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You, too.
“Oh,fuckno,” I rasp, eyes wide and wild as I pulls her head back. “Are you - Bambi, don’t youdare -”
But my hips move like it’s already done, like it’s meant to be. I rut deeper, chasing it, pulled into her like gravity just declared war.
“You’rereachingfor me,” I growl. “You sneaky little - god, youwantthis, don’t you?”
Her body pulses in answer. Her scent spills into the air - sweet and slick and saturated withyesyesyesyes-
“Shit,” I grit out, shaking, hips stuttering. “Fine.Fine.You want the bond? Thentake it. It’s yours.”
I lean in, voice rough, low, teeth brushing the shell of her ear.
“Hope you’re ready to be haunted bythisdick for the rest of your life.”
She laughs - a breathless, ruined sound - and then it hits.
Not lightning. Not a spark.
A tidal fucking wave.
The bond slams into place, hot and hungry and full of all the things I don’t let people see.
My fear. My hunger. The insane, unshakable way I love.
All of it, pouring into her like it’s never belonged anywhere else.
“Fuck,” I groan, forehead to the back of her neck. “I’m gonna be insufferable after this.”
“You already are,” she breathes, still half-laughing, half-crying.
“But now I’ve got proof,” I grin, feral and wrecked. “Get ready for a lifetime of bad jokes and inappropriate touching, Bambi.”
“Absolutely not,” Ash grits out from behind us. “I will sedate you.”
“Too late!” I crow. “She claimed the chaos - she can’t return it now!”
“You are unbearable,” Theo groans.
“You’re just mad she bonded me before your golden-boy ass,” I fire back. “Try being fun next time.”
“Try being less of a walking liability,” Ash interrupts before Theo can retort, his voice like cut glass. “This isn’t a frat house.”
I glance over my shoulder with the smuggest grin I’ve ever worn in my life.
“Ash, babycakes, you’re starting to sound an awful lot like Lucian -”
And that’s when she clenches.
Tight. Uncontrollable. Full-body jolt.
Like the name alone did it.
I freeze. So does Ash.
And then I grin like the devil with a new toy.
“Well, well,” I purr. “Looks like someone’s name gets her all tight and twitchy.”
