Fearless (The Willowdale Village Collection #2)

6. Ari Walker

CHAPTER 6

ARI WALKER

T his wasn’t how I wanted to spend my Saturday night—but it also wasn’t unfamiliar. Although Lena and I were now very different from the high schoolers that used to go out every weekend.

Yet here I sat at a bar watching her move about a birthday party, celebrating with guests and giving well wishes, after having dropped off the cake order she spent all afternoon making between taking care of customers. Something I knew because I’d been deemed to be the only one that could watch her without disrupting her peace.

The other three had gone to help this evening in the pack lands, where a group of young shifters had shifted for the first time far too early, something that Macon and Connery had acute experience with. I was glad I’d been chosen to watch over Lena, because I wasn’t sure I’d have been able to stay away from her after having had to cancel on her last night.

I was a patient man. Really fucking patient. I had managed to conceal my mating bond with Lena for years; from the first tug towards her when I met her initially to the confirmation that she was my mate when we both turned eighteen. I knew it hadn’t been the time, though, and that she needed to make the decision to approach me with it. At least I’d thought so. Now I was wondering if I should have gone about all of this differently.

While he hadn’t disclosed what had happened, Macon had made it clear that he’d tried to push her to see the truth this morning—and well, clearly it had backfired.

I had even tried to give Hunter, her eldest brother, a note from me to give to Lena this morning. He hadn’t wanted to—at fucking all. Luckily, his new mate had been decent enough to take it and deliver it to our girl. Yet every text, call, and now letter had gone unanswered. I could see the tension in her shoulders as she moved around the room, and despite the smile on her face, there was a slight sadness to Lena’s expression. I hated to see that.

When she leaned over the bar to order a drink, I saw her catch my scent—her head snapping to the side with wide eyes in realization that I was there watching her. She was wearing a pair of leggings and sweater that clung to her curves, and I didn’t hide, like I normally would, my appreciative gaze.

I could tell her mating heat had started, so her perfect scent was now tinged with a level of desire that had my wolf growling loudly in my head.

I was just glad that I’d mastered a level of control over myself throughout the years. If she only understood what I wanted to do to her—how I wanted to spread her out and devour her whole every single fucking time she was breathing the same air as me.

Suddenly, my view was blocked by some asshole. A rumble broke from my throat as I stood, and I was glad I’d worn my uniform since people moved out of my way in response to it. Although it didn’t seem to bother the bastard who continued to talk to Lena, laughing about something she said as she leaned back from him slightly. She was clearly just being polite…which was good because it meant she wouldn’t mind what I did next.

“I’m actually going to just finish this drink and head out,” she said, her eyes moving to me. A spark of something danced there, almost like pleasure.

“Just stay for another drink or two. It’s early?—”

I scooped Lena up, throwing her over my shoulder and moving toward the door. She grumbled something about her drink but didn’t otherwise object to my action. The guy shouted after her but didn’t try to follow, which was a smart move on his end. I smoothed my hand over Lena’s ass as we finally stepped outside and I placed her down.

“What the hell was that?” she asked, crossing her arms. I wondered briefly if she was talking about me touching her ass but then realized she was too frustrated for that to be the problem.

“You delivered your cake, time to go home,” I said with a shrug, blocking the entrance to the bar and putting my hands in my pocket casually.

Something about my words made her actually mad, and she rolled her eyes and turned away from me, storming down the street. I cursed, jogging to keep up with her and steering her toward my patrol car, the SUV glinting beneath the full moon. Unfortunately for her, my wolf was extremely present tonight, and while I wasn’t worried about shifting, every step she took away from me had me wanting to chase and pin her down.

“I’m not riding with you,” she growled, moving away from me and the car. “I’ll walk home.”

Turning her swiftly, I walked her back against the SUV, cupping her jaw as she looked up at me in surprise. I spoke softly but seriously. “You aren’t walking home. You’re getting in the damn car.”

“No,” she bit out.

“Why are you mad?” I asked, giving in to the urge to run my hands through her hair, not worried about anyone interrupting us. The bar was about a mile outside of town, located on a road that ran through the woods near the coven lands, and the darkness made me feel like we were alone.

“Mad? I’m not mad.” She looked away momentarily before her narrow gaze returned to me. “Confused, annoyed I didn’t get to finish my drink, and frustrated that I can’t seem to make friends, even?—”

“He didn’t want to be your friend,” I pointed out, trying to not show my amusement.

“You don’t know that.” She tilted her chin up. “Plus, why do you care?”

“Loaded question, baby girl.” I smirked, but I didn’t feel an ounce of humor now.

“Enlighten me, then, Ari. Because no one seems to be able to tell me anything straight.”

I wanted to, but I hesitated because it felt like a conversation meant for all of us.

“Of course you won’t.” She spun towards the car and threw open the passenger door. “Everything is always so relaxed and chill with you, Ari. Why would I expect an actual, serious answer?”

I snapped. More specifically—my wolf and I snapped.

In a quick movement, I grabbed her hips, pulling her back right as she was about to climb up into the passenger seat. My cock was so incredibly hard against her perky ass, and she looked up at me in surprise, her eyes darkening with realization of how turned on I was.

“I don’t feel relaxed or chill about any of this,” I rumbled, running a hand up her throat so that she couldn’t look away from me. “In fact, I’m about two seconds away from showing you exactly how I feel, Lena, but you asked me to leave you alone. You asked all of us to leave you alone.”

“Because it feels like everyone is keeping secrets from me!” Her voice broke, heartbreak written on her face . I couldn’t handle seeing that. I turned her sharply, dipping my head and sealing our lips together.

Lena’s taste was perfection on my lips, and the way she moaned was absolutely divine. Her hands ran up my arms as her nails bit into my skin, the short sleeves on my uniform shirt something I was thankful for.

“Is that clear enough for you?” My wolf nearly pushed out of my skin in response to her rabbit, who was trying to encircle us with her magic. To trap us. Despite being a predatory animal, I would fucking love for my little bunny shifter to trap me—the idea was so fucking hot, it was unreal.

“I need more,” she whispered. I groaned, happily devouring her lips that she offered to sweetly.

When we broke away, she looked up at me with so much vulnerability it nearly broke me. “I need to know you actually want me, Ari.”

“Want you? You’re all I’ve wanted since I knew what it meant to want someone. I haven’t gone a fucking day without wanting you, baby girl.” My hand captured hers and I ran it along the hard outline of my cock, her eyes flaring with excitement. “Every single fucking minute I’m around you—hell, even when I’m just thinking about you—I’m so damn hard. This is because of you.”

“Ari,” she breathed out, biting down on her lip before grabbing my belt and undoing it with quick, impatient movements.

“Lena—” I warned, but she’d already unbuttoned my pants and released my cock. Her soft, hot hands nearly wrapped around my length completely, and my knees felt wobbly as I used my hands to cage her against the car, holding onto the roof. Her breathing was fast as she began to stroke me, looking up at me with heat.

“You’re so big.”

“Fuck,” I grunted, closing my eyes and willing myself not to come. Not like this.

All my fucking control was thrown out the window when the woman got down on her knees in front of me and ran her tongue over the head of my cock. My eyes snapped open, taking in the sight before me. Her smaller frame was hidden in the darkness of the patrol car, but we were still out in public for anyone to see. Her bright golden eyes burned as she stared up at me with need, running her tongue over my length once more.

“Baby girl, you don’t have to.”

She held my gaze defiantly as she suctioned her lips around my cock and took me fully in her mouth. I let out a deep groan as my length hit the back of her throat. My hand strung through her hair, trying to resist the urge to push deeper, to make her gag on my cock.

“Tell me how,” she whispered, pulling off my cock just momentarily.

“Relax your throat and take me as deep as you can,” I said, unable to help myself.

Instantly Lena was doing exactly that, and my balls tightened at the sensation of her wet mouth and throat taking me. I tugged her hair and she moaned, encouraging the darkness inside of me. When she began to move faster, I found my hips moving, pulsing deeper inside of her throat as she gagged, tears forming in her eyes. I let my hand stay loose enough that she could pull away at any moment, but she didn’t—she fucking didn’t, and before long I could feel myself needing to come.

“Fuck, I’m going to come,” I cursed.

“I want to taste it,” she whimpered.

The idea of seeing my cum on her tongue was so fucking hot, but unfortunately, it would have to wait. In a fast move, I pulled her up from the ground and threw open the back door of the SUV.

“Up,” I demanded as she stepped onto the running board, one hand tightening onto the partition cage and the other grasping the head rest of the back seat, her ass poised right where I wanted it. My fingers made quick work of pulling down her leggings and panties, her wet, slick pussy glistening in the darkness of the night.

Letting out a deep groan, I buried my mouth against her pussy as I stroked my cock to the taste of her. When she began to moan out my name, I didn’t hesitate to straighten and run my cock along the length of her pussy.

“I’m not going to take you like this—not for our first time. But I need to come on you. Need to mark you, Lena,” I said roughly while moving my hand over her curvy hip to strum her clit. Her body melted further down as her ass went up, showing me her perfect pussy.

“Ari,” she whimpered, her soft voice filling the car. “I need to feel you—please.”

“Only my fingers,” I growled, trying to do right by her. I slid two fingers inside of her, feeling how fucking tight she squeezed around me. “Fuck, Lena, I don’t think I could slide inside of you even if I wanted to—you’re so damn tight.”

“It feels so good, but I want more,” she whimpered as her magic filled the car like a heavy rush of water, dancing across my skin. “Just a little, Ari. Please?”

“We shouldn’t,” I said, and it took everything in me to get the words out. “You told me to leave you alone, that you needed time?—”

A pained noise left her as she moved her ass back so that my fingers would continue to pump in and out of her. “I know, but I need you.” Her tone was filled with so much need, and it felt like a betrayal of my feelings to deny her anything . “I really need you. My skin feels so damn hot?—”

“Your heat.” I leaned over her, kissing her neck. “Your heat is in full effect and you need me inside of you. Is that it, baby girl? But do you know what that means?”

“Yes,” she hissed, her legs spreading wider. “I know what it means, Ari. I know.”

Crawling onto the back seat of the SUV with her and closing the door, I pulled her onto me so her wet pussy was sliding against my cock. Her hands dug into my shoulders, and I groaned at the feeling of her soaking my cock as she moved back and forth on me, causing a primal rumble to leave my chest.

“We should wait until you have a clearer head.” Although that was the last thing I fucking wanted right now.

“Just a little,” she begged. Then she froze as a thought occurred to her. “Unless you don’t want that.”

“Turn around. Spread your legs on either side of me,” I demanded roughly. “I’ll give you what you want.” There was one thing I couldn’t handle after all this time, now that we were at this point—and it was her believing that I couldn’t or didn’t want her.

She turned so her perfect ass was perched right over my lap, reverse cowgirl, and her fingers were intertwined in the partition cage so she was leaning forward slightly. My cock was hard and pointing right toward her pussy as I ran it over the wet heat that leaked off of her. I’d heard that rabbits’ mating heats were intense, almost overwhelming for them, and I could see just how keyed up her body was for this—for me. I just wished I could see her laid out naked in my fucking bed.

“You’re in charge here, baby girl. You control what you want. Take what you need, Lena.” My hands turned bruising on her hips as she took an inch of me, her hot pussy surrounding the head of my cock.

I hissed as she circled her hips, trying to push down lower. I could feel how tight she was, and I moved my fingers to the front of her, circling her clit. She moaned, her body relaxing as she began to roll her hips. When she sank down another inch I had to physically restrain myself from slamming her tight hot body down on my length. I had no idea what she and Macon had done, if they had gone all the way, but the last thing I wanted to do was hurt her.

“You’re so huge,” she moaned, letting her head fall back as her teal hair ran over her slim back. She felt so fucking perfect, and I knew that it would be damn near impossible to pull her off of me before I came deep inside of her. I wasn’t even in all the way, and already I wanted to stay buried within her forever.

“I want you to come, Lena,” I growled, leaning forward to run my lips against the back of her neck. “I want you to feel good. Don’t hurt yourself?—

“Fuck.” My snarl filled the space as she bottomed out on my cock. Lena gasped, and a small pained noise left her throat as she trembled against me.

I quickly captured her jaw and turned her head, seeing tears on her cheeks. The shock on her face made the reason obvious.

Fuck—this wasn’t supposed to happen like this. Her first time should have been somewhere more special. So why was it so damn impossible to regret? Circling her clit once again in a slow movement that I hoped would help her relax, I continued to kiss along her shoulders and neck.

“Look at you,” I breathed out. “Look at you taking every single inch of me so damn well. You are so fucking perfect—so fucking good.”

“Ari, that hurt,” she whispered, then shifted and moaned as I continued to massage her clit, “but…but I don’t want to stop.” Her pussy tightened around me, and I let out a low rumble as she squirmed, her body rolling against mine as she tried to find a better position.

“You tell me what you need and I’ll give you everything,” I told her, sucking on her neck hard enough that she shuddered.

“I need you to move.”

I lifted her off my cock, turning her toward me and sliding back inside of her in one movement. She whimpered my name and slammed her lips against mine, the feel of her body pressing against my own one I never wanted to forget.

“You feel so fucking good,” I praised, nipping her bottom lip. “Now let me make you feel amazing.” Gripping her hips, I began to lift her off my cock before sliding her back down on it. Her nails bit down on my shoulders and her moans filled the car as I began to pump in and out of her, using her tight body to relieve every ounce of stress I’d felt for years. It felt selfish, so damn wrong, knowing it was her first time, but I could see in the way her cheeks flushed and her body tightened around my cock that she was loving it.

“Tell me when you’re going to come,” I demanded in a low growl, and her eyes fluttered shut for a moment as she began to move on her own.

When I slammed up into her particularly hard, she cracked into a million pieces—her scream of my name filling the space. It was fucking glorious and nearly brought me to my own fucking climax.

“Lena, I’m going to come,” I said roughly. My balls tightened, my cock pulsing with warning as I cursed trying to lift her off me.

“Inside of me,” she gasped, subconsciously exposing her neck to me as she tilted her head to the side. This woman was going to be the death of me. I continued to pump in and out of her, forcing myself to make a decision I knew she would hate.

“No!” Lena cried as I tried to pull her off. But she pushed down once more, taking me further inside of her.

“I have to; you don’t want that.” I hated how much I wanted her to disagree with me.

“I want you. I want your cum,” she whimpered.

For the second time tonight, my restraint snapped.

My pace grew hard and demanding, almost angry at her for pushing me this far when I was trying to keep the best in mind for her. I had fought so damn hard to consider what she’d want when she wasn’t in a heat-fueled frenzy, but I couldn’t ignore her words. She was telling me, right now, exactly what she wanted. When my cock slammed up into her one last time, my teeth bit down on her neck and I exploded inside of her.

My seed shot into her waiting body and she shuddered against me, my climax triggering her own. The taste of blood from my mating bite had my wolf letting out a primal rumble that her rabbit responded to instantly.

Holy… holy fuck.

I don’t know what I expected from Lena, but when she wrapped her arms around me and stayed on my cock, burying her nose in my throat, I felt relief. I savored our mating bond as it wrapped around the two of us.

This would change everything. This was the start of something that would be forever.

I just hoped she wouldn’t regret it come morning.