A Mate's Escape

by Hazel Gower

  Ha. Crush. Alissa had told him she loved him. Groaning, because this was crazy, she pushed him to the side and got off the bed, squealing when she realized she was only in her bra and panties. “Where are my clothes?” She covered her stomach and yanked the covers off the bed not caring he was still on it.

  “In the laundry.” He looked at her like she was an idiot. Ha, she wasn’t, he was just a confusing arsehole, whose body was a lethal distraction.

  Scrubbing her hand over her face she took deep calming breaths. “Dolton, you can’t just take me like you did last night. I have people who will be worried about me.” She hoped Dolton hadn’t hurt Lucas. “You can’t bring me here and think it’s okay.” Giving him her best don’t mess with me glare, she straightened her shoulders and tried for her best in charge look. “You can’t just mate me. You rejected me. I don’t want you anymore. I don’t need or love you.”

  Okay she was getting pissed and lying through her teeth. She’d fantasized and dreamed of a relationship with Dolton for years but knew she never had the chance. He’d even told her that. Alissa had finally come to terms with it and was moving on, or she thought. It was another one of the reasons she’d moved away from living close to her parents. Wrapping the bed sheet better, she backed away from the bed needing to get as far away from him as she could.

  Dolton jumped off the bed and stopped her retreat, pulling her against his hard muscular chest and tilted her head up. “Don’t lie. And I’m sorry for what happened when you were seventeen, but I was scared, you were so young, and I didn’t want to give you any false hope. A human has to be of age at twenty one, for shifters to be able to tell if they are mates.”

  Well that explained why he didn’t know she was his mate, but still, couldn’t he have at least told her.

  He rubbed her body against his. Damn, his body was hard and she clenched her fist to stop from feeling every defined curve and crevasse. He took a deep breath. “I can smell how much you want me.”

  Stupid shifter senses, this was why she’d wanted to avoid him last night. Alissa pushed against him trying to get away. The problem was as soon as her fingers curved around his muscular chest she didn’t want to go anywhere. Shit. “I can’t help my body’s reaction to you. In fact, I still hate you and my brothers for teasing me about it.” He chuckled. The jackarse. She stomped on his foot. “It’s not funny. I don’t want this. I have a life now.”

  “What, working at a strip club?” He raised an eyebrow.

  Rolling her shoulders back she glared at him. “It’s not a strip club. It’s a club were men dance.” It was totally a male strip club but she wasn’t agreeing with him.

  *****

  Dolton was frustrated, he didn’t want his mate working with naked men. Running his fingers through his hair he moaned. “You need to realize I’m hanging on right now to my bear by a thread. We’re both worried for you. I mean last night I finished my shift and came out of my work zone when an amazing smell of hot baked honey floated through the kitchens to me. My bear, who has been almost in hibernation lately sits up and roars at me that our mate is close. I’m like what the fuck? This is a group of male strippers surely my mate isn’t among them. I’m not gay, and I didn’t want to take another man’s woman.”

  Alissa giggled and when he sighed she covered her mouth and nodded at him to continue. “Sorry. I’m listening.”

  “So I talk myself into going out and just checking who my mate is when I’m shocked further by seeing you. Before I can find out what the hell you’re doing at a strip club Christmas party you friggin run. I let you go figuring I’d find you once I figured out who my mate was. Imagine my shock when I learn that you Alissa, the girl who confessed her love to me when she was a teenager and is now a gorgeous woman, is my mate. One of my closest friend’s sister and she is in a window trying to escape.”

  Alissa turned bright red and avoided his gaze. Caressing her face he tilted her chin so she gazed back at him. Dolton leaned down brushing his lips against hers. He’d been confused as hell when she started fighting him and didn’t want to come with him. He’d thought she’d stopped loving him and didn’t want to be with him. Dolton had a moment of deep regret for what he’d lost and then his bear had raged at him and he’d taken charge.

  Dolton realized what he’d done to her years ago by letting her go could have ruined any chances he may have now. He needed to talk to her. To be with her in a more private place so he’d taken her to his office. The problem was when he got to his office he didn’t want to talk he’d wanted to claim his mate. Emotions, flooded him, and memories of he and Alissa came to him, and his need to make her his had won.

  He sighed. “When that guy came to my office I lost any control I had on my bear. I didn’t want to claim you like that. I wanted it to be special. Who is this Lucas guy to you?”

  She sat up and hugged her legs. “He’s my roommate. He’s a friend. That’s it.”

  Studying Alissa he noticed her nibbling on her lip nervously. “What type of roommate?”

  “He knows about you.”

  “I didn’t ask that.”

  “He was just a friend and a guy I shared a flat with. He and I work at the same place. He’s asked me out, but I turned him down every time because I’ve never gotten over you and it would be unfair to start a new relationship until I was fully over you. I thought I was getting over you. Ha. I was wrong. I hate you.”

  Shit, he wanted to kill the guy. “No you don’t.” Dolton didn’t like that Lucas lived with Alissa and he hated that Lucas had asked her out, and that Alissa thought she was getting over him and falling out of love. She couldn’t stop loving him, he couldn’t let that happen. She wasn’t allowed to be with anyone but him. He’d kill any man or woman who tried to take her from him.

  Alissa Maples was perfect for him and his bear. She was gorgeous, stunning, with long chestnut brown hair that fell just above her arse, deep forest green eyes, a small dainty nose and full pink lips that begged to be kissed. Her body was full, large tits that were more than both his hands could hold and he hand large hands. Her hips flared out—perfect for birthing many sons. And her arse would have any man drooling, with its plump round cheeks. He was an idiot for not figuring out what she was to him sooner.

  He fought his bear, not ready for it to come out just yet. “What do you mean you work with him? He works at the strip club?” Dolton took a deep calming breath. He was losing to his bear, neither of them liked that Lucas worked at the strip club, and she would have seen him naked, she probably saw many of them naked. His bear went nuts at that thought.

  She let go of her legs and laid them down backing up to the head board of the bed and crossing her arms over her chest. “Yes.”

  Crap there went his control.

  *****

  Dolton’s gaze narrowed and Alissa could see the bear rising to the surface. Fuck if that wasn’t hot. “You’re mine. My mate. You’ll not be working there anymore.”

  Say what now? Alissa had her own life and she’d learned a lot of things about herself, one being the males in her life didn’t get to control what she did, who she worked for and who she was friends with. How dare Dolton think he could come into her life again and order her around? She was friggin twenty-two years old, old enough to make her own decisions.

  Before she could blast him, Dolton plastered his mouth on hers. Damn, his kisses were her kryptonite. Her traitorous body melted against him and was happy to stop the conversation she was attempting to have. The bite he’d given her last night tingled and simmered with a cool heat. Alissa fought the building passion in her body reminding herself Dolton shouldn’t get away with just mating her and expecting her to fall at his feet and do all he said.

  Dolton tugged at the sheet she clung to, pulling it down to reveal her lace covered breasts. His head came down and his lips trailed kisses over her heated skin, pausing to lick the tips of her now pointed nipples, his touch was amazing. Moaning as he left her breast and made his way up her n
eck, nuzzling and nipping at her skin before resting his lips over hers and taking them in a kiss that had her losing any protest. Her resolve slipped, okay, so she’d give him until she had to leave for work this afternoon...maybe. Tearing her mouth from his, she panted for breath. Dolton kissed his way back down her neck and she tried to talk sense into him one last time. “Dolton. Dolton, we need…. To ah… Stop. You need to stop. I have to go. I have to call Lucas.”

  Shit! She shouldn’t have mentioned Lucas. Dolton snarled, and yanked her hard against him. “Mine. My mate. Only me.” He took her mouth and his hands yanked and ripped her bra and panties pulling them clear off.

  Crap, how on Earth had he just made that so sexy she almost friggin came.

  Spreading her legs he crawled down her body ravaging her with his exploring fingers and seeking lips. Settling between her thighs he buried his face into her heat and nuzzled her pussy. His teeth lengthened, and Dolton used his mouth to spread her pussy lips and lick her from bottom to top sucking her clit in. Holy crap! She was in pure heaven. Dolton let his fangs scrape each side of her clit and she screamed as it shot shards of heat straight through her.

  Alissa arched into his face as he lapped at her pussy. Fingers eased her nether lips further apart and he sank one long thick digit into her core and pumped it in and out as he lapped at her clit.

  “Mmm, feels so good,” she panted. She’d only slept with two men and neither had done this to her. The first guy was to get rid of her virginity as soon as she moved out. It was bad though and hurt like a motherfucker and it took her six months to try sex again. It was better, but nothing like what she was feeling now.

  Dolton added another finger and picked up speed as he licked, and lapped her pussy and sucked her clit. Her orgasm built and she was so close. Clenching her thighs Dolton growled, the vibration gave her just enough to push her over the edge. “Dolton, Dolton, Dolton,” she chanted as she fell apart, her orgasm washing over her.

  Dolton slid up her body kissing a trail to her breasts where he sucked one pebbled nipple into his warm wet mouth following with the other breast. Slipping her arms around his back, she clutched him as he fondled and sucked on her breasts. She still wasn’t over the blissed out feeling from her orgasm and her skin felt a million times more sensitive then she could ever remember.

  If she was going to do this, Alissa was going to do some exploring, touching, and tasting of her own. Moving her hands up, she threaded her fingers in his hair and yanked on him.

  “My turn. I want to play. My turn now.”

  Dolton grinned at her and his beautiful warm chocolate eyes lit up. Letting her hands fall she caressed his cheek before tracing his full lips. His tongue came out to circle her digit. “Anything for you.” He nipped at her finger.

  Pushing at him, Alissa rolled so she was on top. “I like this position.” She smiled down at him.

  “I’m liking this position too. I’m liking the new Alissa who’s bossy.”

  “I was always bossy. You’re just willing to do what I tell you now.” Alissa winked at him, but as she gazed down the length of his muscular body it shocked her at the sassy, sure woman taking over now. Sure she was confidant at work, but not so much with the men in her life.

  Running the pads of her fingers over every ridge, crevasse, and bump she marveled at the texture of his smooth soft skin against the hardness of him. She worked at a male strip club and saw a lot of muscular bodies but nothing like Dolton’s. His chest was so wide, and his bear really suited him. Unlike the men at work Dolton, had a pelt of dark soft chest hair, and his skin wasn’t spray tanned or sun tanned, it was a natural dark olive.

  Sliding down his body she brushed her lips over his skin trying not miss any part of him. Settling between his thighs she circled the proud member before her and rubbed her hands up and down his thick cock. Dolton’s dick was fatter than any cock she’d seen before. He was a decent length too, but his width had her worried.

  Gazing up at him, she saw the passion flaring in his eyes and his bear resting just under the surface. She could do this. She wanted to do this. Alissa hovered over his length, closed her eyes, and sank her open mouth over him as she gripped the base. Her mouth was open wide and he filled her. Sucking on him she circled her tongue around him and tried to remember to pump her hand.

  “Fuck, Alissa, that’s feels amazing,” he rasped.

  Opening her eyes she hummed her approval that she was doing well. She hadn’t done this before. The other two men she’d been with had been more of wham bam thank you ma’am, not much foreplay.

  On a growl he roared and yanked her off his cock and pulled her up. “No. I will only come inside your core.” Dolton flipped them before she could react. “Mine, every part of you mine,” he snarled, lining his cock up to her entrance. His dick ran back and forth over her pussy lips spreading them. The head of his cock sank in and his gaze captured her own. “I claim you. I gave you my mark. You have my life and everything I am. I will give my seed, you will give me young. You’re my bear’s and you’re mine. My mate, my woman, my soul. Mine. I will ask you this time do you understand?”

  Oh my God, it was true, she was his mate. She hadn’t dreamt it. Alissa hadn’t misheard him. Dolton wasn’t playing any games. Her brain could barely comprehend what was happening, let alone what everything meant. Alissa’s whole world had just changed and right now she so didn’t care because her body was burning with need. Dolton’s cock twitched inside her and the tight coil that was twisting inside her tensed, eager for more.

  “Alissa, do understand? You’re mine now?”’

  Nodding, she pushed up seeking the pleasure she knew he could bring. Dolton balanced on an elbow, his hand cupped her chin.

  “I want to hear you say you’re mine.” He thrust further, just enough to drive her wild with need.

  Argh, she was so hot, so aching for a high only he could give her. Right now she’d agree to anything. “Yours. Take me. I’m yours. Take me now.”

  A satisfied grumble left his chest. Dolton’s gaze locked with hers as he propelled forward. Holy moly, Alissa had never been so full, she was so wet from all their play that as he pushed himself into her the slight stretching she felt added to her pleasure.

  Alissa moaned and clenched around him as he moved deeper into her. Clinging to him she dug her nails into his back as she pushed herself up to meet each thrust eager for more. Wrapping her legs around his arse she used her heels to drive him deeper.

  Alissa moaned, feeling the tightly coiled spring inside her ready to unfurl. She was so close to falling over the edge and reaching the bliss that was almost within her reach. Dolton pistoned into her faster and she relished the strained look on his face knowing he was as close to coming as her.

  “I feel like I’m going to exploded,” she panted.

  “Alissa what do you need? What do you want? I’m so close. Your pussy is fucking tight I’m fighting not to come.” Dolton’s voice was coming out in pants. He gathered her up and pushed deep as he balanced on his knees.

  “Close,” she gasped as his cock hit just the right spot. He hit the magic place over and over. Screaming as the pressure and passion built so high, she fell over the edge shattering into a million pieces, euphoria seeping into every pore.

  “Oh shit,” Dolton grunted out as he drove into her one last time and stilled.

  Dolton gently laid her back on the bed and came to lie beside her. Closing her eyes she basked in her blissful state.

  *****

  Dolton gathered Alissa’s back against his chest and kissed her head. They lied there for a while, exhausted and sated. He threaded his fingers through hers and brought her hand up to kiss her knuckles.

  “Even your hands are huge,” she grumbled.

  Bringing their joined hands up higher he studied her tiny dainty ones. “Your hands are just small.”

  “They are not.” She tried to yank her hand out of his but he didn’t give it up.

  “They are. You are
small. You’ve lost weight.” She had thinned out over the last five or so years. She’d been beautiful before, but now she was stunning, all full figured and perfectly proportioned. Just right for a bear to hold and love.

  “Ha. I’ve not. You’re delusional.”

  “I don’t have false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions. I see a lot clearer than you or any human.” The Alissa he knew would never have argued like she was now. He liked it. She’d learned to hold her own. “You’ve gained independence too. I bet your family has no idea where you’ve been working?”

  Alissa wiggled in his embrace and uncurled her fingers from his and turned to face him, narrowing her gaze. “It will stay that way. I don’t need them harping at me. One of the reasons I left was because they controlled almost every aspect of my life. I should be able to choose where I work and who I’m friends with. I’ve gained my independence and I’m not stopping working there. I love my job. Don’t you trust me?”

  Dolton laughed, if Alissa thought he’d let her work at the strip club she had another thing coming. No way was his mate going to work with a bunch of naked men. “I trust you, it’s everyone else I don’t trust especially that Lucas idiot.” He chuckled. “No woman of mine is working in a male strip club.”

  “Hey, stop laughing. I didn’t say anything funny, and I think you’re being unreasonable.” The growl in her voice scent his bear crazy with the need to assert his dominance.

  “I am not and you’re hilarious.” Dolton cupped her face to make sure she didn’t miss what he said next. “You are mine. I don’t want you around a bunch of naked men.” Caressing her cheek, he lingered over her swollen lips. They were puffy still from their kissing earlier. He leaned down brushing his lips over hers. “I want you with me, Alissa. I’ve missed out on time I could have had with you if I’d listened to my instincts.”

  Alissa sighed loudly. “Dolton, please don’t take this the wrong way but I’m glad you didn’t stick around and figure out sooner who I am to you.”