It was then Meadow felt something she never had before while making love. It was as if a part of her soul actually reached out for Durlach. And much to her surprise, a part of his did the same, meeting hers, wrapping around it until they became one. Once they did, her orgasm crashed over her. She let out a long, keening moan. Her climax was intense and seemed as if it would never end. A wolf’s howl joined the noises she made as her mate threw back his head, his cock pulsing inside her pussy.
After the last contraction of her inner muscles around Durlach’s cock, Meadow could only hold him close after he collapsed on top of her. All the feelings she had for him instantly intensified, blooming into true love.
She said in wonder, “I love you, Durlach.”
He chuckled where his face was buried in the crook of her neck. “I know you do, my mate. I love you as well. You are mine now.”
Meadow pushed on Durlach’s shoulder until he rolled over onto his back, taking her with him. She sat up. His cock was still hard and buried inside her. “As you are mine. You’ve claimed me, but I think we’re going to be a little too busy for the rest of the day for you to turn me. I have a hankering for another type of ride.”
She leaned over and put her hands on the mattress on either side of Durlach’s head. He lifted it and sucked a nipple into his mouth. His hands went to her hips as she slowly rode him up and down. Being on top, she took him deeper. She squeezed her inner muscles around him as she set a faster pace.
Durlach switched to her other nipple. With each pull of his mouth there was a corresponding sensation inside her pussy, increasing her pleasure. Her mate lifted his hips to match her downward thrusts. Low growls rumbled out of him. Meadow found them sexy as hell.
She was close to another orgasm. She wanted to hold back as long as she could, but Durlach pushed her over the edge when he found her clit and rubbed a finger back and forth. Meadow didn’t fight her climax, she let it have its way with her. He pushed up into her one final time, lifting her knees off the bed, and followed her into release.
Satiated and weak, Meadow lowered herself onto Durlach’s chest. Her ice age mate had well and truly claimed her. And she was sure he would do the same for many years to come.
Epilogue
It was time. Tanner had made all the preparations, had all the ingredients he needed for the spell to work. He’d locked himself inside his room. Andre was busy out looking for mortals to turn. Not that Tanner would allow that to happen once he’d made himself the leader of the dark wolves.
He sat on the floor cross-legged. Symbols of dark magic drawn in chalk surrounded him. A bowl with the mixture of herbs and other ingredients was in front of him. From memory, Tanner whispered the words of the spell. The candles he’d lit flickered before flaring to a brighter flame. An unnatural wind whipped through the room, tangling his long hair around his shoulders.
As the last words of the spell left Tanner’s mouth, voices whispered around him, all jumbled, making it so he couldn’t understand the words. Then they suddenly grew silent. Just as he thought that was it, the pain slammed into him. The sensation of something burrowing inside him, going deep as if to his very soul, had him fighting not to scream.
Tanner lost track of time as the unrelenting pain spread throughout his entire body, burning a path wherever it touched. He was on the verge of passing out when it just disappeared. Instead of being weakened from it a surge of unbelievable power shot through him. Knowledge of how to use his new dark magic filled his mind. And along with it came the need to hurt, to maim.
The sound of a growl of rage reached his ears as he stood. Andre had felt the new darkness inside Tanner, as Tanner felt it in Andre. Ready for what had to be done next, Tanner left his room to confront the werewolf who had been his maker.
Andre stalked toward him, his face a mask of rage. “How dare you take what was never to be yours?” he snarled.
“I dare what I want. And you can’t stop me.”
Tanner held up his hand and quickly spoke the words of the second spell he’d memorized. The shock on Andre’s face gave Tanner pleasure. A black, smoky mass left his ex-maker’s body and absorbed into him. Taking Andre’s dark magic from him made Tanner’s increase twofold. Once he’d taken everything, Andre’s body turned to dust.
The other members of his pack came rushing to the scene. Tanner met each of their gazes until they dropped theirs. “I’m now pack leader. You will do as I say or meet the fate of Andre. The first order of business is to increase our numbers. We will bring no more mortals into our midst, unless they are for our amusement. As of today we bring every werewolf we find over to the dark side, whether they are willing or not. Then we go after the sentinels.”
* * * * *
Durlach finished emptying the last drawer from his dresser and placed the clothes in the box he would use to take them over to what was now his and Meadow’s house. The others of his pack had had no problem with his moving out, which he’d figured they wouldn’t.
He looked up to see what else he needed to pack as he listened to Meadow and Taylor talking inside the walk-in closet. He’d turned his mate the night before, and she’d taken to it as if she’d been born to it. They’d already gone for a run in dire wolf form through the trees that connected the two properties. Much to Durlach’s surprise, Taylor had shifted to his cougar form and gone along with them.
Durlach heard Meadow let out a cry of pleasure, then smiled when she came rushing out of the closet with the furs, clothes and weapons from his days as an ice age hunter.
She carried them over to him. “Are these what I think they are? Are they from your former life?”
“Yes.”
“Hot damn. You don’t mind if I study them?”
He laughed at Meadow’s enthusiasm for something he thought wasn’t out of the ordinary. “You can have them for as long as you want.”
She gave him a hard kiss before she turned to carefully pack them away. Durlach looked over at Ryder, who had been helping get Durlach’s things ready to be moved. The shaman sat on the queen-sized bed that was now his. There was a far-off look on his face.
“Ryder?” The other man blinked, then looked at him. “Are you okay?”
“The power has shifted. The dark wolves will now be more of a threat. The time is coming for the final fight that will decide all our fates.” Ryder looked at Durlach. “I can no longer hold off on embracing my full powers. If I do, I’ll doom us all.”
A chill raced down Durlach’s spine as he glanced at his mate. “We won’t let them win.”
“I have to go talk to Edensaw.”
As the shaman left the room Durlach crossed over to Meadow and took her into his arms. He loved her with all his heart. If a war between the sentinels and dark wolves was eminent, he’d fight until his last breath left him to keep her safe. As he told Ryder, they couldn’t let the dark side win. And they wouldn’t. There was too much at stake.
The End
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