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Despite my good intentions, the kiss quickly grew heated, and I found myself hoisting his body into my arms so I could slam him against the nearest wall again. Tearing my lips from his with a panted breath, I pressed our foreheads together.

“I did something for you.”

Ryder’s dazed look became a smirk.

“Not that. Not yet, at least.”

Gently lowering him to the floor, I couldn’t help but lay one more deep kiss on his mouth before tugging him after me as I headed into the living area.

“Holy fuck. When did you do this?” Ryder gasped, staring up at the twinkling fairy lights on the 12-foot Christmas tree. He’d admitted to me a few days earlier that he’d never had one in his own home.

I raised an eyebrow at him, and he laughed.

“Yeah, okay. Fucking billionaire. I forgot. I guess it’s not hard at all to get a perfect tree put up late at night on Christmas Eve.”

“Your fucking billionaire,” I reminded him. “And it was child-play compared to what you did organising the event tonight.”

The lights were reflecting in his eyes, and I tracked the way it made his beauty shine even brighter. My stubble had left his clean-shaven cheeks and neck reddened, and possessiveness rocked through me as I tugged him closer. Soft music started playing as I kissed him again, and I felt his smile against my lips.

“My fucking billionaire is too fucking smooth,” Ryder said, shoving me back onto the leather couch nearby.

I was far stronger than him and I could’ve resisted, but I wanted to see where he was taking this. Leaning back on the couch, I spread my legs and tracked his every move with my eyes.

The little tease turned his back on me, hips moving to the thrumming beat of the music as he started unbuttoning his shirt before drawing it teasingly down his arms as he looked back over his shoulder at me. I held my breath as he exposed inch after inch of smooth, muscled, tantalising skin.

“Come closer.” My voice was gravel and my abs were tense as I tore my shirt over my head and sent it sailing somewhere behind me.

“Not yet, Alpha.”

I moaned in appreciation, both at the honorific and the way he was now ever-so-slowly undoing his pants. It wasn’t in my nature to wait, but I knew how much he bent to accommodate my dominance. I could let him have this moment. That didn’t mean I’d make it easy for him, though. Reaching down, I removed my own pants and everything else in a blur of motion until I was sitting fully naked, taking in the view.

Ryder paused, satisfyingly entranced as I flexed each muscle he was tracing with his eyes. Gripping my length, I gave it a firm stroke, milking pre-cum from the tip as I sent a wave of pheromones towards my omega.

“No fair,” Ryder whined, wiping drool from the corner of his mouth with his thumb before biting down on it as he watched me continue to jerk myself.

“I didn’t tell you to stop.”

“You didn’t tell me to start! This is supposed to be my gift for you.”

I smiled, knowing I looked more predator than anything else, and waved for him to continue.

“Asshole,” Ryder muttered.

“You looking for me to spank your ass until it matches the red velvet decorations on the mantlepiece?”

Ryder bit his lip. “Not tonight.”

I hummed softly in response. “And why is that, baby?”

Giving up the seductive striptease, Ryder shoved his pants to the ground, stepping out of them as he moved closer. I was impressed he could straddle me with my legs spread the way they were, but he managed. The tips of our cocks brushed against each other as he rested a knee on either side of my thighs.

Kneeling high, he pushed my hand aside, making me hiss as he grabbed my sensitive cock and pressed it to his leaking hole.

“Because I can’t wait that long for you to be inside me,” he said, dropping down to impale himself of my length in one smooth movement that had us both groaning. “Or for you to claim me,” he added, tilting his head to the side to bare his throat as he started riding me in earnest.

Every muscle in my body tensed as I processed what he was saying, and my hands flew to his hips, halting his motion as I gripped him tight.

“I hope you were very certain about that, baby. Because there’s no way I’m holding back now.”