Chapter 24. Lochran
My mate was stunning under me, her mossy eyes heavy with pleasure as she unconsciously bit her bottom lip. She was perfect in every way imaginable. Beautiful, smart, courageous, bold, seductive... there weren’t enough words invented to describe my mate.
For so long I’d wandered this earth, lonely and guarded. But Fate couldn’t have matched me with anyone more perfect than Lex to give my heart and soul to.
Lex moaned as I dragged the tip of my cock through her folds, coating it in her delicious arousal. I wanted our first time to be slow, to draw out her pleasure in languid thrusts so I could etch every movement of her face. Our second time, which I planned to be immediately after, would be where we could lose ourselves in each other.
“Lochran.” Her voice was thick with need, rousing something primal inside me. The need to claim her was almost overwhelming, but not tonight. Tonight was for bonding, not claiming.
I positioned myself at her slick entrance, allowing myself to suck in a deep breath of her desire before I pushed the tip of my cock inside her. I held myself there for a moment, loving the way she sucked in a breath, her bottom lip still clamped between her teeth, her legs wrapping around my waist, her arms around my neck. I pushed in a little more, her cunt clenching around every inch, pulling me deeper. Her walls were gloriously hot, and should Hecate herself decide to strike me down this very moment, I would die a happy demon enveloped inside my mate’s glorious pussy, wrapped in her loving embrace.
Unable to tease any longer, I sheathed myself fully inside her, my mate moaning as I hit the limits of her walls, her cunt pulsing around me as her third orgasm threatened to consume her. I made a mental note that she should perhaps join me some day as I practiced edging.
I traced a finger down the side of her cheek, causing her eyes to flutter open.
“I love you.” My voice was a low grumble, heavy with an intimacy I’d never felt before.
Lex brought a hand to my cheek, her palm soft and warm. “I love you too.”
Her lips pressed into mine, soft and gentle. Her desire was heady, consuming the air around me, threatening to make me spill inside her. But my need to pleasure her outweighed my own desires, and I drew in a steadying breath. I pulled out of my mate, almost to the tip, before slowly rolling my hips back into her. Her moan passed between us, tingling my lips before she broke the kiss, her head lolling back as she arched into me.
“Lochran,” she groaned as her nails dug into my back on the next thrust.
She was so close, but I wasn’t going to let my mate off that easily. My tail materialized, the tip, now blunt, wrapping around the corner of a pillow. Settled deep inside my mate, my hand clasped around her ass before gently lifting her into the air, placing the pillow under her. Lex threw her arms behind her head, desperately grasping at the footboard to steady herself as I thrust deeply into her one final time before pulling out.
“Don’t stop,” she pleaded.
“What makes you think I’m stopping, mate?”
I allowed her just enough time for a retort to form on her lips before plunging the rounded tip of my tail deep into her pussy. She sucked in a surprised breath, her mouth forming a little O before she arched into it.
“This will only take a second, my love,” I promised, letting my tail swirl in her arousal. I pulled it from her, trailing it over her clit and through her folds until it found its way to her tight asshole. The moment she realized what I was about to do, a fresh wave of desire spooled from her, making me bite the inside of my cheek to not spill over her swollen cunt then and there.
Her ring of muscles was tight, resistant as I swirled the tip over her hole, prodding lightly until it gave way. Lex moaned as I pushed my tail in further, her eyes threatening to roll to the back of her head as her knuckles whitened, her grasp on the footboard hard enough I was surprised the wood wasn’t splintering.
“Please, Lochran. I need you inside me.”
I did as my mate commanded, sheathing myself in a single, deep stroke. The new sensation of having both holes filled had my mate clamping around me as another orgasm overtook her.
I watched in awe at the way her eyes fluttered under her lids, the way her nostrils flared, and her lips pulled into a smile before she screamed. Her orgasm radiated through her, and the overwhelming need to watch my mate come undone was the only thing that kept me from joining her in release.
I pulled my cock from her, the sensation of it slowly dragging from her core increasing the pulse of her orgasm. Still positioned over her, I watched her writhing beneath me. Lex bit her bottom lip, a series of short moans escaping as her orgasm slowly ebbed from her. Pride swelled in my chest as it took another full minute before she was able to form a coherent sentence.
“You... you didn’t come?” she asked, a note of disappointment in her voice.
“That was on purpose,” I said, enjoying the look of confusion that crossed her face as I pushed myself off her, kneeling between her legs. I traced my fingers down her wonderfully curvy form. “On your knees, mate,” I said, the command in my voice causing my mate to move without hesitation. The moment she was settled in front of me, I pulled her hips toward me, positioning my cock at her entrance. My hand found its way into her hair, and I tugged gently until her body was flush with mine. “I believe I owe you a rutting.”
A fresh wave of her desire instantly engulfed the room, causing me to almost go lightheaded. I let go of my grip on her hair. She fell on all fours as my hands gripped her hips, her back arching into me as I thrust into her to the hilt. As promised, I fucked her without abandon, driving hard into her. Her wetness dripped down her thighs, coating her swollen cunt as my balls slapped into her dripping folds.
Her words were incoherent as she bit down on the pillow, her desire spiking to the point where another orgasm threatened to overtake her.
“Not just yet, Lex. Hold off for me a little longer.”
Her hip slammed back into me, meeting my every thrust. Her teeth let go of the pillow and she panted, “Don’t... think... I can.”
Her words alone had my own climax looming. My hand slipped under her, dipping between her legs. If my mate wasn’t able to hold back another orgasm, I might as well let this one be explosive. I gently pinched her swollen clit, causing her to buck into me, impaling herself to the limit.
Lex’s moan reverberated around the room as her tight cunt clamped around my cock, tipping me over the edge. My vision blurred as the most intense orgasm I’d ever had consumed me, my body freezing in ecstasy as I released inside her, my seed searing hot as it coated her walls. My mate kept moving, grinding my length in and out of her pulsing cunt, eager to milk every drop of my cum from me.
My mind was a haze, ablaze with awe and wonder, my body tingling, my stomach full, my soul whole, as I took in the sight of my glorious mate in front of me.
As the final thrum of her orgasm faded, Lex pulled herself slowly from my cock. She managed to throw me a satisfied grin over her shoulder before she slumped onto the bed, her body satiated and spent. She had just enough energy left to wiggle her ass at me, the sight of my cum mixing with her arousal stirring that primal need in me.
My mate’s desire to be rutted came from her succubus’s yearning to be claimed. As much as she craved it, I could tell she was ignorant of what claiming actually entailed, which made sense; she’d never intended to summon her mate, so I doubted she’d gone out of her way to find out the most intimate details of how we would claim each other with a mating bite. While I had an intense urge to sink my teeth into her skin and demand she do the same to me, my brain didn’t have enough cognition left to explain the mating bite.
But the primitive need to make some gesture of claiming overtook me. Lex quivered as I dipped my fingers between her legs, coating them in our spend. She flipped onto her back, her eyes widening as I rolled the wetness between my fingers. I brought my hand to her breast, the one that would one day hold the mark of my mating bite. Something primal swirled in my mate’s desire. I could tell that she wasn’t sure why, but she had an intense need to reciprocate the gesture. Her fingers pressed into the mark I’d just left before she rolled the wetness between her fingertips. Her hand pressed into the now healed scar from the bullet that had pierced my heart.
We remained still for a moment, letting the temporary marks dry, before the need to have my mate pressed into me took over. I settled myself beside her, scooping her into my arms and holding her body close to mine.
“I love you,” I said, my lips pressing gently into the crown of her head.
“I love you too,” she replied, her voice sleepy as she wiggled deeper against my body.
Life was perfect with Lex wrapped in my arms. I listened to her breathing slow, her body going limp in my arms before I let blissful sleep take me.
***
“Knock knock,” called a familiar voice that my sex-addled brain couldn’t quite place.
Reluctantly, I pried myself from around Lex, who let out an almighty snore before rolling into the space I’d just vacated.
Pulling on a pair of sweatpants, I walked onto the landing and glanced down the stairs. A formidable figure in a frilly apron stood in the hallway, haloed with the first rays of dawn light.
“Ms. Cole. I’ll just go and wake Lex.”
“I’m not here to talk to Lex.” Lex’s grandma crooked a beckoning finger that brooked no argument. “I’m here for you, Lochran.”
For me? Why would Lex’s grandmother be here to see me?
Apparently, I was taking too long in my pondering, for Ms. Cole, rather tersely, said, “I’m a very busy witch, Lochran. It would not bode well for you if I have to come up those stairs to get you. My knees aren’t quite what they once were.”
“Sorry,” I said sheepishly. For someone who looked like they could be on a box of cake mixture, she sure as shit was scary.
The ruby eyes of her snake-like cane bore into me as I gingerly made my way down the stairs, coming to a halt in front of her. She held out an empty hand, and I stared down in confusion.
The crack of her cane nearly made me jump out of my skin as a journal, suspiciously similar to Lex’s, appeared in her hand.
Oh, shit, yes. The murder.
“You killed a mortal, Lochran.” She flicked through the pages before offering it to me. “One hundred pages, front and back. Your trial will be—” She leaned in, her face relaxing into a doting grandma once more as she whispered, “When do you go away with Lex?”
“Um, we leave on Saturday,” I whispered back to her.
Ms. Cole straightened once more, her tone icily formal. “Your trial will be on Friday. Until then, no magic.” Her cane cracked against the floor, and it felt as if a bucket of cold water had been thrown over me. “And you cannot leave the confines of the coven.” Her cane clacked once more.
Lex was going to have a field day when I told her my punishment was a hundred pages.
Ms. Cole stared at me, her narrowed eyes boring into me as intensely as the ruby eyes of her cane. Suddenly, she broke into a smile. “Now the official business is over”—she reached out and grabbed my hand—“thank you for protecting my granddaughter, and welcome to the family.”
My face twitched into a grin. “It’s a pleasure,” I said, meaning every word.