Kane's Mate (Armageddon Mates)

by Gower, Hazel

  Kane shifted to his wolf form. Light shone from him as he seemed to shrink, grow long hair, and filled out into a massive dirty blond wolf.

  She muttered under her breath, knowing he would hear it. “How I hate you. You’re gorgeous even in your wolf form.”

  Kane licked her face as he proceeded to rub his fur covered body against her until she gave in, petting and hugging him. After about fifteen minutes of this Kane turned back into a man, a very naked man in Faith’s arms.

  Faith screeched. “Dr. Wolfen, get off me now.”

  “What’s the difference? It’s still me, princess.”

  Faith smiled at him. “I like you better as a wolf.”

  Kane stared at her, and she watched his jaw as he ground his teeth and ran his hand over his face. Faith could tell he was getting frustrated because he wasn’t getting anywhere with her. “Why?”

  “Why do I like you better as a wolf?”

  “No, why have you avoided me for the last four years? You stopped talking to me, and any time I did manage to get a glimpse of you, you glared at me with distrustful eyes.”

  Faith stared at Kane, trying to figure out how to reply. She couldn’t tell him that it was because of the incident that had occurred when she was sixteen. He’d come home for the weekend and she’d caught him having sex with one of his girlfriends. Later, said girlfriend had found Faith sitting on her swing in her special place in the woods and proceeded to tell her that she would never have Kane, that she had a silly crush, and she never had a chance of becoming anything to him, because he was an alpha wolf next in line and she was only human.

  Faith had been heartbroken, because she knew Kane had seen and heard her when she’d walked in on them. She was also sure he’d seen her further humiliation when the girl had ridiculed her. Faith was aware Kane knew about her crush, but he said nothing, did nothing. He didn’t even check to see if she was okay. Her heart was broken, and she was angry. She’d expected better from him. Maybe she had overreacted, but she was only sixteen. He was the man she loved, and she’d hoped that someday he would see her as more than just an annoying kid. She knew that he sensed she was supposed to be something special to him, even if he didn’t want to acknowledge it. She didn’t seem to be able to get over her anger even though it was years later. It still hurt.

  Faith knew she was being childish, but no, she wasn’t going to answer him. She couldn’t do this again. She was getting over him, she was over him, she had decided. She had even decided she was going to take her friend Brad up on his offer and marry him and have a normal life. She had it all figured out.

  Faith looked up into his eyes. “No, no way, Kane. You are not going to do this to me. I have finally got my confidence and my life back on track. I don’t love you anymore, I can’t. I’m going to marry someone else. Brad’s coming to Australia, and when he asks me to marry him, I’m going to act surprised, and I’m going to say yes. I’m going to move to England and have a nice normal life! I, Faith York, do not love you anymore. I’m no longer a silly sixteen-year-old who adores you, so you, Dr. Wolfen, are going to take me home now.”

  Shit! Okay, that was so the wrong thing to say. She could see in Kane’s eyes the wolf had taken over. He ripped Faith’s clothes off and bit her shoulder, marking her as his mate.

  * * * *

  Kane had never been so frustrated in his life. He was the calm one in the family, the cool, collected doctor. His wolf was jealous and angry, repeating in his head that she’d been sixteen years old back then, too young to claim. I waited patiently. She was too young then, but now she’s grown. She is mine, she is ours. Deep down you knew it too.

  He had known that she was special, but he hadn’t wanted to think about it because she had been so young, and she was still young.

  Kane sighed. He hadn’t meant to claim her like that. He knew he had to apologize for mate marking her the way he did. Kane looked up into her face, and he really was going to apologize, but as he lifted his head the beautiful look of astonishment on her face and the bright chocolate brown eyes that held warmth that he hadn’t seen in years captured him. Kane couldn’t resist. He placed his mouth on hers, chocolate and vanilla assaulting his taste buds as he kissed out four years of frustration, anger, confusion, and love.

  At first she didn’t react, but a second or two later her soft lips responded to his and her small hands started moving up his chest then around his neck. Kane gave a mental sigh of relief. He moved his hands down to explore her body, cupping her full breasts, caressing and massaging them until Faith let out a groan against his lips. He trailed one hand slowly down her tight stomach, to the heavenly juncture between her legs.

  Faith moaned his name and ran her hands down his back, scratching and rubbing. Kane left her mouth, kissing his way down her neck while his hand made slow circles around her clit. She whimpered in response. When he reached the mating mark, he licked it and kissed it before moving further down her body, licking, sucking, and nipping. She tasted so good. Reaching her breasts, he sucked one nipple into his mouth while massaging the other and giving it a light pinch, then he swapped.

  “Ohhhh, ahhhh, Kane. Oh, Kane.”

  He was in heaven, and she was calling him Kane not Dr. Wolfen. He moved his face down to that heavenly place between her thighs. When he glanced up at her, he nearly came undone at what he saw—her eyes were hooded with desire, her hair was wild everywhere, her back arched up with nipples pointed.

  Faith opened her eyes a bit more, and her voice was breathless as she asked, “What’s wrong?”

  He looked at the goddess laid out in front of him, smiled up at her, and replied, “Not a thing. You are perfect,” and he dived in, feasting on her pussy.

  * * * *

  Faith couldn’t believe what was happening. She was naked and Kane had mate marked her, but she didn’t care because she was lost in a sexual haze of things she’d never dared imagine, but had only dreamed of. Kane, the man she had been in love with for as long as she could remember, had mate marked her, the mere human, Faith York.

  Kane’s mouth was heaven and hell all at once. Faith could feel his sharp fangs nip every now and then and when he did it felt so good that she moaned his name. “Kaaaannnnee!”

  Kane stopped his gentle strokes of her clit and put a thick, long finger in her pussy. That felt exquisite, especially when he sucked on her clit. He added another thick finger. “Come for me, princess. I want to see you come, I want to taste you and hear you yell my name.” He added a third finger and flicked his tongue over her hard nub, that’s when she came undone, screaming his name as shivers of pleasure racked up her body.

  “Ohhhh, Kane. Oh, I lo... Kane.”

  Kane looked up at her. “My God, I have never seen anyone look as hot as you do right now. I can’t wait any longer, I have to have you. I need to feel that vagina of yours squeeze the life out of me.” He sucked on his fingers. “You taste like heaven too. I’ll take my time next time, I promise, but I have to have you now.”

  Kane moved back up her body, kissing, then nipping, and giving licks to sooth the nips. He reached her breasts and sucked one into his mouth, swirling his tongue around her nipple before he moved to the other, repeating his torture as he looked into her eyes. She felt his dick at her pussy. He grabbed her arse, spreading her as he thrust in, biting her breast. Pain and pleasure shot though her like she had never felt before, and she screamed as he broke through her virgin barrier. Faith looked into his shocked eyes.

  “I’m so sorry. I never thought… I mean you’re so beau...” He rested his forehead against hers. “I should have known—you were so tight. Wow.” Then his lips curved up into a grin, and a savage gleam came to his eyes as he said, “Mine, all mine. My untouched princess. Has the pain faded yet?” She nodded and moved her bottom around. His feral eyes got brighter and his muscles flexed and tensed as he said, “No one but me. You’re mine, every lush, beautiful inch mine. Mine to cherish, mine to hold, mine to love.” He started to move slowly,
his eyes never leaving hers. “Say it to me. Tell me no one will ever hold you or love you like this. Tell me you’re mine.”

  Faith had never felt anything like this in her life. The pleasure that racked her body from the tip of her toes to the top of her head was so intense she didn’t know how much she could take. As she looked into his eyes the intensity in his gaze sent delicious shivers of pleasure down her spine. He repeated his commands and she answered, willing to do anything he asked, just so she could feel all this insatiable euphoria.

  “Yours, always have been yours, always will be.”

  His muscles relaxed, and he grabbed her legs and wrapped them around his back, pushing himself further in. He picked up his pace, never letting his eyes leave hers. Faith arched her body up, meeting him thrust for thrust. His hands squeezed her arse, and one moved to stroke her clit.

  Her breathing labored as she panted. “I’m going to...to...ahhh, Kane.”

  His pace picked up faster. Kane swooped down, kissing her in time to his thrusts, and Faith shattered into a million pieces.

  Kane rested his head on her shoulder. Faith heard him mutter that she was a “fucking goddess” and then he started apologizing.

  “I’m so sorry, princess. This might hurt more because it’s your first time. I’m going to lock inside you. The base of my cock will swell ’til we can’t move. We’ll be stuck together.”

  Faith moaned as Kane shouted her name and she felt the base of his penis swell to lock inside her, growing impossibly bigger. Faith felt a slight burning sensation, but other than that only immense pleasure bringing her into mini-orgasms. She felt the warmth of his release. He collapsed on top of her, their languid bodies sweaty and sated.

  He carefully moved them to the side with her legs still wrapped around him. Faith fought to stay awake, especially since his huge penis was still locked inside her, but with the jet lag she was unable to keep her eyes open and she drifted into a satisfied sleep.

  * * * *

  Kane looked down at the sleeping woman in his arms, happier than he’d been in years. Faith was his true mate, his soul mate. Who would have thought the chubby little girl who, from the ages of five to eleven, followed him around like his shadow anytime he was home would be his mate.

  Between the ages of twelve to sixteen she began to get shy and embarrassed around him. Kane had caught her a couple of times in her special place in the woods on her swing, sulking or crying because some of the girls had picked on her, or a boy she liked would ask her out and she would have a vision of him talking to his buddies about her, lying and saying he did things with her. Those ones he secretly got Jamie and Devlin involved in.

  Then when she was sixteen, he came home for Halloween weekend, bringing along one of the she-wolfs he was seeing at the time. He saw Faith dressed as Rapunzel, and she was everything he ever imagined she could be and more. She was in a princess’s dress that went perfect with her long hair. The costume fit like a glove, showing every curve. She was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen, and when the crown on her head sparkled from the sun to her laughing face as one of the visiting young werewolves chatted her up, he remembered growling, thinking of all the ways he could get her away from the other wolves. He imagined seducing her, stripping her, and making her want no one but him. At the thought, Kane had gotten harder than he had ever been in his life. He’d been appalled with himself for thinking of a sixteen-year-old that way and went to find his then she-wolf, terrified of the thoughts he was having of Faith, as she was way too young for him.

  Now that he thought of it, after that day was when Faith stopped talking to him, started avoiding him. He thought his wolf saw her as a sister and was punishing him for thinking that way about her by not talking to him and only coming out during emergencies when he needed his supernatural strength, speed, hearing, sight, or healing abilities. Shit, he should have figured it out just from that. Faith had always made him feel good and happy, and she always smelled heavenly to him no matter what she had been doing.

  Kane remembered how much fun it was to be around Faith when she was little because you never knew what would come out of her mouth. He smiled, thinking of a time when she was six and they were doing activities to help her control her gifts, and she suddenly come out with “Don’t worry, Kane. You won’t always be the calm, collected one. You’ll become a very powerful, important alpha. You will also find your true mate. Wow, so will a lot of people, all your family. But be careful, because this will be a rocky road, especially where your brothers are concerned.”

  He had stared in shocked awe at what had just come out of a six-year-old’s mouth.

  Faith had then smiled, showing her missing front teeth. “What’s a true mate?”

  He had explained as best he could to a little child. “Um, it’s when a mommy and daddy wolf live together. Like being married.”

  She had replied saying, “Oohhh, okay. Can I be Jamie or Devlin’s mate?”

  He had growled at that and she had laughed as he walked her to his house for dinner.

  That thought brought him back to his brother. Everyone knew Jamie had been in love with Faith for years. Devlin had always thought she was great, but had fallen hard for her when he was in Afghanistan and she wrote to him every day, often sending pictures. Fuck, now that Kane thought on it, even Griffen had fallen under her spell, saying he always tried to concentrate on her feelings because she was always bright and positive.

  Shit, she hadn’t been kidding, this was going to be a rocky road, and not just with his brothers.

  Kane slowly untangled himself from Faith and started pacing, thinking of everything he had to do. First, he needed to call work and see if he could free up some time. He knew he’d have to ask for some favors so patients could be looked after. Then he needed to check with his parents and see what the damage was so far.

  Kane found his pants on the floor, got out his mobile, and was about to call the hospital when he saw his phone flashing with twenty-one missed messages. Fuck.

  Your phone message inbox is full.

  Message one, at 7:05 PM: “Don’t you dare fucking mate her against her will or I will find a way to kill you.” Jamie. Message erased.

  Message two, at 7:08 PM: “Don’t you dare mate her, Kane. She hates you for Christ’s sake. She hasn’t spoken to you in over four years.” Devlin. Message deleted.

  Message three, at 7:10 PM: “What the fuck is going on? Her feelings and emotions are everywhere.” Shit. Griffen. Message deleted.

  Message four, at 7:15 PM: “Hi, honey, it’s your mother. Just a warning, your father and I will hold off the boys for as long as we can, but by the sound and look I don’t know how much longer that will be.”

  Frustrated, Kane pressed the delete all button on his phone.

  Are you sure you want to delete all your messages?

  He knew all the messages were from his family. He gazed at Faith lying on the bed, and his lips curved up into a grin.

  Hell yes. He pressed the button and then climbed back in bed so he could hold Faith. He pulled her on top of him, and she snuggled into his body mumbling, “Just give me a minute.”

  Kane chuckled and put the phone to his ear as he called his work.

  Chapter 2

  Slowly coming awake to the sound of banging, yelling, and a long, drawn-out “fuuuucck,” Faith sat up, forgetting her naked state and momentarily where she was. She looked around the room, and all the events of last night came back to her. She jumped out of bed, grabbing at the bedding to wrap it around herself.

  Kane chuckled at her. “Princess, after last night there is no reason to cover up, I have seen every delicious inch of you.” He licked his lips.

  Faith blushed. Kane chuckled again as he got out of bed and placed one of his shirts on her, which was huge and like a baggy dress. “Come on, my princess. The cavalry is here to rescue you.”

  She heard more yelling. Kane growled, his teeth lengthening in an angry half-change. He grew to a height of more
than nine and a half feet. His bulk muscle doubled, and longer hair grew over all his body. She sighed; she had it bad when she even found him attractive in half-change.

  He growled again, and through clenched teeth, he muttered, “They’re going too far.”

  Faith grabbed his clawed hand gently. “Just remember they’re protecting me, which is what they have done most of my life. They love me, so please be nice, I love all of them.”

  With that Faith let go of his hand and walked out of the room, heading to the front door which burst open as she reached the lounge room and a half-changed Griffen, Devlin, and Jamie charged in followed by an amused Rane, Arden, and Kane’s parents Della and Jack. Faith blushed as three huge, half-changed wolves surrounded her.

  “Did he hurt you?” Jamie asked as he gently touched her neck and back.

  “I’m gonna fucking kill him. Your emotions were all over the place,” Griffen growled as he pressed a kiss to her forehead.

  “I don’t see any bruises,” Devlin added as he looked her up and down.

  Kane came in on a loud growl. “I would never hurt her. Get your fucking hands off her.”

  Kane reached for her, and with all their hands touching her, Faith started to have a vision.

  Faith was surrounded by thousands of demons and minions, destruction as far as the eye could see. She was in some huge park in the city. Humans lay dead everywhere she looked. Werewolves and other creatures were fighting demons, minions, zombies, and creatures she hadn’t seen before. Faith ran fighting and saving people. She saw her friends fighting, using their paranormal skills, but it wasn’t enough. Everywhere she looked people she loved and knew she would come to love were fighting. Faith had a feeling hundreds of people that were major players were missing because she hadn’t found them.

  She ran to the center of the park where she found Rane, Kane, Della, and Jack fighting demons. She noticed vast amounts of witches and elements with chains around them connecting them to demons, forcing them to use their powers on people. She looked up and saw the largest demon she had ever seen, at least twenty-five feet in height, come out of nowhere and give a killing blow to Jack. Faith and Della screamed as he fell to the ground. She ran forward only to be grabbed by Kane. The largest demon, which had just killed Jack, laughed, a scratchy sound.