Nothing could interrupt my perfect moment and stop Phantom from claiming me.
Well. Except maybe a bear.
But that would be awesome—I couldn’t wait to see my first.
He walked over to the hot tub and folded back the cover. His back muscles bunched, and I couldn’t help but reach out and touch them as I trailed behind him. He tensed and groaned, turning to face me.
Steam rose from the water behind him, but most of my attention was reserved for Phantom.
Lean muscles, tan skin—and this close, I could see his freckles on his cheeks and chest. My beautiful alpha.
Maybe I didn’t want to hide all that beneath the swirling hot tub water. But it was cold enough that my toes were already turning into little popsicles against the chilly deck boards.
Phantom reached out to caress my cheek, then grabbed my arm and helped me take the two steps up to the hot tub’s edge. “In you go, before you catch a cold.”
My legs burned for a moment as I dipped down into the water, but then it was a comforting heat that emanated through me. My alpha settled in beside me, pulling me to his side, and my hand immediately searched beneath the water until I could find his length and hover over his lap.
His sharp hiss made me grip him tighter, and I nuzzled my face against his neck to graze my teeth down his throat.
PHANTOM
It was different, being out here under the stars alone with her.
She was still shivering with need, her heat not yet passed, though she was close.
But for the first time, she was just mine.
I was reverent as I watched her sink onto my length.
She was exhausted from her heat, but no less eager. Still, it meant I had to direct her so she didn’t sway right into the water. I don’t think she knew how off balance she was.
Once I had her steady, her movements picked up, hands gripping my shoulders as she lowered herself onto my shaft, biting her lip, her eyes crossing as she enjoyed how it felt.
She was so unbelievably beautiful.
“I love you,” I whispered, the words sounding choked as they came out. “I wanted… to make a thing of it. I know everything’s been moving so fast, but I love you so much and I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you.”
Her eyes glittered in the low fairy lights around us.
She rose up, her arms cradling my head as she stared down at me, her cunt tightly gripping just the tip of my length. I stared up at her as a curtain of snow-white hair tumbled around us.
Her full breasts were right before my eyes, one already bearing Sin’s mark, and it was a war between staring at them and into her beautiful eyes.
“I love you, too,” she whispered, eyes tracing my face as if she wanted to commit every detail to memory.
I was in a trance, the bubbles swirling around us, trees rustling in the night, velvet and roses wrapping around me like a blanket.
I gave in at last. I’d wanted to take her out, to make a date of it, but who was I kidding. I couldn’t wait for another moment; no date would be better than this moment under the stars.
Leaning forward, I ran my tongue along her breast, tracing the skin where I would place my claim. A breast all to myself, with Sin’s mark on the other.
I took it between my teeth. I groaned as she gasped, sinking down a little on my cock, her pussy squeezing me tight as I left my mark.
When I looked back up there were tears glittering in her eyes.
She sank down, taking me all the way to the knot as she kissed me with more passion than ever before.
CRESCENT