by C. D. Gorri
“Need you,” she said, her hands dropped to his shoulders. Tony grabbed the elastic band of her panties and pulled. Hard.
The sound of fabric tearing was loud in her living room. Their eyes met, and he held her gaze as he reached between her legs, stroking her swollen sex with his long fingers. She was wet and ready, but he teased her still, sliding his pointer finger along her slit while thrumming the tiny bundle of nerves atop with his thumb. She moaned and tried to shy away, but Tony wasn’t having that.
“I’m hungry,” he growled. He held her waist firm and sunk down until he was lying on the couch, and she was sitting on his chest. Lifting her as if she weighed nothing at all, her eyes widened as he positioned her directly above his face.
“Uh, you’re hungry?” She whimpered, unsure of this new position.
“Starving,” he grunted and delved between her damp lips.
Holy hell. He really was a devil. Tony licked, sucked, and worshipped her with his tongue. Swirling that amazingly astute appendage until she couldn’t see or hear anything at all. All she could do was feel as he held her firmly by the hips and ass and continued to plunder her.
Sofia cried out as her orgasm hovered just ahead while Tony did the most deliciously naughty things to her with his mouth. Then suddenly it was right there. A tide of sensation came crashing down on her, taking over her body.
All she could do was let it in and ride it out. Pleasure like she’d never felt soared through her. Still, his fingers caressed and teased while Tony stroked her in long wide swipes of his talented tongue.
Panting with exhaustion, Sofia squeaked when he lifted her by the waist and slowly sat up. His thick member pulsed between them, bringing forth another rush of moisture.
“Yes,” she growled an answer to his unspoken request.
Before either of them could break the magic of the moment, she lifted her hips and slammed them back down, encompassing his velvety hard shaft within her tight channel in one swift and precise move.
25
Sofia’s triumphant hiss of satisfaction echoed in his ears. She felt so good sheathing his cock, pressing the limits of her close walls with his thick length until he was fully seated within.
Perfect. That was the only word he could think of to describe the moment. It was perfect. Just like her.
He swallowed her moan, slamming his mouth to hers, reversing their positions so that she was on her back. Her smooth, thick legs wrapped around his waist, cradling him with her softness. She was the perfect foil to his muscled body. He loved every single inch of her.
Tony fought his devil for control, the beast demanded he bite down on her perfect porcelain shoulder and mark her. Now. But he wasn’t going to do that to her. Not until she understood what it meant.
“Please,” she begged.
Tony sucked in a slow breath. He realized he’d stopped moving as her walls continued to grip and squeeze him.
So good, he thought. Sofia’s sharp nails dug into the flesh at his hips and buttocks. Tony’s growl of delight quickly turned into a gasp of surprise as she slapped her palms against his ass and squeezed hard. Rocking her hips to urge him on, he nearly went cross-eyed with pleasure.
Hell, she didn’t have to tell him twice. Her tempting little body was driving him insane. The way her curves seemed to cradle him perfectly as he began to thrust deep into her tight heat had him almost exploding right there.
Instinct had his fangs lengthening, but he pushed back the need to mark her and focused on her pleasure instead. Forehead creased, Sofia pulled him down, sucking on his neck and clawing his back like a hellcat instead of a chinchilla. Tony growled and shivered in response. She was like every fantasy he’d ever had. A dream come to life.
Ecstasy built rapidly, tightening his balls and making his chest heave, but he wasn’t going without her. Swiveling his hips in steady, precise thrusts, Tony ground his pubis against her clit, searching for that right combination until he knew he’d found it.
His cock stroked deep within her walls, and she tensed and gripped him like a vise. He moved faster and harder. The pleasure was so intense he thought he’d die from it. And then it hit him like a tidal wave.
A sharp burning sensation from where her mouth closed over his neck sent tendrils of pain-tinted pleasure down his spine. It was immediately followed by pure unadulterated bliss as her sex squeezed him tight.
“Sofia,” he said her name and exploded within her.
An eternity, or mere minutes later, Sofia kissed his neck, lapping at the marks she’d made with her sharp little teeth.
Holy shit. She’d marked him. Pride and happiness flowed through him at the realization. He tilted her face towards him, aware of her pink blush and wanting to kiss away any of the doubt he’d seen in her eyes.
“That was, uh, I mean I should’ve asked–.” She cleared her throat adorably, and his heart sped up.
“You bit me.” He smiled, loving the pink stain that now reached the tips of her perfect breasts. Tony rained kisses on her face and neck and those glorious mounds. He teased one nipple and caressed the other.
“Yeah, I guess I got carried away,” she replied breathlessly, unable to hide her reaction to the careful attention he paid to her lovely flesh.
“Feel free to get carried away anytime you want, but only with me, baby.” He smiled wickedly and trailed open-mouthed, wet kisses down her soft belly to her pretty pussy once more.
“Tony,” she moaned as he buried his face between her soft curls.
“So soft, mi pasticcino, I wanna pet you all night long,” he growled into her short-cropped curls. They were softer than down, her brown curls so fine and dense in number.
Tony’s devil growled and snarled. The beast demanded he mark her with the same bite she’d given him.
“I have to ask you something,” he began as he dropped kisses on her nether lips, parting them with his fingers before tracing them with his tongue.
“Oh god,” she moaned, bucking her hips enticingly.
“I want you, Sofia–”
“You just had me, Tony.” She smiled.
“No, doll, what I’m trying to say is I want you for keeps. Will you be my mate, love?”
“Tony, you just met me–”
“Time has nothing to do with this. I fell for you the second I saw you.”
“Wait are you trying to say–”
“That I love you? As a matter of fact, I am.”
26
Sofia’s heart almost beat her to death after Tony’s sweet confession. Had the tall, dark, and handsome Jersey boy really just confessed to being in love with her?
“Are you serious?” She blurted her question only to see his eyes bleed from impossibly dark brown to red as his devil peeked out to join the conversation.
He was just about to open his mouth when a huge crash sounded, and glass flew everywhere. Tony jumped up, shielding her with his body as red skin and fur burst forth so quickly, she didn’t even have time to think. Masked men wearing dark camouflage and aiming weapons started piling in.
“Put your hands in the air!”
“No,” growled Tony in his guttural Jersey devil’s voice.
“Tony, they have guns,” she whispered from behind him, but he didn’t seem to care.
“Shift,” he growled under his breath.
She got the hint and began her shift from human to chinchilla immediately. It was not as smooth a transition as his, but she’d broken records in her herd before. Still, the brutes in the masks must not have cared that they faced a near seven-foot-tall beast with red skin, horns, a tail, and cloven hooves.
“It’s him, number four zero six. We have orders to tranquilize, but if that fails, eliminate the subject.” One man who was listening to his comm spoke to the group as if Sofia and Tony were not there.
“You heard him, men. Sedate the subject and take the rat!”
Sofia chittered angrily! Who did that guy think he was calling her a rat? She was a chinchilla da
mmit! It was times like these that she wished for razor-sharp teeth and claws!
Just because she was small and fluffy didn’t mean she wasn’t a threat. She scurried between Tony’s enormous red-furred legs and bounded from one piece of furniture to the other.
She was aware of Tony’s furious roar shaking the entire room as she took off, but she’d had loads of practice evading capture from her cousins during various get-togethers and whatnots. She could lose these guys in her own house. Tony would just have to trust her.
The sounds of their struggle echoed in the small space as first one then another masked man, and she meant men as in the non-shifter variety, attempted to capture her with their hands.
Take that, she thought as she rounded the side table and used the left leg to jump across to the windowsill. She looked across the room to where Tony was battling three of the masked men with several tufted darts sticking out of one arm. Worry threatened to overwhelm her, but her devil came through, swatting the darts off his arm and using his tail to whip the attackers off their legs.
Sofia jumped and yipped. He was really kicking butt! Of course, in taking the time to celebrate, she’d made herself an easy target.
A whirring noise sounded behind her. Just as she turned to find its source, a bola came at her through the broken window. She barely had time to register it as a threat before it tightened around her paws, causing her to fall to the ground.
Sofia gave a cry of dismay as her tiny furred body hit the carpet hard. Hmm. She really needed to buy a much thicker rug if she was going to fall on it, she thought with a growl. She wanted to change shape, but she couldn’t risk it. The bola was holding her much too tightly.
A man jumped through the window without a mask reeking of sweat and if she wasn’t mistaken, non-sentient wolf urine. As if that would somehow mask his humanity from her. Even a shifter with an under-developed nose could scent that much.
He was older, and his physique was slight at best, but there was something about him that made her want to get away. Something not quite right in his gaze that made her chinchilla’s eyes widen. A wicked smile spread across his face, and she noticed a long scar down one side.
“You’ll be an excellent addition to my collection. I could use some new blood in my test projects.” He moved to grab her, but before he was within reach, the man was tossed across the room.
Tony was moving a bit slower than usual as a result of the many darts he’d been struck with, but even then, he’d managed to knock out a few of his attackers before coming to her aid. And to think she’d questioned his devotion to her a few minutes ago!
It was all right there in his beautifully furred red face. Quickly and carefully, he unwound her legs, hoisting her on his shoulder before he turned to face their common enemy.
“Get the boss out of here,” shouted one man before another tossed the bola thrower over his shoulder.
“Put me down, you fools! I had her, she was mine. You can take him. Come on! He’s just one escaped experiment. He’s an animal like all of them! Kill him,” yelled scar face enthusiastically, but not before Tony could roar once more, this time spitting fire at the assailants.
Besides the echoing screams of the two he’d managed to kill with a tremendous blast of his fiery breath, everything was now quiet. The bleeding and bruised attackers who he’d left alive fled on foot, leaving Sofia and Tony unscathed for the most part. She wished she could say the same for her home.
“Are you okay?” A gloriously naked Tony asked, and she realized she hadn’t changed back yet.
She regained her feet to the sounds of sirens and smiled to herself. Her neighbors had called FUC, and they’d responded guised as local police.
“Who needs to get FUC’d?” Asked a familiar voice and Sofia huffed out a laugh as Tony swung her up in his arms and covered her with the crocheted afghan her Aunt Fanny had made her last year for her birthday.
It was nice to have such a large family, but it was nicer to have a mate. Sofia warmed at the thought, but that heat quickly turned cold as she thought of their uncertain future. Tony lived on the Jersey shore, and she lived here. How could that work?
“Check this out,” said Chase interrupting her thoughts. He came in behind his woman toting a gun emblazoned with a red beetle on the side.
“Scarab! You were right, Jersey boy!” Yelled Miranda.
“Why did they attack? That never happened before, right?” Sofia directed her question to Tony.
“No, but I expect that’s because I’ve never been so close to their organization headquarters before.”
“So you think Scarab is here? In the Rockies!” exclaimed Miranda. The bunny was so hopped up on adrenalin she couldn’t sit still.
“How many were there? What did they say? Can we kill more of them? I just knew this PRIC would be good for FUC!”
Chase clamped a hand gently over her mouth. “Come on, let’s get back to WANC and debrief Alyce before all hell breaks loose, but first, let’s let these guys get dressed. And Tony,” Chase said, turning towards him. “We have some interesting results from the blood tests waiting.”
Miranda was still talking under his hand while he dragged her outside to wait. Sofia expelled a shaky breath of relief. Her heart was pounding, threatening to leap out of her chest. She needed to get a hold of it soon, before she lost it entirely.
27
It wasn’t that Tony wasn’t grateful to the FUC agents who’d come to protect his mate, yes, she was his mate, whether he’d finished the marking process or not was a non-issue, but the fact was: she was naked.
His devil wanted no one else within the same vicinity as his nude female until she was fully claimed. And probably not then either.
Yes. He was a possessive dick sometimes. He’d admit it all to her quite freely. As soon as the bunny took her bear and the croc out the door.
The one called Viktor hardly glanced at them, his eyes on the enormous golden-eyed fox who was standing guard outside the door. Whoa. She was big. Definitely not the fox he was looking for unless…
“You’re looking for a male fox. This one is female, and she is mine,” growled the croc as if he’d read his mind.
Tony nodded and turned to bring Sofia into her bedroom. Even though he hadn’t quite made it in there yet, he found her sleeping quarters through scent alone. He just followed where the flowery scent of her was strongest since folks usually spent the most amount of time in their bedrooms.
Setting her down gently, he knelt in front of her, hands going over every inch to make sure she wasn’t injured.
“Tony, TONY!” She yelled and laughed at the same time. “I’m fine.”
“You have bruises on your ankles,” he growled and lifted her legs, kissing each one tenderly before placing them down again.
“It’ll heal by tomorrow morning.”
“I’m still not happy about it. Why didn’t you hide?”
“I can handle myself,” she returned.
“I know, doll, but I can’t handle it if you get hurt. My devil went nuts at the sight of you falling down, and I killed two men because of it.”
“You did?”
He was so upset by the fact that he’d gotten rid of two of the men who had threatened to hurt, capture, or kill them both, that all he could do was try to explain. A pretty, kind, dainty little woman like his sweet Sofia wouldn’t like that side of him. She might even be afraid.
The thought practically seized his heart in his chest. Tony couldn’t imagine a world without her by his side. What was he going to do? Suddenly, he felt her small, soft hands on his face and allowed her to pull his head up.
“That is so hot.” She bit her lip, Sure, I’m a vegetarian and my animal is an herbivore, but that doesn’t mean I’m not a bloodthirsty little beastie at times.”
“It really doesn’t bother you?”
“Not one bit.”
Well, how about that? He smiled and took her face in his hands, smashing his mouth to hers in a kiss th
at damn near curled his toes.
“Come on, we have to put some clothes on, or else we’ll never leave here,” he growled.
“Maybe I don’t want to leave,” she quipped.
“Doll, I will volley sexual banter with you all night, but I think we have a shot at finding your meatball bandit if we go now.”
“Are you sure?”
“It’s something one of those meatheads said when I was fighting them.”
“What’s that?”
“He was speaking into his comm at the time, he said they couldn’t be sure all would go down as planned because of interference in the magnetic field in the surrounding area. He said their ‘test subject was primed, but the circumstances were not,’ and I’m not sure what that means.”
“Magnetic fields?”
“Yeah. I have an idea, but let’s get dressed and discuss this with the others.”
She nodded, and together they got some clothes on and headed out to meet the others.
28
“Mr. Leeds, I don’t know why you think anything would happen in the cafeteria tonight.”
“Because,” Tony interrupted, his teeth were already on edge because of the potential danger to his as-of-yet-unclaimed mate and the way Alyce here was looking at him as if he were a total idiot made him want to roar in outrage. “One of those thugs who attacked us tonight said something about not being able to activate the sleeper because of the interruption in his magnetic sense.”
“What?”
“Oh.” Sofia turned large eyes on him and blinked. “You mean because of our high-level security and internet systems here on campus, don’t you?”
“Yes.” He smiled once again, impressed but not exactly surprised by his little cupcake’s quick wit and fierce intelligence. His inner devil growled in appreciation, and the man had to agree.
Sofia was the perfect match for him. And not just because she had the same espresso maker he preferred. Or because her luscious body fit his like a glove. Those things helped, but it was who she was on the inside that called to him so profoundly.