Chapter 74
Kane whispered, “Do you want to talk?”
“Could you stay for a few minutes?”
Kane nodded.
“Katya, I want to talk to Kane, is that okay?”
“Katya, she wait outside.” She left the room.
Donal immediately turned to Kane. “What if I choke? What if after all the pain and violation, I can’t complete the act?”
“The gods will take care of you. They took care of me. Now eat Katya’s food. I’ll come back at eleven fifteen to make sure you’re okay and still eating.”
Donal sat down and ate yet again. He looked up at the clock. It was ten to eleven. He had time to take a shower and make himself clean inside and to eat the blinis Katya promised she would deliver at eleven thirty. He had just come out of the shower and put on his pajamas and his robe when he heard the knock on the door.
“It’s Kane, do you need me?”
“No, I’m fine. I’ll eat whatever Katya shows up with next, and then it will be time.”
“Okay, I’m going to go to bed. Gabriel’s waiting. Good night.” Donal heard Kane chuckle then his footsteps faded down the stairs.
Katya knocked next and delivered savory and sweet stuffed blinis. “Thank you, Katya.” Donal took the tray and sat down to eat this last bit of food before the mating.
Katya lingered. “You put tray outside door when finish, then Alexei come to you.”
Donal nervously nodded.
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Alexei knocked at the door at eleven forty-five. “Mouse, may I come in?”
Donal opened the door, and threw himself into Alexei’s arms.
Alexei laughed. “Are you eager for my knot and bite?”
“I want to belong to you and I want you to belong to me.”
“I already do belong to you, mouse. I already do.” Alexei leaned over to build up the fire. “Get undressed and get into bed, mouse, it’s chilly in here.”
Alexei chuckled as Donal dove into the middle of the bed under the comforter and curled up into a ball, pulling the comforter over his head. Alexei approached the side of the bed. He grabbed the corner of the comforter. “Are you okay, little one?”
“Just a little chilly. I’ll be fine when you get in the bed and warm me up,” Donal squeaked.
“I’ll get undressed and join you as soon as I get the fire stoked.” Alexei dropped another large log onto the fire.
“Hurry up, I’m missing you here,” Donal complained.
Alexei lifted an eyebrow. “In a hurry, my mouse?”
Donal picked up the corner of the sheet. “Get in. I’m cold, and yes, I’m in a hurry. I’m hard and needy.” Donal shivered.
Alexei lowered his big body into the bed. “Shall I turn furry to warm you up?”
“No, just hold me. I never thought I’d have this. I want to savor the moment.”
“Come here, my mouse.” Alexei opened his arms, and Donal scurried close to his chest and covered it with long, lingering kisses between small bites.
Alexei turned Donal over on his back. “Are you ready for me to make love to you?”
“Anxious for you to make love to me. Now I know why they call it a mating frenzy.” Donal shook with need.
“It’s gotten so bad because we had to wait so long. I don’t know how Rémy stood it for so long. It took weeks to mate Ian. For a man with a temper, that couldn’t have been easy.”
Alexei held his weight on his elbows and began to kiss Donal’s face. “Your trip to the salon polished you to a dazzling shine. But you never needed any polishing. You are beautiful to me, my mouse.” Alexei put his hand over both their cocks, rubbing them together. Donal gasped and clutched at Alexei’s shoulders.
“Please take me now. I’ve been waiting for so long to be taken in love, not anger or lust,” Donal said quietly.
“Lie on your side, mouse, and bend one leg up. I’m going to prepare you.” Alexei reached under the pillow where he found the desensitizing lube and a towel, gods bless Vasily. “Lift your hips so I can put this towel underneath us so we don’t stain the sheet and drive the poor she-wolves crazy trying to clean the lube from the good sheets. Are you ready, mouse? I’m going to prepare you to take me. I don’t think either of us is up to more foreplay.”
Donal vigorously nodded.