he gently pushed my knees to the side until I was on

hungry as

scooching down until his face was

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arched away from the mattress, seeking more

I’d given myself before. Lights danced at the edge of my vision with each flick of his tongue, and when he slipped the tips of two fingers into me, I nearly splintered on

just enough to speak, his mouth slick and shining

just the tips of my fingers, and already

cheeks heated. “You’ve

he teased.

tilted his head, fingers dipping in a little further. “You’re not seriously telling me you’ve never

yourself.”

I admitted, and the heat in my face was on par with the heat between my legs now. “But not in

it’s… different when

seemed to ignite something in Alexander.

I nearly cried out again, gripping the sheets. “Tell me

raw power in his voice was enough to make me obey without him even using his Alpha

my clit, pressing into

“Yes. Like that.”

working his fingers into me, thumb circling my clit in

within moments, I was nearly a

once I was a quivering mess again did Alexander sit up, gently extracting his fingers from me, and

the back of

can get

fabric off his

worked at his belt. A few moments later, trousers and underwear

All of him.

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