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“Mm-hmm?” he murmured.
I snuggled in tight, wiggling my butt salaciously against his groin. Ignoring my pointed demand, my mate nuzzled my throat as he curled around me, hugging me to his chest like I was made of glass.
No. Damn that infernal but well-meaning man. This is not how my final night of the Chaos is going to go down.
“If we miss out on our mating bond because of that old dog’s meddling,” I growled, fighting to turn in my mate’s arms. Good, now we were chest to chest, so I could poke him properly. “I’ll kick both of your asses in the morning.”
“You sure this is what you really want, Sasha?”
He enveloped my finger. I shivered as he brought it to his lips, pressing a reverent kiss to the pad of my fingertip.
“Do you really want to be mated to a man like me? Got bad blood in me. Can’t shake it. He’s always here.” He jabbed his other hand at the side of his head, his fingers like a gun pressed to his temple. “Goading the beast on. Telling him to let rip on the world and take whatever I want.”
His smile was broken. The look of a man who was making light on the outside while curling up, ready to die on the inside. I didn’t like this Grimm at all. And I sure as shit wasn’t gonna stand for it.
My wolf snarled in agreement.
“Grimm,” I smacked his hand away and took his face in both hands. Stroking the arch of his cheek with my thumbs as I locked eyes with him. “You aren’t just a series of tragic events or the product of your father’s shitty upbringing. That’s abuse, plain and simple. Just like my life is not summed up by the crap the Bone Crushers and Victor tried to lay on me.”
The Prez’s lip curled up in vicious agreement.
“You are more than any of that. You are a true alpha. I see you choosing who you’re going to be in the world every fucking day as you lead our people to a better life. You’re the best kind of man. I’ve always known that. From the moment you walked into that auction and laid waste to the scum around you.”
His eyes bored into mine, sucking up my words like they were an absolution. He still believed he was responsible for all the shit his father had done. And maybe it wasn’t my place to fix that. Maybe all I had to do was love him for exactly who he was.
“You’re mine, Grimm. My mate. Nothing in the world could convince me otherwise. Not even your damned fool self. I want you. All of you. And my wolf wants you, too.”
He sighed and ran a hand down his face with a sad shake of his head.
“None of that,” I snapped. “You put a wild beast inside me and I know you think that’s wrong. But I love her. She’s the best fucking gift you could have given me, alpha. End of story. You know what would drive her over the edge, though? Stop her from ever feeling like she has a home here with you and the Soul Reapers? Leaving our bond unfinished. That would kill her, slowly but surely.”
His breath gusted out of him as his beast stepped forward.
“The Blood Moon Goddess brought us together so we could be the other half of each other’s soul, Grimm. I truly believe that. But our time is running out. Please don’t rob us of this chance.”
“Don’t wanna hurt you.”
Despite his protest, I could see his beast watching, waiting, ready to pounce on my command. However, his body was still held away from me so he wouldn’t crush me with his weight.
Deliberately, I reached over to the side table and opened the drawer, taking out a condom. Then I took the foil in my teeth and ripped it open. Grabbing his cock, I slipped on the rubber.
His eyes were blown out with lust, completely in my thrall, as I wrapped my legs around his hips and pulled him to me. Now my panties were the only thing keeping his sex from touching mine.
“You know what would hurt me more?” He shook his head, his arms trembling as they caged my head while our bodies arched into one another, begging to seal the bond. “Denying me this. I need you, Grimm. Need your bite on my skin so I can show the world that I’ve been claimed by my alpha. And I expect you to wear mine with pride, too. Not as a condemnation that you were too weak to resist the pull of the Chaos, but as a mark of how strongly you believe in our future together. After all, what’s a bit of bloodshed in the name of love?”
Whatever last reservations my mate had been clinging to broke with a cry upon hearing those words. He crushed his lips to mine, tongue swiftly demanding entrance as he surged forward to claim me.
With an eager whimper, I opened fully for him, swept away by his sudden capitulation.
Locking my arms around his neck, I urged him on as he eased his weight down over my body. Scorching my skin, he reached between us and tore away the cotton panties that kept him from my body. I gasped into his mouth as his cock hungrily kissed my sex. He swallowed that, too. My shirt fell away under the same tempestuous hands, shredded around my shoulders to frame my naked flesh for his greedy gaze.
“I love you, my Sasha.” He tugged one of my breasts into his mouth, sucking on my sensitive nipple until he pulled away with a pop. “I have burned for you—been burnt by my proximity to you—since you first leapt into my arms.” He pulled the other nipple into his mouth, tracing the edges of my areola with his tongue. I cried out, throwing my head back in breathless agony. “This entire Chaos, I have warred with my beast. Forcing him to stay far away from you. Yet here we are, right where I swore I’d never be.”
“Grimm?” I slid my hand between us, gripping the base of his cock.
“Yes, my love?” he hummed, thrusting lightly into my tight grip.
“Shut up.”
