by Sabrina Rue
“Yes. Yes, Titus.”
“Touching and tasting every inch of you while you come for me again and again. Riding your beautiful body until you collapse from pleasure.”
“Only you can give me that, Mate. Now, now!”
Flipping to his back, he held her over him. “I think you need to know a bit more about your power.” He pushed her to sit up and she blushed, moving to cover her exposed breasts.
Raking his palms over her thighs and up her sides, he pulled her hands away. “You don’t need to hide from me, Desiree. Every part of you makes my cock throb, my heart race.”
The motion of her pussy sliding over him made her head fall back on her shoulders. She rocked her hips to feel it again. “Titus…”
“Feel everything.” Fingers molded to her breasts and his thumbs flicked back and forth over nipples that had never felt so sensitive. “I know you’re anxious, ready. I want you to have everything you want, but I’d be a lazy lover if I didn’t slow things down enough for you to experience all the sensations between the beginning and the end.”
Her palm flat against his abdomen to brace herself, she let her fingertips pet the red marks his captors had made.
“You’ll heal faster when you fully Mate me. When you empty your seed inside me and leave your Mark on my body.” Lifting her eyes to his, she growled, “So many positives.”
Then she leaned forward, holding his shoulder, as her other hand positioned him at the entrance of her pussy.
“You are mine, Titus…”
Impaling herself on his cock, she gasped at the fullness, the unfamiliarity. His expression was fierce, his hands holding her hips hard enough to hurt.
“My little Wolf,” he growled, “you’ve stolen my control entirely.”
He flipped them and drove her back to the bed. Grabbing her shoulders from behind made it impossible for her to do more than take whatever he decided to give her.
Pulling back until she worried he’d remove himself from her body, he slammed forward, filling up her pussy more than she thought was physically possible. Her initial scream of surprise and pleasure/pain had barely faded when he impaled her again, and again, and again.
Within a minute, it was less pain and rapidly building pleasure.
She took everything in as if things were moving in slow motion. The way Titus smelled, felt, looked as he held her immobile and tried to fuck her through the bed.
The sound of their naked bodies meeting with his every driving push made the hair on the back of her neck stand on end. Her breaths were ragged as the heat of him soaked into her wherever they touched.
She felt her Wolf rising to dominance, inhuman growls emanating from her chest as her canines lengthened further.
“You will give to me, Mate,” the symbiotic beast inside her demanded.
“Yes.” Titus stared into her eyes, as connected to her soul as he was to her body. “I give everything I am to you.”
“You will take from me!”
“All that you are. All that you ever will be.” His hips moved frantically over her and she smiled as she pulled him closer.
“Feel my pleasure. I will feel yours. Then it will be your blood, my blood. Blended perfectly together.” She let him into her mind and entered his, allowing them to feel what the other was feeling.
He roared, increasing his efforts to please her.
She showed him all that her body felt in his arms. A long wail escaped that was almost painful. Her climax moved closer, pounded fast and hot, and she gave herself to it as he released a whimper watching her, feeling her pleasure with her.
At the height of it, her body spasming around his shuttling cock, she sank her teeth into his shoulder and growled as she drank him down.
He bit into the bend of her neck, swallowing the blood that rushed past his lips, his tongue, slipping hot down his throat while he increased the speed and strength of his strokes.
Sitting back on his heels, he took her with him, his teeth still attached to her flesh as he fucked her violently from below.
Finally, releasing him and licking over the wound so she could throw her head back and scream her pleasure at the volume it required.
“Titus!”
Another growl against her skin, dragging his tongue over the punctures he’d made that would be visible to Others for the rest of her life, and he let go of her neck.
Holding her tight, he devoured her mouth as he lifted and lowered her over his cock without gentleness. Another climax and then another minutes later stole her breath.
Finally, he released his iron will and drove as deep as he could before going still. He was not biologically capable of knotting her but her body didn’t care.
Her pussy flexed and massaged his length inside her anyway to his groans of ecstasy.
Their climaxes were on loop in one another’s minds. Feeding on the pleasure both felt from the other. As he filled her with his seed, her Mate in all ways now, she wept in his arms at the intense emotions that filled her more than his release.
“Titus.” She swallowed against the emotions rocketing through her at painful levels. “I love you.”
“I love you, my beautiful, gentle Desiree.”
They drifted, drifted, drifted. Safe, together, at last.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Desiree opened her eyes and stared into Titus’s inches from her.
The strength of their Mate bond felt like a physical rope linking her heart and his. The Mark he’d left on her flesh was hot, solid, tangible to her Wolf in ways she hadn’t known to expect.
“Hello, Mate.” His voice was low and rough. “You’re somehow even more beautiful when you sleep. I could watch you forever.”
“Good morning, Titus.” She felt a light blush kiss her skin and she internally laughed at her belated shyness.
Then she noticed that his face was free of the redness from his injuries. The bruising was gone from his neck and shoulders. Sitting up, she pulled back the blankets and ran her fingertips along the wrist closest to her that showed no signs of the chains that bound him and over a torso that no longer showed the evidence of the beatings he’d taken.
“Healed. You’re healed.” Throwing herself across his body, she sobbed brokenly in relief as she held him. “Titus…”
“Come here, my love.” His fingers stroked through her hair as he pulled her up to hold her close. “All is well, Desiree.”
It was a long time before she finished crying out the stress of his capture, torture, rescue, and recovery. He murmured softly, holding the back of her head, and she hugged him as hard as she could.
Finally lifting her face, she stared at him. “Don’t leave me.”
“I will never leave you, Mate.”
“I know you have responsibilities. That Were kind all over the world depend on your help and advice. I understand but…it’s different now. You c-can’t go alone, you can’t leave me behind. Please, Titus.”
Rolling them over, he held himself above her, his hand holding her cheek, his thumb caressing her jaw. “You wish to come with me?”
“Anywhere. I’ll go anywhere with you.” Running her fingers through his hair, she added, “Let me help protect my people. You can teach me what I need to know, show me where I can be of service. I don’t want to be separated from you. I can’t bear it.”
Moving between her legs, he settled into the cradle of her body. His cock was hard and hot, throbbing in time with his heart. Pulling back, he guided the head to the entrance of her pussy and pushed inside.
Her gasp was loud in the silent room.
Once he was fully sheathed, their bodies sealed to each other, he stilled. Within seconds, her breathing and heart rate sped up. She wrapped her legs around his lower back, her ankles crossed over his ass.
Bright silver eyes held hers as he remained motionless and silent above her. She returned his gaze unwaveringly, despite the way her body betrayed her need for him.
“All the years upon years that I d
reamed of finding my Mate, my thoughts were abstract. I considered what it would be like to make love to a Mate, how I would feel if she gave me children, and the unfamiliarity of co-existing with another in such a way.”
Lowering, he sealed their chests together and kissed her softly. She panted against his lips and couldn’t hold back a low moan.
Raising his face, he smiled. “My daydreams didn’t incorporate the possibility that this faceless, nameless other half of myself would fight to protect me. As one of the oldest and strongest of my people, I never considered I would need such a thing.”
“I hope you never will again, Titus,” she whispered.
For the words, he kissed her again and held her harder.
Pulling back, he seemed to choose his words carefully. “I never could have imagined that the Mate I longed for and began to doubt ever finding would wish to work at my side helping the men, women, and children who hold a special place in my heart.”
She gave him a brilliant smile. “They hold a special place in my heart as well, Mate.”
His laugh made her heart swell with happiness. “Thinking back, I never imagined a Mate who was not of Daemon kind. I don’t know why I never did. I’ve been entwined with Were kind for more than two thousand years. It makes sense that my one true love would be drawn from their bloodlines.”
Desiree winked. “Also, your bloodlines.” He pressed his hips firmly against her and she inhaled sharply.
With a grin, he told her, “I’m not sure Harmony is a good influence on you. You’re getting feisty, Mate.”
“I really am.”
“It moves me to think of the good we can accomplish together. Reaching heights I never could have attained alone.”
“I look forward to the knowledge and the challenge.”
As his body started to move, withdrawing his cock from inside her at an achingly slow pace before returning to press as deep as he could go, he smiled. “Were kind is more than Wolves now, my love. Covens eventually branched out to big cats and bears…”
Desiree sighed and rolled her eyes. “The bears are so fucking lazy and the cats are absolute prima donnas. I’ll do what I can to hold my tongue. Thank goodness for the diplomatic training I received from my mother. That shit is really going to come in handy.”
The kiss he gave her was filled with heat and aggression. “No more talking. It’s taking everything I have to form complete sentences while my cock is enveloped in paradise.”
“So glad it isn’t just me,” she replied breathlessly. “Show me more, Titus. Show me everything.”
“Mate, it’s my pleasure…”
* * *
Eventually, they climbed from the bed and descended to the main floor of Titus’s home. He gave her a tour but all she really cared about was the kitchen.
Were kind needed almost constant sustenance and she’d burned through a lot of calories. Opening his pantries and the massive refrigerator, she stared at the emptiness with true sadness.
“What’s happening? Do you not eat?”
“Darling, Daemon kind have unique metabolisms that are highly efficient. I enjoy eating but I don’t have to do so for very long periods of time.” He chuckled at her expression of horror. “When you live for so long, preparing food becomes a chore. Much like taking the time to physically button a shirt or scrub your body.”
Hands on her bare hips, she huffed. “Fine. You ignore food. I’m a twenty-year-old Were so…I can’t ignore food. Where do you get supplies and things in this place?”
Laughing, he winked from existence in a swirl of smoke and sparks that had no scent or heat. Less than a minute later, he reappeared with bags of groceries.
“Milady, as you desire.”
Clapping, she unpacked the food and laid it out on the giant island in the middle of his kitchen. Once she found a fork and napkins, she felt no shame in digging into the various prepared foods and salads he’d picked up for her.
“You really don’t care about eating?” she asked him when she’d consumed an entire Cobb salad. He shrugged. “Hmm.”
Picking up a container of shrimp and pasta, she walked close to him and jumped up on the counter.
Holding a forkful, she whispered, “Let me feed you, Mate. Open those beautiful lips and let me place a bite on that delectable tongue.”
Eyes glowing, he obeyed with a small rumble.
“That’s right. Let me remind you how wonderful food is now. Let me tempt you back to what it’s like to have intense flavors burst over your taste buds, slip down your throat, and fill your belly.”
He transitioned them to the formal dining room and she found herself straddling his lap in one of the antique mahogany chairs.
“Put me inside you, Desiree.” Placing the food on the table behind her, she wrapped her fingers around his length and lowered her body over him. “Ah, Mate. Yes.”
Using one arm, he lifted and lowered her over him. Slow and easy, he stared into her eyes with every gentle invasion.
“It’s strange how new the world looks now.” She smiled. “Before finding you, I thought I’d seen everything, done everything. Each day was going through the motions, habits attained year after endless year. Now, looking at anything from your perspective, through your eyes, it’s new again. All of it. Whether it’s waking up to the sunrise or tasting shrimp for the first time in decades, your enthusiasm is contagious. I never thought I’d feel such things again.”
She wrapped her arms around his neck and braced her knees on either side of his thighs on the wide seat. “I’ve never seen or done or experienced much of anything. It was hard to travel because it was too easy for strangers to bump into me. I-I lived vicariously through my mother, my brothers, and those in the Pack who needed my help.”
“Where have you traveled, Mate?”
One shoulder lifted in a shrug as she started to move on him, taking him deep and raising herself on her knees until she almost lost the head. He dropped his head back with a low growl.
“I’ve visited the four Regional Texas Packs with Mom and Ryker. I saw Arizona when we went to get Justice and then Montana when we rescued Juliette.”
Titus held her still with a frown. “You’ve never been anywhere else?” She shook her head and he cupped her cheek. “I will take you to every continent, to every country. Show you the rainforest and the desert, the mountains and the islands. Introduce you to people from every walk of life. Anywhere you want to go, anything you wish to see, I will see that you have that experience.”
“I’m not sure I can block fellow travelers…”
He chuckled. “We won’t be taking planes, Desiree.”
“Oh!” Her smile felt too big for her face. “That’s right.” She hugged him hard and whispered at his ear, “I’d enjoy that very much. Please take me again, Mate. I-I feel like I can’t breathe without more.”
They turned, the bed was beneath her, and he rocked into her pussy deep and hard while he watched her face.
“Being inside you fulfills me in ways I never expected to feel. It makes me feel stronger than I’ve ever been. The power coursing through my veins is almost too much. It seems you’ve unlocked a piece of my biology that I never knew existed. I look forward to exploring what it means with you by my side.”
“Titus…”
He held her tightly and she tried to stay anchored to reality, to the feel of cool sheets on her back, the scent of evergreens from beyond the window, the sound of their breathing.
“I’ll bend my will to making you stronger than you ever imagined, my darling. Pushing my power into your cells so that I always have your love, your touch, the sound of your voice with me. I’ll never let you go, never see you fall in battle.” He smoothed his hand over her forehead and into her hair. “When you bear our children, I’ll protect you, protect them. I swear it, Mate. I swear it.”
Crying out as her climax stole her breath, she latched her teeth to his shoulder and drank of him.
“Yes! Take from me! Ever
ything I am belongs to you, Desiree.”
They spun into the Between and out again as he positioned his teeth over the Mark he’d left her and took even as he gave.
She felt different, able to see the smallest speck of dust that drifted past her in the light shining through the window. In the distance, she could hear the sound of baby birds awaiting their mother, the running water of a brook, the plodding steps of a bear through the quiet forest.
As a Were, she’d always had exceptional hearing and eyesight but this was more than that. Bigger and stronger than the gifts she’d received as part of her birthright.
Her body warmed and she could hear the sound of Titus’s blood rushing through his veins, the beat of his heart, the way his lungs expanded with every ragged breath as he made love to her.
Veins of light appeared beneath her skin and she licked over the wound she’d made to watch them in fascination. Removing his teeth from her flesh, he sealed the punctures and moved back enough to stare into her eyes.
“I…” It felt as though her body was changing inside. “Titus?”
He said nothing but watched as the light gathered in the center of her chest, coiled out from her skin, and slammed into the center of her Mate’s sternum.
Low growls she couldn’t control rumbled from her and he matched them as the light connected them in ways she didn’t know could happen between Mated pairs.
She could see the glowing blue of her eyes reflected in the blinding silver of her lover’s. Their teeth were fully extended and sharp as razors. More than any Change she’d ever undergone, she was aware of her Wolf. Saw her standing as a physical being in the center of a soft green meadow.
Waiting for Desiree.
The blue-black of her oldest friend’s fur glistened in sunlight as she threw her head back and howled. Desiree joined her while electricity surged through every fiber of her being.
Every second felt like an eternity as she received visions of Titus’s home world, his family, his life as a member of royalty.
His mother removing a stone from around her neck and placing it in the palm of her oldest child. She was too beautiful to look at with the same silver hair and eyes Titus bore.
