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ass, taking him, claiming him, marking the man as his as
he finally gave in to his own needs and pumped his cum deep inside Ricky's ass.
    Ricky cried out, his muscles squeezing
around Jordan's cock as he too gave into his body's needs and moaned out his
second orgasm.
     
    ~*~
     
    Jordan closed his eyes and tried not to
regret everything they'd just done, but now that his ardor was cooling and his
physical need was satisfied, he could see his actions for the selfish behavior
they truly were.
    Even now he wanted to bite his mate, to
claim him for all eternity, to ignore every mistake he'd ever made and hold on to
a man he didn't deserve.
    But Ricky was young, and human, and he had
no idea how the world worked. Even if Jordan could find a way through his own
guilt and have some sort of peace, no one in Lupinville would approve of their
mating. Hell, the way Cody had reacted to the news that Jordan was protecting
his son was only the beginning of the censure Ricky would face. Even Aiden,
Jordan's closest friend for over a century and a half and a werewolf who knew
better than anyone else the type of failure Jordan truly was, would be appalled
by his behavior now.
    Jordan tried not to flinch away at the soft
kiss on his upper arm where it was still wrapped around his mate.
    "Did I hurt you?" Jordan asked in
a concerned tone when he moved slightly and Ricky flinched.
    "No," Ricky said slowly,
"well nothing beyond what I was expecting for a first time."
    The reminder that his mate had been a virgin
sure as fuck didn't help with the guilt he was feeling. "We shouldn't have
done this."
    "Too late," Ricky said, sounding
quite happy.
    Jordan tightened his hold on Ricky before
easing them both onto their sides on the floor, his softening cock still inside
his mate as he held him close. Yet the longer he held on, the more his guilt
grew.
    "You should probably go get cleaned
up," Jordan said as his cock finally slipped from Ricky's ass and he
carefully moved away from his mate. Fuck, just separating this far made his
heart ache with need, but he had to be strong. He had to do the right thing.
     
    ~*~
     
    Rick could barely contain his joy. It felt
incredible to finally be with Jordan. Yeah, in many ways the only thing they
had between them right now were casual conversations and some hot sex, but Rick
planned to change that. He knew what mates were in werewolf terms, and as
unfair an advantage as that gave him as a human who didn't feel the same
instinctive pull, he fully intended to use every chance nature granted him to
make sure he and Jordan had a happy future together.
    But when he walked back into the main area
of the apartment and found Jordan fully dressed and waiting for him with a sad
smile on his face, he knew something had gone horribly wrong.
    "I'm sorry," Jordan said as Rick
self-consciously dragged his clothes back on. "I should have been
stronger. I shouldn't have let things go this far."
    "But we're destined mates," Ricky
said, unable to hide his distress. It seemed ridiculous that he could have felt
so happy less than sixty seconds ago. "We can spend our whole lives
together."
    Jordan shook his head. "I'm not—"
He cut off his words to swallow hard. "I'm not the person you think I
am."
    "I know you made mistakes. I understand
that you have things in your past that you're not proud of. I only care about
who you are now."
    Jordan winced. "Cali doesn't know the
real me either."
    Rick tried not to shrink back at the reminder
that his best friend was pretty much his only source of information when it
came to his mate, but he had to concede it was probably true that she didn't
know Jordan very well. Cali was only twenty, so whatever she knew about what
Jordan was like before she'd been born was likely colored by other people's
opinions. None of what Cali had known of Jordan before Noah had taken over the
pack had been pleasant. Rick knew that his mate was a man with a difficult
past, but as strange as it probably seemed