by Eliza Gayle
"I know. I want it too. I already know what it means. I've learned a lot these last two weeks." She gasped when his slow movements dragged against a particularly sensitive spot. "Dammit. You're too good. I can't stop it." She wrapped both legs around him and rose up as her muscles clenched around him.
He gripped her ass and locked her too him, leaning closer until his teeth were poised in the perfect position.
"Do it!" She screamed as the pleasure over took her.
He was falling fast too. He drove into her one last time, bottoming out as his teeth slid home.
The red-hot fiery flame of his climax rushed over him as the bond between them locked into place.
Mate.
Mine.
Forever.
Epilogue
Marcy slipped into the bathroom adjacent to her office for a quick break. She loved her new job, but it was wearing her out. There was so much research to double check before she could continue. For weeks they'd been at it hard and she had this feeling she couldn't shake that they were close to a breakthrough. If only she could figure out the remaining pieces of the puzzle.
Simon worked even harder. Rafe and Bhric had both informed her what a dirty wolf he was when it came to the ladies, but she'd seen no evidence of that. As far as she could tell he worked, ate and slept medical data.
He supposedly had a house with the Comyn pack somewhere, but no one remembered the last time he'd spent any time there.
She stared at her reflection and touched the tiny scars at her throat. They'd healed almost instantly after Bhric bit her, but somehow they always reminded her of their presence.
And of the man she loved more than life.
He had a thing for those marks too.
Oh yeah. He did.
His mouth was on those marks every chance he got. Her stomach fluttered just thinking about it and heat flared to life in her body.
She'd always considered herself a bit sex crazed, but with Bhric her sex drive had gotten exponentially bigger. They couldn't keep their hands off each other. Or manage to ever make it to a bed when they did.
There was no place too sacred for Bhric, not even her office here at the clinic. Especially not at her office. Since she spent so much time here he had no problem coming by and giving her a taste of what he had on his mind.
She smiled thinking about it.
Technically she might be even more sex addicted than before. With one tiny little difference. Sex while madly in love was ten thousand times hotter than without.
No wonder her friend Sienna had rushed to the altar with her shifter man.
Or that she'd gotten pregnant so fast.
In fact, that was an avenue she'd just begun to explore in her research. There was definitely a correlation between certain DNA in some humans that matched well with shifters, but they couldn't conclusively prove that was enough to overcome the notorious shifter infertility.
There had to be more.
And there had to be a way to work that into a treatment for female shifters already mated to shifter males.
Such as Kitty and Rafe.
As much as she loved Sienna and Niki, their pregnancy hormones were off the charts, resulting in severe mood swings that made them a little hard to predict.
Kitty on the other hand, had turned out to be a force of nature that might as well have made her Marcy's long lost sister. This resulted in a lot of girl time, a lot of wine and a lot of plotting.
Their men were scared.
Kitty and Rafe were also hoping to get pregnant soon. There was a lot of pressure on him as the pack Alpha to produce an heir. Unfortunately, Simon feared the poison she'd been attacked with when she left her clan, had permanently damaged some key elements of her DNA.
Marcy refused to believe this. She'd seen more than her fair share of miracles over the years and she wholeheartedly believed if she didn't give up looking for a cure, it would come.
Suddenly, her stomach churned again and this time it wasn't because she'd been thinking about Bhric. She stared closer in the mirror and decided her color might be a little off too. In fact, she was feeling a little warm.
She took off her coat, hung it on the hook by the door and proceeded to wet a washcloth to apply to her forehead. If she was getting sick, she might have to think about taking some time off.
Bhric would go ballistic.
He worried a lot about her health, both physical and mental. It was adorable at times and others not so much.
He couldn't get the sight of her passed out on the hospital floor all those weeks ago out of his head. And it didn't seem to matter that her headaches had gone away since then.
The incident at Galen's house hadn't helped either. It surprised them all how intricate their plans had been. Distracting Bhric and some of the others by putting their mates in danger so they could take out council members had seemed unbelievably organized for a pack of rogue wolves that were fractured and leaderless.
Fortunately, with Derek gone, that left Luke Blackwood as the apparent Alpha and he'd rounded up the traitors in his pack and handed them all off to Kane, the council enforcer that handed out justice in these cases.
So far she'd heard nothing else from that situation and she wasn't sure she wanted to. Kitty called Kane and his brothers the death dealers for the clans. Supposedly, it was something that black cougars were designed for. Designed by whom, she didn't know and didn't need to know.
She shuddered just thinking of it.
There were still so many questions, most of which she had put out of her mind. Except she saw the worry in Bhric. He had more concerns to deal with than just her health.
Galen had disappeared the same day as the fight at his house and no one had seen him. However, his family had issued a formal claim to four of the open spots on the council that apparently couldn't be denied because of some land ownership thing. The whys of it all were even more complex than her own government.
She still had a lot to get used to.
A knock sounded at her door. "You in there, babe?”
She smiled hearing Bhric's voice on the other side.
"Yes, come on in."
The door opened and her handsome mate strode in. Her body heated and this time she knew for certain why. The dark eyes she met in the mirror were locked on her and filled with intent. He crossed the room, planted his hands on the bathroom counter on each side of her, locking her in.
"What's up?" she asked, knowing full well he’d already noticed how her heart beat sped when he got close.
"I think you know the answer to that question." He nuzzled her neck and licked over her mating marks.
She shivered. "I'm supposed to be working."
"I think Simon will understand. I told him you were taking the rest of the day off."
"I can't do that. There’s too much—”
"Yes, you can. I have something special planned for you."
She bit her lip. She loved his surprises. "What are we going to do?"
"I've got my bike out front. We're going for a ride."
That didn't sound half bad. She loved climbing on the back of his bike so she could press close to his warm, broad back. Strength exuded from him at all times, but any extra excuse to get her hands on him sounded good to her. "Where are we going?"
"To recreate your memory."
"Huh?" That made no sense.
"Our first night together, babe. It's burned into my brain forever and it never stops bugging me that you don't remember. So we're going to recreate it, so you’ll know exactly what happened between us.“
She shook her head. “Oh no. I am not drinking anymore tequila."
He turned her in his arms and kissed her hard. "I'm not talking about the drinking part." He ground his hips against her stomach until the lightbulb finally came on.
"The first time we...?"
"Every delicious moment, sweetheart. I may not have recognized how much I would love you at that point, but I felt a connection immediately. I w
ant to share that with you.”
Her stomach jumped as it always did. How could she ever say no this man?
She couldn't and that was fine by her. Love made people crazy. Sometimes it made them stupid too. But it also made them really really happy.
He'd taught her that.
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