They stayed locked together for several heartbeats, both trembling with aftershocks, the only sounds their ragged breathing and the distant fountain's gentle flow.
Catherine's body felt boneless, thoroughly claimed, marked by hands and mouth and the devastating fullness that had reshaped something fundamental inside her.
Alex had been with women before... normal women whose stamina couldn't match his, who needed recovery time, who would be sore and exhausted after what they'd just done.
But this was Catherine Blackwood. An Enhanced Realm Being.
Her body was already adjusting, muscles that should be trembling with exhaustion instead flexing around him with renewed strength. Her breathing, though rapid, was steadying faster than it should.
She could take more.
Much more.
But the real revelation wasn't her stamina.
It was his own.
The Alpha stamina core skill ran deeper than he'd realized.
