STAN POV
She let me mark her. She had my mark in her. My venom in her veins. My scent on her.
My baby girl. My mate.
I pinched my arm just to check I wasn’t living a daydream. The sting wasn’t enough to wake me fully. Didn’t matter. Nothing would ever be enough to prove this was real, not after everything. Aurora was in my bed. Aurora was mine.
After my piss-poor first time, I’d been true to my word. I’d made it up to her the only way I knew how: with my mouth, my hands, my c**k, with every shred of me. Giving her orgasm after orgasm until she couldn’t scream anymore, until her voice was wrecked and her body trembled under mine. Until even my wolf collapsed, finally sated.
We’d been at it the entire night. I think we crashed somewhere between three and four in the morning. Now it was
