“I—”

His stare held me still, and it felt like he grew taller as he stripped. “You told me you’d suck a dick all day if it tasted like a cupcake. Well, turns out since meeting you I love tea.” Bracing himself over me, he brushed my lips with his. “And I will suck a clit all day if it tastes like tea.”

“Fuck,” I moaned.

“Yes, ma’am.” And he slammed into me.

Oh. My. God.

There wasn’t a warm-up, and I didn’t want one. Ben unlocked all of his Alpha, fucking me with every ounce of his strength. Raw, wild, and deep, my Omega woke up and took over.

This was different, and we both knew it. Claiming in every sense of the word. Marking himself inside just as he was about to with his teeth.

“Bite me,” I gasped. “Bite me, Alpha.”

Ben growled, moving faster. Harder. Untamed pleasure was a storm inside me, breaking open for him. I didn’t need to climb the peak, I was already there soaring through the clouds.

I bared my neck for him, turning my head to the right, and arching. He hadn’t told me where he wanted to bite me, and I didn’t care. I just needed him, and I needed it now.

His mouth moved over my skin, drawing a whine from me. “I love you, Esme Williams,” Ben said.

And then he bit me.

I came, the pleasure a fucking fiery tornado ripping me apart and putting me back together the same and differently. Suddenly I didn’t just feel myself, I felt him. In the center of my chest, there was a joy and a sweetness that felt like Ben.

He was drowning in just as much pleasure and awe as I was. And Love. There was so much love it stole my breath. It went down to the core of his being, rooted there so deeply it couldn’t be shaken.

Me.

He loved me.

“Yes,” he whispered in my ear, both of us trembling with the newness of this. “I love you. I love you.”

“I love you, too.” It wasn’t hard to say it now. The words were the most natural thing in the world. How could I have held them back?

Ben licked over his claiming mark, sending another blizzard of pleasure swirling through me, strong and sharp. “I’m going to like doing that,” he murmured. “Every day.”

“Every day?”

“Every fucking day.” He kissed me and finally pulled back far enough for me to breathe. I could still feel him in my chest like a miracle. Nothing I’d ever heard about mating bonds made them sound like this. Like souls being twisted together so tightly they could never separate.

It was incredible Eva and her Alphas made it all the way through the ceremony.