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She didn’t have to ask twice.

Ryker plunged inside her heat and she cried out with the force of him. Dammit. Instantly, he moved to pull back. He should have eased her in; he should have taken it slower but Nina’s arms wrapped around him.

“No.” Her voice was barely a whisper. “Don’t move.”

He didn’t know how long he could hold out that way. Filling her so completely was everything he’d imagined it to be, but he needed more. He needed to see the passion in her eyes. He needed to see the fire in her eyes. To see her move beneath him. To have her lose control while he was inside her.

He needed it all.

But he’d give her time.

Ryker lowered his mouth to her glorious full breasts and suckled first one nipple and then another until he felt Nina relax beneath him. She moaned and wiggled her hips just enough to send a shock wave through him.

“I’m going to fuck you now,” he whispered roughly in her ear.

The tip of her perfect pink tongue slipped between her lips, wetting her mouth. Her voice was husky and needy as she looked straight in his eyes. “Hard and fast.”

Hell yes.

His bear roared in response and he did as she commanded. Her hips rose up to meet each thrust as he pounded into her. He hadn’t meant to go so hard, but once he had a taste of her, he’d needed all of her and there was no waiting. Beneath him, Nina cried out in pleasure with every pump of his hips. Ryker braced himself on one hand and tweaked her nipple with his free hand, eliciting another scream of pleasure. She dug her nails into his ass, both holding him to her and holding on as he pumped into her.

Ryker couldn’t get enough. She felt so good. So perfect. He needed to be inside her forever.

She was so sexy and responsive and…mine.

His bear roared within him, and he didn’t bother shutting it down. He was too far gone with her.

“Ryker, I…oh my God…you…”

“Come for me, baby.”

She quivered around him, her entire body shuddering, and then she completely shattered as the orgasm ripped through her. She tipped her head back and exposed her white creamy neck to him as she screamed out her pleasure.

Without thinking, he lowered his mouth to her sweet neck, needing to taste her sweetness. He couldn’t think straight. Every feeling was muddled, confused. She was his. His mate. But she couldn’t be. She was human. It didn’t make sense.

Nothing made sense.

Especially his need to mate with her.

To hell with the consequences. She has to be mine.

He bared his teeth, ready to take her but her voice broke through his trance.

“Kiss me.”

Ryker pulled back and looked into Nina’s eyes before he did as she asked. He wasn’t sure he’d ever get enough of the taste of her. And it was exactly what he needed to push him over the edge as well.

His own release came fast and intense and he roared out into the woods as his climax overtook him.

It wasn’t until after he’d come back down and was lying next to Nina in the mossy bed they’d created, with her head resting on his chest, that he realized how close he’d come to making a critical mistake.

CHAPTER NINE

For the rest of the day, Nina walked around in a cloud of satisfaction she’d never felt before. It wasn’t as if she’d lived a life of celibacy. In fact, she’d had some amazing sexual encounters in her travels, but nothing came close to the sex she’d experienced with Ryker in the woods.

Not. Even. Close.

It was almost dinner time and she was still reveling in the aftershocks of her orgasm hours later when Harper walked into the Den, baby Lily in her arms. Only a few months old, she was starting to smile and giggle.