She froze, her breath caught in her chest. She stumbled forward for a closer look. Her once whiskey-colored eyes now mimicked Aidan’s coloring. A sapphire so bright she could only think of it as arctic blue.
“Your magic and my alpha powers are intertwined. My wolf feels your magic as your powers feel my beast.” Aidan moved up behind her, pulling her back to rest on his chest.
“You can read my mind, can’t you? Or at least feel my emotions?” Their gazes connected through the mirror.
“In a way. It’s more my wolf sensing your emotions. Knowing when you’re in trouble, when you’re angry or happy. Or…” Aidan peppered kisses along her shoulder and up the crease of her neck, “like now, in need of something more.” Through the mirror he appraised her curvaceous figure highlighted in the silver moonlight. And there was no hiding his hungry grin.
“But why did I see flashes of your past, your fears, and even happy thoughts in my mind’s eye?” She turned to face him.
Working her arms to rest around his shoulders, he tilted his head.
“Interesting. What else did you see?” His brows creased, but he wasn’t going to give anything away until she answered.
Chapter Six
She slipped her fingers into lengths of his hair. “Flashes of memories, I think. Of the times we’ve spent together just relaxing. Your childhood, the loss of your father. The fight that saved your brother. I mainly felt the cold of winter nights and saw the full moon shining down on fresh powder. I heard howls and a tangled web of thoughts I couldn’t decipher. I guess the only thing I took away from it is that you love the snow, the winter and,” she paused, “how much you really miss your father.”
He pulled back to look down at her. “You’re talking about something that hasn’t happened for over a hundred years in my pack. That mind-reading thing might be something, after all. I didn’t realize it.”
“What do you mean?”
“I sat back in the corner of your bar trying to figure out what the hell had me so drawn to you. I mean, you’re beautiful, a wonderful friend, but a wolf and a witch aren't exactly traditional couple material. You know that. Something held me here, and I couldn’t walk away even with other shifters of my pack willing to mate with me.”
Cold stabs of jealousy cut at her. She shoved the strange emotion into the back of her mind and tilted her head in understanding, motioning with her eyes for him to continue.
“With the need to mate, and the pull you had on my wolf, I didn’t recognize it until now. I guess it needs time to strengthen. We’ve mated on a level beyond just our powers. Our souls have melded together to form an unbreakable bond. You’ll be able to read my thoughts, know my feelings, but deeper than that, you’ll be able to communicate with me in human and wolf form. And me with you.”
“Are you saying I’ll never have another private thought?” Fear spiked in her chest, and she could feel her muscles tensing one at a time. This was something she never expected. Never even heard of. Then again, she only had a vague understanding of pack law and how shifter culture worked. Understanding otherworldlies and their powers just became a top priority for her. The Silver Circle didn’t exactly smile down on interracial mating, so this was all new and untouched territory for her.
“No. Sadie, Listen to me.” Aidan worked her gaze back to his. “I’ll never intrude on your thoughts. It’s a connection, when mastered, can be controlled. If that’s what you want. Maybe with time you’ll learn to trust me with your most private thoughts, but until then, I’ll teach you how to shield your mind.”
He stroked his fingers across her cheek to tuck a strand of hair behind her ear.
She tilted her head to one side, and they stared at each other in the half-light. Bucket after bucket of emotions flooded her mind. She stilled her thoughts, letting his heartbeat under her palm anchor her to the here and now.
“Give it time, sweetie, I know it’s a lot to take in.” His last was a gravely plea that melted her heart.
She held her hand up to stop him, wondering if she could shield herself from him. She didn’t want to break their bond, but she did want to understand the limits. “You took a part of me tonight. A piece of my heart and soul I never knew I wanted to entrust to someone.”
He softly kissed her lips. “As you did me. I’ll guard it and cherish your gift with my life till the day I die.”
He rested his forehead on her bare shoulder. With his lips pressing butterfly kisses along her skin he whispered, “I was desperate to give you all of me, Sadie. When I thought you were going to tell me to leave tonight…honestly, I don’t think I could have. I would have spent all night doing everything in my power to show you how perfect we are for each other.” He pulled her deeper into his embrace.
Her magic brushed along the tendrils of power they shared, feeding off the new source of energy thrumming through her from head to toe.
She leaned back with a smile. “If you walk out that door, wolfie, I’ll find you. Remember?” She raised a brow in a mock challenge and tapped the side of her temple. “We’re connected now.”
“Yes, ma’am. Indeed.” Her heart swelled and her chest tightened. So many new unexplored emotions bombarded her she couldn’t tell heads from tails, but none of that mattered right now.
She might have hexed the alpha, but he’d enchanted her with his wolfish charms long before tonight.
“I want to help.” Before she could ask what he wanted to help with, Aidan gathered her in his arms and swung her legs to wrap around him. A position she notched in her new favorite list after tonight. “I can’t promise to know everything, this is new to me, too, but I can help you figure out our connection. And I can help with The Cauldron Bubble. Just promise me one thing. No more illegal love hooch. I don’t want you accidentally hexing half the town.”
Sadie rested her forehead on his, inhaled once, then let her muscles relax for the first time in forever. “You would do that for me?”
“We’re mated, remember. Your problems are mine.”
She squeezed her thighs and pulled back. With a wink, she said, “So we’re back here, are we? Me wrapped around you.”
“I plan to thoroughly fuck my mate tonight, and again tomorrow.” He laid her out beneath him on the thick throw rug she loved to curl up on by the fireplace. “I’ll always be there for you, Sadie. Never doubt that.” His features turned serious, and she could see the truth of his words deep in his gaze.
With a firm grip on her ankles, he slowly peeled her legs apart to reveal just how much he affected her. “Already wet and ready for the taking.”
With a flick of her wrist, fire burst to life in the hearth to cast a warm glow over their love nest.
He positioned himself at her entrance and sank into her depth in a slow glide. The room dimmed and all the energy in the room gathered around them. Her back arched, and she clutched the soft material of the rug into her fists. Holy goddess, it felt so good. Her channel pulsated around his thick shaft. He pulled out, leaving nothing but the tip to tease her. “Aidan, don’t stop.”
“I want to hear you, Sadie. Say you want this.”
“It’s a little late, don’t you think?”
“Let me hear the words, baby.”
“I don’t want only you, Aidan. I want your heart, your soul. Forever.”
With each declaration, Aidan slammed home, her body responded with a shudder of pleasure. “Goddess, don’t stop.” Her words came out with a groan, her head tossing from side to side.
He withdrew, and she immediately felt the loss. “Turn over. I want to see that sweet ass of yours as I fuck my pussy.”
He gathered her hips in his hands and spun her around to settle on her hands and knees before him. A warm palm pressed into her back and eased her down. The fat head of his cock dragged through her juices before he nudged her folds open and sank into her.
“Aidan,” she groaned, pushing back against the rocking force of his thrusts. He leaned over her, nibbling the flesh of her back
, grazing his teeth further up her back until he reached her shoulder.
With an arm around her waist, he locked her in place. Caged against his chest and the soft rug, she twirled her hips, desperate for release. “Don’t move,” he ground out.
She stilled just as sharp teeth bit down into the soft flesh of her shoulder. A cry bubbled and she gasped. Surprised by the sudden jolt of pain, she stilled.
Aidan loosened his grip and then began to massage the length of her back. “Forever, Sadie.” He laved at the bite until the pain faded into a muted ache.
“Forever,” she managed in a breathless sigh, his hips driving her crazy with the slow grind, stoking her impending orgasm.
The walls of her pussy constricted, ready to have him filling her once again. She angled her head around to see a raw, almost carnal need in her mate’s eyes. He gathered her tousled locks into his fist, their gazes never parting.
“You’re going to milk my cock.” She pushed as he pulled. “That’s it, suck me with your pussy. Take what you want from me.” She braced herself with her elbows. Tension knotted in her core, coiled, ready for release. She reached between her legs and stroked a finger against her throbbing clit.
Her fingers grazed the swollen flesh of his cock, her reward a gasp followed by a growl. He freed her hair and tightened his hold on her hips. Come morning, she might have a few marks on her skin, but she had left a few of her own on him.
Her legs trembled, and her body tensed. Fire brushed along her nerves, and her pussy quaked with an intoxicating pleasure. Heat flamed to life, causing the walls of her channel to clench around his shaft. Aidan growled from behind and fell over her body. With his arms wound around her waist, he held her in place. “Do you feel me? Feel us?”
Wave after wave of sensations crashed into her while another orgasm held her as a willing prisoner. Bursts of pleasure rocketed her into another realm with each pulse of his cock within her.
She gasped. Her heart raced in her chest. It was him. She was experiencing his orgasm.
Amazing.
And breathtaking to think she made him feel so good.
Red hot liquid soaked her thighs. A mixture of their combined pleasure. He inhaled close to her ear. “Mmm. Like I said, strawberries.” Aidan moved to the side and pulled her down to nestle in his warm embrace. “Pure male and magic,” she countered on a spent sigh.
Soft lips touched the area where he’d bitten her and she let out a soft hiss. She understood the mating now that she had a direct link to a shifter’s mind, but not why he’d bitten her. Hadn’t he already claimed her the first time?
“Did I hurt you?”
“No, more surprised me than anything. What does it mean?”
“The first time I took you, my wolf’s power combined with yours and normally that’s enough. But as alpha, I needed to make sure no other wolf would even try to get their grubby paws on you.”
“So, I’m marked and claimed?”
Aiden growled close to her ear. “And under pack protection.”
She turned to Aidan and whispered, “So my senses will be like yours? So how did I smell to you when the hex took over?”
“Like a sweet piece of meat.” His eyes found hers, and she felt the soul-deep roots taking hold from their bonding. She splayed her hands along her midriff to calm her nerves. Whoa—he was good at that.
“I never thought I’d be mated to the alpha. You know this means trouble will find us sooner or later.”
A sly smile lifted the corners of his mouth. “Witches and their magic. Let it come.”
Aidan sat up and pulled her favorite blanket from the back of the couch.
“If you’re cold, we can take care of that.” Sadie turned and ran a hand down his chiseled six-pack. She cradled his pleasured cock in her palm, the silky length already growing hard in her hand.
“Sounds like a promise I want a part of.”
Sadie settled over her new mate and let her new life sink in. She had her coven sisters, which she was eternally grateful for, but they didn’t warm her soul the way her mate did. It might have taken a hex to get him in her bed, but it was no accident the love she felt for her mate.
She licked her lips. “I love you, Aidan Montgomery.” He leaned his massive body over her, his beautiful cock hard against her thigh.
He chuckled and the sound was a sexy husk. “You’re about to find out how possessive I am with my mate. You’ll never go a day without knowing my touch and the love I have for you. I hope you can handle that.”
“Bring it wolfie!” She pulled him down and he claimed her mouth the way he claimed her heart.
Instantly.
The End
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Read on for the first chapter of Claimed by Her Mountain Man. You know this is going to be a quick, dirty read dripping with sweetness and just enough naughty to make you blush.
Chapter One
Ethan Savage played a dangerous game. Flirting with disaster was about to leave him backed into a corner and facing a large brick wall he’d never escape over if he wasn’t careful. How could he consign himself to such a fate? Shackle himself to something neither of them wanted?
Yet here he was. Balls deep and ready to claim the one woman who makes him—the man who professed to never want a family or roots—want fucking forever.
He took another look at the beauty beneath him and the strings around his heart tightened.
As the snow melted, spring faded into summer and along with it came Alaska’s midnight sun. Endless daylight. And what felt like endless hours on hand to fill with learning every single thing that made the new town doctor to climax around his thick shaft. Not to mention on his tongue.
Buzzing in his mind grew louder and drowned out everything but the woman spread out in front of him pushing the boundaries of his control.
Damn her. Why did she have to be so damn tempting? Never in his life had he ever lost control with a simple smile.
Hadn’t he promised himself he’d never let anyone close to him?
Whatever had his guts tied into matted knots made it hard to breathe the second her delicate body slid beneath him.
God help them both. Three days in the backwoods with no interruptions will leave no part of her untouched by him.
He trailed a single finger over the blackened ink swirls of vines and flowers that decorated the smooth skin from her right thigh all the way up to grace the soft skin of her waist. He swore he could feel sparks shimmer where his skin met her supple curves. Buried desires to have such a strong connection to someone stirred. Connections he had not felt since the death of his twin.
He pulled back as if the ink of her tattoo had magical powers reaching out to twine around him. Not possible, he knew, but still. What he felt didn’t seem natural. A man could lust and enjoy the delicacies of a woman without forming connections.
At least that is what he believed before having a taste of his sweet Remy.
His?
Every half hour, like a playlist on repeat in his head, he reminded himself it was nothing more than a fling. She didn’t belong to him.
But she was on his mountain and that did make her his.
His cock pulsed deep inside her core and the walls of her pussy clamped down around his thickness, causing them both to moan.
He palms her ass cheeks, letting each of his fingers sink into the delicious skin. She was soft and warm in his hands and wet wrapped around his dick. “Do that again and I might have to spank this sweet ass,” he teased in a low voice.
Her breathing came rough, and he soothed her by rubbing his hands the length of her elegant back.
Three more torturous, heavenly days and they parted ways. Their time together would be over.
How many times could he make her reach her peak in seventy-two hours? Would she forget him once she left Savage Ridge?
It was possible, but not likely. They fit together too well for her to forget the way he made her body shiver. His fingers play
ed with the curling ends of her hair. He had to admit. He would never be able to forget her.
But, come three days’ time, she returned to her world and he stayed in his. Playboy Ethan didn’t pine, damn it. He smiled to himself, but he would make damn sure she did.
Darkness played at the contours of her heart-shaped face pressed into the pillows, and long shadows stretched across the room, barely brushing her golden skin.
The scent of fresh sea air and warm sunshine played along his senses. Some would argue sunshine didn’t smell. A fucking lie. It smelled like happiness, hope, and a helluva a lot of trouble he didn’t need.
He drew in a deep breath and closed his eyes, working his fingers into the delicate flesh above her hips.
Remy moaned beneath him and sashayed her hips, driving his cock deeper.
The soft, feminine sound reached into his chest and pulled on invisible threads anchoring his heart—good thing too because it lurched in his chest.
A deep growl rumbled up the back of his throat.
Using only the tips of his fingers, Ethan grazed a path up the backs of her thighs, over the naked arch of her ass and paused when she shuddered from his touch.
“Beautiful,” he rasped. Her husky breaths told him everything he needed to know.
He slipped out of her until the tip of his dick sat at her entrance and slowly as to feel the way her pussy took all of him, he sank back in.
Did she feel the connection between them forming as well?
She moaned a feminine sigh and he licked his lips, hungry to eat up her delicious gasps and moans.
Like Hades he could though. One brush of her lips on his, the way he felt right now, and he’d be slinging her over his shoulder and finding the nearest priest. He’d already lost too much in one lifetime.
Ethan pushed the images aside and ignored the vein in his neck as it pulsed in time with his aching shaft. Gritting down hard, he rode out the wave cutting off his air until he had control over himself.
Every inhalation of her lavender-scented lotion, or whatever she used to get into his head, converted his blood to fire. Oh yeah, she knew what she did to his head.
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