The kiss was messy, fractured by every retreat from Sunny as she kept pace on my lap, her own arousal joining mine to make me slick and ready for her. I wanted to wrap my arms around her, to roll us over so I could pin her beneath me. Sunny's teeth nipped at my lips, the excited notes of her pleasure small and confined in her throat.

"Use me," I whispered against her.

She moaned, turning away from the kiss and pressing her cheek to mine. "I want you to be mine."

I growled, my fingers tightening briefly in her hair before she shoved me down to my back again, pulling away and reaching between us. My cock was too eager to be inside her, the pound and ache of my length warring against the vise around my heart that demanded I pull Sunny's mouth back to mine, kiss her until she confessed more of her secrets.

The heat of her, the slick and easy descent of her wet and gasping cunt on my cock made us both cry out, our eyes meeting and fastening to one another. The pain she'd been wearing since she stopped our progress in the woods vanished, replaced with a gentle relief.

"Oh god, Khell, you're fucking perfect inside of me."

You are home, Sunny.

It struck me hard, at the same moment her body rose above mine and every cell of me wanted to protest. Fuck. Sunny was mine.

The ache in my chest was not a foul mood but the mating bond, weaving tighter, tying me to the woman now riding my cock like her next breath depended on the act.

My mate.

The purr rose up in my chest, as loud as a roar, even as my head spun in alarm.

"Sunny, I—"

"Fuck, Khell, I love this," she gasped, mouth open on a long moan.

I'd found my mate, her lush body soaking my cock, her hands digging into the muscles of my chest. I'd mated a client, broken the contract that protected the professional boundary meant to exist, and destroyed my career with MSA.

I'd met the woman meant to warm my bed, to give meaning to waking in the morning, to build my life with. I sat up, reaching for Sunny, and her arms circled my shoulders, equally eager to twine together, sinking down to the hilt of my cock and rocking there, already starting to flutter around me as my stav pumped to the beat of my drumming heart.

I clasped the back of Sunny's neck to draw her mouth to mine, to kiss her breathless and lay my claim first with words and then with the fucking she deserved.

"I can't believe I nearly went my whole life without this," Sunny murmured before diving forward, tongue meeting mine eagerly.

I groaned against her, my arms gripping her tighter at the same time that my heart seemed to crack in its cage.