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Sebastian grins, cupping my face and swiping my tears away with his thumbs.

“I’ve been in love with you since before we kissed.” I tell him. “I’ve been trying to play it cool. Didn’t want to come on too strong, you know?”

We both laugh, clinging to one another. My heart is light and I feel like I’m floating.

“We’re mates, Flora.” He sighs, relief on his face as he tells me, like it’s a big secret off his chest. “I smelled it when I first met you. I’m sorry that I didn’t say anything. But at first I didn’t want to believe it, and then I didn’t want to scare you when I realized that you didn’t know.”

“Um.. Sebastian? I have no idea what you’re talking about.”

“Do Humans not have anything sacred?!” He sighs, running his hand through his hair. “It means we’re fated to be together. Everyone has a mate or mates, but that doesn’t mean that they will ever meet them. You can love another Monster and marry them, but mating comes above all that. Especially for Shifters.”

“So… we’re destined to be together?” I tease, tickling his neck playfully.

“Yes.” He says, very seriously. “It’s why you went into heat too. You can only go into heat for your fated Alpha.”

“Oh.” It would explain the strange pull I have always felt around him. Even at the fashion shoot when we met, I had felt it then too. No man had ever made me feel like that. It also probably explains why I always felt so strongly about him, even when that feeling was anger.

“There’s something that Dragon Shifters do when they officially claim their fated mates. I’m not asking you to do it right now, I want you to understand the commitment properly before, if, you say yes.”

“OK,” I trust him, whatever it is. “What is it?”

“I would bite your neck, right here.” He nips my neck with his teeth gently. “I’d have to shift a little to do it. Grow my fangs so I could pierce your skin.”

He licks over the spot, before whispering directly into my ear.

“Then I would drink your blood, just a little. I’d knot you and claim you as mine, you’d tell me that you belong to me…”

My pussy is soaking, the image he is painting turning me on so much.

“Fuck, yes.” I say, reaching down between us and fitting his cock inside me.

He groans as I move on him. “Not now, though. You need to think about it properly. Right now, you’re going to be a good girl and take your Alpha’s knot.”

Sebastian moves us so that I am laying on my back. He kisses me as he slowly thrusts his cock in and out of my pussy.

“I love you,” he tells me as he picks up pace. “I love you so much, Flora.”

His knot expands inside me and we cum together. He quickly turns us over, so that I’m draped over his chest.

Sebastian throws a blanket over us, kissing and cuddling me. He strokes my hair and tells me he loves me over and over as I orgasm on his knot.

Chapter 31

Sebastian and I received matching texts this morning to tell us that we needed to present ourselves for another PR date. This time at the Studio for another artist’s album launch party.

It was the perfect opportunity for us to enact our revenge against Karl. I’d been brainstorming the best plan of action the past couple days, and I had finally cracked it. Or at least I hoped I had.

My hair is parted down the middle, and I’m rocking my natural golden waves. I’m wearing the sexiest, skimpiest, little black dress that I own. My boobs are on full show, and the skirt barely covers my ass. I finished off the look with a simple gold chain that drapes long and disappears into my dress.

I arrive at the party. Alone.

I need to be alone for the plan to work properly.

Entering the space, I move to congratulate the celebrating artist. In my peripheral, I’m searching for Karl.

There he is, not too far from the bar, lurking in the corner on his own.

Karl is such an unfortunate looking male. And his current expressions aren’t doing him any favors as he catches a glimpse of me. His gaunt, gray-skinned face contorts into confusion initially, the place where eyebrows would normally be drawing together.