Chapter 81
RYKER’S POV
“You are mine, Lyra, you are mine,” I growled, my release into her neck, lifting my head slightly to look at her flushed face.
She met my gaze, quietly. However, there was no denying the storm in them.
Something’s changed.
Her gaze had reverted to the way it was when she was wary of me, when I was still the ruthless Alpha to her.
I brushed my lips against hers slightly, but she just lay still.
Sighing, I rolled off her, careful not to apply pressure due to her delicate state.
“You are quiet.” My voice unlocked the silence that followed after our lovemaking.
Her eyelashes fluttered as she struggled to keep the tears at bay, and she jutted her chin stubbornly.
“You made her Luna,” Her voice falling out like glass on ice as she turned to look at me. “You marked her.” Her eyes were cold as she looked at me.
“I haven’t marked her—“
“But you will. She’s already your Luna. You already did the bonding ceremony.”
“I won’t mark her.” My voice was dangerously low as I bent to kiss her shoulders.
She flinched against my touch and angled her body away from my heat.
“You have to reject me then,” She replied, looking away at the window in the room. Her statement brought a frown to my face.
“What do you mean, reject you? You are mine, Lyra.” My hand touched her chin and tilted her face up; she had to face me.
“I am no longer playing these games with you, Ryker.” Her voice was cold, her gaze held mine with a strength I had never seen before. It stunned me to silence.
“You cannot have me and keep your new mate and Luna. I refuse to be in that sort of an arrangement. I refuse to be locked up in here and told not to go out. I would rather die—“
My lips crushed hers in a swift kiss, silencing her words. My tongue swooped into her mouth, blended with her tongue, and probed deeper, demanding her surrender to me, but I was afraid; I was the one surrendering to her already.
By the time I let go of her lips, her eyes were partly closed. The way she looked, so dreamy, so perfect, made my heart hitch. I wanted to take her again.
“No one is dying. What I have with Vera is simply contractual.” I answered her, dropping tiny love bites on her shoulders and on her neck where my mark should be.
She moaned deeply and looked at me with those beautiful blue eyes of hers that made me think of the deep blue sea. They were like a storm, and I wanted to get lost in them.
“I-I don’t understand,” Her voice breathy as I lowered my head and trailed my tongue down her throat to the center of her cleavage, all the while trailing my fingers in between her thighs.
She was already wet for me. Her juice was dripping, sliding down her thighs, and I had barely even moved my fingers closer to her core.
“You drive me crazy, Lyra,” I groaned, grabbing her velvet areola with my teeth and sucking it like I was losing air.
Her hands fisted into my hair as I sucked and finger fucked her at the same time.
Her moans filled the room, her cherry blossom scent enveloped me, making me burn with desire.
Her legs widened, and she hinged closer to my finger greedily, making me chuckle lightly.
“Easy princess,” Her cries made my dick throb and hard, yet I didn’t take her, yet.
“Please,” She begged, grabbing my finger as she clenched her thighs against them hard.
“Ahh—Ryker,” She moaned breathlessly.
“Tell me what you want.” My voice was husky with desire and the need to take her so bad, but I waited to prove to her the power of the bond between us.
The bond was so strong, even I was powerless against it.
My hands went deeper, thrusting harder. Her eyes rolled, and she arched her back to meet my ministration.
“I want you,“ She gasped. “I want your Ryker,” She begged.
“You’ve been a naughty girl princess.” I chuckled, releasing her nipple and moving to the other.
“Ohh,” She moaned again, clutching my hand and my hair with both hands.
“Are you going to listen to me from now on?” My lips tore from her nipples, increasing my finger thrust while I watched her lose herself to the pleasure of my hands inside her.
“Y-Yes,” She stuttered, panting heavily.
“Who is your Alpha?” I growled in her ear
“You, Ryker—You are my Alpha,”
“And?” I slowly bit her lips and sucked on them.
“Anything you say. I would do anything you say. Please just fuck me, Ryker, I’m losing my mind.”
That was enough to shatter my control. With a deep growl, I slapped my dick against her swollen clits and entered in one swift thrust.