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My biceps strained as I lifted him up so I could drive back into his body; sink into that wet heat; drown myself in the most physical of connections.

Ryder whimpered, the slightest hint of frustration in his tone.

“You want control, baby? I don’t think I can give that to you tonight.”

Ryder shook his head. “No. I want…” His words trailed off in another moan.

Need was growing more and more urgent inside me, and I fought for control. “You want to bite your Alpha?”

Ryder rolled his eyes, but the move quickly turned from sarcasm to pleasure as I pegged his prostate with my next thrust.

“Fuck you, Alexei,” he gasped.

“Maybe next time.”

Ryder looked shocked.

“What? You think I can’t top you like that? Can’t force orgasm after orgasm out of you? I’d put a cock ring on you before we started and shove you full of that vibrating butt plug and take my pleasure from your cute little cock until you were begging for release.”

Ryder scowled. “It’s not little. You’re just fucking huge.”

Reaching down, I started stroking his length, letting the crown of his cock slip in and out of my fist as I gave it a little twist.

“Want to feel you cum all over my chest, baby,” I groaned, my eyes trained on his tip.

“Then fucking claim me already,” Ryder gasped, his body lifting up and slamming back down onto me with the assistance of my arms as he chased his pleasure. He clenched his inner muscles around me as he spoke, his rim gripping and trembling around my length.

I fucking lost it. It was all I could do to let him stay on top, knowing there was a reason he’d chosen the position—probably some misplaced belief that I’d respect him more that way or something. There was no position I didn’t respect him in.

Driving up into him, I leaned in close, mouthing at his neck. My knot was swelling fast, and already it was catching at his rim every time he lifted up.

“Fuck, yes. Alexei! Alpha! Please. Knot me. Bite me. Make me bleed. Make me yours.”

He was already fucking mine. Always had been. We were made for each other. His words were becoming almost as incoherent as they’d been in his heat, and I was no better. Thankfully, I didn’t have to make sense while I was biting into his skin and binding us forever. Pressing my teeth to his mating gland, I bit down hard as I thrust up into him. I’d barely released his skin when the sharp pain of his bite in return dimly registered.

Electricity raced through every nerve as the bond snapped into place between us, and pleasure like I’d never known overwhelmed me. Ryder’s scream of ecstasy echoed as much inside me as it did through the room, the bond meaning I could feel exactly what my thick cock and knot were doing to him.

Bringing my hand to my mouth, I sucked the streaks of his cum from my fingers, moaning in pleasure as his taste flooded my mouth.

“Fuck, baby. You taste so good. I need to taste you everywhere.”

Ryder ground down on my lap, sending another shock of orgasm through us both as he milked my knot. “Gonna be a while before you can do that.”

“Just as well we have a lifetime.”

CHAPTER 13

RYDER

“Matehood looks good on you.”

“No one likes a smug asshole, G.”

He raised an eyebrow at me. “We both know that’s not true.”

“Oh, shut up.”

We were sitting in Sascha’s kitchen, supervising the children as they assembled a cheese platter for us to snack on while we waited for Christmas dinner. Alexei’s sister had dragged him off in the direction of some whisky as soon as my friend had arrived. I hadn’t even known Gregory was invited, but Alexei had wanted me to have someone from my family there, and Gregory was the closest it got in the city.