I thought I knew who it was but it wasn't coming to me. I couldn't think straight, not until I had slept properly so I tucked myself with King, under his arm, and into his warm embrace before closing my eyes and falling asleep as the dawn cracked and the hues of sunrise lightened up the sky.

He barely noticed me coming to him but as he slipped from his sleep for a second, he pressed his lips against my forehead, kissed, and fell back to sleep, this time with me.

I slept for a long time, dreaming about everything beautiful and calm. The horrors didn't dare creep into my dreams, for the first time.

A hand ran down the side of my cheeks, pulling me awake from my sleep, slowly. I peeled my eyes open to the broad daylight.

King wrapped his arm tighter around me and pulled me closer as I stared at the window and returned to reality. It took me a couple of silent minutes to understand what all had happened.

The last of my family was dead, all I had now was King and between death and life, I loved him and desired to be with him for as long as I lived.

His body added warmth to mine, he was awake behind me, kissing my shoulders lightly.

"Good morning." He whispered upon noticing that I was awake.

My eyes flickered to him, "Good morning." I replied with a smile before turning around to him.

He lowered his lips, pressing them firmly against mine. I closed my eyes and kissed him back as he cupped the side of my face and pulled me closer to himself. The kiss only lasted for a minute before he pulled back and kissed my forehead.

"Did you get enough sleep?" He asked, not knowing anything about what I had done over the night. He assumed I had slept with him the entire night.

"Yes, more than enough." I nodded, enjoying his warmth for just a second more before I had to get off the bed and return to reality. "I'm thinking of calling Beatrice and maybe seeing for today."

"You should do that," He tucked away a few strands of my hair behind my ear before agreeing to me. "Send her my regards and don't worry about safety, by sunset, everything will be in place and no one will be able to harm you."

"How are you feeling?" I asked him as I remembered the violence of last night. I couldn't search for any pain in his face, it gave me comfort knowing he had healed.

"I'm alright. Don't ever worry about me."

"But I am worried. I was so close to losing you. I can't take that image of my mind!" I exclaimed, shaking my head as worry tightened in my heart.

His fingers drove further between my hair before he curled and massaged my head. "You're not going to loose me, Eos. Not ever." He promised.

With a smile on my face, I moved my lips and kissed him once more as one kiss wasn't enough for today. Blood rushed to my cheeks and suddenly, I didn't want it to end.

Not now.

Not ever.

I placed my hand over the back of his tensed neck and kissed him deeper. He slipped his tongue into my lower mouth and made a small groan of frustration before I felt his arousal, his thickness rubbing against my stomach.

Desire burned between the both of us and as we explored each other, the heat became wilder and uncontrollable. I tugged on his hair a little as I felt a stinging sensation on the place where King had marked me.

Only after a minute, it burned and seemed like my skin was on fire.

"Ow. It burns." I winced and parted my lips away from him.

For a second his eyes filled with confusion as I pressed my hand against the mark. There wasn't a bruise but I knew where it was.

"It's nothing to be worried about. The mark burns when your body is in heat." He explained quickly.

Heat.

That wasn't a new word. Was I in heat?

I furrowed my brows in confusion but then disregarded the pain and returned to kissing King. I needed him right now and I just couldn't care about anything else.

Just him.

My mate.

The slow, sloppy kisses turned hard and aggressive soon. My skin prickled as he pressed his hard, bare chest against mine and engulfed me. His fingers slipped underneath the shirt and traced over my lower back. My body trembled and the desires deepened.

Was this okay?

I couldn't care about anything. I didn't want to. I had enough pain for a lifetime.

King lowered his mouth to my neck, sucking on my delicate skin gently as I traced my hand over his pants and his shaft. I undid the elastic of his pants and loosened it as he pulled down mine along with my underwear. I kept my shirt on as I didn't have enough strength to remove it or get entirely naked. For the minute, I just wanted him to fill me up, bury his cock deep inside me so I could forget everything and only remember the pleasure of it all.

I shook my legs, tossing aside my pants and my underwear onto the floor before grabbing the blanket and draping it over me and him. The blanket kept us warm and covered. Our movements became hasty and with eagerness, we devoured each other. He ran the tip of his tongue across my neck and over my collarbone. I whimpered at the growing sensation between my legs before placing them across his.

I flattened my palms against his rock-hard chest and slid over to the top. My back arched and I rubbed my pussy across his cock, feeling his length between my wet folds.

He growled and held my breasts, playing with them through the shirt as I grind over him, driving myself to the edge with pleasure.

I held back a sob as the tip of his cock stroked against my clit, sending nerve-wracking sensations across my spine. I clutched his arm tighter and rubbed myself harder over his cock.

He lowered his hands to my ass, holding my shirt up with one and rubbing the other one over my thighs and my back. My hips lurched forward, against his hardness and I moaned, unable to hold it any longer.

He placed his hand on the back of my help and in a single movement, he pulled me down and crushed his lips against mine. His fingers tightened around my hair and roughly, he plunged his cock inside me, trapping me over him just as he got the chance to do so.

I gasped and he filled my mouth with his tongue while his cock pushed up against my insides, filling me up with his length and thickness. I clawed his right shoulder, raking my nails through his skin as his pushed his hips upwards, hammering me from underneath.

Every muscle in my body weakened and I strained over him as tingling pleasure ran down between my legs.

I folded my legs and pressed my knees to his sides before riding his cock roughly. My sensitive skin rubbed against his, forming friction between us. The tip of his cock pleasured me from within, stroking against the nape of my pussy.

My back arched and my head fell back as my eyes rolled. He wrapped his hand around my throat as I continued to ride his throbbing shaft. It settled deep inside me and my walls tightened around him like a fist.

I barely breathed as waves of ecstatic pleasure whirled inside me. He moved his hips, thrusting inside me and growling at the fierceness of it all. My pussy clamped around his cock hard, milking his orgasm.

I moaned and cried, forgetting everything for the moment. I could only feel the endless pleasure and the bliss deep in my core.

Nothing more.

Just as he pulled his hand away from my neck, my pussy spasmed around his cock, tightening further before crashing and releasing the orgasm I had been holding inside me. It was a long, euphoric rush that seemed to lift all the worries from my body.

Just as I finished, I felt as if I had been floating in another perfect world.

King placed his hands on my hips, pinning me over him even after my release coated his cock. At a slow pace, he pumped in and out of me, sliding easily. His cock twitched in my core, deep inside me before I felt his warm liquid spurt into me.

He wrapped his arms around me and I wrapped mine around his neck as he filled me with his seed while growling in my ears. His growls were low, inhumane, and feral, enough to raise fear in anyone but not me.

I melded with his beast and the animal within him.

With my heart racing, I whispered, "I love you, King."

He heard it this time and quickly opened his eyes to meet with my gaze. The shock was clear in his expression as if he didn't see it coming.

I swallowed hard and asked, "What?"

"Nothing..." He shook his head and then suddenly smiled. "I love you too."

"You do?" My voice strained.

"Of course. I have loved you since the minute I saw you." He placed his hand against my face and ran his thumb in circles around my cheek.

I lowered my eyes and then my head before shying away from him and burying my head straight into the crook of his neck.