by Julia Mills
Lowering his hands to her ass, he gently kneaded the heavenly globes while lifting Dani’s feet from the ground and forcing her legs around his waist. Spinning on his heels, Wolfe stalked towards the trunk of the tree, placing his hand on her back to cushion her delicate skin from the bark as he deepened their kiss, exploring her mouth as she tasted of his.
Dannika’s wound her fingers through his hair while she climbed his body. The heat from her arousal left a fiery trail on Wolfe’s waist as her dress rode higher and higher up her legs. Stepping back, the Guardsman changed position, putting his back against the tree and sliding down until his butt landed firmly on the ground.
Leaving her lips, he nipped and tasted along her jawline bathing in her succulent scent, his chaos that had been threatening his sanity, blessedly floating away. The more attention he paid to her ear, the louder Dani’s moans became and the harder she pushed her hips against his. Reaching between their bodies, Wolfe slipped his fingers under the soft silk of her panties, teasing the wet curls as he pushed through their silkiness to her pussy.
Outlining her outer lips with his fingers, Wolfe swallowed the dragoness’ gasps and mewls as she begged him for more. Sliding his tongue across her lips as he pushed his finger into her center, Wolfe held his mate tight, her nails digging into his scalp as she pulled him tighter to her.
Slipping a second finger inside her warm, wet pussy, Wolfe curled the tips, teasing the sensitive bundle of nerves at her center. Holding tight to his mate as her lips tore from his in a gasp of extreme pleasure, the Guardsman smiled as she rolled her hips and rode his fingers towards the orgasm he could feel building within her.
“Oh, my Goddess, yes,” Dannika moaned, her hands flying to his shoulders, her nails biting into his skin through the soft, worn cotton of his T-shirt.
Looking down at the beautiful woman coming apart in his arms, Wolfe was in awe. Dannika was absolutely magnificent. Never had he seen a more spectacular sight than his one True Mate breathless, with her head thrown back, her eyes closed tight, and her skin flushed with arousal from merely his touch. Male pride filled his soul. His dragon roared loud in his head. This was the moment he’d always been told would happen when he met the one made for him by the Universe.
Working his fingers harder and faster out of his mate, Wolfe dove the fingers of his free hand into her long, dark hair, gently forcing her head towards him as he commanded, “Open your eyes, Dannika. There will be no more hiding between us.”
Her eyes snapped open, heavy-lidded and filled with desire. Panting, she pleaded, “Please, Wolfe…”
“Whatever you need, mo chroí.” He teased her swollen clit with the pad of his thumb.
Dani’s movements became frantic. Her hips thrust against his, trapping Wolfe’s hand between their body as he drove his digits in and out of her as fast and as hard as he could. Her grip on his shoulders grew tighter. Her nails, now the short talons of her dragoness, tore through the fabric of his T-shirt, ripping through his skin as she threw back her head and wailed his name, overcome by her orgasm.
Driving her higher and higher, the proof of her climax wetting not only his hands but the insides of her legs, Wolfe watched the beautifully blissful glaze of satisfaction fill his mate’s eyes. Slowing his motions, Wolfe pulled his fingers from her still quaking pussy, catching her moan of loss as he touched his lips to hers.
Kissing her as if she was the very air he breathed, Wolfe laid Dani onto the soft grass of the meadow and with his preternatural speed, stripped them both. Kissing up her leg as she slowly floated back to earth, the Guardsman ran his tongue along the inside of first one beautiful thigh and then the other, smiling against her skin as she raised her hips and moaned his name.
“Yes, mo ghrá?”
“Oh, Wolfe,” she mewled, rolling her hips when his lips landed on the sensitive skin just above the glistening curls atop her mound.
Inhaling her intoxicating scent, the Guardsman could no longer wait to taste of her essence. Pushing her legs farther apart to allow for his shoulders, Wolfe finally put them over his shoulders as he lowered his head. Driving his tongue into her contracting pussy as far as he could, bursts of bright lights flashed behind his eyelids as both man and dragon feasted upon the woman who completed them both – body and soul.
Dannika’s hands fisted in his hair, pulling with such force Wolfe saw stars as over and over he lapped at the juices of her arousal. Faster and faster he thrust his tongue in and out of her, hitting her g-spot with each pass. Pushing her hips against his face, Dani screamed in some unknown language when he pulled his tongue from inside her and sucked her clit into his mouth, teasing it with the tip of his tongue. Feeling his mate teetering on the edge of ecstasy, Wolfe gently bit down on her clit at the same time he thrust three fingers into her pussy.
Arching her back off the ground and pulling at his hair until Wolfe was sure he’d be bald, Dannika’s heels dug into his back as she shrieked his name and came with such force her entire body shook beneath him. Lapping at her juices as she climaxed again and again, the Guardsman was sure he would explode like a randy teenager if he wasn’t immediately buried deep within her.
Pulling out his tongue, he slipped her legs off his shoulders, picked Dani up, turned her over in his arms and gently set her on her hands and knees. Leaning over her, Wolfe set his hands next to hers in the cool grass, plastered his chest to her back and kissed her neck as she continued to pant, trying to catch her breath.
Kissing behind her ear, Wolfe rolled his hips, teasing her still quaking pussy with the tip of his erection as he declared, “You are mine, Dannika DoChara, now and forever.”
“Yes, Wolfe, yes,” she panted, pushing her body against his hips.
Grabbing her hair as it flowed over her shoulder, Wolfe gently pulled on the long dark tresses until Dani turned her head and looked him in the eye. Holding on by the thinnest of threads, his desire to have and claim his mate driving him to near distraction, Wolfe demanded, “Say it, Dannika. Say you are mine.”
Fire flashed in her eyes. He recognized the tiniest glimpse of her naturally rebellious spirit rearing its ugly head and counted it among the many things he was growing to adore about her.
Rolling his hips, he let the head of his cock tease her sensitive clit as he lifted his hand, slid it across her ribs, under her breast and grabbed her hardened nipple with his thumb and forefinger. Rolling his digits together, he grinned as Dani’s hips pushed even farther back, trying to force him into her body while she worked hard to keep her eyes open.
“Please, Wolfe. Please make love to me,” she pleaded.
“Say it, Dannika. Say you are mine,” he ordered again, this time through clenched teeth.
“I am yours!” She bellowed.
No sooner had the words crossed her lips than Wolfe slammed into her wanting body. Immediately pulling out, he thrust back into her, over and over, faster and faster he made love to the woman who had owned him from first glance. Hard. Deep. Hot. He branded her from the inside-out, making sure there was never a doubt that she was his and he was hers.
Letting go of her breast, needing to go deeper, wanting all that Dannika had to give, Wolfe straightened his back, grabbed ahold of her hips and with the precision of a jackhammer drove in and out of his mate. The sounds of their bodies pounding against one another joined Dani’s screams of pleasure as the couple soared higher and higher.
Their every movement became frantic as Dannika’s pussy squeezed him harder and faster, Wolfe felt his balls tighten against his body, felt his cock thicken against her walls and with one final thrust hurtled his mate until yet another explosive climax. Plastering his front to her back as her screams of pleasure turned hoarse, Wolfe roared, “You are mine!” Before sinking his teeth into the tender skin at the back of her neck, marking her as his for all to see.
Dannika’s pussy sucked him deeper still inside her body as another orgasm rolled over her at the same time that Wolfe bathed her insides with his warm es
sence. Slowing his movements, the Guardsman wrung every last mini orgasm from his mate before slipping from the warmth of her body and lowering her nearly limp body to the ground.
Following her down, he placed his dragoness across his chest, smiling as she struggled to catch her breath. Running his fingers through her hair, a feeling of unparalleled bliss filling both man and dragon, Wolfe froze when Dani rolled onto her stomach, raised her head and said, “That’s wonderful, but it doesn’t solve anything.”
“Made me feel better,” he joked, almost laughing out loud when she bit the insides of her cheeks to keep from laughing. Letting his hand slide down her back, Wolfe lightly tickled her ribs, chuckling when she squirmed. Trying to get away, Dannika laughed out loud, “Stop it! Stop, Wolfe!”
Sitting up, he pulled her onto his lap and before she could voice the objection he saw brewing in her eyes, lifted his hands so she could see them and said, “Okay, okay, I’ll stop.”
Kissing the tip of her nose, he pulled back and added, “You’re right in a manner of speaking.” He wrapped his arms around her waist as she furrowed her brow. Continuing, he answered the unasked question floating around in her mind. “I still have questions, but I can no longer deny that you are mine and I am yours.”
Slowly nodding, she looked over his shoulder, her expression softening and sighed, “Guess you’re right about that.” She looked him in the eye as she reached behind her neck and shook her head, “Made sure I couldn’t back out, huh?”
Trying to look innocent but knowing he failed miserably, Wolfe freely admitted, “There was no stopping the mating call.” Rubbing his hands up and down her back. “I think I tried so hard to be mad at you and deny what we were to each other that once I had you in my arms, all hell – so to speak – broke loose.”
“Yeah,” Dani chuckled. “I know what you mean.”
Letting his head fall to the side, Wolfe teased, “Wanna return the favor?”
Looking at his neck, Dannika’s eyes got that faraway look of desire and glowed as the scent of wildflowers grew stronger with every beat of her heart. Pulling her closer, Wolfe kissed her lips, then her cheek, right in front of her ear before whispering, “Mark me, Dannika, dhéanamh dom mise.”
The heat of her returning arousal on his thigh made Wolfe hard and wanting all over again. Lifting his head, he saw her dragoness glowing in her eyes as Dani murmured, “What are you doing to me? I need you like I need air or water.” She laid her hands on his face and as her lips touched his, she whispered, “I am lost to all that we are together,” directly into his mind.
Returning her kiss with the full force of all the emotions only Dannika could pull from him, Wolfe once again caught fire. Tearing his lips from hers, he lifted Dani from his lap, turned her so they were completely face-to-face and lowered her onto his hard cock.
Gasping as he once again invaded her body, Dannika pushed down until he was fully seated within her, making it hard for him to know where he ended and she began. Holding still, she once again held onto his shoulders as her pussy massaged his growing erection. Unable to hold still, Wolfe started to lift his mate, but she slowly shook her head and started to move her hips in an erotic figure eight, inching her way up his cock, squeezing tight at the top before sliding back down. Over and over she repeated the mind-blowing move until it was Wolfe’s turn to beg.
“Dannika,” he warned, growling low in his throat and tightening his grip on her waist.
Slowly shaking her head, Dani wet her lips with just the tip of her tongue, slid down his erection, increasing the pressure and rolling her hips in sync with his racing heart. Looking him in the eye, she gave him a sinfully sexy smile then leaned forward and purred, “Tell me you’re mine, Wolfe.”
Thrusting his hips the best he could from his position under his glorious mate, the Guardsman breathlessly panted, “I’m yours. Oh Goddess, Dannika, I’m yours… always.”
The tip of her tongue teased his lips as sheasked, “What do you say, mo Dragon láidir mór?”
Meeting her thrust for thrust, he bellowed, “I am yours, Dannika DoChara. Now, and forever.”
Moving faster than his lust-fogged mind could track, the dragoness sunk her teeth into his shoulder. The mental blocks in both their minds shattered, making them one in all things – mind, body and soul. Wolfe’s roars combined with Dannika’s as they shared an incredibly explosive orgasm as only True Mates can.
Collapsing against his chest, Wolfe held his mate as their hearts slowed and their breathing returned to normal. Loving the feel of her skin against his, the Guardsman smiled as he realized Dani had fallen asleep in his arms. Gently laying her down on her side, he curled up behind her, wrapped his arm around her and after kissing his mark on the back of her neck, closed his eyes to join his mate in slumber.
There’ll be plenty of time for answers in the morning…
Chapter Eight
Slowly opening her eyes, Dani squinted against the rays of the early morning sunlight shining through the dense leaves of the trees overhead. Stretching, she felt the sweet sting in spots that hadn’t been sore in a very, very long time. The warm arm wrapped around her middle held her tight as the low rumble of the man who’d managed to wiggle his way past her defenses rumbled, “Good morning, beautiful.”
Rolling over, she could only smile as she saw the spark of fresh new love growing in the depths of Wolfe’s deep blue eyes. Raising her hand, she ran just the tip of her finger along his bottom lip before touching the stubble covering his jaw.
As he spoke, the rumbling of his voice tickled her fingers. “Woman, I could wake up every morning just like this and never need another thing for the rest of my life.”
“Is that so?” she teased, lifting her head until her lips hovered just below his. “And how about this?” She closed the scant distance between them, pouring all the emotions this incredible man stirred within her into that one kiss.
Pulling back, breathless and awash in the bliss of what she was sure was the beginning of true love, Dani looked up at Wolfe surprised to see the clouds of doubt filling his expression. Suddenly, alarmingly aware of her nudity and feeling like she needed to defend herself, Dani grabbed his shirt and jerked it over her head. Jumping to her feet, the dragoness crossed her arms over her chest and braced herself as she said, “Just ask. Ask anything you want. I refuse to spend another minute with you looking at me like I’ve done something wrong.” She straightened her shoulders. “Not after what we just shared.”
Slowly getting to his feet, Wolfe put on his jeans, not even bothering to button them, and walked towards her. With his hands on her arms, he bent his knees, so he was looking her in the eyes and said, “Yes, you’re right. I’m a stubborn asshole.”
Tapping his temple while Dani tried to hide her surprise at him voicing her exact thoughts, Wolfe gave her a half-grin and snickered, “We’re linked. Can’t get much by me now.”
Staring, refusing to react while wanting to slam her palm to her forehead for forgetting that they had indeed shattered each other’s mental blocks the night before, Dani nodded, “So, come on, let’s get this over with.”
Shaking his head, Wolfe explained, “I know what you see in my eyes and the doubt you feel coming from me, but please don’t take it personally…”
“Yeah, okay,” Dani snorted sarcastically. “I’ll try not to take it personally that the guy I just had the most intense physical, emotional and spiritual experience of my entire life with, doubts me and my intentions.” She threw her arms in the air, dislodging his hands and began pacing. “What we did,” she pointed to the exact spot where they had made love, “was not something I do at the drop of a hat…or all the time…or with just any Tom, Dick, or Wolfe that happens to come along.”
She stopped in front of him and slammed her clenched fists to her hips. “And I have never felt anything like what I felt with you. So, excuse me if I’m a little pissed that the first thing I’m hit with the morning after our…our…our tryst is this crap.
” Dani spat the word tryst, almost feeling bad when Wolfe looked shocked but pushing that guilt aside and railing on, “I’m not used to having my intentions questioned, especially in…matters of the heart…” Her words trailed off as Wolfe closed the distance between them and once again placed his hands on her upper arms.
Putting his index finger under her chin, he gently lifted until she was looking up into his smiling face. “First of all, if you’d let me finish, you would know that I do not question your motives. But, let me stop right there.”
His smile brightened, and he lowered his head. “Let me make something very clear. I’m glad you don’t take what we did lightly or that you have never experienced it with anyone else.”
Leaning even closer, he went on, “Because when I said you were mine, I meant it.” Wolfe moved his right hand to her chest, covering her heart. The heat of his touch and the strength of their bond made the dragoness weak in the knees. “We are Destined to be together.”
Taking her right hand, he placed it over his heart with his hand over hers. “I think I knew it from the first time I saw you, but like I said, I’m a stubborn SOB. I only believe what I can see and even then, I admit to waiting for it all to fall apart.”
Moving a bit closer, he added, “But this is real. There’s no running away or fighting it any longer. I just have to know why you are hiding and why I’m the only one who can tell who and what you really are, for my own piece of mind and to know that I can keep you safe.”
Feeling the sincerity of his words and the blossoming love he felt for her convinced Dani that she had to tell him about her past, but there was one thing she needed to make clear first. “I understand what you’re saying, but, and you better be listening Wolfe McCallum,” she pulled her hand out from under his and poked him in the chest. “No more Neanderthal BS. I am not a damsel in distress that needs saving. I want a partner. Someone I can stand beside, who will stand beside me. Not a hero, or a savior. Got it?”