“Stop holding yourself back and just fuck me properly like a woman,” she demanded, looking back at him.
That was enough to release the animal in him. Ethan began drilling Vanessa hard and fast. He leaned forward and grabbed her shoulders, pulling her back into him as he leaned forward and sunk the tips of his fangs into her shoulder. He was marking her, making sure that when other males met her, they would know that she was already taken. Vanessa moaned delightfully, urging him on as he struck her harder and faster with each stroke. From the way that her sex was creaming up, Ethan could tell that Vanessa was not very far off from cumming. He, too, could feel the heat within his balls increasing and he knew that he was finally going to claim her as his. He was going to spurt his cum deep inside her and claim her.
He reached for her breasts and squeezed each of them softly, taking her nipples in between his fingers and beginning to roll them around in semi circles. He could taste blood on the spot where he was biting lightly as he marked her, and he knew that the enzymes coming from his saliva were going to make her cum rally hard. It was not long before he felt her doing just that. Her hips bucked, her vagina contracting over his dick as she exploded into an orgasm. Ethan roared loudly as he, too, went over the edge with her, his dick stiffening deep within her as he shot his huge load of cum into her vagina. Vanessa moaned out loudly, gripping his shaft even harder as she milked him of all his jizz, leaving him totally spent. He had just experienced the best thing in his life, and also he had just marked Vanessa as his own. Ethan had never felt more satisfied before, like he did right now.
*****
Vanessa felt as if she was living in some sort of dream. It had been two days since she had met Ethan, and they couldn’t seem to get enough of each other.
“If you don’t hurry up, you are going to be late for the game,” she said, holding tightly onto his mane as he sprinted across the prairie with her on his back.
He was in his semi lion form and was running on all fours with Vanessa on his back. Other animals took off when they saw them approaching and it was the most thrilling feeling. She felt as if she was a part of the wild and she wouldn’t mind living like this for the rest of her life.
“Don’t worry, honey, we are not going to be late, I'm the team’s best batter and I wouldn’t miss it for the world,” he said, his voice heavy since he was in lion form.
They had been running around in the wilderness since the dark hours of the morning, because Ethan wanted to show her the sort of life that he lived as a lion shifter. So far she was more than impressed with everything, although it kind of frightened her a little that she had let him initiate her. To her, it would be the better option to a better life and there was no way that she was going to let it go. Within minutes, they were back at his ranch, where they both went into the shower. Just like it had become the norm, they couldn’t handle being around each other without having mind blowing sex, and so they had explosive sex. They later got dressed and went downstairs to prepare breakfast. Vanessa prepared the breakfast, handing him steak and potatoes to go down with the coffee. After breakfast, they headed off to town. Ethan had a game to play, after which they would meet with his parents so that he could introduce her to them.
Life had never been better for Vanessa and she had no intention of looking back. She felt as if this was just the beginning of her life and she had never been happier in her life.
“Are you nervous about meeting my folks tonight?” Ethan asked, looking at her.
“You can say, just a little. Everything has just happened so quickly, I really don’t know what to think about it all. I mean, just a few days ago I never knew that I would be falling in love with you, or that I would even want to become a lioness shifter in the future,” she said, everything sounding like a dream of sorts to her.
“Relax, they are really good people, and don’t worry, they won't judge you,” Ethan said, squeezing her thigh through the tight jeans that she was wearing.
“Don’t you worry; I'm going to do just fine. Right now what we should be focusing on is your upcoming game. I want you to stop thinking about me and concentrate on the game, promise?” she said, taking her hand to his neck and squeezing it softly.
“Hey, I'm going to play this game for you. It’s the first game that I'm playing since I met you, and I'm going to dedicate it to you.”
The rest of the day was spent on the pitch. Ethan made sure that Vanessa was provided with a VIP space from where she could watch the game. It felt odd that just days ago, Vanessa had been at this very same arena thinking how handsome the men were and wondering whether she would ever have one of her own. Now she was seated here, ready to tie the knot with Ethan as soon as they could get everything sorted out.
*****
Batting the ball and running the bases proved to be more enjoying than Ethan had imagined. Maybe it was because of the fact that the woman that he had fallen in love with was out there watching the game, his number one fan. The game soon came to an end and he took off for the locker room, eager to freshen up and get changed. Ethan had called his father earlier and told him that there was someone important that he wanted them to meet, and he just hoped that they would accept Vanessa the way that she was. After all, she was the most beautiful woman on this side of the planet after his mother.
“Somebody sure seems excited today, I've never seen you looking this way before,” Marty, one of his teammates said to him as he passed by the shower, where Ethan was humming away at a nameless tune. “If you were to ask me, from experience I would automatically tell you that there is a woman involved.”
“You're sure right about that, Marty, I think that I have finally found the woman of my life, and I intend to get married to her as soon as possible,” he said, rinsing the soap off his body.
“And just who is this extremely lucky woman, anyone that I know?” Marty shouted as he entered into the neighboring shower cubicle.
“No, you wouldn’t know her, but I could introduce you to her some other time. Today we are going to have dinner at my parent’s ranch and we don’t want to be late,” Ethan said, turning off the water and stepping out of the cubicle to dry himself.
Ten minutes later he was out of the changing rooms heading to look for Vanessa. He found her waiting for him by the truck and walked over to her, kissing her lightly on the lips.
“Sorry to keep you waiting, darling,” he said to her, putting his hand around her lean waist and leading her to the passenger door.
“I could wait a lifetime for you, my dear,” she said as he unlocked the door and held it open for her to enter the truck.
He walked around to the driver’s side of the truck and soon they were on their way to his parent’s ranch. They too lived away from the city because of their need to shift and so it was almost an hour and a half before they pulled up at the house.
*****
Vanessa felt a little nervous at the fact that she was meeting with her future in-laws. A woman resembling Ethan came out of the house as soon as the truck came to a stop. She was elegantly dressed and Vanessa deduced that she was probably in her late forties. Ethan had inherited his blue eyes from her.
“Ethan, I'm so glad that you could make it here for dinner,” she said, bustling towards the truck as Ethan opened the door and stepped out of the truck.
“Hello mother,” Ethan said, giving her a warm hug. “It is nice to see you.”
“Same here son,” she said as they pulled away from each other and shook hands.
“Well, mother, there is someone special that I would like you to meet,” Ethan said, walking around the truck to the passenger side and opening the door for Vanessa. “Mom, this is my future mate, Vanessa Birdle.”
Vanessa stepped forward and the older woman pulled her in for a hug. “You are welcome to our home, and I'm glad that our son finally made up his mind about the future. We were beginning to get a little worried that we might die without ever seeing our grandkids.”
“Thank
you very much, Mrs. Parker, Ethan has told me so much about you,” Vanessa said to her politely as they shook hands. She already felt comfortable in front of the woman, and she had a feeling that she would get along very well with the rest of the family.
“Oh, please, call me Martha, you are practically already a part of this family and calling me that way is just way too official,” his mother said, her eyes glittering as she looked at Vanessa. It was almost hard to believe that this was actually a family of shifter lions since they looked just like any other family.
“I hope dad is in, is he?” Ethan said as they began to make their way to the house slowly.
“Yes, Curtis is in, he is keenly following today’s baseball games on the television,” Martha said, pushing the door open and showing them in.
“Well, it looks like you are not the only baseball fanatic around here,” Vanessa said as Ethan put his hand on the small of her back and walked her towards the living room.
“Let’s just say that it runs in the family,” Ethan laughed, kissing her on the cheek.
The dinner went better than she had anticipated, Ethan's parents were easy going although in the beginning his dad had given Vanessa an odd look. Finally, Ethan had stepped in to clear the air around them.
“Dad, Vanessa is not a lioness yet, but she would love to become one. We fell in love and I guess that is one price that has to be paid,” he said proudly, looking from his father to her.
“Oh, I was getting kind of worried right there because I had immediately sensed that she was not one of our kind. Anyway, son, I am happy for you guys, and Vanessa, I'm sure that you will enjoy being a shifter. It has its advantages and disadvantages, but as long as you two are in love, I'm sure that you will overcome all the odds just the same way that Martha and I did,” he said, the tension that had been holding him back seeming to disappear.
“Thank you Curtis, I really needed to hear that from you,” Vanessa said to her future father-in-law as they all got up from the dinner table.
The men went into the study to drink whisky, while Vanessa and Martha began clearing the table together, taking the things to the kitchen. While Martha went about washing the dishes, Vanessa rinsed them, dried them and put them away.
“Were you always a shifter, Martha,” Vanessa couldn’t help her curiosity.
“Hmm, great question. When I met Curtis, I was barely seventeen and I fell for him instantly. Back then I was still a complete human being and nothing would stop me from wanting to be with the man that I loved. He shifted the first time that we made love, and I fell even more in love with him. I decided that my destiny was with him, and here I am,” she said, smiling at Vanessa. “You really have nothing to worry about, really, it is a very easy lifestyle that not many would understand.”
“What about kids, how did you go about that. Did you give birth to cubs or babies? I'm really sorry, Martha, but the thing is that there are so many questions that are lurking at the back of my mind,” Vanessa said carefully.
“Well, you came to the right place because I was once in your shoes, only back in my days, there was nobody to tell me what would happen from a woman’s perspective,” Martha said, looking up from the dishes and pulling off her washing gloves. “Giving birth is just the normal process. Your children will be born as humans and the lion genes will begin to show signs as they grow older.”
“Phew, I was wondering how it would be if I gave birth to furry cubs, kind of scary I must say,” Vanessa said, feeling relieved at the big question that had been on her mind right from the time that she had decided that she wanted to be with Ethan for the rest of her life.
“Well, I guess it is something that crosses everyone’s mind at some point,” Martha said as they put the final dishes away. “I guess that we are done in here, would you like me to make you some coffee, or would you prefer to join the men with a glass of wine?”
“A glass of wine would do,” Vanessa said, since to her this was some sort of celebration for being accepted into the family.
*****
“So, how did you find my folks, were they as hard as you thought they would be?” Ethan asked when they were finally in the truck, heading back to his ranch.
“To say the truth, I think they are a really fun lot,” Vanessa replied, and he could see that she was slightly tipsy from the few glasses of wine that she had drunk, her accent a little slurred.
“I told you that you would get along with them just fine. You seemed to have bonded with my mother pretty well,” Ethan said, taking her hand and squeezing it softly as his other hand held the wheel.
“She is a darling of a woman, very easy to get along with. I have a feeling that she is going to be one of my best friends despite the age difference between us,” Vanessa said, leaning over and resting her head on his shoulder.
Half an hour later, they arrived back at his ranch. It had been quite a long day and his muscles felt strained. He needed something to relax him and he had just the right thing in mind, it always worked for him. His Jacuzzi was on the back balcony overlooking the prairies and tonight there was moonlight. It would be a beautiful night for him to relax with Vanessa on the balcony in warm bubbly water and just stare into the wilderness beyond.
“What would you say to joining me for a Jacuzzi bath upstairs?” he said to her as he lifted her out of the truck and carried her towards the house, kissing her lightly on the forehead.
“Hmm, that sounds pretty interesting. I'm guessing the Jacuzzi is the one that overlooks the fields from your balcony, right?” Vanessa said.
“Yep, and it looks like someone is already getting used to her new home pretty fast,” Ethan said, and he could already feel his dick beginning to shift around in his pants.
“Need I remind you that we are not yet married and I also have my own ranch to run,” she laughed as he kicked the door of the house shut and began heading into the living room, where he placed her down.
“Why don’t you go on up and prepare yourself for the Jacuzzi bath while I see if there is some champagne that I can bring up there with me,” he said, patting her on the buttocks as he turned and headed to the kitchen.
In the kitchen, he headed over to the fridge and got out a bottle of champagne. While he was at it, Ethan also found that one of his workers had also brought in a bowl of fresh strawberries. He decided that they would add to the romance that was going to be upstairs and so took the bowl with him too. He headed up to the balcony where the Jacuzzi was and Vanessa had not yet arrived. He, therefore, set the water running into the tub and then lit up a number of candles along the sides of the tub. Filling two chutes with champagne, he stripped out of his clothes and stepped into the warm tub. Ethan felt his muscles relaxing the moment that he entered the water, sitting down on one of the seats in the tub.
He sat back and watched the first rays of the moon coming into view. If he were alone, this would have been a good night to sprint into the wilderness where he could roar all he wanted. It made him feel good to know that in the future he would not be sprinting into the wilderness alone, he would be sprinting out there with his mate. Thinking of her, he felt his dick beginning to harden. Never in his life had a woman had this sort of effect on him, where just thinking of her got him aroused. He was still sitting in the tub taking a sip from his glass of champagne when he heard footsteps on the wooden floor.
He turned around to look and there she was coming towards the tub. Vanessa was dressed in a pair of red lingerie that made her look sexier than ever, and she had even gone to the trouble of applying makeup for him and yet they were going to bathe.
“Vanessa, you look… sexy,” he said, standing up without even realizing it, as he checked her out from head to toe and back up.
The lace bra brought out her breasts in a sexy way, pushing them upwards such that they showed off her cleavage, while her thong went right through her buttocks, the only thing hiding, her vagina. He could even see a part of her pussy lip peeking out from the side of the thong.
Ethan felt as if he was going to explode with desire as he felt his dick becoming full blown.
“All of this here,” Vanessa said, indicating her body with her hands as she turned around in a sort of showoff, “belongs to you, my love. I always want to look sexy for you, even when I finally become a shifter like you.”
With that, she strolled the last few steps to the tub and then pulled his head towards hers and kissed him deeply in the mouth, then pulled away from him and without taking off her lingerie, stepped into the tub.
“What about your lingerie, aren’t you going to take them off?” he asked, feeling so aroused, he could barely think.
“That is something that only you will be doing from now onwards,” she said, pulling him into her arms as their lips fused yet again into a hot kiss.
She put her hands around his neck and kissed him until he was breathless. Ethan put his hand at the back of her waist and pulled her forward, her body connecting more with his. Tonight he was going to make love to her in a way that she would never forget. He could already feel his body beginning to shift as a mane began to form at the back of his head and neck. His nails had turned into claws, and he hooked a claw into the center of her bra and rippled it off swiftly, pulling it off and even tossing it over the balcony. He then lowered his head to one of her breasts and sucked one of the peaks into his mouth. Ethan began teasing her, nibbling on the tip of the nipple until Vanessa squealed with pleasure. She was his and he intended to give her all that he could.
He moved his mouth over to her other breast and began pleasuring it in the same way that he had been doing to the other one. Vanessa trembled with desire, telling him of just how good she was feeling. Everything between Ethan and Vanessa was natural and they did not need to talk in order for them to know how the other was feeling.
*****
The cold breeze bit against her back, but the heat that she felt within was intense. Ethan knew every button on her body to touch to make Vanessa feel as if she was going to burst with desire. Her nipples were aching with arousal from the way that he was pleasuring her. Vanessa could not even begin to explain the sort of heat that was burning in between her thighs. She felt as if there was a furnace that had been lit down there, and she could even feel the juices of her arousal spreading through the thong that she wore. She couldn’t wait for him to get down there, and he finally shifted his attention down there as if he could read her mind.
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