Page 189 of Primal

Heat. Heaven. Damnation.

I don’t give her time to adjust. I fuck her deep—hard—grinding her clit with each thrust.

Not enough.

She claws at my back. Heels dig into my ass like she’s trying to brand me from the inside out.

This.

This is how we make sense. We were never gentle. Never safe. Just chaos and need and the ache of almost losing it all.

I brace on one hand, slowing not out of mercy but to feel it. Her. Every squeeze, every tremble.

She wraps around me tighter, and I know she feels it too—this isn’t fucking. This is remembering.

Remembering who we are.

What we survived.

What we still want, even when it burns.

I pull out. Slam in hard.

Her mouth falls open in a silent scream. My name’s on her lips before she can bite it back.

And I want it again. Want all of her.

I grind in deep, hold there.

“Feel that?” I whisper in her ear, breath ragged. “Tell me you don’t miss this. Tell me you don’t want it. Lie to me. I’ll still fuck the truth out of you.”

Her whole body clamps down—half-sob, half-gasp, all mine.

“Say it again,” I growl, bottoming out. “Tell me who you belong to.”

“You,” she cries. “Always—f-ffuck—always you.”

Her hands clutch at me as if I can save her from this, from us, from her own goddamn heart.

She presses her lips to my jaw and I lose it.

I’m so close, so deep inside her I can feel her heartbeat in my teeth.

I fuck her like I can empty out every haunted part of me and fill her with something that won’t rot.

My pace is brutal. She takes it. Gets off on it.

Each thrust drags a broken sound from her throat—half-sob, half-prayer. I swallow it, licking into her like I’m starving.

Five weeks without her taste. Five fucking weeks of waking up hard and aching, fist around my cock, her name caught in my throat.

She shivers. Mewls. Her body locks around me, back arched.

She comes with her lips on mine. Shaking. Clinging.

I fuck her through it—another wave, and another, until she goes liquid. Until she’s limp, spent, soaked.

I pull out—slick, aching—flip her onto her stomach in one fluid motion.