“You feel perfect, tola.”
I kissed her deeply until the tension that had built faded away from her body, and she began to shift under me. Her soft moan into my mouth told me she was ready for me to move. I growled continuously the second I began to pump my hips back and forth. Burning hot pleasure held me in its clutch. It was so good that I feared I would end up like a human male and finish in seconds. I could not, would not, allow that to happen.
When my thrusts became a little firmer, and our bodies slapped together, Levi’s lips parted when she cried out. Her legs tightened around my hips, and her fingernails on my biceps bit into my skin. The slight sting of pain felt good to me. I raised my head and watched my intended’s face as it twisted with pleasure. The sight alone was enough to undo me.
“Beautiful female,” I snarled. “Mine.”
“Yours.” Levi trembled beneath me. “Oh, yes! I can’t … think.”
I didn’t want her to think, only to feel.
I focused entirely on my intended, and for long minutes, I loved her body until she was jumbling her words together and raising her voice to a scream. Our heated bodies became slick with sweat as we moved together. Levi’s breaths became heavier, quicker and her body began to buck widely under me. The urge to claim her bellowed inside me. With my free hand, I yanked the gold caps from my teeth and tossed them to the side.
I would never need those again. They were designed to keep a male’s essence from leaving his canines, and I wanted all of my essence to flow into my female. Every last drop.
“Right there.” Levi suddenly cried out. “Yes.”
Just as I felt the first spasm of her cunt muscles tightening around my cock like a fist, my fangs burned. Before I could even formulate a thought, my face was buried in Levi’s neck, and my teeth sank deep into her flesh. I pumped wildly, and as I gave in to the urge to allow my essence to flow freely into her body, my cock emptied inside her too. The euphoria that consumed me filled me from head to toe, but I still never lost sight of Levi. I heard her moan as her body convulsed through her orgasm … then I felt the change.
Her first little gasp of pain made my heart ache because hurting her pained me. She tried to push me off her, and I wouldn’t, couldn’t move. She screamed my name as my essence became a part of her.
“Ezah, no.” She whimpered. “It hurts. It hurts!”
You’re okay, my beauty. I told her mentally. Oh, sweet one. Please. You’re breaking my heart.
I knew she couldn’t hear me yet because our bond was only beginning to form, but I could not help myself. It felt like the giving of my essence went on for intervals, but after only a few short minutes, I felt my fangs retract of their own accord. I felt it so suddenly and with the force of a great blow. I felt Levi but not through her touch. I felt her emotions, and I could hear her thoughts.
I’m never going to speak to him again. I swear I won’t.
I began to lick the bite I had inflicted on her neck. Levi groaned as the healing properties in my saliva took away the remaining aches from the mate bite.
He can lick my neck all he likes. I’m never speaking to him again.
Amusement flooded me.
Never is an awfully long time, tola.
She gasped. “Ezah! I hear your voice in my head.”
Calm, I told her as I continued licking her wound. You learned of the mated couples’ mental bond, did you not?
I … I did, she answered mentally. I didn’t think … I guess I forgot about it.
You’ll not forget anymore because my Levi, we’re one.
“Ezah,” she whispered. “I feel you, your heart. We’re mated.”
“My mate.” I leaned back and gave her a mate kiss, my first one as a mated male. “You’re all mine, tola.”
Chapter Twenty
Ezah
If I touched you right now, tola … what would you do?
“I honestly might bite your hand off,” Levi answered me verbally with her eyes closed. “If you love my body any more than you already have, I will stop working. I’ll shut down like an android.”
My deep laughter filled my bedchamber. Our bedchamber.
But I have already taken away any tenderness you have from our lovemaking, tola. Have you forgotten I am a healer?
“No.” My female yawned, slowly lifting her pretty eyelids. “But have you forgotten I am a human who is not used to such … rigorous activity?”
When I laughed again, Levi smiled up at me. My heart jumped inside my chest. I was truly in awe of how captivating she looked. When she smiled, it stole my breath.