by Jenika Snow
Penny pulled me closer, and that caused the towel to fall to the ground. I had her in my arms seconds later, her hands curled around my biceps, her legs around my waist, and her wet, hot pussy against my cock.
I led us to the bed, my cock hard and insistent, my animal snapping and snarling for more.
Once I had her in the center of the bed, I took a step back and stared down at her. Desire was clear on her face, and wanting to torture myself even more, I reached down and strummed her damp pussy.
The trimmed thatch of curls at the top of her mound had my mouth watering, and her bared pussy lips had my cock jerking.
I spread her open with my fingers and had to grit my teeth as her arousal covered the digits. I said nothing as I got on the bed between her thighs, her body tiny and feminine compared to mine.
The soft, mewling noises coming from her had me grinding my erection into her bare, damp, and hot flesh. A gasp fell from her mouth when I rubbed her clit. I swallowed the pleasured sounds that came from her.
I dipped my head into the hollow of her throat and inhaled deeply, groaning at her scent. I drew it deeper into my lungs.
Running my tongue up her throat, I sucked at her pulse point and growled when I felt her shiver for me, because of me. She already smelled like me, saturated in my mating scent, but it wasn’t enough. I wanted her soaked in it. I wanted it dowsing her so that any male who came close to her would know I was her mate.
Keeping my lips on the side of her neck, I dragged my hand down to her hip and gripped her flesh. She was warm and pliant from her shower. Her hips were perfect as they cradled me.
My cock throbbed with the need to be buried back inside her. I grabbed her inner thighs, loved that my fingers dipped into her soft, feminine body, and growled low. This time, it wasn’t going to be a hard, fast fuck, even if that called to me. No, I was going to go slow with my mate this time and show her exactly what her body did to me in the most sensual way I could handle.
“I’m burning alive for you, Kasias,” she said right beside my ear, her voice causing my teeth to gnash together. Penny lifted her hips right after the words left her mouth. “I’m so wet for you.”
I was barely hanging on as it was, and she went and said that?
Immediately, I placed my hand back between her thighs and rubbed her slickness, back and forth, faster and harder until these little mewling noises left her and she was mumbling incoherently.
That’s my girl.
The scent of her pussy was like nothing I’d ever smelled before. This addicting sweetness, a hint of musk, a pop of fresh spring air.
And it was all for me.
Her nipples were hard and pressed right up against my chest. I showed her my hand, my fingers all glossy from her pussy juices. I brought them to my mouth and sucked those digits clean, making sure she watched the whole time.
My cock punched forward even more, hard and insistent, needing to be buried deep inside my female. I thrust my hips forward, grinding my thickness against her warm, slick folds. We both groaned at the same time.
I started moving lower, running my hands across her body, following the trail with my tongue, tasting every inch of her. She was already spread so wide to accommodate me between her legs, but I wanted more.
I reached the sweet, sweet junction between her thighs and stared down at her pussy, loved that she glistened for me. My mate was so damn wet that her inner thighs were covered in her cream. She’d be wetter after I was done with her, my cum slipping from her cunt to add to the juices.
I was barely holding on and didn’t stop myself from leaning in and licking at her pussy. I flattened my tongue and dragged it up the length of her cleft until I stopped at her clit. She tasted so fucking good.
“Mmm,” I hummed and used my thumbs to spread Penny’s lips apart, and then I delved back in. I dragged my tongue along her soft flesh, and she trembled beneath me, moaning for more, for it harder, faster.
I pressed my hand right on her belly to hold her in place as I devoured her. The very cat-like sounds that came from her told me that I was hitting just the right spot to send her over the edge.
And as I looked up the length of her body and continued to lick and suck at her swollen clit, I knew I wanted to taste her orgasm on my tongue over and over again until I was drowning in it.
I teased her pussy hole with a finger and then pushed the digit slowly inside. An involuntary groan left me when Penny clenched around me. “Fuck,” I groaned. “That’s it.” I leaned in and flattened it on her clit before dragging the muscle down her cleft. I did this over and over, and all the while, I pushed more of my thick finger into her, then added a second. My fingers were thick, and I knew even two digits stretched her good, filled her up.
Her pussy made juicy noises as she clenched around my fingers, and I closed my eyes and breathed out from the pleasure that caused in me.
I went back to sucking on her clit when I had my fingers all the way buried deep inside her. She started grinding herself against me, pressing that sweet little pussy on my fingers and against my mouth.
I needed her… needed to be inside her.
I straightened and looked down at her, licking my fingers clean, the flavor of her so fucking addicting I knew I’d never get enough. All I smelled was her. Her clit was a hard nub at the top of her mound, and she was so fucking red and engorged for me… because of me.
No more waiting.
I took hold of my cock and stroked myself from root to tip. “You want this monster, mate?”
She licked her lips and nodded. “I want it now.”
“Mmm.” God, I was so fucking hard. The wetness at the tip of my cock attested to the fact that I wouldn’t last long once I was buried balls-deep inside her. My bear pushed forward, forcing me to slightly change, to shift. But I was fucking strong, even my human side. My canines pushed out, my nails elongating into claws. I felt my muscles swell, knew I was getting bigger, stronger right now.
“She’s ours,” my polar bear roared.
Her perfect tits shook slightly as she shivered from her arousal. She needed me to fill her with my dick and cum. I moved back between her thighs, kept hold of the root of my shaft, and ran the tip of my length up and down her slick folds. I watched myself do this over and over again, getting even more worked up with each passing second.
When I couldn’t take it any longer, when she was begging, pleading with me for more, I pressed the crown against the entrance of her pussy. She was so fucking hot, so damn tight and ready for me that when I pushed inside her, her body instantly clenched tight around me.
A guttural groan left me at the feeling, but I didn’t stop. I couldn’t have, even if my life depended on it. I fed her my cock inch by inch then curled forward, slamming my hands on the bed on either side of her head. I was halfway in but gave her more. She’d take all of me.
Another inch. Then another. Fuck me…. One more.
My forearms were straight and tense right by her head, and my muscles were clenched as I used all my strength not to just shove my dick right into her. I was torturing myself by going slow, but fuck it felt good.
She stared up at me, her mouth parted, her eyes wide and glossy, and beads of sweat dotting her forehead.
“So. Fucking. Good.” I leaned forward and claimed her mouth at the same time I buried the rest of my cock in her pussy. The strangled sound that came from both of us was loud but filled the room. I braced an elbow on the bed and took hold of her jaw with my hand. Tilting her head to the side, I probed her mouth with my tongue as I started thrusting in and out of her.
I pulled out until just the tip was inside her and then slammed back into my girl. I did this over and over again, not picking up my speed but making sure to completely fill her every time. Sweat covered my body as I started a steady rhythm. I broke the kiss and started licking the side of her neck, right over that proprietary mark I’d given her.
I dragged my tongue up and down her sweet skin, memorizing the fl
avor and smell of her. She started mewling and dragging her nails down my back, pulling me closer as if she’d never get enough of me. I knew I’d never fucking get enough of her.
“I’m so close, Kasias,” she said almost right away, her voice soft, little, pleasure-induced. I slowed my pace, and she mewled in disappointment.
“Mate,” I growled. “Call me mate, Penny.” I started moving faster then.
“Mate,” she gasped. “I'm so close, mate.”
I squeezed my eyes shut at how good it felt hearing her say those words. “Come for me.”
She gasped and did just that, and I roared out at the feeling of her tightening around my cock.
I tried to keep the same steady rhythm, but it was fruitless with how her tight cunt gripped me. At the end, I was slamming into her with abandon. My thrusting had her moving up the mattress, but I snarled and gripped her waist, yanking her back down on my cock, her gasp of surprise fueling me. And when she came for me again, the scent of her heat filling my head, I let go.
“Come on, baby,” I muttered to myself. “Give me a third one. Give me a fucking third one, Penny.” My polar bear roared, my mouth watering for another taste of her. Always. Fucking always. “You’re mine, mate. Mine!” I roared out that last word until I felt the air around me shake from the force.
And then she fucking came for me again.
My female cried out, clenching around my cock in rhythmic pulls, milking me, needing my seed to ease her heat. With a mighty roar, I let go.
I didn’t slow or stop pounding into her, not even when my balls drew up tight and I came so hard I saw stars. I filled her with my cum, coating every available inch inside her until I knew our combined fluids would dampen the sheets beneath her.
I had my mouth at her neck, along the mark I’d given my girl, and licked at it, scrapped at it with my canines until it opened up again. I pushed more of my scent into her bloodstream.
When she was sated—for the time being and until her heat claimed her again—I couldn’t help the prideful proprietary smile that curved my lips.
“Hold me,” she said sleepily, and I happily obliged.
I needed to hold her just as much as she needed me to.
I pulled her closer, the scent of her heat now fading over the last week, but still so strong to me that it consumed me to the point I felt positively fucking feral because of her. I’d never in my life thought I could feel this way about anyone. It had always been me, and that had been sufficient. But when I’d seen my little Iberian lynx shifter in that crowded bar, my life forever changed.
I’d known her for less than a day, but it didn’t matter how much time had passed. I didn't have to say one word or her to know she was mine. Forever.
The connection between fated mates was that clear, that strong. That powerful.
She had now forever changed me in the best of ways.
I leaned in and kissed my mate, running my nose against the side of her throat where my mark would forever be. I growled low, her scent everything I’d ever need in my life. She’d marked me just as I’d marked her, and although it wasn’t on my body where anyone could see, she’d branded me deep inside where I’d forever be hers.
I may also be more animal than human, but my girl understood that on the very lowest level of our souls. She accepted that.
She loved me for it, and I’d promise her with my last breath that I’d make sure she never know a day where she wasn’t claimed.
Epilogue One
Penny
Four weeks later
I didn’t need to take a test to know the truth. As a shifter, I felt it. I knew as soon as his seed had taken inside me. And I knew he was fully aware that he’d knocked me up. I could see it in his eyes, watched it in the way his nose flared when he inhaled, because I knew. And then he’d look at my rounded belly, and I’d watch his canines elongate, see his animal flicker at the surface.
He was pleased, so fucking pleased I smelled that scent pour off him like a drug.
He made these deep, harsh noises, warning sounds that were meant for other males even though we’d be alone. I didn’t even know if he was aware he did them. He was just so primal, so animalistic, his human side submissive when it came to his shifter genes, that this all came so naturally to him.
But despite knowing I was pregnant with Kasias’s young, I still bought a pregnancy test. I still wanted to hold that little stick and see the confirmation on the screen. My human side needed it, and so I appeased her.
I peed on that little plastic stick, alone in the cabin I now shared with my mate, and waited for the test to be complete. I was nervous, and I had no idea why. I knew I was pregnant, yet it was like this human ritual moving through me.
After the first night we met, the night I found my mate, was in full-blown mating heat, and lost my virginity, everything in my life had gone at warp speed. Kasias refused to let me leave, told me I was his and that meant he wanted me by his side always. I wanted that too, the fated mates pull too strong to deny. I felt like I knew him better than I knew myself, our connection, the electricity bouncing between us, was tangible. And it had grown every day. We’d become closer, stronger, the bond undeniable and unbreakable.
I moved in the very next day, told my parents about us, which they were happy I’d found my other half, and started my life with Kasias.
I’d never been so happy, so completely and utterly consumed by someone in my entire life. I could have never imagined what it would feel like to finally find my fated mate, but having Kasias in my life blew my expectations right out of the damn water.
And now a part of Kasias was inside me. I smelled him surrounding me, on my skin, my hair, so deep in me he’d never leave. And being pregnant with his baby meant that scent was doubled, intensified. His mark had ensured no male would dare come close to me unless they had a death wish. But being pregnant with his baby? It was like I wore this massive neon sign that said HIS and STAY THE FUCK BACK.
I picked up the test when I waited longer than I needed to for the results, and although I knew the truth already, seeing those two pink lines in the little display window had my breath leaving me.
I didn’t know how long I stood in the master bathroom staring at the test, but I’d been so engrossed that I hadn’t heard Kasias come in. I sensed him then, standing in the doorway of the bathroom, and I slowly turned around, the stick in my hand, my heart racing. He stared at me intently, those dark eyes penetrating me.
He inhaled, growled, then he was right by me, taking the test from my hand and setting it down, pulling me into his embrace, and kissing the sense right out of me.
“We knew you were pregnant already,” he growled against my lips, and I wrapped my arms around his neck and my legs around his waist.
“I know,” I gasped right before he plunged his tongue into my eager mouth. “But my human side needed this, Kas.”
He hummed in approval, his erection massive as it all but burst through the zipper of his jeans and pressed against my soaking pussy.
He had his mouth at my neck, and the sound of him scenting me had me closing my eyes and letting my head fall back on my neck slightly. I closed my eyes and let that warm hum he evoked in me travel through my whole body.
“God,” he groaned, and I melted into him even more. I wanted us to be one at that moment. I wanted to just crawl into his skin and live there. “Knowing I’m the one who got you pregnant, knowing I put my baby in you, makes me positively fucking primal.”
I moaned softly as he ran his roughened tongue along my throat. “You’re already fucking primal,” I teased, but the words were heated, aroused.
“Only for you, for my mate.” He ran the tip of his nose up and down my throat in the way I loved. “My mate is carrying my baby.”
I felt his erection against me, knew that although he was always turned on for me, always ready and needing me like a fiend, he was aroused right now because of the primitive, basic fact that he’d gotten his mate with c
hild.
He pulled back and planted a deep, long kiss right on my lips. “I love you so much,” I whispered and groaned, so unbelievably happy I was crying and hadn’t even realized until I felt the saltiness of the tear slide into the corner of my mouth. “A baby, Kas.”
He hummed in approval and kissed me harder, with more passion. He was fierce for me. And surprising the hell out of me, he put me down and dropped to his haunches before me, pushed my shirt off, and planted a gentle kiss on my exposed belly.
I sifted my hands through his soft, short hair, tugging gently at the strands as he kissed my belly over and over, as he whispered gruff endearments against my flesh. When he stood, he immediately wrapped me in his arms again as if he couldn't bear to be apart from me, as if it was painful not to be touching.
“If you thought I was protective before, you haven’t seen anything yet, mate.”
A shiver passed through me, because I heard the sheer determination in those words, in his voice.
“I wouldn’t want it any other way,” I admitted honestly then dragged my lips to the shell of his ear, and whispered, “now take your mate to bed and show her how happy you really are.”
And with that, he gave a very bear growl, scooped me up into his strong, muscular arms, and carried me to our bed, where he showed me his happiness all night long.
Epilogue Two
Penny
Eight months later
I was going to be a mother any day now, a mother to a half-polar bear, half-Iberian lynx shifter. Or maybe the baby would take after Kasias and be a full bear. Maybe the baby would be a full lynx. God, I was so excited I could hardly contain all the emotion churning inside me.
If I thought Kasias was a primal, possessive, territorial mate before the pregnancy, he was full-on insane, obsessed, and protective now. Even if someone glanced in my direction, Kas growled, snapped, told them to “fuck off.” I’d never thought I’d enjoy a growly, alpha male by my side, but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit how loved he made me feel, how wanted and like I was the only female to ever grace his world.