Bad Boys of the Night: Eight Sizzling Paranormal Romances: Paranormal Romance Boxed Set

by Jennifer Ashley

  Only her? Or did he want the alpha of the pack? She licked her lips. His crude words evoked an image that made her body pulse with need. Aiden alone in the shower, his head thrown back, his eyes closed as he pumped a fist over his erection, thinking of her…

  “Only me? Why me? Because of my looks?” she whispered. Gods, she needed to know it was really her in his mind, not the image of her as alpha. Or her twin. They looked alike. What if it was really Nikita he desired?

  His gaze became filled with heat and a fierceness she didn’t understand. “You’re a fine-looking Lupine, sweetheart, but that’s not it. It’s you. Your passion, your spirit, what drives you…” he pointed to her chest, “as much as it drives me. Pack. Everything for your people. When I first met you that day in the pasture, I recognized a kindred spirit. A woman who would not hesitate to do anything for her people. Make sacrifices and put her own personal needs aside for the sake of pack. I saw that in you, and I said to myself, ‘That is the only woman for me.’”

  Damn him, Aiden Mitchell. He’d said the only thing that she’d ever longed to hear… that she was special and unique. Not her twin. Just her. Perhaps some women needed reassurances of their beauty or their intelligence. Nia did not.

  She wanted someone to recognize she was different from her twin.

  His voice dropped a notch. “I’m no saint, Blakemore. I saw you, a strong alpha female who would make a perfect mate, and all I could feel was this need, this intense fucking need that I’ve never felt before. It took all my control not to chase after you on my horse, tumble you to the ground, strip you naked and fuck you senseless. I’m dying here, because I want you so badly I’m shaking.”

  Nia could barely breathe as his chest heaved in and out and she saw him quiver, like a restless horse eager for a gallop.

  Or to mount a filly…

  Aiden drew in a deep breath. “Relax, baby. Breathe in and out for me.”

  She did.

  “Now imagine my hands on your legs, sliding up your thighs. Your soft, warm skin. You’re trembling because you know what I’m going to do.”

  His voice deepened to a husky rumble. “I’m going to touch you. You want me to touch you there.”

  Tiny muscles in her sex throbbed and pulsed, as if he’d stroked a finger over her wet folds. Nia squeezed her vagina tight, knowing she grew wetter at the heat in his words.

  “Do you want me to touch you?” he asked in a husky voice.

  She nodded.

  “I can’t.” Real regret sounded in his voice. “The rules are I can’t touch you sexually, not until we are in the forest, surrounded by pack.”

  His gaze darkened to pitch. “But there are no rules about me watching you touch yourself.”

  Breath left her lungs in a whoosh.

  “Do it, Niki. Touch yourself, baby.”

  He took her hand, kissed the back, then guided it between her opened legs. “Close your eyes and see me caressing you.”

  Nia closed her eyes and leaned against the table.

  “First, I’d touch your thigh. So warm and soft. I’ve been dying to touch you there. You have amazing legs and your skin is like velvet,” he murmured, his deep voice like a brush of dark chocolate against her tongue.

  Nia slid her hand up her thigh.

  “Then I’d work my way up, making certain you were slick and ready for me. I’d want to taste you, feel the wetness of your juices beneath my tongue, like the sweetest, syrupy fruit.”

  Her fingers trembled as they made contact with her soaked folds. With a butterfly touch, she slid a finger through her cleft, feeling the slippery evidence of her desire.

  “Do it,” he ordered. “Feel yourself and imagine it’s me doing it… teasing, light, just the barest touch.”

  Nia dragged a finger through her soaked folds and touched her swollen clit. She trembled with need and excitement.

  “I’m stroking you, oh so slowly, gentle now. And then harder as your body begins to tense and the pleasure starts to mount. You need this, you beg me for it, wanting me to touch you, making you come. Only me, baby. I’m the only one who will ever do this, will ever know the sweet perfection of your body, will feel your perfect little tightness around my cock.”

  Her hand moved to the sound of his words, as if obeying the inherent command in his deep voice.

  “Come, sweetheart. Come for me. Let me see you come,” he whispered.

  She arched back, obeying the husky command in his deep voice, and let the tension overtake her. Nia cried out as her body tensed in climax.

  She bucked back and forth, gasping as the orgasm seized her. Nia panted, her legs trembling, the space between her legs damp with arousal.

  Aiden drew in a deep breath. She opened her eyes.

  “So beautiful,” he murmured. “I can’t wait until we’re alone together to watch you do it again.”

  Still breathing hard, Nia felt her sex pulse from the aftershocks of her orgasm. Never had she felt anything this intense, this shattering. She struggled to regain her senses and her control. She’d become a slave to desire, and he had taken her there without laying a finger on her.

  This was bad, oh so bad. One orgasm and she craved more, many more. Aiden was intoxicating and she hadn’t even kissed him. She must regain her composure.

  Or he’d shatter her in a different way. Sexually, the man could easily dominate her in bed.

  But out of it? Never.

  Nia pushed her thighs together and gave him a teasing smile. “Lazy, Mitchell? I’d rather watch you do it to me.”

  He grinned, his gaze filled with heat. “I plan to wear you out, Blakemore. I hope you have a mirror in your bedroom for watching.”

  “Installed one special just for you. It makes everything look bigger. But now that I’ve seen you in the flesh, I wager you don’t need it.”

  He chuckled. “You are a minx.”

  “Wolf.”

  Aiden glanced at the flickering candles. “We have to go. It’s time.”

  She took his outstretched hand and stood.

  “But we’re not leaving here until I kiss you.” He framed her face with his hands, and his scent made her drown in desire all over again.

  “Breaking the rules, Mitchell.”

  “Fuck the rules. One kiss won’t hurt.”

  His kiss was light, gentle. Then she slid her arms around his neck and deepened the kiss.

  He broke away with a slight smile. “We’d better stop here, or we’ll both be in trouble.”

  Aiden handed her a robe. Nia slipped it on, relieved to have the cloth covering her nudity. He found two pairs of sandals and she slipped on the smaller shoes.

  “The gravel is hard on your soles,” Aiden told her.

  “More rule breaking, Mitchell. I like it.”

  As they left the lodge, she felt the dampness between her thighs. It served as a reassuring reminder that they had shared an intimate, private moment outside of pack.

  Soon, she would lose her virginity in a moment that was far from private. Nia reached deep inside her for her wolf and found her staring back, pawing for release. She was Lupine. Wild and powerful, and savage as her mate.

  His equal.

  They walked down the pathway to the pond, where silver moonlight shimmered upon the still water. Aiden led her to a grassy clearing near the pond. The wide, open space was ringed by hills and whispered of ancient secrets. Several granite boulders formed a ring. Nia had held pack meetings here before.

  And now here she would mate Aiden.

  Assembled around the ring were the combined members of their packs. No visitors. Not tonight for this formal ceremony.

  The Lupines surrounding them were clothed in the traditional black ceremonial robes.

  Aiden gave her hand a reassuring squeeze. Drawing in a deep breath, she slipped off her robe as he did the same.

  Cool air brushed against her naked skin, caressing her breasts and teasing her nipples. She dragged in a deep lungful of air and scented Aiden. Her ma
te. Nia let her wolf rise. It clawed, eager in its demand to mate.

  Nia faced him, her courage spiking with her arousal. She took his hand. It was large, warm and bore the callouses of hard labor.

  Aiden was not a lazy cowboy who let the others on his ranch do all the work.

  Boldly, she slid his hand downward, until it covered her breast. She stroked his hand over her warm flesh, the friction making her nipples erect.

  A groan fled his lips.

  “I want you, my mate Nikita. As an alpha desires his mate,” he stated.

  “I want you, my mate Aiden. As a female alpha desires her mate,” she said aloud.

  Eyes widening and darkening, he drew back. Nia watched his penis lengthen and thicken. She felt her vagina grow moist and ready to take him.

  “Turn around,” he said hoarsely. “Kneel and place your palms flat on the ground.”

  Obeying, she flung her long hair aside, and peered over her shoulder. In the moon’s silvery glow, Aiden stood tense, his hungry gaze stroking over her body in a heated caress.

  His swollen, red penis grew even longer and thicker. A Lupine reaction.

  Trembling, she dropped her head down and waited. She felt his hot, wet tongue part the soft folds of her vagina and delve between them. Aiden began lapping at her soaked core, each stroke creating unbearable pleasure.

  And then he seized her hips with his large, callused hands. She felt the rounded tip of his cock probe her soft feminine flesh.

  Fight him. She had to prove she was a tough female, and at least try to fight him, for this was part of the challenge as well. If Aiden proved weak and she could best him, the mating would become void and she would be free once more.

  Other alpha females would prove their strength, and test his to see if he would prove himself strong enough to father their young. She must try to throw him off as other alpha females would. Nia’s arms felt shaky. With all her might, she reared backwards, and snarled. But Aiden pressed her downward easily with his muscled weight.

  A growl of approval rippled through the crowd.

  Nia tried again and bucked upward. She heard Aiden give a groan as his penis slipped through her cleft. He put one palm against her back and murmured softly. “Easy, now, Niki.”

  Even in this most intimate moment, she would not have the satisfaction of him calling her real name. This troubling thought, more than his physical strength, subdued her.

  He pressed his penis against her entrance once more. The thick hardness of him felt like a steel bar. Her wet flesh shuddered as it tried to accommodate his huge length as the tip of his cock probed inside her. Aiden’s big body hovered above hers. Discomfort increased as he began to enter her tight passage.

  Aiden bit his lip. Tight. So tight. He didn’t want to hurt her, but ahh, she felt so damn good. Had to make this good for her, make her feel pleasure as well, but this first time required a necessary pain of breaking her innocence.

  It will get better, sweetheart, he silently promised, sweat streaming down his temples as he tried to hold back.

  Tension thickened the air. The rules of the challenge were clear. The male must take the female in the traditional mating position. Prove to their packs that he was virile, prove he was a powerful alpha capable of impregnating their female alpha and siring an heir.

  Aiden gritted his teeth at the raw pleasure, and knew the time had come to brand her in the flesh.

  Nia tensed as she felt the head of his thick penis push harder against her soaked folds. He slid partly inside, then retreated. Again. Then he slid deeper. The pressure became real pain. She closed her eyes, culling all her feminine Lupine senses, drinking in his scent, feeling his hands grip her hips, holding her steady for his possession.

  Then he bent over her, licking the curve of her spine and he whispered into her ear.

  “Hold onto me, sweetheart. Everything’s going to be all right. It’s you and me here. Only us. No one else.”

  With a powerful flex of his buttocks, he thrust deep inside her, breaking the barrier of her virginity. Nia stifled a startled cry, squeezing her eyes against the burning pain. Blood trickled down the inside of her thigh.

  Nia went still, her swollen vagina tight around his thick cock. The pain eased, leaving only a delicious pressure.

  Tenderly, he brushed back her hair, and kissed her neck. “You okay?” he whispered.

  She rotated her hips. “Fuck me like the wolf I am.”

  A low, triumphant chuckle rumbled in her ear. Aiden drew back, then pushed his hips forward. His enormous shaft throbbed inside her tight channel, binding them together in the flesh.

  Then he began plunging deep inside, stretching her wet, swollen cunt. Eyes closed, her long hair curtaining her face, she pushed back against every delicious surge. Aiden dug his fingers into her hips as he thrust and their flesh slapped together. He bent over her ass, reaching around to cup and knead her breasts. Thick, silky hair on his chest rubbed against her back. With each relentless thrust, she arched her ass upward, eager for more. The position did not bind her to submissiveness, rather it gave her a heady sense of feminine power as her mate took her.

  A deep growl rumbled from Aiden’s throat. She felt his engorged penis swell as an odd roundness pressed against her wet, sensitive tissues.

  His wolf’s knot.

  As the protrusion thickened, it rubbed enticingly against nerve endings enriched with blood. Nia moaned at the exquisite pleasure.

  Aiden gave a final, deep thrust, his knot swelling and tripling her erotic bliss. Orgasm seized her loins, shooting up through her body as Nia screamed. Rearing back, he seized her hips and released a long, low howl as his cock thickened, streams of semen spraying hotly against her womb.

  For a few minutes, his big body shuddered behind her. Finally his climax slowed.

  They collapsed to the ground, his heavy weight pinning her down. Murmurs of approval rippled through the air.

  His breath bellowing in her ear, Aiden ran a hand over the curve of her hip. “I’ve dreamt of doing that to you for a long time, sweetheart. Both of us bonded together in flesh.”

  His knot securing them together loosened.

  Tears stung her eyes behind their closed lids. Not at the ghost of pain where they were intimately joined, but at the surrender of her innocence and power. She wasn’t losing only her virginity, but her very self. From this moment on, her life was Aiden’s to command. She’d ruled her people and carried the weight of heavy responsibility on her shoulders.

  No longer. Fear rushed through her body. They were one, according to Lupine law. But he had mated a liar. And if he discovered her deception, what would he do?

  Aiden pressed a kiss to the curve of her spine. And then he pulled out of her body and lay down next to her, smoothing back her hair. The rich tenderness of the gesture shattered her more than her deflowering.

  “You okay?” he whispered. “I’m sorry it had to be like that.”

  She nodded. “And now, you’ll give me your mating mark.”

  The bite all male Lupines gave their mates to claim them, and let other males know they were taken.

  “No mark. That’s for later, when we have privacy.” He kissed the side of her throat. “Are you up for round two? I promise I will make it very, very good for you, sweetheart.”

  Relief filled her. The mating mark was equally as intimate as the sex. He rolled over, and she noticed he was still quite erect. Was this the power of an alpha? Maybe, but she scarcely had time to think because he patted his groin.

  “Climb on, sweetheart,” he said in a husky voice. “Ride me and let them see what a female alpha can do. You’re as strong as I am.”

  Nia stared down at him, trembling, her throat tight. The laws didn’t require this kind of submissiveness on his part. Only the male was to be dominant. But fierce determination shone in Aiden’s dark eyes.

  “You can do this,” he said encouragingly.

  She straddled him as he held his cock upright. Very slowly, Nia
sank down on it, wincing a little. Gods, he was big. But the pain had faded, replaced with a delicious sense of being utterly filled.

  He caressed her breasts and then toyed with her clit, his thumb creating an exquisite friction as she rose up, fell down. Each rhythmic stroke sent ripples of pleasure through her, a tension that began building higher and higher. He let her set the pace, let her ride him to the stunned gasps of the assembled Lupines.

  This wasn’t about sex. It was about regaining her dignity and pride, and asserting her leadership before the women. Nia felt an alarming tenderness for this powerful, big alpha.

  She rode him harder, faster and then the tension gathering low in her loins exploded as another orgasm slammed into her. Nia tilted her head back and howled into the night as Aiden joined her, his hot seed once again flooding her womb. Each spurt of semen sent new little waves of pleasure shooting through her. Finally he stopped ejaculating.

  Hanging her head, she braced her hands on his powerful chest, feeling his cock pulse inside her, knotting and tying them together. She collapsed atop him as he stroked her hair.

  Everyone began to howl with victory.

  Gradually he pulled free, his eyes glowing amber in the darkness.

  The Lupines surrounding them on the circle’s edge watched them silently. Waiting. It was time to complete the ritual and run together as the new alpha pair with their people. The others would not shift until she and Aiden did.

  Aiden signaled her with his gaze. You okay?

  Nia drew in a calming breath. She had survived all this so far. Nodding, she took his hand as he helped her to her feet. He tilted his head upward at the moon’s caress and howled.

  She joined his cry, and willed herself to shift into wolf. Nia lifted her hands to the sky and called upon all her senses as wolf. I am Lupine. I am strong. Power flowed through her, strong and sure. She felt a tingle rush down her spine, a tickle in her belly, and the power increased. Suddenly she found herself transformed, standing on four legs.

  Wolf.

  Beside her, Aiden stood in wolf form, the black and white markings on his muzzle marking him as a pureblood alpha. She had no such markings, but her father had taught her to have the bearing of one.