“Were,” she corrects softly, nuzzling up against me. “You were that kind of stubborn. Not anymore.”
The simple love and acceptance in her voice undoes me. Capturing her mouth in a heated kiss, I do my best to pour all my love, gratitude, and adoration into it. She responds eagerly, her hands sliding up my chest to grasp my shoulders as she slides a thigh between my legs.
“We should probably finish cleaning and organizing,” she murmurs against my lips, several long, glorious moments later.
“Probably,” I agree with a heated groan, already working at the buttons of her shirt. “Or… we could christen this office as a sort of… farewell.”
She pulls back to look at me, brows raised. “Farewell?”
“Well, I was thinking…” I struggle to find the right words, suddenly nervous about speaking aloud all the grand plans in myhead. “Maybe we could move the alpha’s office somewhere else. Somewhere without so many bad memories, less in the center of the city. Unless you think that’s a bad idea?—”
She cuts me off with a fierce, hard kiss. “I think,” she says between kisses, “that’s exactly what this pack needs. A fresh start somewhere new.”
Relief floods through me, and pride. And, well, other things. “Yeah?”
“Yeah.” Her smile is wicked as she starts working at my belt, nothing shy about her hands. “And I think we should make a new memory here, something less… fraught, then find you a new office and christen that too. Wherever it ends up being.”
Groaning, I lift her onto the oversized wood desk, stepping between her spread thighs. “I love you, Aurora Blackburn,” I tell her, meaning it with every foolish fiber of my being. “Everything about you, I love. How you see right through me, how you challenge me to be better, your bravery and your kindness.”
“I love you too,” she murmurs, and the bond pulses with the truth of each word. “Even when you’re being an absolute idiot. That’s how I know it’s true love—it survives no matter what challenges it faces.”
Laughing, I capture her mouth again, overcome with an abundance of joy and want and love. Love for my mate, for my pack, for my future. Her lips part against mine, inviting me deeper, and I gladly accept, sweeping my tongue in to drown in the taste of her. The kiss quickly turns heated, full of passion and need, celebration and emotion. Her hands work my shirt open, fingers tracing the muscles of my chest as if memorizing every inch. The bond thrums between us, carrying waves of desire back and forth until I can barely think straight, until I feel so overcome with desire that I can’t tell where she begins and I end.
“There’s something I want to show you,” I murmur against her neck, working my way down to her collarbone, cupping her breasts. “Watch this.”
Drawing back with a pang, I let my wolf rise close to the surface of my skin—not to shift, but to let my eyes glow with his spirit. Aurora gasps as I stare down at her, letting her see how my wolf responds to her presence, letting his dominance and longing alike bleed through.
“Do you feel that?” I ask, voice rough with emotion. “How much my wolf wants you? How muchIwant you?”
“Yes,” she breathes, her own eyes glowing in response—one amber, one blue, both beautiful beyond words. “I feel everything. My wolf… my wolf feels it too.”
“No more holding back.” Sliding my hands under her thighs, I pull her to the edge of the desk. “No more denying what we are to each other. I want to feel every inch of you, taste every bit of skin, make you understand exactly how precious you are to me.”
Her hands fumble open my pants as I unclasp her bra to reveal her full breasts, each nipple peaked with arousal, my own arousal hardening in response. “Please,” she whimpers as I reveal more skin. “I want that too, Kieran. I feel… so much through the bond. Especially now that I’ve got my wolf.”
“I’ve got you, my love.” Pushing her shirt off her shoulders, I pause to admire the sight of her shirtless, perched on my father’s desk like some kind of vengeful goddess. “So beautiful. Do you know how many times I dreamed of this? Having you right here, in the place where he made me deny you, where everything changed for the worse?
Understanding dawns in her eyes. “Kieran…”
“He was wrong about everything.” Lifting her up off the desk, I strip her pants and panties off in one smooth move, then cage her naked body with my arms. “About strength, about weakness, about you.” Leaning down, I suck one pink nipple into mymouth, her gasp of pleasure going straight to my cock. “You’re everything I never knew I needed.”
Her hands clutch at my shoulders as I switch to her other breast, giving it the same attention, my hands cupping and squeezing them as I suck and softly bite her nipples. The bond carries her pleasure to me, amplifying everything until I’m drunk on the taste of her skin, the sound of her moans, the way she writhes beneath my touch.
“Tell me what you want,” I say, drawing back to look at her. Her chest heaves with each breath, skin flushed pink with arousal, legs parted in open invitation. “Anything, everything—it’s yours.”
“You,” she says simply, reaching for me. “Just you. All of you.”
Groaning, I capture her mouth again, unable to resist the sweet temptation of her lips. She pulls my briefs down as we kiss, my painfully hard cock springing free, her small hand wrapping around my length in a way that makes me press my hips forward to get more sensation, more touch.
“Careful,” I warn against her lips. “I want this to last.”
“I want you inside me,” she counters, stroking me with maddening slowness, her fingers skillfully twisting and grasping. “I want to feel your cock stretching me open, filling me up completely. I want you to come inside me so many times that I can’t walk straight or see straight. I want to remember this moment forever.”
The words send electricity down my spine. “Aurora…”
“Please.” She looks up at me through those impossibly long lashes, her mismatched eyes dark with desire. “Make me yours, Kieran.”
Unable to resist her plea, I reach between us to her folds, which are wet and pink with her arousal. Sliding two fingers inside her draws out a whimper that goes straight to my cock.
