by Delta James
Ava began to weep—deep, wrenching sobs. Declan ceased his spanking and began to rub her bottom in a soothing manner.
“It’s all right, sweetheart, let it out. You were a very naughty she-wolf, weren’t you?”
“Yes, Declan,” she said through broken tears.
“And you know what happens when you misbehave, don’t you?”
“Yes, Declan.” Ava was trying to stop crying, but could only managed to bite them back to muffled sniffles.
“What happens?” asked Declan as he stroked her spine down through the furrow between her cheeks to briefly massage her back entry and gently insert his finger.
“No, Declan. Wolves don’t do that.”
“This wolf does and my mate had best get used to the idea. Do you want to obey or do I need to make this pretty bottom a whole lot redder?”
“Don’t you want to knot me?”
Declan chuckled. “So my mate would like to be knotted and tied to me?”
“Yes, damn it!”
Ava started to get up, causing Declan to land three more hard blows to her already painful backside. She yowled in response.
“I’m pretty damn sure I’ve told you that you are not to get up from over my knee until I’ve given you permission.”
When she relaxed and went limp back over his knee, he began to stroke her back. His finger trailed down her spine again before following the line’s natural progression to her puckered ring of muscle. This time when he caressed her there, she didn’t try to squirm away from him.
“That’s a good mate,” he crooned.
He pressed his digit into her hole and gently stroked her.
“But you have caused an awful lot of people an awful lot of worry and fuss.”
“I thought Ioan was going to force me into a mated pair. I didn’t want that.”
“He forced you into this one.”
“No, he didn’t. You did, but not because you threatened to make me run, but because I love you. When you asked me the second time, I did agree... and I did so because I’d never wanted anything more in my life than to be your mate,” she said, sniffling as the tears threatened to begin to fall.
Declan leaned down and kissed her shoulder. “Shh, love. There’s no need for your tears. I know your bottom probably stings, but you deserve that for all the lies you told and worry you caused. In fact, I daresay I ought to paddle you some more.”
“No, Declan, please. I’m sorry. I didn’t want to love you and then when I realized I didn’t have a choice about that, I wanted to keep you safe, and then I failed at that and then...”
“Ava, enough. You didn’t fail anyone. You caused people who loved you to worry...”
“For Christ’s sake... Ouch,” she screeched the last as Declan’s hand once more connected sharply with her backside.
“Watch your language or I will wash your mouth out.”
“I bit you.”
Ava was shocked as he laughed softly.
“Yes, you did, my passionate mate. Oliver tells me that his Roz routinely chews on his collarbone and rakes his back when she’s being pleasured.”
“I didn’t mean to.”
“Maybe instead of beating yourself up, you might want to ask me how I’m feeling about it.”
“Fine,” she snapped and was rewarded with another hard swat. “All right, how are you feeling about it?” she said in a more modified and respectful tone.
Declan leaned down and kissed her spine just below where her shoulder blades met. “I’m feeling quite extraordinary. First and foremost, there’s no way Ioan or the rest of them would have allowed a human to claim a shifter-born, alpha female... fated mate or not. For that reason alone, my beloved mate, I have decided not to take my belt to you for all the trouble you’ve caused. Second, I am told that I will have a longer, healthier life. That certainly isn’t a bad thing. Last, but not least, I have the ability to knot and tie my mate. Oliver says it’s the most intense sexual encounter and the most intimate and satisfying experience I’ll ever have.”
Ava giggled. “Well, there is that. Lying here on your lap, I can feel how hard you are, but I don’t feel your knot.”
“That, my mate, is because I’m suppressing it.”
“Why?” she said so mournfully, Declan burst out laughing.
“Because naughty girls shouldn’t be rewarded for their naughtiness. Up you get,” Declan said as he helped her to stand. “Go stand in the corner.”
Ava searched his face and while she found love there, she also found grim determination. She thought to protest but realized all that would get her was another trip across his knee. Ava turned and walked into the corner and stood quietly.
Declan walked over to the tall antique dresser and opened the top drawer. “You know,” he said conversationally, “I always thought this top shallow drawer was weird. Someone tried to tell me it was for ties. I think it was meant for toys.”
Ava snuck a look over her shoulder and saw him remove the butt plug he had used on her several times.
“No, baby...”
Declan sat back down on the bed. “Yes, sweetheart. Come here to me and put yourself over my knee.”
“Please...”
“Ava, if I have to come get you or you don’t decide to behave right now, I’ll put you back over my knee and spank you to the point that when I go to knot you, you won’t be comfortable lying on your back.”
Declan growled low. Ava turned her head and saw him smile as he watched the effect it had on her and she shivered with desire. She walked over to him. Quietly and without any additional prompting, she laid herself over Declan’s lap.
“What a good mate you can be when you try. I know you don’t want this, but I’m proud of you for choosing to be a good girl and submit.”
“I hate that word,” Ava growled.
Declan swatted her backside twice, reigniting the sting he’d bestowed on it earlier.
“I’m sorry,” she cried.
“You don’t growl at me, mate, unless it’s out of passion. And you really don’t do it when you’re already being disciplined.”
Ava forced herself to accept her punishment. Declan began to rub her bottom once more, teasing her rear entrance before pressing his finger past its tight opening.
“Open your legs, Ava.”
When she complied, Declan reached between her legs and stroked her pussy, making her moan. She knew he had suspected she would be wet for him, and she didn’t disappoint. She felt the plug at her pussy’s entrance and cried out with pleasure when he pushed the plug into her wet sheath and slowly spun it in place.
Already aroused from the spanking and from Declan’s show of dominance and acceptance of his place as alpha, her pussy started to quiver in anticipation of climaxing. He withdrew the plug and she cried out in frustration. Declan took his other hand and collected some of her natural lubricant and applied it to her back entrance both inside and out.
She started to protest and Declan cut her off.
“No, Ava, be a good girl.”
Declan poised the plug briefly and then pressed it forward. Once again, Ava breathed and forced herself to relax and accept. The butt plug stretched her opening uncomfortably as it always did. She remained over his knee without struggling. He petted her bottom affectionately.
“Now, you go stand in the corner with your punished ass and pussy on display for me.”
Ava took a deep breath and did as she was told. She hated the fact that the longer she stood there knowing Declan was enjoying the sight of her red, plugged bottom and dripping pussy, the more aroused she became. Her nipples were beaded and ached for the comfort of his mouth or hands.
Declan growled low and seductively to her as he approached. Not only was she getting used to the feeling those sounds evoked in her body but she was beginning to revel in them. It was as though the sound wrapped around her breasts and nipples before sliding down her body to circle her clit several times as it made its way to her core’s entrance
and entered her to swirl in her lower belly.
Declan wrapped his arms around her pulling her back into his body. He ran his hands up the length of her body and began to fondle her as she leaned into his hands, moaning in sensual response. Ava could feel his hard-on straining against the front of his jeans. She was a bit disappointed when she realized he had already learned to suppress the knot that she knew wanted to form.
“Please, Declan...”
“No, Ava, naughty she-wolves get their bottoms punished inside and out. If you’re a good girl tonight and behave yourself and surrender to me, then tomorrow I will knot and tie you, my sweet mate.”
Ava sighed and relaxed back into his hands.
Declan nuzzled her, nibbling all along the top of her shoulder and up the side of her neck before nipping her ear. Ava responded by pushing her bottom back into his body and gasping as the contact reminded her that this had started with him giving her a thorough spanking and ended with him putting that awful plug in her rear. Declan chuckled and then growled low and seductively. Well, he certainly had the noises down pat, she thought.
Declan stepped back, grasping her hips and pulling her toward him. Ava started to protest and was rewarded with a sharp swat to her soaking wet pussy and engorged clit. The growl Declan emitted was still intended to fan the flame of her arousal but indicated he was in no mood for anything other than her absolute obedience. Ava relaxed her body and moaned her acceptance.
“Better,” he growled.
As soon as he had her positioned, Ava felt his cock probe between her legs and as he thrust forward, she pushed back impaling herself on his hard shaft. She knew that she would find the sinking of his cock into her soft sheath pleasurable, so she was unprepared for the hard swat back between her legs combined with a hard bump from his pelvis pushing the butt plug deeper.
“Naughty,” he growled. “I mount you, mate, not the other way around.”
His grip on her hips became stronger, bordering on painful as he began to hammer her pussy. The sensation was new as this was the first time he had fucked her while he still had the plug in her ass. It made everything feel more... more full, more aroused, more incapable of handling that level of pleasure.
Ava felt him drive into her over and over and could do nothing other than respond to his dominance and skill as a lover. She howled in need and relief as she came hard for him.
“Good mate,” he said as he uncoupled from her.
“Declan, no...” she wailed.
Declan laughed as he led her back to their bed. “Get up on the bed on your knees. I want your tits and your head flat on the mattress and spread your legs wide.”
Ava was frustrated from his not bringing her to climax more than once and not finishing inside of her so that she could feel his cum shooting to the depths of her channel. She scrambled up onto the bed and put herself in the position he wanted.
Declan crawled up on the bed behind her, took hold of her again and mounted her. The strength and authority of his possession caused Ava to climax immediately; feeling her pussy being pummeled by his hard cock while her ass was still being stretched by the butt plug made her clutch and bite the bedclothes.
“Declan,” she pleaded.
“Again,” he growled.
The power of his call, combined with his mastery of her senses and body, made her howl as her pussy clamped down on his staff and her back channel spasmed around the butt plug. When he began to withdraw, she growled in feral dismay and started to rise. Declan’s response was swift and decisive. He swatted between her legs, punishing her swollen labia and pussy.
“Down,” Declan responded. When she didn’t immediately comply, he delivered another set of swats to her most feminine parts and then a much harder set to her reddened backside, jarring the plug inside her bottom.
He pulled back and Ava remained in place.
“I’m sorry, Declan. Please, I’ll do anything, I need to feel you empty yourself in me,” she mewled.
“Tell me you know you were very naughty; you need to make amends to Ioan and Bethan; and you want to atone with me by having me take your ass for the first time.”
Ava nodded. “I should never have questioned my former pack’s commitment to me. I want to make it up to not only Ioan and Bethan but to Colum, Griffin, Maddie, and the rest of them at Calon Onest. And if it will please you, my alpha, I would have you claim my ass for your pleasure.”
Ava was relieved when his answering rumble was teasing and sensual. “Not just my pleasure, my mate, but yours as well.”
He removed the plug from her and pressed the head of his cock against her back entrance. “Just breathe, sweetheart.”
“You’re so much bigger than the plug,” she fretted but refused to offer him any true resistance. “I trust you to give me what you know I need and will enjoy.”
Declan stroked her soothingly and reached under her to play with her clit, ramping up her arousal. He played with her, alternating flicking and swirling his finger around her, then pinching the little nub until it was very sensitive. As she started to come from his fondling, she could feel him gently push himself into her virgin hole.
Ava felt it sting from the size and strength of his possession, but as she climaxed from his attention to her clit, he slipped all the way in and she could feel herself close around him. Her bottom felt far fuller than it ever had and yet the sensation was not uncomfortable. In fact, as he began to stroke in and out, the discomfort gave way to another kind of pleasure. The pleasure he was able to give her was only enhanced by the feeling and rightness of her submission to him.
“Yes, Declan, please,” she gasped in rhythm to his stroking.
“My sweet mate... do you know how long I’ve wanted to possess you this way. Such a good girl to give to her mate,” he crooned.
As Ava’s body began to reach for the ecstasy it knew awaited her, Declan’s cock throbbed as he made use of her. She could feel that his release was imminent.
“Give to me,” he growled.
Her body responded in the only way it knew how and she came screaming his name as he pumped his cum into her back channel for the first time. In the same way her pussy would spasm around him when he made use of it, so did her dark tunnel as it received its first deposit.
He withdrew from her and she collapsed. Declan scooped her up in his arms and took her into the bath where he gently washed their bodies, never allowing her not to be in full body contact with him. After he had dried her off, he lifted her back in his arms and she nuzzled his neck, feeling as sated as she ever had.
He laid her in their bed, covering her up before joining her and pulling her back into his body to spoon all along her length.
Barely able to keep her eyes open, Ava yawned and stretched like a cat. “Knot?” she asked like a little girl hoping for her ultimate treat.
Declan smiled and nuzzled her neck as he held her close with his hand resting on her mons. “In the morning, my greedy mate.”
She sighed and gave herself over to the exhaustion that enveloped her.
Chapter Eighteen
Declan woke with Ava still blissfully asleep in his arms. The pleasure of the realization that she was truly his was only slightly offset by the painful knot that had formed and begun to pulse. He told himself he would not wake her in order for them to both experience a proper knot and resulting tie. The damn thing hurt, but seeing her sleeping so peacefully, he was loath to wake her to see to his own need.
He smiled when she wiggled her ass closer to him. He loved the fact that his mate, his bad-ass, alpha she-wolf was a snuggler of the first order. The first few times they had fallen asleep he’d needed to pull her close and have his arm wrapped around her tightly enough that she couldn’t get away. It hadn’t taken her long to decide she wanted to be close to him.
“Good morning,” she whispered. He didn’t need to see her face to hear the happiness in her voice.
He nuzzled her neck and kissed her shoulder. “Good morning, m
y beautiful mate. How are you feeling about being forced into a pairing?”
“Pfft. I already told you I love you and that I chose to be mated to you.”
Declan rumbled a deep seductive almost purr that he could feel reverberate through her body. “If it makes you happy to believe that last part, you go right ahead and I’ll never tell.”
“Jerk,” she said, wiggling onto her back.
“Mate,” he corrected before taking her mouth with his.
Declan enjoyed and appreciated the depth of Ava’s responsiveness. She was intensely sensual, tactile, and embraced that part of her nature fully.
“Did you mean what you said last night?” she asked quietly.
“Although I’m not sure what you’re referring to, I’m not the one that got spanked because she lied.”
“And I got punished for that.”
Declan kissed her again and brought his hand up to fondle her nipple.
“Yes, you did. And as I recall also got pleasured in a new way.”
Ava blushed and nodded.
“Sweetheart, there’s nothing wrong in admitting that getting spanked by me arouses you or that you enjoyed having me claim that last pleasure hole of yours.”
“I didn’t enjoy it. I merely submitted to it because I was in trouble.”
“Ava? Do you need to be spanked again for lying to me?”
“No,” she said morosely. “But I don’t think most wolves do that.”
“You have no idea what they do in the privacy of their bedchamber nor should they know what we do in ours. But you came apart in my hands when I was taking your ass and I know you enjoyed it and not because you were submitting. I daresay the submitting part would tend to make you more resistant to enjoying it,” he said, grinning at her.
“Not funny, Declan.”
“Not meant to be, sweetheart. Just think of it as one more way you get pleasured that some of your friends may never experience, and feel sorry for them. And if anyone ever finds out and it bothers you, tell them that it is only because I make you submit to me that way.”
