by M. L. Briers
“Be nice, I saved your life.”Jerome teased although he delivered it with a dead pan attitude that annoyed Petra even more.
“That was kind of an obligatory thing…”She sneered back at him, making a point not to look at him.
“Not so much. I did my duty. You’re your mate’s responsibility now.”He shot back and she huffed again.
“Then why are you here, you could be off draining a small child dry.”She snapped back and heard him sigh.
“I agreed to babysit for old time’s sake.”He pointed an accusing finger in her direction. “Although, you were far less pouty when you were a little person.”
“I’d say bite me, but…”She sneered again.
“Is that offer open to me?”Dale’s deep tones boomed out from the other room and she felt the spike of adrenaline zip through her at just hearing his voice. By the time he reached the living room door she was perkier within herself. But then she remembered the fact that she had been sitting there between the blood sucking twins for the past hour and some, and she frowned up at him.
“You seriously think it would be after inflicting Gonzo and Animal on me for the past hour?”Vampire pride should have them foaming at the fangs for the comparison to the Muppets…
“I’m animal…”Jerome held his hand up and Wesley snorted his contempt.
“Why do you get to be animal?”The vampire hissed at him and Jerome sat forward on the sofa, looking around his pouting daughter to glare at his cousin.
“Have you seen the size of your nose, cousin?”Jerome offered and Petra couldn’t help but turn to look at Wesley.
“You are Gonzo.”She confirmed as her eyes drifted down to stare at his nose larger than normal nose. Wesley snorted his contempt as he pushed himself up to his feet.
“Babysitting job done. I’m going to get some dinner.”He was gone in a flash.
“I think you hurt his feelings.”Jerome grinned wholeheartedly as Petra turned back towards him and shrugged.
“It’s a shame you are so thick headed otherwise I could do the same to you.”She informed him. Getting to her feet and making a show of turning away from him.
“Perhaps you should just pout some more then, maybe stomp your foot a couple of times?”He teased her as he got to his feet and started for the door. “She’s all yours, attitude and all. Enjoy.”Jerome slapped Dale on the back in commiseration as he left the room and the Lycan chuckled.
“I take it Brad’s coming back at some point?”Jill asked getting to her feet and grinning with amusement at Petra as she walked towards the living room door. She knew when to make an exit and this was one of those times.
“He just did.”Dale tipped his head as he heard the front door close and waited for Jill to leave before he slowly approached his mate. He could see that she wasn’t best pleased with him, but she needed to know that he would do whatever it took to keep her safe, and right now if that meant getting her a vampire bodyguard when he wasn’t around, so be it.
“Don’t stalk me, I’m not a deer.”She could feel the way he was approaching her. Slowly and with great care, checking her body language and reaching out to feel her emotions. She slammed up her shields to see if she could keep him at bay.
“Don’t put up your shields with me, Petra.”He warned on a low growl. He would have accepted that from her before they had been mated, but not now he had marked her as his.
“I’m going for a shower.”She announced, turning on her heels and starting for the door. He had her wrist in his hand a moment later and he spun her back around on her heels, yanked her against his body and brought his lips down on hers a moment after that. The instant his lips touched hers she was lost to him. Her shields crumbled around her. With his hand fisting her hair he tipped her head back to where he wanted her, and devoured her mouth with an urgent fever that left them both panting for air when he broke away to stare down at her.
“I think I’ll come with you.”He growled gently. His hands palmed her backside and he lifted her against him, wrapping her legs around his hips and stalking out of the door with her clinging to him.
Petra had no self control where he was concerned, but if she had, the fact that she could feel the press of his hardness against her sex as he walked through the house carrying her to their bedroom would have broken that control in a heartbeat. He was an addiction that she would never be able to shake. The more she had him the more she wanted him and boy did she want him.
When he put her down in the bathroom neither of them wasted much time in stripping their clothes off. Naked and practically salivating at the sight of her mate’s body, Petra made the first move towards him as he flicked on the shower, dropping to her knees on the rug she looked up his body and saw the flicker of excitement within his eyes as the tip of her tongue moistened her lips.
“Aren’t you going to offer me a taste?”She teased, but the fire within her eyes made him growl out his need for her. He wrapped his hand around the base of his shaft and pushed his erection towards her lips. She didn’t move as he slowly rubbed the silken tip over her lips, back and forth until she parted her lips for him.
“Taste me, love.”He pushed into her mouth and she devoured him with a fever that took his breath away. Her lips sheathed around him and she sucked, nibbled and soothed him with her tongue until he couldn’t stop his hips from pushing towards her, and he fisted her hair as he guided himself into depths of her mouth, slowly rocking back and forth over her tongue as he took his pleasure. But when she pushed forwards, swallowing him down into her throat, he knew it was a pleasure that wasn’t going to last if he didn’t withdraw.
“You’re going to undo me, sweetheart…”He growled down at her as he dragged his hips back and away from her, pulling himself out of her mouth with a wet pop. Reaching down he lifted her up his body, claiming her lips and tasting himself on her tongue, and that only made him want her more. He lifted her from her feet and stepped into the shower with her. Pressing her back up against the wall, he lifted her up and wrapped her legs around his waist, in one long press of his hips to hers, he sheathed himself inside her body, taking her to the hilt and feeling her inner muscles clench hard around him in welcome.
“You drive me insane woman…”He growled against her neck, nipping his way down to his mark where he used his tongue to elicit an almost frenzied reaction within her. She tried to move against his hips but he held her in place, buried deep inside her. “Patience is a virtue…”He chuckled against her ear and she growled back at him. That sound alone sent his beast into freefall. He dragged his hips back. The long pull of his thick shaft against her inner walls had her moaning against his shoulder, when he stroked back to the hilt she bit down into his flesh.
“Careful love, my bite hurts a lot more than yours.”He warned. Dragging his hips back and thrusting inside her and she melted against him. Petra’s nail dug into the skin of his back as she hissed against his ear.
“It’s about time you proved that.”
Dale thrust into her and pinned her against the wall with his hips as he reached up and palmed her face with his hands. Tipping her head back he stared down into her eyes.
“I was told to wait until I was offered.”Dale growled with every word. His beast had sprung to awareness within him…
‘Mine.’
“Are you waiting for a formal invitation?”Petra challenged him with her eyes and he growled at her again, the sound was more feral this time. “Perhaps hand delivered with an RSVP required?”She tried again, but still he didn’t move. “Are you going to bond with me or do I have to zap you until your fangs come out to play, and then slam my shoulder into your…?”
She didn’t get to finish. He yanked her away from the wall and was stalking back into the bedroom with her as he silenced her with his lips on hers. When she felt the mattress at her back, he pushed as deeply inside her as he could get. His hands traced down her legs and he pulled them from around him. He pushed her knees back against the bed, opening her so he could
get just that little bit deeper, stretching her body around his and making her gasp with the pleasure of it.
“I need to taste you…”He growled as he pulled out of her. He was already moving down her body by the time she thought to protest.
“No I…”He nuzzled against her sex and drove his tongue into her. “Oh Goddess…”She tried to move her hips as he curled his tongue inside her, but he held her down so she couldn’t move. Her hands fisted the covers as he fever against her, moving back and forth between the sensitive nub and her channel and making damn sure he touched every sensitive inch in between. To say he was making a meal of her was an understatement. It was so much more, taking her hard and fast towards a release that had her hips bucking aimlessly upwards as she bit back a cry of pleasure.
Dale licked her juices from inside her, savouring the taste of her on his tongue as she slowly came back to him.
‘Mine.’
“Mine.”He growled against her flesh. The rumbled declaration made her entire body quiver as he pressed his tongue flat against her and licked along her folds. When he pressed against her sensitive nub she tried to pull away from him, but he wouldn’t release her until he was ready, until she squirmed under his touch and her muscles tightened almost to breaking point. Only then did he resume his journey back up her fevered body. Nipping and soothing her skin on route.
Dale found the hard bud of her breast and nipped it. Her hands fisted his hair and she held him there, urging him to do it again. He’d already found that his mate like a little pain with her pleasure, especially where her breast were concerned, and he sucked her nipple hard into his mouth and held it within his blunt teeth as she yanked his head backwards, stretching the nipple to its limit as she writhed in pleasure. When he released it he soothed over her flesh with his tongue before lavishing the same attention on her other breast.
He moved his hips, rubbing the tip of his erection against the wet heat of her folds until he found her slick channel. His hands hadn’t left her knees the whole time and he pushed them up the bed, before taking his weight on his hands as her legs rested against his inner arms. He thrust into her, taking her halfway down his thick shaft and growling with the pleasure of her swollen walls sheathing him so tightly.
“More…”She begged for the feel of him deep inside her and he obliged. Thrusting to the hilt and hearing her sharp intake of breath as her fingers tightened in his hair. “Again…”She felt the long drag of his flesh over hers as he pulled back to the tip. With one long thrust he was buried to the hilt.
“Mine.” His deep voice was full of his beast as he growled into the swell of her breast. Petra yanked his head up and saw the flare of his eyes as he stared at her with such longing.
“Yours, so take me. Bite, bond, just don’t stop…”She wanted his beast to push forward, she wanted him at his most feral. Powerful and thrusting into her like his damn life depended on it. The long growl was accompanied by the sight of his fangs pushing down and she felt the flash of excitement tear through her body and that made her want him all the more.
“Mine.”He growled as he moved against her, bringing her backside up from the mattress as he shucked her legs up from his arms and onto his shoulders. She felt her body being opened up to him as he ground his hips against hers. She released his head and gripped his shoulders. When he pulled his hips back and thrust again, she couldn’t help but bury her nails into his skin. A moment later he had her wrists in his hands and forced her hands back against the bed on a long warning growl.
He was moving faster now, taking her in long thrusts that filled her so completely she knew that she couldn’t take anymore of him without him tearing her asunder. She was made for him that was evident. Every deep thrust told her as much. He was fast succumbing to his beast, with every growl it brought him closer to feral and she wanted that, needed it.
She forced her eyelids open, she needed to see him taking her, claiming her for his own and what she saw was magnificent. Every muscle within his jaw was grinding. The muscles in his neck and shoulders were straining under the weight of his body as he held himself above her. And the beautiful contour’s of his chest and abdomen was bulging beneath the taut, tanned skin. She wished she could run her hands over him, feel the power within his muscles, but he wasn’t about to release her now that he had her pinned down. His beast needed to show his dominance over her and she welcomed it.
“Petra…” He warned her with just a look that if she was going to change her mind it needed to be now, while he still had some semblance of control over his wilder side.
“Bond…”She offered her assurance a heartbeat before he bit down on his jaw and growled with everything he had within him. Pure Alpha male, as his beast pushed to the forefront within his personality. His eyes turned jet black and his fangs locked down and into place. He couldn’t stop his claws from unsheathing, but he curled his fingers into the mattress to make sure that they didn’t end up within her skin.
“Mine.”He growled down at her with such force that she felt it in her very toes as they curled, almost painfully. His hips moved faster as he took her with more power and speed, thrusting her towards a release that she knew was going to reverberate through her whole body. He saw her head tip to one side, she was offering herself to him, and he nuzzled his cheek against her neck, careful not to catch her skin with his fangs as he ran his tongue over his mark on her shoulder.
He felt her inner walls tighten around his shaft, felt her whole body tense in anticipation and thrust her over the edge into an orgasm that took her breath away. Dale sunk his fangs deep into her flesh, biting down hard and fast. He heard her release her breath on a cry, before she sucked another back into her lungs again. The taste of her blood on his tongue and down his throat was like the purest of nectar. His beast roared within him as he reached out for her with his mind. Finding her magic reaching back for him as their minds met and bonded together.
Dale eased his teeth from her flesh. His tongue ran over the tender skin, cleaning and sealing it, as he felt the emotions that she held deep within her soul. He could feel her pleasure slowly subsiding, but the urge to find his own pleasure was just starting to burn within him. He’d bonded with his mate, now his beast urged him on. The final act in their mating ritual, to spill his seed deeply within her in the hopes her belly would swell with his pup. He knew she wasn’t futile, he would scent that within her when her time was ripe for his seed, but the offering needed to be made.
Dale released her wrists and reached for her. Pulling out of her, he flipped her over onto her stomach and lifted her to her knees. Thrusting back into her, he took her to the hilt. His body was fevered with the need to have her, to take her so thoroughly, and so completely that he could think of nothing else. He caged her in with his whole body around hers. The sound of flesh on flesh as he thrust inside her, over and over again, mixed with his deep growls and the moans of pleasure that came from her.
He could feel her body drawing closer and closer to another orgasm as he pounded inside her. His mind was lost in the feel of her. His own body tightened in anticipation of the orgasm that was swelling within him, and when he thrust her over the edge, her inner walls massaged him so hard that it practically sucked the release from his body.
Dale threw his head back and roared a deep, long howl that signified their bond. His seed spilled into her, over and over as his hips automatically jerked back and thrust against her again. But he wasn’t done, he wasn’t sated and he started to pound against her again. He felt her body tighten around him, could feel her emotions battering him in waves, and he heard her whimper as she fought against another orgasm, but to no avail, her body responded to every thrust he made and she bucked hard as he took her over the edge for the final time.
He felt pain meet pleasure within her. For one long moment it was if everything inside of her shattered, and then as the hard throbbing waves of her orgasm ripped through her she was put back together again. Her orgasm carried his body over the e
dge into his own, pure pleasure that seemed never ending as he spilled inside of her, until finally his body was sated. His beast became docile within him and he slowly came back from the insanity that had claimed them. His body was curled around hers and with the little strength that he had regained, he pulled her back with him, holding her gently against his chest as he turned them in the bed and eased them down on their sides on the mattress.
The scent of her blood hung in the air and he checked her wound to make sure that he had cared for her properly. He could feel her body like a ragdoll against his. He curled around her protectively as he soothed her back to him. Stroking her and nuzzling into her hair as he whispered his love for her, bringing her back from the insanity that they had shared, and she responded to him, even through the haze of fatigue that was dogging her.
Dale felt for her emotions. He needed to know that she wasn’t in pain. That he hadn’t been too rough with her human body. But all he felt was her bliss. She was tired but happy, and sated in her desires. Mirroring his own emotions.
“Sleep, sweetheart.”His gentle growl made her press back against him and he wrapped her tighter within his arms as she whimpered. “Petra…?” He turned her towards him and she snuggled in closer. “Are you hurt?” He reached out for her emotions again but found the same as before.
“Tired…”She pushed out and he relaxed against her.
“Then sleep.”He couldn’t help the grin of satisfaction that drew his lips wide. But she whimpered again and the grin turned into a frown. “I hurt you…”He growled out, berating himself as he pulled back to tip her face up towards him so he could see her. Her eyes were closed and her face was flushed from their bonding, but she didn’t wince with pain when she whimpered again.
“What’s wrong, love?”Perhaps she regretted bonding with him. Perhaps she had found a way of hiding her pain with her magic. Damn, but it was driving him insane.
