by Evelyn Vox
I knew she was still close; her scent was everywhere. It was just a matter of sniffing her out from wherever she was hiding. I’d heard the mating heat was insufferable. That until a pair was joined, the pain could be unbearable, especially for the male. I’d been told the hunt could last for hours, but that it was rare. Most females weren’t so hard to capture. What no one told me was the longer the hunt went on, the more feral and primal I would become. My wolf was taking over in spirit if not in form, and the predator in me was unleashed.
I’d do what needed to be done to claim my mate. Even if it meant becoming more of a beast than a man. My Alpha blood raged at the challenge she posed me. I’d take this little female and she’d understand that she was mine. My sensitive ears strained to hear her, but she was being quiet. I crouched low to the ground to lie in wait for her to exit the thicket, but I had a feeling that trick wouldn’t work on her again.
“What are you?” I taunted. “A scared little rabbit hiding in its den?”
I heard a low growl emanating from the middle of the dense thicket. I honed in on the sound. I was going to claw my way through the brush and pull her out, whether she liked it or not.
“Maybe you’re more like a little pig?”
Her snarl was fierce and loud. I could now hear her breathing, the way her heart raced. I crept over to the spot where I knew she lay hiding from me.
“Shall I huff and puff and blow your house in?”
I could have sworn I heard her giggle. Glad to know she found this amusing. I was far from laughing.
I growled and tore into the foliage with my claws. Sadie’s surprised gasp was soon followed by her enraged snarl as I ripped through the plant closest to her head. Piercing silver eyes blazed into mine. I reached for her, but she backed away deeper into the thicket. Damn her and her small, wiry, tight, sexy body that could fit into small spaces! She left me with no choice, I’d have to rip the whole thing to shreds.
I tore at the foliage, my teeth bared as I went at the thicket with all my strength. Sadie’s growl met my ears. Soon she’d have no where left to hide. I was getting closer. Leaves flew and branches splintered as I laid waste to her little den. Movement caught my eye just in time for me to see her shooting out of the back of the thicket, her body a pale blur against the dark forest.
I howled, jumping over the thicket, clearing it with ease. I landed behind her, twigs and leaves crunching under my feet. I saw her eyes dart to mine then take in her surroundings. Behind me was the ruined thicket, not easily traversed, and behind her the creek she’d waded into had grown into a wide, rushing river. I had her cornered. This hunt was over, and I flashed my fangs at her in a feral grin. Mine.
Sadie’s body stiffened. She turned and made to run, looking for all the world like she was about to jump into the river, but I lunged forward. I caught her by the heel and she fell flat onto her stomach. She snarled as I dragged her naked body towards a bed of moss at the base of the nearest tree. Her claws dug into the dirt as she tried to pull herself out of my grasp.
“It’s useless, my love,” I told her, though I knew nothing would get her to stop struggling.
It’s what she was programmed to do. A female in her first heat would always run from her mate. How easily they succumbed had everything to do with how dominant their blood was. It was a pleasure to discover that Sadie’s was almost as dominant as mine.
Almost.
Her ferocity, her strength, it made my wolf want to claim her all the more. The strained fabric gave way as my lurching cock tore through my pants. I growled and threw her against the pile of moss. Sadie wasted no time in trying to get up, but I didn’t let her. She would never get away from me again. I pinned her body down to he ground, and tried to avoid her gnashing teeth as she struggled beneath me.
Her writhing teased my raging cock. I grabbed her arms and pressed them above her head, I trapped her legs in mine as I stared at her. I blazed at her with every ounce of dominant, Alpha blood I had.
“You are mine,” I growled, my mouth nearly on hers.
Any other she-wolf would have lowered her eyes in submission, would have stopped struggling, but not Sadie. Her eyes pierced my own as she continued to buck beneath me. She snarled in my face before I ensnared her mouth. I winced when she bit my lip, but I didn’t stop kissing her. I kissed her until she stopped struggling and yielded to the need of her own pleasure.
Soon, her writhes of protest turned to bucking hips as she tried to grind her arousal against me. Fuck, she tasted so sweet, so perfect. I longed to claim her breasts again. I let go of her arms and filled my hands with her magnificent tits. She moaned when I rolled her pink, pebbled nipples in my fingers. I lowered my head to her chest and put more of my marks on her bosom, biting and nipping to my wolf’s delight.
Sadie snarled and her hands were on my shoulders, her legs wrapping around my waist, until she’d flipped us and pinned me beneath her. She growled dominantly at me, her eyes glowing silver, fangs glistening in the moonlight. Fuck, she was so strong, so beautiful. Only a male with strong, dominant blood like mine could have claimed her. The exposed head of my cock throbbed against her soft, wet folds.
Sadie looked down to see my erection ripping out of my pants. She rubbed her slit on it until I could feel the pulsing bud of her clit against the engorged red tip of my cock. She was lost to the pleasure, her grip loosened, and I flipped her back over with a growl. Her eyes were on fire as I held her beneath me again.
“You are mine,” I said once more. “You submit to me and me alone.”
I felt her whole body shudder at my statement, and I couldn’t wait any longer. I needed to join with her, to be mated. Sadie’s hands flew to my waist. She bunched the fabric of my pants in her hands and tore them off of me. My cock sprung forward with a heavy thud, landing on her navel. She shuddered once more, a low moan building in her throat.
“Then claim me already,” she challenged with a growl.
I took my aching cock, slick with my arousal and placed it between her legs. The heat from her pussy enveloped me as I entered her wet, tight entrance and joined with my mate at last.
12
Sadie
“Then claim me already.”
The connection between us was magnetic. I couldn’t take my eyes of off him, just as he couldn’t take his from me. The animal panted and whined, and that voice that told me to run had finally shut up. I’d been caught, I was his to claim. Vincent was a worthy mate. His huge length throbbed between us as he moved to enter me.
We both shuddered with pleasure at the first contact as his swollen head squeezed into my tight, virgin entrance. I felt myself coming then, some primal instinct pushing my body into overdrive. The waves of my orgasm washed over me and Vincent snarled with need as he pushed past my barrier. The pain was brief, swept away by the power of my climax. I was so wet, his girth slid into me with little resistance. Inch-by-inch he filled me, until I felt the press of his balls against my thighs.
He began to thrust faster, and I screamed into the night. I was on fire. Pleasure burned every fiber of my being as my mate took me. I wrapped my legs around his waist, all but begging for him to go deeper. Vincent growled blissfully, sinking further into my depths. My claws tore at his back and I was driven with the urge to mark him as much as I could.
I bit his arms, his chest, before he captured my lips in his for a blazing kiss that set my clit throbbing with another orgasm. I jerked my hips up, bucking against him, helpless against the onslaught of ecstasy that this stunning male was giving to me. My walls clenched around his thick flesh and Vincent shuddered.
His seed was hot inside of me as he joined me in his climax. I buried my face in his neck and bit him in the same place where he had bitten me. Vincent howled before he lowered his mouth to my neck, biting my mark again. I tasted his blood, swallowed it, and licked the wound closed, as he did mine. I felt something shift, something lock into place as a current opened between us.
Suddenly, I
could feel everything he was feeling. He sent love and desire and the need to protect down that bond that had opened between us. I got a flash into his life. Memories of him, a young pup, happy and with a family, no a pack, flooded my mind. Then death. And fighting. Friend against friend. Then loneliness. Despair. Hunger. Desperation, until he found me. I pulled back from the bite, my orgasm fading, and stared into my mate’s eyes.
Wonder filled his gaze as he stared back.
Mate.
And I understood then, through the bond that connected us, what I was. Shifter. It was something I’d have to process later, though, because his cock was still pulsing and stiff inside of me. I’d always thought sex was a one and done sort of deal—a person came and that was it. But this…neither of us was even close to being satisfied.
“I need more of you,” Vincent growled before he scooped me up in his big arms and flipped me on my stomach.
The animal, no—the wolf, inside of me whined to feel the emptiness between my legs as he pulled out of me. I moaned when he rose up to his knees, lifting me to mine, so my back pressed against his hard chest. He snarled softly in my ear before his cock thrust into my needy pussy from behind. He felt huge before, but from this angle, he stretched my walls even more, making me cry my pleasure into the night. His hands roamed over my body, kneading my breasts and squeezing my nipples, before landing on my swollen bud.
One light touch of his finger against my clit, and I came all over him. I felt myself gush around his rigid length and heard his howl as he came inside me again. Vincent licked the mating mark on my neck and tingles of pleasure shot through me, setting my orgasm off once more. I never knew pleasure like this existed.
My own fumblings by myself at night did not even compare to this ecstasy. Every ounce of my body craved, needed this man, my mate. I would never open myself for another man, would never want another man inside me. I wanted all of Vincent and I wanted him to have all of me.
I turned my head and captured his mouth in my own. I knew he felt all that I was feeling, that my own sense of wonder and love was pouring through this new, magical connection between us. He pumped his magnificent cock, still hard and slick with our love juices, as our tongues danced. My hands went to grab the back of his head, filling my fists with his shaggy black hair. I pressed him harder against my mouth.
I could never, would never, get enough of him.
Vincent’s eyes glowed as he tore his mouth away and pushed me forward. We stayed connected as I landed on all fours. He grabbed my hips to fuck me, good and hard. My eyes rolled into the back of my head to feel his girth stretching me still, filling me up, setting my whole body quivering with pleasure.
“Sadie,” he panted between the wet slaps of our mating. “I want to feel you clench around me. I want you to milk my cock, make me spill my seed in you.”
I howled, his words making my pussy clench around him, doing what he desired. My claws tore into the ground as my orgasm ripped me in two. Vincent’s own howls joined mine as he came deep inside of me. A warm, fuzzy feeling swelled with pride in my chest—I was certain I’d be carrying his pups soon. Once upon a time, that thought would have freaked me out. I’d never wanted babies, not yet anyways, but that was before I found Vincent. Now that he was in my life, all I wanted was to have him and our children surrounding me always.
My wolf growled in satisfaction. This night was far from over.
13
Vincent
My wolf was practically purring with happiness to have Sadie in my arms. Once Dean cast me out of our pack, I never expected I would find my place, let alone my mate, but the Moon guided us to each other, and here we were. We’d spent the night rutting in the frenzy of our mating heat. The bond between us grew deeper with each coupling. I felt it, a magical thread connecting our hearts so strongly that I felt hers beat as if it were my own.
Sadie was asleep in my arms, the soft light of dawn creeping through the trees to dapple her gorgeous face. My little half-human mate needed to recover from the night of hard mating I gave her. My cock was hard and hungry for more, but I would wait until she was ready again. I had a feeling I’d always be a breath away from an insatiable erection when I was around her. My sweet mate nuzzled into my chest, and my arms squeezed her closer to keep her warm.
She groaned and opened a bleary eye. A dark, entirely human, eye. It seemed the effects of her shifter blood had worn off with the setting Moon. She’d still feel the effects of our mating heat, though. We’d be feeling it for days. Her big brown eyes locked onto mine and I felt the way her heart lurched in her chest, just as mine did. Her arms entwined around me and I cupped her ass, pulling her sex closer to my greedy cock.
“Wait,” she gasped, and I stilled. “I want to try something.”
“Anything you want,” I said, “I will give you.”
Sadie grinned, a sight so stunning I thought my heart would stop beating, before she turned to face my throbbing erection. Her ass was high in my face, and I growled to see her pussy dripping before me. I wasn’t paying attention to what she was doing, my focus wholly on the ripe fruit she’d presented to me. I wasn’t prepared for what she did. I’d never had anyone’s mouth on my cock before. The wet, hot tightness, the searing flick of her tongue, made me howl uncontrollably.
Crows cawed again, flying away into the dawn, knowing better than to be around a pair of mating wolves. I growled before I grabbed her plump ass and brought her succulent fruit towards my lips. If she would feast on me, I would feast on her. I felt her moan vibrate around the base of my cock as I licked her slit. The soft curl of hair at the top of her sex tickled my nose as I devoured my mate. She kept taking me deeper and deeper, the pleasure so overwhelming I thought I’d spill my seed in her mouth.
But I couldn’t do that. I needed to make sure I filled her womb first.
I licked and licked her delectable cunt until I felt her legs quake and was rewarded with the taste of her sweet nectar. I lapped up every drop of her honey, the scent and taste of it so arousing that I nearly did burst in her hot mouth. I growled into her before I grabbed her shoulders and pulled her off of me.
“I need to bury myself in you,” my voice was gruff as I pinned her beneath me and drove myself in to the hilt.
Sadie groaned. She wrapped her legs around my waist, cupped my ass and pushed me deeper into her until I was howling and she overflowed with my seed once more.
“Fuck,” she gasped, her eyes dilated, drunk on the pleasure.
I nosed at her neck and licked the mating mark, knowing it would only enhance her pleasure. I felt her buck around me, her walls clenching once more, as our heat ensured we had a successful mating. I couldn’t wait to see her big and full with pups. Until then, there was only one thing to do.
Breed some more.
14
Sadie
I didn’t know how long we had been in the woods, fucking like wild animals on this bank of moss. The sun was high in the sky—it had to be noon. My stomach rumbled and I put my hand on Vincent’s hairy chest, stopping his recent advances.
“I need to eat,” I explained.
“I’ll catch you something.”
He was up and his eyes were glowing, ready to shift and bring me game from the woods. I laughed at him.
“No, Vincent,” I said, even as my heart swelled with pride that he wanted to take care of me. “Let’s go back to my apartment. I can make us something.”
I knew from the bond he had been in the wild for months. I doubted he’d had a home cooked meal once in that time.
“Would that make you happy?”
“Yes,” I said, “I want nothing more than to make a meal for my man.”
His toothy grin filled my heart with joy, but then he frowned.
“You have no clothes.”
“Oh, right.”
“I won’t let another male see you,” he snarled, his eyes flashing again.
“Calm down,” I rubbed his shoulder as I stood up. “I have my
regular clothes in my backpack. We just have to find it.”
Vincent made me wait for him in the woods, after he’d gone to extensive lengths to dig a burrow for me to hide in, while he searched for my bag. He’d told me it was to keep me safe, and if I left it, he’d be very upset.
So I’d stayed in that ridiculous burrow, amazed at the lengths I’d go to keep my mate happy. Mate. The word brought up so many questions. Questions that I was ready to ask Vincent now that we were safe and happy in my little apartment. It didn’t take him long to sniff out my pack, and I gave him my leggings so he was covered up while we walked back.
I moved to clear our plates from the table. Vincent had devoured the steak and eggs I’d put in front of him in no time at all, but he stopped me.
“You cooked,” he said, “I’ll clean.”
I smiled at him, thinking he must have been raised well to be so respectful. I eyed his ass as he finished, enjoying how tight my leggings were on him. As much as I liked the view, I’d have to buy him some jeans that fit later today. He turned around and caught my eye, the primal gleam in his gaze making my clit throb. The thought of him fucking me on this table crossed my mind, but we had some things to discuss.
“Sit on the sofa with me, let’s talk.”
“You must have questions,” he nodded.
We settled together on the sofa, curling into one another. I couldn’t bear not to touch him right now. I had a feeling I’d want to be close to him for the rest of my life.
“So, I’m a shifter?” I asked, looking into his crystal blue eyes.
“Not a full one, I think you’re a half-shifter.”
“How does that even happen?”
“It’s rare,” he conceded. “When wolves and humans mate, they normally have wolf pups or human babies. I’ve only heard of your kind in stories.”