The Beast's Beloved (Ballads of Cadarnle Book 2)

by Amber Burns

  He could not wait any longer!

  “I must be inside of you,” Dresdyn growled against Klaryssa’s lips before kissing them again as he crushed her soft, feminine form to the hard planes of his strong, muscled body. He groaned when his aching length was pressed between their bodies and he wasted no time in lifting Klaryssa into his arms and holding her firmly against the tree as she wrapped both her legs around him now.

  Positioning himself against Klaryssa’s dripping entrance, Dresdyn teased her by slowly brushing the head of his length back and forth over his maiden’s wanting core. He shuddered at how exquisite Klaryssa’s slick folds felt against his weeping manhood. He loved how desperately she whimpered for him to fill her while pleading with him with her eyes. “Beg for it, my sweet doe,” Dresdyn growled against Klaryssa’s lips as he gazed deeply into her eyes. “I want to hear you beg for me to fill you with my cock.”

  “Please…please Dresdyn, my wolf,” Klaryssa begged fervently as her hips moved in time with the movement of Dresdyn’s teasing in a desperate attempt to get what she so desperately craved. “Please! I need you to fill me. Please claim me and make me yours at last, like I was born to be...please!”

  Dresdyn smiled and kissed Klaryssa once more, slower this time, but by no means lacking in passion. “As you wish, my beloved mate,” he growled before plunging his aching length into her wet sheathe in one powerful thrust as he tightly gripped Klaryssa’s hips and impaled her on his hardness while simultaneously breaking through the thin barrier that had until then kept her a maiden.

  Klaryssa’s cry of pain was stifled by their kiss, but it gradually changed into whimpered moans of pleasure as her body adjusted to having Dresdyn inside of her. “Dresdyn,” she mewled while clinging to her mate as her inner walls instinctively squeezed his throbbing manhood. “Oh, Dresdyn!”

  With a deep, pleasured groan, Dresdyn began moving within Klaryssa with long, slow thrusts. “You’re so tight, my little doe,” he growled against Klaryssa’s lips before nibbling his way over her jaw until he reached her earlobe. “You feel even more wonderful than I imagined you would,” he murmured. For all the lovers of his past, Dresdyn had never felt ecstasy like this. Klaryssa fit him like a glove!

  She truly was his missing piece.

  “Dresdyn!” Klaryssa whimpered while gripping her love’s hair with both hands and nibbling his ear. “Oh, my wolf!” Her hips found a rhythm with his, and they moved with them now as her legs tightened around him. “Oh, Dresdyn, you were right! We are meant to fit together!” All her fears had been for nothing!

  When he felt Klaryssa’s little teeth trailing down the side of his neck and over his pulse, Dresdyn’s grip tightened on her enticing hips, and he quickened his pace. He thrust harder and faster into her tight, wet warmth, and his blood was aflame with the passion of the moment as Klaryssa’s pleasured moans and whimpers grew in volume. Ducking his head, he left a love bite on her left breast just above the nipple, and his groans and growls answered his lover’s ecstatic keens. He knew Klaryssa was drawing nearer to the brink of release, but he was not ready to grant her reprieve just yet, and it was because of that that Dresdyn reluctantly pulled out of her. “Remove your legs from me and get down on your hands and knees,” he ordered with a growl as his gaze bored into hers.

  Feeling bereft the moment Dresdyn withdrew from her, Klaryssa nevertheless nodded. “Yes, my wolf,” she whimpered wantonly while unwrapping her trembling legs from around Dresdyn’s waist and lowering them to the ground once she had been lowered enough to reach it. She then shakily stepped away from the tree and got down onto her hands and knees as instructed and looked over her shoulder at her beloved.

  Grinning hungrily as Klaryssa presented to him, Dresdyn knelt behind her. “Good girl,” he growled while rubbing her hips and bottom as he teasingly slipped just the head of his length in and out of Klaryssa’s hot core. His grin widened when Klaryssa’s whimpers grew frantic, and she desperately tried to move her hips in order to take more of his length into her, only to find her movements stayed by the iron grip he now had on her hips.

  “Please, Dresdyn,” Klaryssa begged wantonly. “Please mount me like a bitch in heat,” she whispered.

  “So hungry for me, ” Dresdyn growled while continuing to tease both Klaryssa and himself. “So insatiable my timid, little maiden has become!”

  Klaryssa groaned almost shrilly in frustration as Dresdyn toyed with her Determined to have her way, she defiantly tried moving her hips despite the tight grip Dresdyn had upon them, only to whine when he pulled his length away before yelping when one of Dresdyn’s strong hands suddenly swatted her right bottom cheek hard before repeating the process on her left. She glared at Dresdyn over her shoulder, even as she smirked coyly and deliberately tried to move her hips again.

  Dresdyn raised an eyebrow and smirked before spanking Klaryssa again. When his mate moaned in delight, he could not resist spanking her again, and again until Klaryssa threw her head back with a wordless cry of ecstasy. “Have you learned your lesson?” Dresdyn growled deeply after leaning in close to Klaryssa’s ear.

  “Yes, my wolf,” Klaryssa mewled breathlessly with a nod.

  Dresdyn smiled. “Good,” he said as he righted himself while his hands now gently rubbed away the sting from his spankings. He began kissing and nibbling a trail up the center of Klaryssa’s spine until he reached the base of her neck at which point he nuzzled it gently. He loved how his beloved’s body shivered and arched into his every touch with sighs and whimpers of pleasure, and it was then that he plunged his entire length back into her waiting warmth with one, powerful thrust. “Here’s your reward,” he growled.

  Klaryssa’s eyes widened in surprise at the sudden intrusion, but she threw her head back with a loud, wanton moan and her back arched hard. From this angle, Dresdyn was able to fill her deeper than he had before, and Klaryssa could feel his manhood stroking and caressing places inside of her that had until that moment been left unattended. “Thank you, Dresdyn! Oh, thank you, my wolf!” she moaned before whimpering as Dresdyn began pounding into her. The pain and discomfort she had felt before when her mate had first penetrated her were long forgotten, and all Klaryssa felt was excitement coupled with the building of what promised to be the greatest pleasure she had ever dared to imagine.

  Words failed Dresdyn altogether as Klaryssa’s greedy warmth enveloped his manhood even more deeply and completely than before. The way her tight, inner walls squeezed his thick cock was more exquisite than anything else Dresdyn had ever felt. Every lover of his past paled in comparison to Klaryssa and the pleasure her perfect body delivered unto him, and as Dresdyn slowed his thrusts so he could press his front flush against Klaryssa’s back while wrapping his arms tightly around her, he lamented that Fate had not seen fit to unite them sooner!

  Their bodies were so closely intertwined now, that Klaryssa could scarcely feel where she ended and where Dresdyn began. The way Dresdyn held her so close while completely covering her smaller body with his as he kept his length deeply embedded within her, moved Klaryssa to tears. She could feel her mate’s heart pounding against her back as it beat in time with her own, and a wordless sob of purest joy escaped her at how utterly close and connected she felt to her beloved in that moment. “I love you, Dresdyn,” she whispered tearfully mere moments before Dresdyn’s lips found hers.

  “And I love you,” Dresdyn husked against Klaryssa’s lips while tangling a hand into her hair.

  “You complete me,” Klaryssa keened as her eyes fluttered closed. “By all the gods, you complete me, Dresdyn!” She shivered when she felt Dresdyn’s sac slapping against her core in time with his increasingly quickening thrusts, and she could not stop the fresh wave of tears that resulted from the raw headiness of it all. Especially when Dresdyn bit the crook of her neck. Hard. “Yes!”

  “I know you’re close my sweet doe,” Dresdyn growled into Klaryssa’s ear as he slowed his thrusts once more. “As am I, but before I grant us both the rel
ease we crave, I want to hear you say that you belong to me.” He nipped along the shell of her ear. “Scream it for the whole world to hear.”

  “Yes, my wolf!” Klaryssa whimpered desperately before throwing her head back and screaming as loud as she was able as tears of ecstasy rolled down her cheeks. “I BELONG TO DRESDYN Y BLAIDD!” she cried with reckless abandon. “I BELONG TO HIM! EVERYTHING I AM BELONGS TO HIM!”

  “Good…girl!” Dresdyn growled breathlessly into Klaryssa’s ear before thrusting faster and harder into her. His hand slipped out from his love’s hair and moved down under her body to seek out the small pearl nestled within her warm folds. He rubbed it mercilessly as he drove into her and wrapped his other arm tightly around her waist to keep her in place as he slammed into her again and again.

  Klaryssa’s eyes widened, and her entire body shuddered hard as she threw her head back with a wordless, mindless scream of release as her climax flooded the entirety of her body with warmth and euphoric ecstasy, the likes of which she had never before experienced.

  Dresdyn followed her not a moment later. He thrust into Klaryssa once more before he exploded inside of his mate and spilled his seed deeply into her waiting womb as he threw his head back with a long, loud, reverberating howl that was ripped from his very soul. Klaryssa’s tight inner walls continued squeezing his length, and Dresdyn was only too happy to continue thrusting as Klaryssa’s eager warmth greedily milked him dry.

  Unable to speak, and unwilling to move once it was all over, Dresdyn fell slowly onto his side upon the orchard floor and carefully took his beloved down with him. He was still buried inside of Klaryssa, and he wrapped his arms around her in order to keep her close as he nuzzled the back of her neck. He could smell himself on her, and he found their joint scents to be the most arousing scent he had ever smelled in his entire life. He left a trail of kisses along Klaryssa’s ivory shoulder before he buried his nose deeply into her hair and growled low and deep in his throat as he breathed in their combined scents. “Mine!” he whispered fervently while tenderly kissing the bitemark he had left on the crook of his mate’s neck.

  “Yes,” Klaryssa whispered in reply. “I am yours in every way, my wolf. I was born for you, Dresdyn. You and no one else,” she added breathlessly with a smile as she basked in the afterglow of the raw passion she and Dresdyn had just shared. Her inner thighs were sticky with her mate’s seed and her own juices, and Klaryssa could not help but wonder and hope that Dresdyn’s seed would take hold in her womb that night. “I love you, Dresdyn,” she murmured. “I love you with my entire heart and soul.”

  Dresdyn’s arm tightened around his mate, and he nuzzled into the crook of Klaryssa’s neck before kissing her racing pulse with reverence. “And I love you,” he whispered. “You are my entire world, Klaryssa, and you make my world brighter simply by existing,” he murmured before kissing his mate’s shoulder and then nuzzling the bitemark.

  “I love that you marked me,” Klaryssa whispered.

  “Truly?” Dresdyn asked with a smile.

  Klaryssa nodded. “I like having a lingering, physical reminder that I belong to you,” she murmured with a smile. “Makes me feel even more special and cherished than you already make me feel.”

  Dresdyn’s smile grew. “Then I shall continue to mark you,” he growled into Klaryssa’s ear.

  Klaryssa shivered, and her eyes fluttered closed. “Thank you, Dresdyn,” she whispered before pouting as she felt Dresdyn slip free of her body. Her pout faded when moments later, she found herself on her back, gazing up at her mate, and when she spread her legs for him, she was rewarded with a smile of approval.

  “Ready for more, my love?” Dresdyn growled with love in his eyes as he slowly grew his nails into talons and then lightly trailed them along the tops of Klaryssa’s creamy thighs.

  Klaryssa shivered with excitement and nodded. “Always,” she whispered. “I will always be ready for you, my wolf,” she added before slowly licking her lips as she watched Dresdyn begin stroking his semi-hard length to full hardness. “I wish you would’ve let me do that,” she said with a pout.

  Dresdyn grinned and chuckled as he continued to slowly stroke himself. “You will have plenty of opportunities, my sweet,” he murmured. “We have the rest of our lives, and I plan on having my way with you every single day.”

  “Promise?” Klaryssa asked breathlessly.

  “I swear it on our love,” Dresdyn husked. “I--” He fell silent and immediately took his hand away from his manhood while sitting back on his heels. His keen ears picked up the sound of growls and snarls from the wolves patrolling outside the walls of the keep. Suddenly, there was a series of pained yelps followed by an explosion that caused a chunk of the barrier wall to crumble.

  Before Klaryssa knew what was happening, Dresdyn had shifted into his wolf form and gathered her up into his arms. “Dresdyn?!”

  Hold onto me!

  Klaryssa wrapped her arms and legs around her mate mere moments before he launched himself up high into the air, but not before she saw a large gash open up on his thigh. Klaryssa screamed at the sight of the blood, even as Dresdyn used his claws to grab ahold of the castle wall, several meters above the ground. “Dresdyn?! Dresdyn, what’s going on?!”

  The gnolls are attacking!

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  Dresdyn quickly propelled himself higher up the castle wall and made certain that Klaryssa was between the wall and himself the entire time to shield her from attack. Even now, with the Keep breached, protecting his mate was his top priority! Once he had put enough distance between the invisible gnolls and himself, he emitted a series of howls that were answered moments later by a chorus of howls that were punctuated by terrified screams from the women and children.

  “Dresdyn what’re you going to do?!” Klaryssa asked desperately as Dresdyn continued climbing.

  First, get you to safety. Second, join my brethren in the fight against the enemy.

  “What about Cerridwyn and the others?!” Klaryssa asked tearfully as she craned her neck in a frantic attempt to catch a glimpse of the rest of the clan. Where was her sister? Was she alright? Was Wilem?

  Women and children are to take refuge deep within the bowels of the castle. Dresdyn jumped over the edge of a balcony and kicked the doors open. Let go of me and get dressed! There should be something in that wardrobe over there. Be quick about it!

  Running to the wardrobe and throwing it open, Klaryssa’s hands trembled the entire time she slipped over her head the long tunic she selected. It was two sizes too large, but she could not find the energy to care as she turned while tightly tying a sash around her waist to serve as a belt. Dresdyn was at her side in an instant and dropping to a crouch beside her.

  Get on. It will be quicker this way.

  Nodding silently, Klaryssa climbed onto Dresdyn’s back and held on for dear life as he jumped smoothly across the room and lifted a tapestry with the image of a shifter battling a gnoll. She then watched in awe as her mate pressed a small stone which caused a secret door to slide open. “Oh, my,” she whispered as Dresdyn stepped into the secret passage and then shut the door behind him before securing the bolts that would hold it in place.

  There are passages like this all throughout the castle. Every keep has them for this specific reason.

  “Gnoll attack?” Klaryssa asked as Dresdyn began descending down the long, winding passage.

  Any attack. These secret passageways are the only way to assure the safety of our mates and offspring. The passages all lead to the same place and have served my clan well for generations. You will be safe until I can return to you, my beloved.

  Klaryssa nodded before squeezing her eyes shut and silently praying to both Dynol and Blaiddwych for the safety of her sister and clan. As Dresdyn continued to swiftly make his way ever downward, Klaryssa’s ears became attuned to the sound of panicked female voices, and her eyes snapped open as her heart raced anxiously.

  When Dresdyn finally stepped out of the tunnel and i
nto a massive, subterranean cavern. Mated shifters had clearly been the ones designated to shepherd the women and children to safety, for their mates and offspring clung to the massive wolves in search of comfort in the face of the sudden attack. Klaryssa’s eyes not once stopped searching for Cerridwyn, and she spotted her with Meera and Kelder after several moments of looking.

  “Cerridwyn!” Klaryssa cried as she hurriedly scrambled off Dresdyn’s back and bolted for her sister. “’Wynnie!”

  “‘Ryssa!” Cerridwyn screamed as she ran and met her sister halfway. “Oh, ‘Ryssa, thank Dynol you’re alright!” she sobbed while clinging to her sibling. “I was so worried! There was an explosion, howling, snarling, massive panic, and I had no idea where you were or if you were even alive.”