She backed her ass into me and rocked her hips back and forth. “Is that what this is? Just some holiday fun?”
I tilted my face and let my teeth scrape over her vulnerable neck. “No.”
A strong shiver shook her. “What is it?”
“It’s nature, little mate. Slow and somewhat confusing nature.”
A little gasp was the only response I got from her. Her hips didn’t stop moving, though. Steady and strong, she rocked them into me, driving me absolutely insane.
“After all these years of knowing each other, it seems it just took three kids and a mistletoe to get us together.”
She looked back at me and her eyes were bright. “You’re my mate.”
I moaned as her hips continued their torture. “I am. I nearly marked you earlier, but I figured you might prefer to be asked first.”
Lettie groaned. “Yes. Mark me. I want you to claim me as your mate, Tucker.”
I reached around her waist and quickly undid her jeans and yanked them down. I shoved her panties down with them and then stroked her dripping core with my fingers. “You’re mine, Lettie.”
I knew that I should do other things our first time, but I was a desperate man. I needed to be inside her. I pushed my own pants down and lined our bodies up. I eased into her, despite her being so wet.
Lettie grabbed my hand that was on her hip and pressed her other hand against the window. She tipped her head back and moaned. “Tucker…”
I pulled out and slowly pumped back into her, trying to extend both of our pleasures for as long as possible. My heart hammered away in my chest, but that was nothing to the pulsing in my dick. Lettie was trying to squeeze me to death.
I took her like that, slow and hard, over the best view on the ranch. I thrust into her again and again until I was close to losing it. All of my senses were on fire. Her smell surrounded me. The way she looked with her pants around her knees, legs slightly spread, hair completely wrecked had me right on the edge.
“I’m close, Tucker.” Her voice broke and she balled her fist up, her nails scraping against the window as she did.
I wrapped my arm around her and found her clit with my fingers, while nuzzling my mouth into her neck. “Come for me, Lettie. Come for me, little mate.”
The second her body squeezed my dick, I felt my own release shooting from deep inside. I let my bear’s teeth come out and sank them into her neck, marking her, claiming her as mine for the rest of our lives.
My orgasm seemed to grow stronger and I came so much that I was barely standing by the time it finished. Lettie screamed, her face so close to the window that her breath fogged it up. Her body pulsed around me as she came, hard and long.
I felt the bond grow immediately, felt myself grow warm with the realization that I’d just marked my mate. My mate. Lettie Jay was mine and I was hers. And the kids? The kids were definitely ours.
CHAPTER 9: Lettie
I was barely conscious when Tucker’s hand moved from my side and he used his finger to draw a couple of stick figures in the fog my breath had created. I smiled, but then he kept drawing. Three more, smaller, stick figures appeared and then faded as the fog receded.
Tears filled my eyes and I looked at him over my shoulder. “Say it.”
He pulled out of me and helped me get dressed again. Once we were both wrapped up, he pulled me into his arms. “I want to keep them with us. Fate had to have meant for it to happen this way. You’re my mate and they’re our family.”
I threw my arms around his neck and squeezed. “Tucker, I… This is too perfect. Are you sure?”
He laughed. “Yes, Lettie. You’re my mate. Those kids are our kids now.”
I thought of how lonely I’d felt that morning, how much I’d wished for something more. My house was too big, too cold for me to stay in it, even on Christmas day. Yet, there I stood, at the end of the same day, complete with a mate and three kids who I was overjoyed to take responsibility for. It truly was a Christmas miracle.
“I’ll figure out how to work it out with the system and we’ll figure out how to work it out with three new kids.”
I buried my face in his chest and sighed. “We’ll have to work out some special time for the two of us to do this.”
He grunted. “I’ll always find time for this, little mate.”
I unwrapped myself from him and moved towards the stairs. “Come on. Let’s tell the children.”
He caught my arm and pulled me back into a fierce kiss. “I am so glad that you’re my mate, Lettie. This is the best Christmas gift anyone could’ve ever given me.”
I gave him a wicked smile. “Just wait until later, after we figure out where the kids are staying and get them off to sleep.”