You mine

"Callie!" Hearing my name from that booming voice startled me wholly from whatever darkness it was I now floated through.

The oppressive black surrounding me turned cold, as if ice water splashed across my body. A ragged gasp tore through me and I jolted up from the bed. Air flooded my lungs as if it was the first breath I'd had in my life.

Apollo's warmth pushed away the cold and when I opened my eyes to see he was holding me against his chest, I allowed myself to melt. It had ripped away the veil of the world and I could see and feel him in a way that I never thought possible. And I could smell him.

He smelled so good.

Pure fire coursed through my veins, and some primal instinct pushed me into action. I pushed Apollo down at the end of the bed so quickly it knocked the wind from him.

"Mate." The word was a whisper on my lips that felt so right in every fiber of who I was. Apollo took a shuddering breath when he heard me and allowed me to push him into the mattress.

"Callie?" His hands fell on my hips, pulling me closer as I settled myself over his toned frame. His eyes turned golden as he watched me, letting me see the wolf within.

My gums ached as my fangs grew and there was something screaming for me to sink my teeth into his neck. To bite him and leave something behind that would show the world who he belonged to.

"Apollo, I want to bite you. I... I don't know what it is. I want to... Ah!" He was moving so fast; I wasn't sure when he pulled our clothing off. But I was naked against him, and Apollo was slipping inside of me.

"You called me your mate." He breathed heavily as we moved together. "Your instincts are telling you to bite me. You want to mark me."

I lifted my hips and fell back down on his cock, trembling with the rising fire in my belly. That knot in my chest was unraveling as we fucked. Like there was a star in my chest quickly going supernova.

We were going to burn up together.

"Yes, I want to bite. To mark." I could barely think straight. My nails turned to claws and Apollo groaned when I dug them into his wide shoulders, but it twisted into a moan of pleasure.

"Calypso, if you mark me, that will complete the bond between us." He dug his fingers into my hips, eyes trailing down to watch where I rode him. A dark hunger swirled in his eyes as he watched the action.

"Yes, please, I want you. She wants you too." I shuddered.

"She wants me?" Apollo slowed, his hips rising to meet mine. Some clarity returned to him as he turned my words over.

"The wolf. My wolf. We want you." Yesterday it would have been strange to utter those words, but now they felt right.

"Your wolf?" He stopped moving, and I growled through my fangs at the loss of his cock thrusting up to meet me.

"Apollo, don't stop." I whined. I moved down, so we were chest to chest and ran my nose over his jaw. "I'm going to mark you."

"Calypso, we need to talk about all this. Gods, do I want you to mark me, but fucking hell." He gritted his jaw and sucked in a deep breath. I kept riding him despite his lack of movement and a wicked purr moved through me to see the twisted satisfaction on his face.

I licked up the side of his neck, and his whole body shook. "I am going to mark you, Apollo. I know we need to talk, but this is the most important thing in the world right now. Just us."

One of his hands twisted in the back of my hair and the other held me tighter against his chest. Finally, Apollo bucked his hips up and I moaned loudly against his neck.

"We're two halves of a whole, Callie. I am yours."

Then I sank my teeth into his flesh.

It was a spot on his neck that just met his shoulder. My fangs slid into his skin like a hot knife through butter. His blood flowed into my mouth and the surprisingly spicy and sweet flavor caught me off guard. The most intense part of the bite was the feeling of molten heat filling the empty place in my chest.

It made me realize that there had been a hole in my being my entire life and Apollo was filling it. Filling me in every sense of the word. I wanted more. I wanted all of him.

Completing the bond with Apollo after meeting my wolf was truly changing me. Perhaps for the first time in my life, I knew who I was without being told what to do. And it was liberating.

The bond between us snapped into place. That supernova within my chest burst and I felt the sparks of it all spreading through my limbs and settling into the pit of my stomach. The coiling pleasure in my gut sprung free.

And I came the hardest I have in my entire life.

"Ah! Apollo!" I reared back and dug my claws into his chest as I trembled on top of him. His blood dripped from my lips and my vision blurred from the intense emotions and pleasure flowing through me. It was like a waterfall of passion and if I wasn't careful, it would wash me away.

I didn't want to be careful anymore. I wanted Apollo's passion to wash me away. To devour me in the way I wanted to eat him alive.

"Mark me, Apollo. Mark me." The words rushed out of me as I panted and lifted my head to look down at him. No sooner had our eyes connected than the Alpha was flipping me over. My head fell back on the pillows at the top of the bed and without missing a beat, he was impaling me again.

"Yes!" I wrapped my legs around his waist and pulled him closer until we were chest to chest.

"Callie," he purred. The rumble in his chest vibrated through to me and I could feel him down to my bones. "Tell me you want me. This is forever, you know."

My fingers ran through the black curls on the back of his head, and I yanked him back. "Fucking mark me," I growled at his face.

"Don't need to tell me again." He smirked and his face fell on my neck.

At first it was the barest trace of his lips on my skin, sending goosebumps shooting all over my body and electricity sparking along my limbs. His teeth elongated into fangs and Apollo traced them lightly over a spot on my neck I never knew was so sensitive.

The fire in my core was growing with each second that he got closer to marking me and each thrust of his hips. When his teeth bit into my skin, I was coming again.

That feeling of Apollo being in every part of me was exhilarating. The tastes of him before had been tantalizing, just a tease to the senses compared to what we felt in one another's embrace now.

Like the world was revolving around us. The world was turning for us. And we were the universe for each other.

"Oh! Callie... I'm going to-"

"Yes, Apollo. Do it!" I tightened around him. His tongue laved over the fresh mark on my neck and the aftershocks of my orgasm shot through me as he did. His hips jerked, and I felt him filling me up, claiming me in another way. I felt whole.

"You're mine, Apollo." As we regained our breathing and basked in the glow of what just occurred, I danced my fingers over the mark healing on his neck.

The corner of his gorgeous mouth tilted up in the hint of a smirk and I moved my finger from his neck to his mouth. He bit the tip of my finger and the silliest giggle I ever heard slipped from my lips.

"Gods, I could listen to that sound for the rest of my life." Apollo pulled me close to his side, and I allowed him to hold me. Although I felt warm with the new connection between us, it was his words that made me feel cold.