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My mouth moves to her jaw. Her neck. The second I reach her throat, everything stops. My teeth ache, but not like before. Worse.

No. Not worse. Right.

My wolf rises.

Nora feels it. I know she does because her body goes still beneath mine. Waiting.

“Hewit.” Amber reflects in her eyes as they find mine. “I want you to bite me.”

My whole body shakes. “Nora⁠—”

“I love you.”

I close my eyes. “I love you.”

“Then trust me.”

Those words hit deeper than anything else tonight. She’s not asking me to protect her from herself or choose for her. She’s asking for me to trust her.

I open my eyes. She’s watching me. Waiting. Choosing.

“Where?” I already know, but I need her to say it.

“My neck.”

My cock jerks inside her. “Fuck, Nora.”

I kiss the spot where her neck meets her shoulder, the place I’ve avoided for weeks. Her pulse beats fast beneath my mouth. Mine answers.

She shivers as I drag my tongue over her skin.

“Last chance.”

Her fingers tighten in my hair. “Hewit.”

I lift my head.

Her eyes are steady. “Bite me.”

My wolf roars. So do I. No separation. No fear.

I sink my teeth into her, and the world detonates.

Nora’s scream tears through the room. For one terrible fraction of a second, instinct tells me I’ve hurt her.

Then the bond opens like a door I didn’t know existed, blowing off its hinges. Nora floods into me. Her pleasure. Her love. Her trust. Her fierce, bright certainty.

Everything.

I feel the exact second pain becomes pleasure for her. Feel it race through her body like fire. Feel her thighs clamp around me. Her nails rake my shoulders as her orgasm hits.

Jesus Christ.

It’s nothing like the ones before. It tears through her. Through me. Through the bond. Her body arches so hard beneath me that I have to catch her.

Her mouth opens, but no sound comes out. Then a broken cry as her eyes roll back.

I release her neck immediately as panic spikes. “Nora.”