Chapter 21

Demetri’s POV

Her body stiffens as she whimpers while my pressure slowly increases.

‘Lock your link to me.’

I encourage her. I know she’s done it when I feel her overwhelming anxiety towards the change in intimacy that I’ve taken with her.

‘Stay with me Lilly. I’m not going to hurt you.’

I reassure her as I take her a step further.

I slide my finger to her entrance, running the tip along the outer edge. She whimpers hard with uncertainty; I haven’t touched her like this since my epic failure to control my wolf the first time we had sex.

We waited two years before having the mate’s union ceremony that recognized Lillian as my luna and another year after the union ceremony to finish the mating bond. It’s unusual for fated mates, especially an alpha and luna, to wait so long before completing the bond, so my wolf was eager to have his mate and her wolf was in heat.

She-wolves go through both the human menses and the wolf’