The Lunar Queen (Lyric and Mason) novel Chapter 248

Chapter 248

Cole-POV

Lyric was in heat for seven fucking days. By day 3 Kairo and I were both already exhausted. Having hours of sex with your mate sounds amazing but in retrospect it’s draining and painful. Her heat broke early this morning and she is finally asleep. It’s been a constant cycle of sex, eat, sleep, sex, eat, sleep. We eventually moved to the shower when her body was almost burning to the touch but nothing helped but us. It was never enough and now my dick is so sore it has to be broken.

Kairo walks out of the bathroom with an ice pack on his own dick, glancing at Lyric spread out on the bed still naked. Her body is covered in love bites and scratches, bruises that Nova thinks is funny not to heal for her.

A week ago I probably would have felt awkward standing here like this with him. Now it just feels normal. Like we’ve been doing

this forever.

“How long do you think she will be out?” he asks, coming around to place the ice pack on my dick and I wince the moment he

places it down.

I hiss in pain.

“I’m sorry, mate,” he says, smiling and shaking his head.

“Why the hell was her heat so extreme? It was like we never had a moment to recoup,” I say, leaning back against the headboard.

“I don’t know. I’ve never even heard of a heat lasting a full seven days,” Kairo says, stepping into his closet.

Honestly, after everything we’ve learned about our mate, I shouldn’t even be surprised, Lyric has never done anything the normal

way.

“You know she isn’t going to like that you’re not leaving with us,” I say to him.

He goes quiet.

“I know, but being locked in a room with you two wasn’t really part of the plan,” he says.

The bond immediately lets me feel his sadness and I hate it. Not because he’s wrong. Because I feel it too.

“Good luck explaining that to her,” I say, standing from the bed to go shower.

Kairo grabs my arm as I walk past him.

“You’re blocking me. How do you feel?” he asks.

Honestly, this last week gave me even more time to really accept that he is my mate and although I never saw this for myself, I

can’t deny what my wolf wants and the way my body reacts to him when he is around.

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Chapter 248

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Somewhere between day one and day seven, he stopped feeling like an addition to our life and started feeling like her belonged in i.

I let my block down and his eyes go

wide.

“Is that how you really feel?” he asks.

I step closer to him and kiss film once.

“You are mine too, Kairo. I’m sorry if I made you doubt our bond. It was just something to adjust to, but you are ours always,” sa

kissing him once more before turning to walk into the bathroom.

The relief that floods through the bond is immediate and so strong it almost makes me laugh.

We’re set to leave tomorrow morning, even more because we stayed an extra four days.

“Stop making mate feel you don’t want him. I don’t like it,” Zeus huffs before retreating.

He doesn’t understand how crazy this all is for me. I never looked at a man that way before. Never imagined a future that looked

like this.

But every time I think about leaving tomorrow, the thought of leaving Kairo behind feels just as wrong as leaving Lyric.

I’ve accepted him and I’m learning to be more comfortable with being intimate with him.

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