My knot didn’t ease for a long while. Lucien stayed under me, sweat-slicked and silent, his muscles trembling faintly from the weight of me still draped across his back. His scent clung to my skin—earth, pine, and the heavy musk of a just-f****d Alpha. I wanted to bite it deeper into him. I wanted the woods to smell like us. Every inch of him was mine now. “Still with me?” I murmured against his ear. “Unfortunately.” That earned him a deep grind of my hips, forcing a strained groan out of his throat as my knot throbbed, still thick inside him. “Smart mouth, even with a c**k lodged in your ass,” I muttered. “That’s talent.” “I’d rather chew off my own foot than stroke your ego.” I chuckled and licked a slow line up his neck. “Too late. You stroked a lot more than that.” Lucien snar