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My mate swam away from me, then dove under the water. A few moments later, the tip of a black dorsal fin surfaced. I relaxed back in the water, floating until I felt Nero’s fluke under me. Clouds blocked the sun, which made floating like we were perfect. And the last parts of my soul that had felt frayed after everything I’d been through knitted themselves back together, making me whole in the embrace of my mate again.
At some point, I must have fallen asleep because I woke up without Nero’s tail under me, but I hadn’t drifted far from the house. Nero, in his human form was holding my otter paw, keeping me from slipping away.
Looking at his big human hand wrapped around mine made my heart feel too full, like it was going to explode, and I couldn’t handle the swell of emotions in my shifted form. I squirmed out of his hold and dove under the water, pulling my human form forward and shifting back so when I came up, my human body slid against every inch of Nero’s.
“Hi.” I wrapped my arms around his neck.
“Hi.” My mate brought a hand up to touch my face. “This looks so much better. The only thing left is a little bit of a bruise right here.” He pressed a soft kiss to the spot. “How do you feel?”
His body was reacting to mine just like I was reacting to him, and I pressed my growing erection against his thigh. “I feel great.”
His hands found my ass and lifted me up so I could wrap my legs around his. “Yeah?”
“Oh, yeah.” I rubbed myself against him again. “In fact, I think there is only one more thing I need to feel one hundred percent better.”
Nero raised an eyebrow. “And what’s that?”
“I need you to claim me. I want anyone who ever tries to lay a hand on me again to know I’m yours, that if they touch me, they’ll have to answer to my mate.”
Nero growled low in his chest, and I felt it rumble against mine, making my nipples peak. “No one will ever touch you again.”
“God, it’s hot as fuck when you say stuff like that.”
Nero bent his head and nipped at my neck right in the spot where he would place his claiming bite. “It’s true.”
“I know.” My cock was rock hard between us, and so was his, and I was almost desperate to feel him inside me as he made me his. Leaning back, I create space between us so I could wrap a hand around Nero’s cock. He was hot and hard in my hand, his dick so thick my fingers couldn’t touch as I stroked my palm over the silky skin of his shaft, then up and over the head.
My mate moaned as I increased the pressure of my grip and the tempo of my strokes. My hand slid over him easily in the water, and as I worked his cock, he lifted me higher in his arms, his fingers spreading my cheeks and teasing my hole.
“Mmm,” I moaned, letting my head fall back while I still held his dick.
“Fuck, you’re so tight.” The tip of one of his fingers pressed inside me, and I clenched hard around the intrusion, not because I didn’t want it but because I did, and the tip of a single finger wasn’t enough. I needed Nero’s full length inside me stretching me wide, making me feel like I would split in two just so he could put me back together and make me whole. “I love the way you feel around me.”
Nero worked his finger in deeper, biting at the spot between my neck and shoulder that would bear his mark, until I was writhing, desperate, in his arms. My hand was still around his cock, but I’d lost any rhythm I’d had, my motions reduced to reactive squeezes of his length as he worked his finger inside me.
“I need you, Lucky. So bad,” he whispered against my ear.
“I love when you call me that.”
I felt his smile against my face. “I know.”
“Should we go back to the house?”
He thrust his hips, his erection sliding over my palm. “Not sure I want to walk through the kitchen like this.”
A giggle slipped past my lips. “Fair.” I glanced toward the shore. “Uh, not sure we’re going to have to worry about that, though. Look.”
He turned us so he could face the shoreline at the back of the estate. “Those assholes.”
“Seems they thought of everything we didn’t.”
Nero smiled. “Guess they did.”
Even though it was a little hard to see in detail without my glasses on, I could tell someone had laid out a large blanket on the shore, under the cover of several large trees at the back of the property. What looked like a picnic basket sat on one corner of the blanket, holding it down, and if I squinted hard, I could make out an ice bucket with a bottle of wine sticking out of the top next to it. Whoever had set up the picnic had also picked up Nero’s clothes and my robe, leaving them folded on the blanket.
“They’re good guys.” I squeezed my legs around Nero’s waist, urging him to move toward the shore.
“Some of them.” He took the hint and moved us toward the water’s edge. Nero held me in his arms, even as the water became too shallow for it to be easy, and he didn’t set me down until we reached the blanket. My new glasses in their blue box had been left on my folded robe, and I ripped open the box to put them on. Everything came into sharp focus, including my mate’s face.
