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“I’m glad you’re feeling better.” Bracing himself on one forearm, he ran his other hand over my head making me think about purring that time. “I’m sorry I didn’t think about how the mating could affect you.”

Wrapping my arms around his neck, I shook my head. “No one is at fault. We’re just going to learn from it.”

I was serious about that and didn’t want it hanging over us forever.

Blaine must’ve seen that on my face because his smile peeked out again. “Alright.”

Keeping my hands from wandering too much, I ran my fingers through his hair and down his neck. “I just want to think about how good you made me feel and how nice it was to wake up with my mate as a very interesting blanket.”

That smirk was dangerous.

“I don’t know…with how you react, I don’t think blanket is the right word.” He chuckled as my face heated, but I didn’t hide from the discussion that time. I just hid my face against his arm so I didn’t have to look at him as he teased me about it. “We’re going to have to think of a more appropriate word for something that makes my mate so turned on.”

Ugh.

Laughing quietly, Blaine kissed my forehead. “It makes you smell so good and all I want to do is rub myself over you when you get that relaxed and aroused.”

Well, at least it was an activity we both enjoyed.

“Um, I think…I need to think about this actually…but we don’t…I mean…do you…”

Oh, this was more awkward out loud than it’d sounded in my head.

“Never mind.” I sighed as he snickered.

“Did you have a question, my curious mate?” He was thoroughly enjoying torturing me. “I’ll answer anything you want to know.”

That was part of the problem.

“Nope. No questions. I’m good.” Changing my mind meant I wasn’t lying to him. “I’m going to get distracted, though, if you stay…like this.”

Something about the rumbling sound felt sexy this time and almost like a warning. It went right to my dick and had him asking again what the fuck was going on.

He was getting harder to ignore, mostly because he had a friend who wanted to play as well.

Yeah, I wanted to know what was going on too.

CHAPTER 24

BLAINE

Such a curious,sexy mate.

But one I was going to be careful with, so I was gracious and decided to be a good Dom as well. “I’m enjoying picturing just how distracted I’m going to make you.”

His desire was obvious in a thousand different ways, but I slowly rocked over him to see what he wanted. My mate had proven that just because his body wanted something didn’t mean his mind agreed with it. This time they both seemed to be in accord, even if he didn’t know how to ask for what he wanted.

His fingers tightened on me. His hips tried to thrust up and rub his cock against mine. He made a soft, needy sound as he licked his lips.

No safeword.

No mixed signals.

“Let’s experiment.” Shifting so I was braced down his side instead of completely on top of him, I watched as feeling free cleared his head. It was amazing but I wasn’t going to let his mind work for very long. “Hands up on the pillow.”

The firmly delivered order had him obeying before he thought about what I was doing, and I had his hands braced in mine before he could process the situation. “Good boy.”

He couldn’t seem to resist tugging against my hold, but supernatural strength came in handy with a mate who liked being trapped. My mate was amazingly creative and could’ve gotten away if he’d really wanted, but he was enjoying it too much to fight too hard.