That had all changed.
They were together now. Engaged and mated, or at least starting the mating process. This wasn’t day eight of Sexfest 2016, as she had been referring to their escapades in her head. No, it was literally the first day of the rest of her life. Danny wasn’t going to vanish in the morning. He wasn’t going to sneak away and never call. He wasn’t going to dump her by text. He was hers, forever and ever. She could feel it in her blood.
The thought was terrifying and indescribably thrilling. No matter what she did or said, he’d stand by her. She’d have to strive to be the best partner she could, but also she could relax around him.
Danny took her hands in his and held them above her head, pinning her to the bed.
“Where are you right now?” he asked.
Sarah wriggled her hips in answer. “Right here,” she said.
He bent his head and kissed her, and slid almost all the way out. “Your eyes went far away. Are you okay with this? I know it’s sudden, but I couldn’t wait to tell the world we’d found each other.”
“You’re not going to leave me, are you?”
“Never,” Danny said. His cock slammed deep into her as he said it, like an exclamation point.
“You’re not going to get bored of me?”
“We’re going to grow together. Challenge each other. I’ve known you for years and you’ve never bored me for a second.” He thrust into her in time with his words, and Sarah had to focus to actually hear what he was saying.
“How is this possible?” Sarah asked. The heat was spiraling out of control inside her, twisting the world to pieces.
“It’s magic.” He kissed her again and released her hands. Sarah clutched his big strong back and clawed at him as he took her harder and faster than ever before. At the party below they must have thought it was an earthquake.
The fire inside Sarah swept through her, burning up traces of her old life, of her anxieties. There was no room for any of that anymore. It was holding her down, so she jettisoned it. Dumped it all overboard.
Danny was growling above her. His eyes blazed with golden fire. He licked one of his thumbs and brought it between them, rubbing her clit in rough circles until the heat inside her became lava. It erupted from her and poured out over the world.
Later, when comparing notes with Anna, she found out that everyone at the party could hear her screams of “I’m coming” and “oh fuck I love you” as clear as church bells.
She didn’t even remember saying them.
She started coming and kept coming, until Danny growled again and sank his teeth into her shoulder while his cock swelled within her and flooded her with sticky heat. The bite should have hurt, but it didn’t. It felt amazing. It was a mating mark, another step on the long road to joining Danny forever.
From the Author
Thank you for reading How to Mate Friends and Influence People. Read more about Danny and Sarah in Fake It Til You Mate It, part of the Bearfield series by Jacqueline Sweet.
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Taurus
They thought they'd live forever, but living and existing are not the same.
by Kim Faulks
Part of the Guardians of the Stars series
About this scene
Marcus Kane is the first of twelve. Dragon-born in the sign of Taurus, he carries all the traits of the bull — the good and the bad. He's strong-willed, unbreakable. Deadly on land and in the sky, but when Marcus falls in love, he falls hard. He wasn't meant to fall for the wolf, Abrial. His only job was to protect those he loves. Abrial is Alpha-born. The daughter of the Bloodstone's pack Alpha, she will stop at nothing to defend what's hers, and she'll break all the rules to do it. But when a rival pack moves in ready to spill blood, Abrial comes up against an enemy deadlier than she understands. So she turns to a stranger for help — a man who drove into a tree to save her. A man who smells like danger, but looks at her with fire in his eyes. Marcus Kane.
Save her pack…find her sister. That’s all Abrial wants, until she’s thrown head-first into a dangerous battle with a double-crossing Beta Wolf to a rival pack. The second-in command has what Abrial wants, her sister—and Abrial will do the unthinkable to get her family back. Marcus Kane is the first in line of twelve, immortal dragons. Once called, The Bloodletter — a vicious, deadly warrior born to protect the weak…He’s now forgotten and weak. He’s lost connection with the one thing he was born to be — the mighty red dragon, and now he, and his family are dying…Until a wolf crosses his path. Can Abrial force his petrified heart to beat once more? Can he save her from enslavement and help her find her family? Can they find moments of perfection in a cruel world where only the strong survive? Turn the page and find out…
Taurus