** Paige’s POV **
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Parker helps me undress slowly, like each button popped, and zipper undone is an act that should be treasured. When I step into the bath, I’m still trembling from the almost overwhelming anticipation thrumming through me. The hot waterps against my skin, and I sink into it with a sigh, petals clinging to my shoulders, my chest.
Parker sinks in behind me. He doesn’t rush. He dips a cloth into the water, wrings it out, then runs it across my skin with a tenderness that makes my heart ache. Over my shoulders, down my arms, across my corbone. His fingers shake slightly as he works, betraying the control he’s fighting to hold on to.
“Parker…” My voice cracks, but I reach for his hand, tangling our fingers together. “You don’t have to be so careful.”
“I want to be. I’ve wanted this for so long, and I don’t ever want you to doubt how much you mean to me.”
The sincerity in his tone steals my breath. I turn slightly and reach up, cupping his cheek with wet fingers. “I don’t doubt it. Not anymore.”
His eyes close for a moment, like my words physically hit him. When he opens them again, the restraint in his gaze has shifted. His eyes are still gentle, but darker now, his need simmering beneath the surface.
He takes his time to wash my hair, massaging my scalp until I’mpletely rxed. Then he helps me out of the bath, wrapping me in a plush towel before lifting me easily into his arms. My pulse races as he carries me into the bedroom.
The sight that greets us steals what little breath I have left.
More candles flicker along the dresser, the windowsill, the nightstands, casting the room in golden light. Rose petals are scattered across the bed, a soft trail leading to the centre. The air smells faintly of smoke and roses.
He sets me down <i>on </i>the edge of the mattress, his hands gripping my waist as if he can’t bear to let go. My towel slips, baring my breasts, and his gaze drops, hunger shing in his eyes again.
“Paige,” he whispers, his voice rough with need now. “I want to make you mine. Fully,pletely, but if you’re not ready…”
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“I am,” I cut in. “I’m more than ready.”
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My whole body vibrates, desire sparking through every nerve ending. The need to bond hums through me. It’s urgent and insistent, pulling us together with a force neither of us can resist
anymore.
I reach for him, tugging him closer until our foreheads touch. “I’ve been yours from that first night I spent here,” I breathe. “Tonight just makes it official.”
The second my words leave my lips, Parker’s control breaks. His mouth finds mine, hot and demanding, all his careful restraint finally snapping in an instant. His kiss steals my breath, his tongue sweeping against mine, and I gasp into him, clutching his shoulders until I’m pulling him down onto the bed with me.
The towel slips away entirely, leaving me bare beneath him, but the way he looks at me isn’t hunger alone; it’s adoration and love. His eyes are molten with need, but there’s awe too, like he can’t quite believe this is real.
He breaks the kiss only to trail his lips down my jaw, across the frantic beat of my pulse, lower still. Each brush of his mouth sears me, leaves me trembling, until I arch beneath him, desperate for more.
“Parker,” I breathe, my voice shaking.
He shudders, his forehead pressing against my corbone as though trying to steady himself. “You don’t know how many nights I’ve imagined this. How many times I’ve had to stop myself from taking what my wolf has been begging for.” His lips brush my skin. “But tonight, I don’t have to stop.”
The mate bond thrums wildly between us, pulling tighter with every touch, every kiss. I know that if I had a wolf, it would be howling inside me, wing to close the distance fully, to let him in, to seal what we’ve both been denying.
When he pulls back to let me scoot further onto the bed, I stop to admire him for a moment. He’s beautiful, so strong and broad, every line of him carved like someone sculpted him to exactly what I like. The mattress dips as he kneels on it between my legs. His hands tremble as they skim down my sides, leaving goosebumps in their wake.
“You’re shaking,” I whisper.
His smile is crooked, almost boyish. “I’ve never wanted anything this much… it’s a lot.”
Then there’s no space left between us. His body covers mine, hot and heavy, his mouth on my throat as his hand slips lower, teasing, coaxing me open for him. The pleasure builds fast under his expert fingers, leaving me writhing beneath him. I clutch at his shoulders as the
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first wave crashes over me. He doesn’t stop. He waits, patient but relentless, until I’m gasping his name and pulling him closer, silently begging for the final step.
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When he finally pushes into me, I cry out without fear of being overheard. Parker groans into my mouth as he thrusts deep, his handcing with mine above my head. Every movement feels like a vow, each kiss a promise that he’ll always be there.
Parker slows his pace, his eyes locking with mine. I search his eyes and see everything there. Not just his love and desire for me, but everything, I see our future there, together for the rest of our lives. His gaze flicks to my neck for a split second, and I can see the battle he’s having to hold off, to wait until he thinks he’s satisfied me enough.
I tilt my head back and to the side a little, baring my neck to him. Inviting his bite.
“Do it, Parker, I want it,” I breathe.
His control breaks, and his mouth lowers to my neck, his teeth sinking into my skin without a second’s hesitation. The sharp sting quickly blossoms into a pleasure that floods my entire body. The bond snaps into ce with brutal, breathtaking force. White–hot energy explodes through me, burning along every nerve, tying me to him in ways words could never exin.
When release crashes over both of us at the same time, it’s not just physical… it’s everything. A flood of love, desire, certainty. I swear I hear his wolf howl in victory in my mind, and through the bond I feel his pride, his devotion, his fierce, unshakable im. The world blurs. There’s only the heat of him, the bond singing between us, the way our bodies and souls fuse together until I can’t tell where I end and he begins.
Parker copses beside me, pulling me over with him, so I’m half on his chest and half on the bed. Both of us are gasping, trembling and overwhelmed. Parker’s chest heaves under mine, his hand still gripping mine like he’ll never let go, and the bond hums. It’s whole and unbreakable. My soul is now bound to all four of them.
I tilt my head up to look at him, and he catches my mouth with his, kissing me softly. It’s slower and tenderpared to the fire from moments ago. “Finally,” he whispers against my lips, his voice raw. “You’re mine.”
I cup his cheek, smiling even through the tears. “Always.”
The room is quiet now, with only the soft crackle of the candles and the steady rhythm of Parker’s breathing as he holds me close. My body still hums, every nerve alive with the echo of what just happened, but it’s the bond that steals my breath. It pulses in my chest like a second heartbeat, a solid thread that binds me to him.
I can feel him now. Not just the heat of his body against mine, but his emotions spilling through. They’re warm, fierce devotion, and something so deep it makes more tears escape
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my eyes.
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“Don’t cry,” he whispers, brushing his thumb across my cheek. His voice is rough, butced with tenderness. “You’ll undo me if you cry now.”
Iugh softly. “I can’t help it. It’s… it’s overwhelming.”
He leans his forehead against mine, his nose brushing mine in the gentlest nudge. “I know. I feel it too. Like I’ve been starving all these years and finally I get to breathe again.”
I tighten my arms around him, pressing closer. “Thank you for waiting until my heat passed; this feels like the right way.”
“Of course,” he says without hesitation. “Even when it drove me insane, even when I thought I couldn’t hold back anymore. You deserved this moment to be right. I’d have waited a lifetime
if I had to.”
Mating with Callen in the throes of my heat was right for us, because that’s Callen, wild and unpredictable. But Parker is soft and sweet; this is exactly how it was supposed to be with him; it’s clearer than ever now.
“I finally feel you,” I whisper. “Inside me. It’s like… you’re part of me now.”
He kisses my head. “I am. Just as you’re part of me. Nothing can change that now.”
For a long while, we justy there tangled together, skin on skin, the bond humming between us like a luby. He strokes circles on my hip with gentle fingers, grounding me as my body finally rxes.
Eventually, he lets out a halfugh. “I’m impressed Remy managed to hold himself back again.”
My eyes snap to his as realisation dawns on me. Ryder had mentioned Remy was struggling to stay away from me when things had got intimate with him. I hadn’t felt him this time though, or had I been too lost in Parker to notice? I focus on the connection I feel to him and smile when I sense how calm andpletely rxed he is, the same way Callen and Parker are right now.
“I think Callen might have distracted him,” I giggle.
“Makes sense,” Parker nods.
“Do you think you will struggle with that too now that we are bonded?” I ask.
Parker is silent for a moment, his eyes going distant before he shrugs. “I’m not sure; Rye and Callen don’t seem to have the same struggles, or not as intense at least. I’m not sure if that’s
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because they’re alpha’s so they’re naturally stronger in every way, or it’s just a control issue for Remy. I guess we will find out soon.”
“Do you want to shower and then test Remy’s control again?” I smirk.
Theugh that rumbles through him is low and satisfied, but his hold on me tightens, as though he never wants to let me go. “We’ve clearly been spoiling you in the bedroom,” he teases. “Give me five more minutes to hold you, and then we can shower.”
“I love you, Parker,” I say as I rest my head against his chest.
“I love you too, so much. I’ve been truly blessed to have you as my mate, and I’ll spend the rest of my life showing you just how grateful I am that you not only epted me, but my grumpy brother too. You’re mine now, and nothing is ever going to take you from me.”
The words echo through the bond, fierce and unshakable, and I know with absolute certainty he’s right. I’m his, and he is mine.
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