by James, Honor
“It will only feel good soon, promise,” he whispered, pressing a kiss to the corner of her mouth. “And it will only get better and more intense each time I take you. Same with the others, it will grow and become more between you and them. But when all three of us take you”—he grunted slightly when he was fully sheathed in her pussy—“it will show you heaven here on earth.”
A low moan escaped Rissa’s mouth. “Oh God,” she panted. “I think that heaven is already here on earth.” She shuddered and held him to her body. “I don’t know how we will all four fit, but I trust you. I just—” She bit her lower lip. “Please,” she whispered. “Please, more. I ache.”
Adjusting her legs, he began to rock his hips, his cock sliding in and out of her slick pussy easily. “One will take your pussy as I am now,” he whispered, staring into her eyes. “Another will take your ass here.” He pressed a finger to her anus. Rubbing, he slipped the tip of his finger in to stroke her. “And the third will slide between your lips to fuck your mouth. But all will, at some point, take your pussy in a dominant position and mark you.”
The feeling of his finger in her dark hole had her biting her lip, moaning as he spoke. “Mark me how?” she heard herself asking and lifting up to meet him as she did so. “That feels so good.” Her eyes were glazed with passion, with pleasure, as she looked up at him. “I want to wear your mark, their mark. I want to be yours.” And they would be hers.
“We’ll each half shift to the point we’ll have the beast’s teeth and bite you. I’ll bite you on the left side of your shoulder, and they’ll each give you a smaller bite on the right side. I bite you on the side over your heart as a show of who is Prime Alpha, they on the right to show who are Secondary. It shows you have mates who will kill to protect you,” he whispered, pressing his finger deeper as he slowly slid his cock in and out of her pussy.
“You have a mate that would kill for you as well.” Rissa shivered and confessed, “That feels so good. It’s so…it feels so taboo, but so very good, too. Please,” she whispered, “More.” Tilting her head to the side slightly, she bared her shoulder to him in an unconscious but submissive move.
Growling deep in his chest, Michael slid his tongue along her throat. Moving his hips faster, he lifted her one leg up and over his arm, opening her more. “Second time I’ll mark you,” he said on a hiss of air against her neck. “Right here.” He nipped at her flesh as he slammed his cock into her.
She arched into him and screamed. Rissa’s whole body flexed under his, and she clenched him. Sobbing in pure pleasure, she came in a blinding rush that had her whole being feeling as if it were lit like a lightning rod.
Shouting her name, he pushed into her deeper as his cock began to swell. Soon a knot near the base held him locked deep into her pussy as his hot seed spurted into her body. Shuddering, he kept his weight off her as his cock jerked and continued to spill his semen into her again and again.
Her eyes were wide and she couldn’t breathe for several moments. She held onto him and shuddered. “Oh God,” She moaned. Her arms wrapped around him and pulled him closer. “Oh God,” she whispered again because she couldn’t think. She couldn’t breathe. All she was focused on was him. “So very good.”
Grunting, he shuddered again. “It will lessen in a few minutes,” he said through his teeth. Easing his weight down slowly, he kept his arms braced next to her head. “Are you all right?” he asked softly against her cheek, his lips brushing back and forth.
“Very,” she whispered and let her legs move down his body slowly. Reaching up with a shaky hand, she touched his cheek. “Will it always feel like that?” she asked softly. “Because I think that is something that I will have to get used to,” she whispered softly.
“Very likely, if not better,” he said after a moment’s silence. “It will be even more intense if there are two of us taking you. You’ll feel so full that you’re afraid you might shatter. The only concern is ensuring that you never get caught with the knot forming in your mouth. We expand and only stop when the body won’t stretch any more. But your jaws would keep going, allowing the knot to expand to its maximum and could badly hurt you.”
“Yes, we need to make sure that we don’t do that.” She hesitated and asked, “Will it hurt in my ass?” Her face flushed with her own question. “That’s a little nerve wracking, to think of you back there. It felt amazing to have your fingers there, but I don’t understand how it would feel good to have you swelling like you did in my pussy.”
“It will feel strange at first, but in time your body will adapt. Eventually you might even crave it. It would hurt if we did it right now. You’re not ready to take my cock or anything larger than my finger into your ass. We need to work at stretching out the muscles slowly so that you won’t be hurt and it will only give you pleasure.”
“Yes, pain wouldn’t be a bad thing. I like having pleasure with you,” she told him with a smile. “I really love the way that you seem to know everything that my body needs even before it needs it.”
“You are my mate, Rissa, of course I know what you want,” he said softly. “What you need. It’s my job to know and anticipate as best as I can. Not saying I’ll always get it right or always know, but I will always try.”
“I know that you will.” And that was only one of the million or so reasons she loved him so much. “Goodness, I love the way that you feel inside of me.” She felt the swelling at the base of his cock going down, and that made her shudder all the same.
“I should also mention,” he said with a slow half smile. “That our stamina surpasses mere men. As an Alpha, it’s even greater. When I say we could go for hours upon hours, I’m not even joking a little bit, Princess.”
“Good,” she said with a smile. “Because I’m thinking that I would really like to try this, being with you, again. I think that I would like to have you taking me from behind,” she whispered. “If you want that still as well?”
“I very definitely want that. I need to mark you and claim you fully as mine. I just don’t want to scare you, Rissa. And it was your first time. You’re likely to be too sore for more,” he said softly. “I do not want to hurt you more than I have already.”
“All right. I trust you, Michael, and if you say we need to wait then I know we should.” Taking a deep breath, she stroked her fingers to his cheek. “I love you, Michael,” she said with a smile. “I will always trust you and believe in you.”
“Later, later we’ll make love again and I’ll mark you. But for now, I think we should bathe once more, and then we will rest for a little while before moving on again. We can’t remain here too long, but a little longer won’t cause any harm.”
“All right. Let us bathe then, and we will be moving once more.” She took a deep breath and asked, “We will be on horseback again, won’t we?” She hated that thought, but she knew that there was no choice. “I trust you, Michael. Let’s do what needs to be done, and then we will be able to hopefully sleep well tonight when we finally stop to rest.”
“We will walk for a time, but yes, we’ll need to get on the horse again.” Withdrawing from her body and hold, Michael got to his feet. Reaching down, he took her hands and pulled her slowly up to her feet. “Let’s go and soak for a few moments, little one,” he said, wrapping his arms around her.
She felt pain as soon as she rose to her feet and winced. “Ow,” she whispered. “Okay, so that didn’t hurt moments earlier.” She then looked back at the bedroll and her eyes widened. “Oh my. That’s…That’s blood.” Her blood, her virginity lay there on the bedroll. “Explains why I’m hurting, right?”
Wincing, he nodded slowly. “That and I’m not exactly small, either,” he said. Scooping her up in his arms, he carried her into the pond and eased her down onto her feet. “I didn’t mean to hurt you, Rissa,” he murmured, holding her loosely in his arms.
“I know.” She moved so that she was facing him and braced her hands on his shoulders. “It felt amazing during, and that�
��s when I had thought it would hurt the most, but it didn’t. I happen to really and truly think that the benefits far outweigh the pains.”
“Hopefully it will be the last time for such pains,” he said softly. “At least until, or rather, if, you have any children. Then you might end up with some others, but that is a while off yet,” he murmured, pressing a kiss to her lips.
“What do you mean ‘if?’” she asked with a frown. “Don’t children typically come after a couple have made love? I know many months later, but aren’t children the typical outcome of consummating a relationship the way that we have, as often as I really hope that we get to?”
“They are, but with us it takes a little more to get a mate pregnant. First off, we need to complete the mating properly,” he said softly to her. “But even then it takes a bit of time for the pheromones to work on your system. And then we need the right time to get you pregnant, especially the first time. Trust me, it’s a little more work to get you pregnant the first round.”
“With all the babies that had been born around the castle, that frankly surprises me. I’m hopeful that we can have a babe in the future. If we don’t, we don’t, but I very much would love to hold our child in my arms, to feed our child, to see a part of the two of us mixed and blended so perfectly that we created a babe.”
“You will one day, Rissa, but just not right away,” he whispered. Pressing a kiss to her lips, he held her to him, sliding his hand slowly over her back. “Soon enough you’ll have a babe to suckle and watch grow.”
“I am glad,” she told him honestly and laughed. “Hopefully we will have time to become a family first. Have time to figure out who it is that wants me dead, because I truly don’t want a child to be harmed because of what we have to do in the meantime.”
“We’re not going to let anyone get hurt if we can help it, Rissa. Except those that are meaning to do you harm or kill you. Those people will die, painfully and without mercy.” Pressing a kiss to her hair, he leaned back. “Clean up, little one, and we can then rest for a little while.”
“Sounds like a good idea.” She was more than a little sleepy now, ready to be able to cuddle up to him and go to sleep after what they had just shared. Shyly, she bent her head, cleaning up, and whispered the question in her mind. “Did you enjoy it as much as I seemed to have?” She really loved making love with him but wasn’t sure if she had given him the same pleasure that he gave her.
Tipping her chin up, he kissed her lips lightly. “I enjoyed it greatly. You know that. You felt the seed I was spilling deep into your pussy and womb. I was locked inside of you for a long time, Rissa. That’s never happened before. It was because of you, little one, all you, and how much you mean to me.”
Rissa blushed and nodded. “I guess I just needed the words,” she whispered softly. “Sorry, I just wanted to hear the words, hear that you loved it as much as I did.”
“I happen to love you, Rissa,” he said softly. “I know I don’t say it, but I do love you, I have loved you from the first moment I saw you. I’m not good with emotions or expressing myself very well, so don’t ever hesitate to ask, little one.”
“Thank you for that,” Rissa told him with a smile. “I think I needed those words,” she admitted. “And now I have them. You know that I love you as well, darling, and that’s got us both on even feet. Let’s get ourselves bathed, and then cuddled up and napping.”
Growling softly, he scooped water and splashed her. “Oops,” he said with a slow, wicked grin. “Just trying to be helpful to your bathing needs,” he said, moving backward a little at a time. “Was it not helpful?”
She laughed and shook her head. “No, no it was very helpful.” She slapped at the water so that it splashed at him. She laughed. “Just trying to help you bathe as well, darling mine,” she teased him happily.
His smile got bigger, and he hit the water hard, a large splash smacking her. “Glad I could help you, Princess,” he said. “Just want to ensure you bathe quickly so we can curl up on the bedroll. The sooner we’re lying there, the sooner we can have a nap.”
She laughed again and, after she got clean, moved to him. “I love you, Michael. Now, let’s get out of here so that we can have that nap. I’m really looking forward to that nap.” She was more than a little tired. “And when we get back on the horse I will curl up before you so that I can nap while we ride.”
Nodding, he picked her up in his arms and carried her to the bedroll. Kicking it open, he eased her down onto the material as he knelt. Digging in the saddlebag, he pulled out a light blanket. Lying down next to her, he shook it out over them both. “Sleep for a while. I’ll wake you when it’s time to dress and leave.”
“That sounds good.” Rissa moved so that she could curl against Michael, and yawned. “Rest well, Michael,” she whispered softly, and then without another word dropped off into a deep sleep.
Chapter Nine
Reining in the horse, Michael looked down into her sleepy gaze. “We’re here,” he said softly, helping her to sit up. It was four days after they’d left the convoy and there, before them finally, was her grandmother’s home. “Another few minutes and we’ll be at her door, Princess.”
Rissa moved up slightly and smiled. “Oh good.” She looked at the home and then up at him. “What are we going to tell Grandmother? I don’t want to sleep without you, so do we tell her that we were wed before Mother and Father passed or what do we tell her?”
“She would have known had we been wed from the banns posted beforehand,” he said, pointing out the obvious. “We will tell her we are betrothed and your life is in danger. Since we are as close to wed as we can be, she will just have to accept I’m not leaving you alone in a room, ever. And if she won’t accept the terms, we will stay the night before moving on and figuring something else out.”
“I agree.” Because she refused to be away from him at all. “Okay, let’s do this.” She was nervous. She hadn’t seen her grandmother in nearly a year and hoped that the woman would understand it.
Kicking the horse to move once again, he kept them at a slow walk. “It will be fine, Rissa. Just remember, you’re old enough to make your own decisions. And we are betrothed, don’t forget that. Hopefully Raphael and Gabriel make it here with the papers to prove that fact. Especially since your grandmother has always had a hate-on for me.”
“I don’t understand why,” she admitted. “Why would she hate you? Does she know what you are? Is that part of it?” She knew that, sadly, far too many people had a very narrow mind when it came to others, and her grandmother was one of those people.
“I don’t honestly know, but she was ever insistent I never be left around or near you when you were little. Eventually your parents refused to let her visit because of her hysterics every time she came,” he said with a sigh. “That’s why you only got to see her once a year after your eighth summer.”
“Oh.” Rissa didn’t know that. “Well if she has a fit then we shall leave. I refuse to have her giving you a hard time or trying to separate us because I love you, and if she can’t deal with that then she can just understand that she will lose me as her granddaughter. You mean more to me than she does.”
“Don’t say things like that, Rissa.” He sighed. Resting his cheek to hers, he gave her a squeeze. “It will turn out however it will turn out. We don’t know what she’s going to do or say, and we won’t until we get there.”
“Agreed.” Rissa took a deep breath. “Whatever happens will be in her quarter, on her home grounds, so we will figure it out as we can. I know that we are meant to be together, and she will simply have to deal with it. No other questions about it. No more thinking about it until we get there, okay?” She was saying the words to him, but talking to herself.
Nodding, his scruff rasping lightly to her smooth skin, he gave her a squeeze. “We’ll be there in a few minutes,” he said as they rode down the path, the house coming ever closer. When they reached it, he pulled up and helped her slide down. Throw
ing his leg over, he tied the horse to the post out front and then held out a hand to her. “Come on, darling, let’s go and see your grandmother.”
“All right,” she whispered and shifted to move closer to him as they walked. She took in the house and smelled the fire burning already. “She’s got a fire on, and it smells as if she has pig roasting as well. Smells utterly delicious.”
“It does, at that.” He nodded, moving to the door. Using the knocker, he banged it down twice on the door. Stepping back, he looked to her. “You ready? Because you really don’t look ready. You look nervous and a little pale.”
“Because I am nervous,” she whispered. “But it’s okay. We will get this done. I think that once this is all done and she’s installed us into our room, I will start to relax a little. I hope.” She would have said more, but her grandmother opened the door then. “Hello, Grandmother,” she said with a smile. When her grandmother pulled her into her arms, Rissa found herself crying and hugging the woman back again.
Standing back, Michael just waited. Grandmother and granddaughter both were crying and hugging, crying, laughing, and hugging some more. Eventually Rissa’s grandmother pulled her into the house and Michael followed, easing the door shut quietly. Turning, he found himself being watched by the woman.
“Why are you here?” Rissa’s grandmother asked Michael bluntly. “Did my son not listen to me when I told him that it would be best if you and your kind stay from Rissa?” She put herself between Rissa and Michael. “So tell me, wolf, why should I trust my granddaughter with you?”
“Besides the fact that her father betrothed us?” he asked softly. “I’ve loved her from moment one of her life, and you know exactly what that means. She also happens to love me and has agreed to wed me, betrothal or not. And all that entails.”
“And if you found that she had wolf in her bloodlines, from a pack that is one that has been your pack’s enemy for many generations? Then what?” the grandmother shot back. “She won’t be able to shift, but there is wolf in her lines. Her grandfather,” she told him, “was William Hankson, the Alpha of the pack that has been at war with yours for generations. You want to know why I hate you? There, you have it. I hate you because I know you will hurt her, because of her familial lines.”