Gripping her hips, he pulled her down on him as he thrust upward and held himself deep as she pulsed around him as wave after wave of sensation crashed over her. Magnus groaned, low and resonant. Unable to hold back, he pounded into her and came as she crested again, filling her with spurt after spurt of heat.
Nari sank her teeth into the side of his neck at the same moment he bit her shoulder, both indelibly marking the other as their mate.
They stayed wrapped around each other for an age, trembling in reaction to the sex as much as the successful matingbond, before Magnus scooped his arms under her ass and stood up straight, holding her impaled on him.
He kissed her, slowly now. It was tender and deep and stirred desire in her again. “I think a bed is in order.”
Most definitely.
She was sure he bounced her on his cock deliberately as he climbed the stairs. Each step was torture by exquisite sensation. By the time they reached the top, she was panting and primed for another earth-shattering orgasm.
The wicked smile he gave her let her know he knew exactly what he was doing.
He dropped onto the bed, but much to her disappointment, he gently withdrew.
She dug her nails into his arms as she tried to drag him back. “Magnus…”
He hushed her with a deep kiss. His beard rasped her cheek as he kissed a trail up to her ear. “Now that the edge is off, I want to explore my mate’s body.”
Hearing that, Nari settled back with a smile, stretching languidly under his appreciative gaze. “Only if I get to do the same.”
His grin was lascivious. “You can do whatever you like to me, beautiful. But first”—he grazed her skin from hip to breast with his big hand—“my turn.”
The way he looked at her like he wanted to eat her up sent a wave of heat through her bloodstream that pooled low in her belly, adding to the liquid ache between her thighs. “I look forward to that.”
Licking a trail down her body, he stopped as he reached her breast to look at her. “I just have a few questions.”
He wanted to talk? Now?
“What kind of fox has nine tails? Or was what I saw the result of blood loss?” He finished the sentence by sucking hernipple into his molten mouth and teasing her hard nipple with the tip of his tongue.
Nari arched into him. Her reply gasping. “I’m a gumiho. A nine-tailed fox.” Duh. But what did he expect when he was distracting her so?
He swapped to the other nipple, nipping it gently between his teeth, balancing her on the knife edge between pleasure and pain as he asked, “Are you magical?”
Her eyes fluttered shut as he flicked her with his tongue, soothing away the pain. “I affect luck and can heal myself and others.” Among other things she couldn’t quite remember at the moment. “And strength…”
He hummed thoughtfully. The sound rumbled through her body as he nipped his way farther down to tease her belly button with his darting tongue.
“And the wolf?” He nuzzled the curls at the apex of her thighs and inhaled deeply.
“Gone,” she rasped. “Ulf distracted him enough for me to take him out.”
“Good.”
Her concentration on the conversation died as he moved lower and his breath warmed her inner thighs. “Any—anything else?”
“Nope.” He dropped to kneel on the floor, hooking his arms around her thighs to bring her close and splay them wide enough for his big shoulders to fit between them. “I just wanted to confirm that my mate was as magical as I thought she was.”
Then he closed his scorching mouth over her and sucked her aching clit between the pinch of his teeth, breaking the world into millions of glittering shards around her.
The cloud of bliss she floated on shifted, and she slowly became aware of his presence hovering over her. Nari opened her eyes to smile up at him.
“I want to tell you about my parents.”
Her breath stilled. “You don’t have to.”
He shook his head. “I want you to understand why I was so against finding my mate.”