by Aidy Award
“Love is going to conquer you. Come here.” He pulled her into his arms and kissed her soundly. He was never going to let her go.
The kiss rapidly turned hot, and he could literally taste the spice of her need in his mouth. He'd stopped their love making in the middle when she was on the verge of coming which certainly wasn't very nice of him. He would remedy that immediately, if not sooner.
"On your hands and knees, Zara. It's time I showed your body exactly why it belongs to me."
Her eyes sparkled, and her pupils went wide as her mind responded to his command. She licked her lips and let out the tiniest, "Ohh."
She sat back, with her hands on her thighs in the perfect submissive pose and the new power in him surged at the sight. She was only in the position for a moment while in the process of moving onto all fours like he'd told her to, but it was long enough for him to recognize it as something they both wanted and would spend a lot of time exploring sometime very soon.
This moment now wasn't about domination and submission, even though it was roles they were clearly made to be in, complimenting each other. Right now was about marking her for all the world to see, claiming her, with the intention to make her his mate. The sooner the better.
"The longer you think about it, the longer I'm going to make you wait to come." They were both going to be coming in the next three and a half minutes, but she didn't need to know that.
Zara rolled to her hands and knees on the bed and shook her bare ass at him. He couldn't resist. He slapped her right butt cheek in one fast and hard spank. Even the loud crack of his hard hand to her soft flesh didn't cover her moan. He was going to have so much fun playing that game between pleasure and pain with her.
"Head down, ass up." His cock was straining against his jeans to get to her body. It had been so long since he'd allowed himself to be inside any woman's body. He couldn't bring himself to fuck the women in the Volkovs’ clubs. It never felt right. Play with them, yes. Make them come, absolutely. Put his cock in them. Not so much.
His hands shook with the slightest tremor as he unbuckled and dropped his pants to the floor. He threw his shirt over his shoulders, wanting as much of his skin as possible to touch hers when he took her. Fucked her.
Niko crawled onto the bed behind her and slipped two fingers into her wet cunt, pulling her juices out and preparing her body to take him. He coated her flesh and his fingers, then grabbed his own cock and spread her essence all along his shaft. The wetter the better. He wasn't shy about being very well-endowed, and she was tight as fuck.
He placed his cock at her entrance and teased her by not pushing in.
She wiggled her ass and tried to push back so she could take him into her body, but her grabbed her hips and held her firmly. "Please, you're killing me. I need you so badly, please."
Hearing her beg for him ignited a new surge in the power inside of him. His cock grew even bigger and harder in his hand. He slipped through her wet folds, tormenting her, sliding the head of his cock across her clit until she was gasping for breath.
Leaning over her back, he reached around and teased her, alternating between his cock and his fingers. “Is this what you need?”
“Yes,” she panted. “No,. I need you inside me... Now.”
There was something so hot about how bossy she got when she was on the verge of coming. “Your wish is my command.”
This time when he thrust forward, it was to fill her body with his, to connect them, irrevocably. He pushed into her tight heat slowly, another inch with each breath. Her inner muscles squeezed him as she adjusted to his size. God, he was going to have to be careful with her fragile body.
“Harder, Niko... More.”
Or maybe not. Within a few thrusts he was pounding into her and Zara’s hands gripped the blankets as she moaned his name. “Niko, yes, yes.”
Like she had the instinct, she tipped her head to the side exposing her neck and throat to him. The new-found power swelled and crescendoed at the sight of her total submission to him. The room swirled in an amber light, and he growled deeply just to avoid howling his gratification to the sky..
Niko sank his fangs into her soft skin and held her shoulder tight between his teeth. Her body shook with an incredible orgasm, pulling at his own climax. He groaned and held back only by the sheer force of his will and the discipline he’d enforced on himself.
A power greater than Niko overrode his will and his cock bulged at the base, his hips drove forward on their own accord until he was seated fully inside Zara’s body. They were locked together by the wolf’s knot and Niko roared as he poured his seed into her, releasing years of pent-up fear, anger, lust, and love in one soul-melting claiming of his true mate.
Secrets
Wow. If Zara had known not having sex for eight years would end with such a bang, she would have... done absolutely nothing different. She laid wrapped in Niko’s arms, basking in the afterglow of the most amazing full-body orgasm. The two of them were still breathing hard and his cock was still inside of her, filling her.
Niko groaned. “Solnyshka, are you okay?”
She was so far beyond okay. There weren’t enough synonyms for okay to describe how she was doing. Good, great, fantabulous, stupendous. Nope, none of them quite did the trick. She was better than any mere words could describe. “Mmm-hmm.”
He laid his face on her back and kissed her shoulder. “Good, because I don’t think I can move.”
Zara giggled. She couldn’t even remember the last time she’d spontaneously laughed. Here in the midst of a very dangerous day that was going to end in violence, Zara felt joy. Out and out joy.
That more than anything else gave her the confidence to know that being with him was the right thing. For both of them. “I love you, Niko.”
He turned her face so he could look into her eyes. “I love you so much it hurts in all the best ways.”
His cock moved, growing thicker again, and Niko slid his arms underneath their bodies to stroke her clit. She’d already come so hard, she wasn’t sure she had another orgasm in her. When he pushed even deeper into her pussy and made the smallest of thrusts in time to his flicks over her clit, she was moaning in under a second.
“Come for me one more time, love.” He whispered in her ear and scraped his teeth across her shoulder.
Zara’s body went from peaceful bliss to nuclear under his touch. His cock barely moved inside of her, but he felt so incredibly big and the pressure built and built and built until her climax was right on the edge.
“Now, Zara. Come now and let me feel your cunt milk my cock.” His command came out strained and his voice was so husky and filled with lust that she could hear that he was on the verge of coming too.
“Together,” she managed to groan out before her body detonated, taking him with her into nirvana once again.
“Fuu-uuck, Zara.” Niko’s body jerked and hot seed burst from him. Together, their bodies continued to pulse, their orgasms synced along with their heartbeats.
Niko recovered faster than she did and tried to roll them so he wasn’t on top of her anymore. “We’re gonna have to lay here together like this for another minute or, uh, I don’t actually know how long.”
“Hmm-kay. Not that I’m opposed, but you sound like you have a specific reason for that.”
“The easiest way to put it is that the wolf isn’t ready to let you go yet. I’ve heard other wolf-shifter men talk about it, but I didn’t think that it would happen, especially since I...but you’ve healed me somehow.” He did roll them this time, just to their sides, and his cock remained fully inside her.
“Oh, God,. You feel so....” He was blessed with a dick that was, as far as she knew, larger than most, but this felt different. Not unpleasant, just, “...big.”
Niko chuckled and hugged her to his chest. “I’d love to take that as a compliment, but it’s the wolf’s knot. Our bodies are locked together until my wolf is satisfied that you’re thoroughly mine.”
&n
bsp; She didn’t know how to soothe that part of him. Give him a pat on the head, a treat, and tell him good job? She didn’t have any treats, but she did have her feelings for him. “I am, forever.”
A tingle pricked her skin on her shoulder where he’d bitten her. The bite had sent her straight into orgasm both times, and this tingle was a similar feeling as that build up of pressure before release. It almost tickled, and it definitely felt good.
“Forever,” he confirmed. He kissed the spot on the back of her shoulder and pulled out of her. “Would you like to see your new mark?”
“Oh. Is that what was happening?” She jumped out of the bed and ran over to the little mirror hanging near the door. When she turned, she saw an image on her skin, a lot like a tattoo, but much more brilliant, identical, but twice the size of the one between her legs.
Niko joined her and the amber glow in his eyes matched the color of the moon emblazoned on her skin. His wolf stared back out at both of them, but it wasn’t just his wolf - it was Niko too. Zara had seen other wolf-shifters eyes do the glow thing and their wolves eyes looked back, but Niko’s gaze was different. His wolf and he were combined into one in that reflection in the mirror.
“You should try shifting. I’d like to see your wolf.” She knew his wolf wasn’t lost like he’d thought. She didn’t know anything about healing a shifter, but she did understand about healing wounds of the mind. Maybe his inability to be the wolf was more in his head than he assumed.
“Yeah, me too.” He shrugged and stepped away. After a hard breath, Niko stood up straight, tilted his head to either side, shook his hands and bounced on either foot like a sprinter psyching himself up for a race. He closed his eyes and scrunched up his face. In another second, he opened one eye and peered over at her. “Nope. It’s not like before when that part of me was empty, but I used to be able to call on the wolf, sense its presence and what it wanted. It’s like he’s giving me the silent treatment.”
“But you knew before when we were -“ she waved her hand toward the bed looking for a phrase that wasn’t weird, “- locked together, it was because of your wolf. How did you know that?”
His brow wrinkled while he thought. “I don’t know. I just did.”
A wolf howled somewhere off in the distance and they both turned toward the window. The sunlight was fading and dusk would come soon. They’d spent the day in bed instead of plotting their revenge, umm, planning on how to defeat Ramsey Crescent.
She was glad. Being with Niko had changed that dark part of her heart that did just want revenge. Now with a clearer mind, and some good old-fashioned team work, they might be able to actually do something about this take-over the world plot he seem to have.
“We need to get you out of here, my love. I don’t want you anywhere near that challenge in a few hours.”
“Oh, no you don’t, buster. We are together, forever... Remember?”
“I’ve dreamed of a long and blissful life with you, but we might have to settle for a short and exciting one. Ramsey Crescent has to die, and I think I can do that, but I’m not sure I can do it without dying myself, not without my wolf.”
“Now would be an awfully good time for one of my visions, too bad I have no idea how to—”
Boom. Zara was standing in a field in almost total darkness. No moon hung in the sky, but hundreds of eyes glowed in a circle around her. At her feet lay a golden wolf, dead, his throat cut. She looked down at her hands and they were covered in blood, holding a knife. No, not a knife, a giant claw. No that wasn’t right either. Her hand was a claw.
Her hand wasn’t her own. It was Niko’s. He raised it up like he was going to strike at the wolf’s body again, but with his other hand, he gripped his own wrist and held his other arm firm. “No. You can’t make me do this.”
Zara slowly backed away from the golden wolf’s body. Her legs felt strange, and she realized they were not her own either. She glanced over her shoulder and realized she was mere inches from a cliff’s edge. She stumbled, some force trying to draw her back toward the golden wolf, to finish the job.
“Get out of my head, you demon.” It was Niko’s voice that came out of her mouth.
Did he mean her?
A wolf who was not a wolf, which she didn’t understand, stalked toward her, its eyes glowing with an eerie red light. Behind it a man who was also a dragon, a black one, watched them both. The wolf lowered its head and growled. Your job is already done. But I have many more plans for you, little Rynda.
Zara glanced over at the golden wolf’s body, then back at the edge of the cliff. She had failed in her duty to protect the Tzar, she would not be used by Volkovs as their puppet. It took every smidgen of will power she had to take another step backward, then another, and another, until her foot slipped and dirt and rock tipped over the edge and into the black crevasse below.
She smiled then because she knew she had won. Her only regret was that she wouldn’t be able to see Zara ever again. Perhaps in their next lives, if the Goddess allowed. She opened her arms wide and leaned back, trusting in nothing but the wind and snow to catch her.
The wolf-demon howled and ran to the edge of the cliff. The last thing she saw was its red eyes blink out and then there was only pain.
Somewhere in the depths of the brutal agony of his body being torn apart by rocks and the chunks of sharp ice in the river at the bottom of the gorge he’d jumped into, he found the peace of death. A white light surrounded him and a woman spoke, her voice soft and lilting, not unlike his beautiful Zara’s.
Hush yourself now, brave wolf. Rest and heal, you have many more battles ahead of you.
He did? How could he fight if he was dead? He couldn’t think about that now. All he wanted was to close his eyes and bask in the warm glow of this goddess or angel or whatever she was.
Sorry, kiddo. We can’t let you die. We’ve got plans for you. That voice was much deeper and very male. It had a ring of an alpha in it, but no alpha wolf he’d ever known sounded like that.
Come, my heart. We need to fly now and get him home before that fucking demon figures out we’ve foiled his plans. I can’t wait until he and his sister get their come-uppance. Again.
Niko had the strangest sensation of floating through the air, as if a bird had picked him up and carried him away.
Yes, but we have a lot of work to do before that day comes. I’m afraid our little vacation is over. It’s time for us to play matchmakers.
And you're sure one of these douchepotato wolves is the right mate for our little dragon daughter? I still don’t know about that.
Douchepotato? Why was he a douchepotato?
He’s not a potato, Kur.
He is for going and dying.
Aha. He knew he was dead. This was not quite what he’d thought the afterlife would be like though. Maybe they weren’t there yet, and they were flying him to heaven?
He will be the strongest leader his people have ever seen and his kin will inherit the best of those qualities. Can you think of anything better for Ishtar than that? She’s waited in the dark an awfully long time, and she’ll need someone as powerful as she is to stand by her side in the final battle.
Niko was starting to get the feeling these were not angels, and he was not going to some promised afterlife where he could float around on clouds and pee on trees to his heart’s content. Whatever happened to all wolves go to heaven?
The woman hovered into view for the first time and looked directly into Zara’s eyes. Time to wake up, dear. Oh, and ask Taryn to help you. She’s got some daddy issues.
Zara’s eyes snapped open and she had to swallow back the nausea roiling up her throat from her wild ride. “Whoa.”
“Holy shit, babe. You scared the crap out of me. Are you okay? I couldn’t get you to respond, and you’ve been out for a long time.” Niko lifted her by her shoulders and squeezed her tight.
“Oh no.” She glanced at the window and it wasn’t there. In fact, the whole room was gone. “Where are we?
”
Taryn’s face popped into view. “He brought you here when you wouldn’t wake up. What did you see?”
Taryn had been here when Zara had visions before. Good, at least someone understood what was going on.
“You.” That wasn’t entirely correct, but she wasn’t going to talk about what she’d actually seen with anyone but Niko.
“Me?” Taryn backed away slowly. “I don’t want you to have visions about me.”
“Yeah. A woman in white told me to ask you to help us defeat your father.” That was not normally how her other sight worked. Usually, she saw some prophecy of the future, and they were a lot more vague than this one had been. No one had ever spoken directly to her before.
She shook her head. “It has been made perfectly clear, I’m not good for anything but a marriage alliance. I can’t defeat my father. That’s what Niko is supposed to do.”
There was much more to Taryn than that. Zara didn’t have a clear memory of everything that happened the night she’d been rescued, but she knew Taryn had led a group of women and wolves against her father that night. Seemed she had paid the price for that insurrection.
Zara glanced up at Niko trying a little eye-speak to tell him to say something. There had to be a reason the woman in white had chosen Taryn specifically. But as with most of her visions, there wasn’t enough information to know what to do.
Niko stared at Taryn for an uncomfortable moment. “You can help me, Taryn Crescent.“
The amber glow behind his eyes illuminated and neither Zara or Taryn could look away. “You and I both know behind every alpha is a strong matriarch. You’re a wolftress, you have more power than you give yourself credit for. I’ve known for a long time that you should inherit this pack, not some beta from another pack who mates you for your name. Help me change the system starting here and now.”
Hell, yeah. That was the piece Zara was missing. If she wanted to make sure the trafficking of women stopped, how better to do that than to put a woman in charge of the pack? Perfect.
Taryn’s expression was a bit awestruck, but she slowly nodded. “What do you want me to do?”