by CJ Cooke
“We need to get the library set up here as quickly as possible as well,” I murmured, seeing the obvious solution to our problem.
We had the information at our fingertips. We just needed to get off our asses and use it. If the pack was going to war, we needed more than just thinly veiled ideas supporting us. We needed facts, and we needed solid plans. Maybe it was time to suck it up and ask Sean for some help. Maybe even Davion, he had experience in this, his insight could be invaluable.
I never thought I’d see the day when I turned to a vampire for aid. But having spent time with Davion now, I could already see from our brief interactions that everything we’d been taught about them was wrong. He came to our aid when others wouldn’t have. He may have had other intentions on the outcome, but he did it because he needed to find help for his family. Davion wasn’t any different from an alpha wolf.
Tanner and River headed upstairs to put the kids to bed. It was way past their bedtime. That was something else we were going to have to get used to. Pack life had changed so much, but I couldn’t be happier about it. This is what the pack was always meant to be—a family. It was what was missing from my father’s pack. The thing we had longed for enough to separate off on our own. We may be facing challenges now, but it was all worth it if it brought us this.
When I turned back to the living room, I found Calli asleep on the sofa. She looked so beautiful with her golden hair spilled across the cushion. She radiated calm when she was asleep, she looked so peaceful. If I had to work at it every single day, I was going to make sure I saw that look on her face in the daytime.
Gathering her up in my arms, I carried her up to my room. The happy growl of my wolf rumbled in my chest as I placed her on the bed. Seeing her there made both of us deliriously happy. This was right in a way I couldn’t ever describe.
Calli stirred as she curled up on her side, her brow creasing in her sleep as whatever she dreamed of troubled her. I quickly stripped down to my boxers and slipped in beside her. It was still early, but with her in my arms, the sense of peace that overwhelmed me made it easy to gently drift towards sleep.
It was only an hour or so later that I felt her starting to stir, and when I opened my eyes, it was to see her glistening green ones staring back at me. The creases in the corners deepened with her smile, and my lips pressed against hers before I even realised I’d moved.
She moved closer to me, hooking one leg around my hip and drawing me in against her body. We were like two magnets, and it was impossible to keep us apart.
“Calli, I… are you sure? I don’t want you to feel…” The rest of my words never made it out as she sealed her lips back to mine. A ferociousness to her movements showing just how close to the surface her wolf was right now.
I could feel my wolf answering her call, pushing against the barriers of my mind, reaching out to feel his mate. The alpha need to claim, to dominate, pushed against me, and I reeled back in shock from the overwhelming sensation of it. This wasn’t like me. I didn’t do this with any of the women I’d been with before. Something about it just didn’t feel right, even though it was my natural state. It felt wrong, but it also felt right in a way I just didn’t know how to explain.
“What’s wrong?” Calli asked, running one hand down my cheek in concern.
I nuzzled my cheek against her palm, needing the time to try and gather my thoughts but also because just one touch from her calmed my wolf from the raging beast he felt inside of me right now.
“I… pfft this is awkward,” I laughed, rolling my eyes at myself. “I’ve never been with someone before that has appealed to my wolf. And, well, he’s very present in my mind when I’m with you, Calli,” I tried to explain.
“I think I know what you mean,” she nodded. “My wolf senses yours close by and pushes to the surface to try and be with him.”
She was right, that was what was happening, but she also wasn’t getting the full extent of what I was trying to tell her. Possibly, because I hadn’t actually told her. Fucking hell, why did this feel weird? She was my mate. I should be able to talk about sex with her.
“It is that, but… not just that.” Okay, deep breath and then just say it. “My wolf is an alpha,” I started, and the smirk on her face told me she was finding my awkwardness all kinds of adorable, and it just wasn’t making this any easier.
With a laugh, I smothered her face with my palm. “Stop looking at me like that. You’re making it harder.”
She laughed at the double entendre I hadn’t meant to say, even if it was completely accurate, and then I felt her slobbery lick against my palm, trying to make me pull my palm away.
“Licking me is never going to push me away,” I growled, taking my hand away from her face and wrapping her in my arms again.
“Don’t change the subject, Grey. Talk to me.”
I grumbled in denial, and Calli started to shuffle in my arms. At first, I thought she was pulling away from me, but then she rolled over and wrapped me around her, her back laying flush against my front.
“Is this easier?”
It was.
“When my wolf is that close to the surface, it’s like I can’t separate his thoughts from my own. He’s an alpha, Calli. He likes to… be in charge,” I stuttered out.
I knew I was still beating around the bush, but I was hoping Calli was getting the gist of what I was trying to tell her.
“You mean he wants to dominate me?” she asked, her voice coming out in a breathy sigh that had my wolf pricking his ears in interest.
“You deserve to be worshipped, Calli. Not pinned down, not the things he wants to do to you.” I felt my cheeks flush in shame as I admitted it. I’d never raised a hand to a woman, and I’d never been rough in the bedroom. It didn’t feel right. And for this to now be how I was going to act with my own mate, it was shameful, and nothing less. My job was to protect, not to dominate. That was why we’d left the pack. The pack way didn’t sit right with us, and my wolf had agreed. I didn’t understand why now, with Calli, he was changing his mind.
The smell of Calli’s arousal snapped me from the mental beating I was giving myself. As I gazed down at her in my arms, I saw the mark of my mating bite glistening against her skin. I didn’t regret that, and it was something I would never have considered before. Calli’s mark on my own neck made me as hard as stone every time I saw it.
“Mate,” my voice growled as my wolf pushed to the front of my mind again. “I can smell your sweet arousal. Was there something about what I said that you liked?”
She ground her ass back against me as her head tipped back on a sigh. As she looked up at me, a flash of silver in her eyes showed me just how close her wolf was to the surface.
“You were made for me, mate,” her voice growled out. “My wolf calls to yours because this is how we were always supposed to be. Don’t hold back from me. Don’t wrap your wolf in chains because you’re afraid I’m going to break. I’m a true wolf, and my wolf wants to play with her alpha.”
My restraint was only so much, but those metaphorical chains she spoke of stayed in place as I held back as much as I could to get the next part out.
“Promise me you will tell me if it gets to be too much,” I ground out. The strain of holding my wolf back after she’d essentially told him to come out to play was hard, but I could pull back now if she told me to.
“Always,” she promised.
My hand snapped up, wrapping around her long, exposed throat and squeezed, just a hint of pressure. I didn’t know if it was a promise or a warning, but Calli’s pupils blew wide with lust at the contact and that, more than her words, was enough for me to let those chains finally break.
“Oh, little wolf,” I growled out. “You have no idea what you’re in for. I’m going to make this sweet pussy mine. You’re going to come until you beg me to stop, and then I’m going to wring one last sweet release out of you.”
I felt Calli’s shiver run down her whole body as I traced my other hand dow
n her front. She’d fallen asleep with all of her clothes on earlier, but she must’ve stripped down to her underwear before I’d woken up because all of her soft porcelain skin was on display now.
I felt an ache in my finger as one claw shifted free. I’d never managed a partial shift before. This was something only the strongest could achieve. It was so rare that most thought it was impossible. I didn’t have time to wonder about it right now, though, because my mate shivered with desire against me, and there was only one use for this claw right now.
Running the tip of my claw under the side of her underwear, I hooked my finger and tore through the lace. Calli’s breath hitched, and I squeezed my hand around her throat again, pinning her in place against my body as I ripped the other side away as well.
I made quick work of tearing through the centre of her bra and then each shoulder strap before pulling the lace from her body, leaving her bare to me.
My claw shifted away, and I ran my nose along the length of her neck, taking in the sweet scent of her arousal.
“Are you ready, mate?” I asked her, giving her one last chance to back away. “Because once we start, I don’t know if I’m going to be able to stop,” I warned.
“I want it all, Grey.”
Sliding one thigh between her leg, I pulled my leg up, stretching her legs wide in front of me before my hand drifted down to her core. My fingers brushed across her already wet lips, she was practically dripping for me, and there was no doubt in my mind she wanted this just as much as I did.
Without warning, I pushed two fingers inside her. I felt her sweet pussy flutter around the sudden intrusion, and she moaned in desire. Calli tried to grind her hips down against my fingers as I held them still inside her, but the way I had her spread, her leg hooked behind mine, gave her no way to move.
“Please, Grey, I want more,” she begged, and my wolf practically howled in glee at the sound of it.
I chuckled at the sound of her begging. She didn’t have to worry about getting to come. I’d meant what I said earlier.
I moved my thumb to her clit, softly brushing against it, still holding those fingers still inside her. I felt her breath catch from the slight contact. My wolf liked this. He liked to hear his mate’s reactions to his touch. I ran my thumb back across her again, and she whimpered against me.
There was so much I wanted to do to her. So many places I wanted to take this. But tonight needed to be about learning Calli’s reactions, and I warned my wolf not to push her too far.
My tongue laved against my mating mark, and she moaned loudly at the contact. Loving the sweet sounds of moans, I did it again, and I felt Calli’s body trying to bow backwards at the contact, even though I had her pinned immobile against me. Next time I’d need something I could tie her down with so I could have both of my hands to explore her freely.
Taking my hand from her neck, I ran my fingers down her chest, circling her breast with feather-light touches as I grazed my thumb across her clit again. She tried to writhe, she tried to grind down against those unmoving fingers, but there was nowhere for her to go.
Her slight movement had my hand snapping back to her throat to keep her in position.
“If you try to move, I’m just going to have to start again. Hold still, little mate. You’ll get your reward if you can.”
She whimpered in agreement, and I started my hand down the trail I’d followed before. Just as my fingers were closing in on her nipple, I brushed my thumb across her clit again. She whimpered at the contact but stayed as still as she could. I could feel her practically vibrating with the need to move—the need to take her pleasure rather than wait to receive it.
I took pity on her, pumping my fingers once inside of her as I pressed down on her clit and scissored my fingers around her nipple, pinching it hard before quickly releasing.
Calli’s breath caught at the sensation. It was almost like that small amount of contact would be enough to make her come, but I wasn’t going to let her detonate just yet.
Moving my attention to her other breast, I started the process of teasing touches again. Calli held deadly still. I suspected because she knew what was coming when I reached her hard little nipple.
This time as I moved my fingers inside her, grazing her clit and pinched her nipple, I ran my tongue against my mating mark. Just as I felt her pussy tighten around my fingers, her wavering on the brink of her orgasm, I froze.
Her breath rushed out of her in almost a sob, and I took a moment to make sure she was alright. I might be enjoying teasing her, I might love to hear the sound of her voice begging, but I wanted her to love the feel of me moving across her skin just as much as I did.
14
Calli
As the rush of near orgasm retreated, my body quivered from the denied release, and my breath rushed out of me, sounding like a sob.
I’d never experienced anything like this before. It was like my body was electrified, and every slight touch Grey caressed across my skin was a flash of sensation that landed straight to my clit.
I needed to come more than I needed to breathe. I’d never had someone deny me an orgasm before, but Grey taking control like this was also doing strange things to me.
Before I knew it, Grey flipped and pinned me down on the bed as he towered over me. His wolf flashed through his eyes as a dark smile lit his face. I was panting with desire, seeing Grey so at one with his wolf, truly embracing his alpha side. It was so fucking hot.
“Please,” I begged again. “I need you, Grey. I need to feel you inside me.”
His growl rumbled deep in his chest as a satisfied smirk lit his face. He liked hearing me beg. He liked that my pleasure was entirely in his hands.
“Don’t worry, little mate,” he told me. His voice echoed with a growl, and I felt myself grow wetter at the sound. “Look me in the eye, Calli. I want to hear you scream my name. I want to watch you fall apart for your alpha. ”
His thumb pressed down on my swollen clit as he curled his fingers inside me, and that was all it took. The orgasm slammed into me with the force of a thousand storms, and I screamed his name, just like he wanted. My back arched, and I could feel my eyes starting to roll back as the waves of sensations slammed into my body. As soon as I moved, Grey’s hand bracketed my throat as he held me in place.
“I told you not to move,” he smirked. “Hmmm, now what should I do with my disobedient mate?”
I knew he’d never hurt me. I even knew that his wolf would never hurt me, even if he did want to dominate me right now. But the edge of that delicious threat was making me more excited than I realised it would.
I never knew it would feel like such a loss when he finally pulled those fingers out of me, but I didn’t have any time to complain as he flipped me over onto my stomach and laid against my back, holding his weight off me.
Pressing his face against the side of my head, he whispered seductively in my ear, “Do you think you can hold still this time, little mate?”
I could feel his wolf pushing to be released so keenly, almost like I could feel the tips of his fur brush along my skin. My wolf rose to the surface, and her whimper escaped my mouth. I’d only just come, but I was desperate for more, desperate for the feel of my mate against my skin.
Grey shifted his weight and retreated, and I grasped the bed covers in both hands, determined to do as he said this time, even if his idea of punishment was the most delicious kind.
I felt his hands grasp my hips as he hauled me up. I had a brief moment of reluctance at what I must look like on my knees with my ass in the air, but then I felt his tongue swipe up my centre, and all thoughts quickly fled my mind.
Pressing two fingers back inside me, Grey’s lips closed around my clit as he lashed it with his tongue.
It was too soon since I’d last come, and I was still too sensitive. I couldn’t help myself as I instinctively tried to move away.
Grey’s free hand closed over my hip in a punishing grip, and he growled against my l
ips as he ate away at me like a man possessed. His fingers pumped punishingly inside of me, and even though I’d only just climaxed, even though I still felt like my brain wasn’t quite working from the last one, I could feel the next orgasm starting to build already.
Chanting his name like it was going to grant me eternal life, I soon found myself starting to press back against his face. Grey’s hand released my hip, and when it crashed down on my ass cheek, it was the final thing I needed to push me over the edge. The delicious burn morphing into a feeling of pure euphoria.
I didn’t have time to revel in the cascading feelings taking over my body because Grey didn’t let up for one moment. His hands clamped down on my hips, and he sucked my clit into his mouth. There wasn’t an inch of give in his grip to allow me any space to move. My cries of ecstasy soon turned into whimpers as I realised that it wasn’t over. Grey was living up to his promise. He’d taken me to the point where I couldn’t take any more, and now he was going to tease one more orgasm from me.
My head thrashed from side to side. It was too much. The feelings of pleasure were flowing through me with an icy edge of pain to it now. It was like an ice storm running through my body. It was ferocious and wild, but every cutting edge of it made me want it even more.
Grey’s face finally pulled away from my core, but before I had the chance to catch my breath, he slammed his full length inside me. The feeling of complete fullness, the delicious stretch as he completely owned my body, was nearly enough to push me right up to the edge again. My back bowed, and I threw my head back as a howl-like scream ripped from my body. My wolf was riding so close to the surface. She wanted this; she needed this. It was like she knew this was always how it was supposed to be with her alpha mate.
Grey gave me no time to adjust to his length as his hips immediately started to piston away.