HIS FATHER, MY MATE.

She was not supposed to be here. But she was so close. She could see Ronan spread out on the bed. She hiccupped, stumbling drunkenly as she steadied herself against the doorframe. Raine wasn’t supposed to come back, but the rejection, the humiliation, it was too much. She had to try, Ronan needed to take her back.

The room swayed as she staggered in, her breath uneven, the sharp bite of alcohol still thick on her tongue. She stumbled to the bed, the figure on it slept soundly, half-covered by the sheets.

Ronan, her love.

With shaky hands, Raine pulled down the zipper of her dress. It pooled at her feet and she climbed into the bed, pressing herself against him. Her breath hitched as she reached for him in the pitch-black room. He was perfect, her mate. He had cast her aside like she was nothing. But this, she was sure it would fix everything. She could change his mind, she knew it.

She dragged her naked body over him, and placed her lips on his. She felt the moment he stirred into awareness because his body stiffened beneath hers. She moaned low, moving against him as she kissed him again. The body beneath hers hesitated for a minute, but then he was kissing her back. Raine was pleased.

Her mate still wanted her.

His hands tightened on her hips, and then he was flipping her beneath him in an instant. Raine gasped against his lips as the big body above hers pressed her down into the mattress. Something was different about him tonight, he seemed rougher, more desperate, and in the dark, he seemed bigger. But her drunken head was too gone in the haze of lust to care.

Her alpha’s lips brutalized hers, practically devouring her as his tongue danced with hers, fucking in and out of her tongue in a sloppy, wet kiss. Raine moaned, rubbing herself against one of his thick thighs. The sheet around him had slipped, and his rock hard member poked into the side of her hip. Raine ached to reach for it, but the alpha had her hands pinned over head as his mouth left hers and trailed down her neck. He nosed around her mating gland, teeth pressing gently against it.

Raine whined, bucking into the touch. She wanted him to bite her, she wanted his mark, but the alpha did not give it to her. Instead he trailed his lips down until he was biting one of her nipples. He pulled hard on the nub and Raine screamed, pleasure shooting straight through her entire being. His fingers nosed in between her legs, rubbing at her clit and spreading her slick.

Raine huffed, her chest puffing up in anticipation as he positioned his cock at her entrance and thrust in at once. Her back arched as her mouth spread in a silent scream. The alpha bottomed out, and for some reason, he seemed bigger than usual. Or had it been