Chapter 232: Fangs Out, Lights Out. Holy Shit.

Her wolf spoke up for the first time since trying to fight Guinevere.

Aurelia: You’re crying about your mother’s necklace too.

Serena: I am. I know it’s just a necklace.

Aurelia: And you’re crying because that girl was mean, your mate told you to leave, and you just lost a best friend.

Serena: I sound like a crybaby.

She took a steadying breath.

Aurelia: Those sound like good reasons to me.

"I believe you, Dex."

His lips found hers in the softest press, a quiet apology and a promise all at once. The kiss tasted like salt from her tears and the clean chill of the waterfall.

"I love you," he breathed against her mouth. "Only you."

"I love you too, Dex."

His tongue entered her and the kiss deepened. The fear of almost losing her, the relief of having her back, and the raw need that had been burning since the day he met her.

He kissed her desperate and graceless, the kind of kiss that forgot technique and ran on instinct.

Serena let herself fall into him, her body pressing closer.

The kiss was deep, demanding, as he devoured her mouth like he wanted to mark her from the inside out, tongue stroking hers in a rhythm that promised exactly what was coming.

He moved her off his lap so she was sitting on the moss, then tugged the zipper at the back of her training suit, peeling the fabric away slowly.

"Dex, it’s freezing."

He yanked the suit down her arms and over her hips, completely off of her, leaving her bare.

"I’ll keep you warm."

Goosebumps raced across her skin. The moss was freezing. Dex was not. She was beginning to see his strategy.

He stripped off his own suit in one rough motion, kicking it aside, his thick erection springing free.

Then he caught her wrists, pinning them on either side of her head, and looked in her eyes while he pushed into her. Her body fought him and yielded to him at the same time, and the contradiction drove him insane in a way nothing else could.

"So fucking tight for me," he groaned, pulling back and thrusting in again.

Each drive stretched her further than the last. On the fifth, he gave a final determined shove and buried himself fully.

A noise escaped her throat, trembling beneath him, the burn too much.

"Good girl. Take me all the way, just like that."

The way her body responded to those words told him everything he needed to know about what she’d never admit out loud.

He started pounding into her relentlessly at a rapid pace. The gentleman was gone. Replaced by a hot-blooded male, mating as nature intended.

Pleasure slammed into her with every thrust, the head of his cock grinding against that perfect place inside until her mind went hazy. Her muscles fluttered wildly around him as the coil in her core wound tighter and tighter, threatening to snap at any second.

Her sensory overload fed through the matebond into him.

"Cum on me, baby."

"Dex...I—"

"Now."

Her orgasm hit like a storm. She moaned, back arching, body locking down around him in tight, rhythmic pulses. The feeling of her coming undone on his cock snapped Dex’s control.

The sound that came out of him was feral, half-growl, half-surrender, as he pumped hot spurts of his seed into her, hips moving on their own.

Without warning he pulled out, and flipped her up onto all fours with her ass lifted towards him.

A hand came down in a hard spank. The sound cracked through the cave like a starting pistol. Her spine curved in response, the sting blooming on her skin.

"You’re mine."

Smack.

She jerked forward, but he dragged her back by the hips.

"Don’t you dare." Another sharp slap. "You’ll take your punishment and thank me for it."

Three more in a row.

She barely had time to gasp before he forced her face down into the moss.

He spanked her again. Harder.

Her mouth opened, but nothing came out. He’d done this once before in the bedroom. But this was on another level.

He spread her wider, then a finger pushed inside of her, curling, while his tongue found something else.

"Good girl," he praised again, his free palm connecting with her ass once more.

Twice. He’d said it twice. And twice her body had responded like it was a trigger word hard-wired into her nervous system. She was going to need to unpack that later. Preferably never.

"You like being spanked."

The accuracy of his words made her face burn hotter than any of his handprints on her skin or the fact she was so exposed.

His tongue found her again and she was trapped in the overwhelming sensation as he kept going, unable to move while he licked her again and again. Every nerve in her body was screaming.

"Dex... I’m going to cum."

Her vision went white at the edges, then pleasure tore through her like lightning, her inner walls clamping down around his finger with uncontrollable tremors that bordered on too much.

Dex groaned as her pleasure flooded through their matebond straight into him. The sound of it vibrated against her skin.

Before her tremors even subsided, he pulled away and rolled onto his back, sweeping her on top of him in one fluid motion.

With a grip hard enough to bruise, he yanked her down onto his shaft in one brutal motion, forcing her to take every thick inch again.

She inhaled sharply, hands flying to his chest.

"You’re going to fuck yourself on me and I’m going to watch." His tone left no room for argument. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

She blushed. For some reason doing it like this was making her shy. Maybe it was how rough he was being.

"Ride me."

A palm cracked against her ass once, and she jerked forward. Then her hips moved on their own, rising and falling, chasing something.

His eyes darkened watching her, before he grabbed both of her breasts and began massaging them in time with her bounces, his thumbs circling her nipples until they ached.

Then he abruptly sat up, locking his arms around her and shoved his face between them, growling against her skin until the vibration made her cry out.

"Dex, that’s— that’s so—"

Her face turned an even deeper shade of scarlet. He’d never done this before and neither had Fin.

"Eyes on me."

When she looked at him, his eyes flared molten and a heat rose within her, her wolf responding. This time she knew what it was.

Not breaking eye contact, his mouth latched onto one of her nipples, while his hand massaged the other breast. The other hand slid down to grip her ass, moving her harder and faster on him.

The new angle made him hit that perfect spot inside her with every bounce. A whimper escaped her throat, overwhelmed, but couldn’t stop and he wouldn’t let her look away.

A third orgasm slammed into her, taking every thought with it.

The matebond between them flooded with so much raw sensation that she couldn’t tell where she ended and his began.

She didn’t feel her canines lengthen or the pressure behind her eyes that meant her wolf was surfacing.

The orgasm had blown every circuit she had and Aurelia walked through the gap like she’d been counting down to it.

Her mouth was on the crook of his neck before she understood what was happening, fangs burying. The taste of him flooded her, iron and salt and something electric that lit up every nerve ending she had.

There was a window of time, three seconds, maybe four, where Serena Drakenfell was not present in her own body.

The ecstasy was too consuming, and it blew a hole in her awareness.

Dex’s entire body seized beneath her. A sound ripped out of him, raw and guttural, more animal than man and his grip on her tightened, moving her up and down while he sucked her nipple.

They stayed locked like that, unable to move in extended orgasm for two minutes before his grip went slack and his arms dropped to the moss.

He let go of her breast, chest still heaving, heart still hammering against her palm.

Serena ripped her mouth away in complete horror.

His eyes, gold and blazing, met hers for one fraction of a second, before he fell back against the moss and they closed.

Unconscious. Out cold beneath her with her fang marks still wet on his throat.

Her canines retracted so fast the ache in her gums made her eyes water.

She looked down at the two puncture marks on his neck, then at the blood trailing down his skin in a thin line.

Her hands were shaking.

Serena: What did you do.

Aurelia didn’t answer. She settled back into the far corner of Serena’s mind with the satisfied silence of a wolf who had waited for the exact right moment and taken it without permission or apology.

Serena: Aurelia. What did you DO.

"Dex." Serena’s voice came out hoarse. She pressed both hands to his chest. His heart was still beating. Strong, steady, and slow. Too slow. "Dex, wake up."

He didn’t move.