Chapter 30 #2
Billy’s expression turns feral. His eyes change to silver as he surges to his feet, lifting me. “Somewhere erotic.” He carries me to his bedroom.
“Mmm.”
“Unfortunately, it’s going to hurt, Silver.
I have to puncture the skin. So if I’m going to make you scream, I might as well do it in an erogenous zone.
” He drops me in the center of the bed and whips my shirt off over my head.
“That way I can remind you that you belong to me every time I pleasure you.”
I reach for his shirt and try to rip it open like we’re in a bodice-ripper, but I’m not strong enough.
Billy chuckles and does it for me, sending the buttons spraying around the room.
I give him a tiger-growl and paw at his chest.
He catches my wrists and climbs over me, pinning them beside my head.
“So the question is…” --he drops his head to kiss between my breasts– “do I bite you here?” He nips the top of one of my breasts, then abruptly swings his leg off me and rolls me to my belly.
“Or am I going to bite this gorgeous ass?” He slips his thumbs in the waistband of my shorts and slides them down with my panties, just below my ass.
I shiver as he runs his large palm lightly around my ass, knowing what’s coming. He teases me, keeping the touch a light caress. Then the first spank falls.
I yelp.
He takes my wrists and folds them behind my back, like I’m under arrest, and holds them there. His touch is gentle. Almost reverential, but when he starts spanking, he doesn’t hold back.
He delivers a flurry of quick slaps that make me wriggle against his hold.
“Ouch!” I complain, rolling my hips when he stops.
“That’s for leaving me, Silver.” He resumes the light caressing, stroking his palm around the globes of my ass.
His hand slides up the column of my back until he reaches my bra, which he unhooks. Brushing my braids to the side, he climbs over me once more to nibble and kiss my neck and exposed shoulder.
Then he stops. I wait, but he settles by my side. “It will hurt, Aubrey.” His voice is serious.
I roll to face him. His eyes shine completely silver, and I would swear the points of his canine teeth have lengthened.
The room is dark and above the lights of the city the moon shines in, nearly full. It casts a pale glow across his face.
“I don’t want to hurt you. I don’t want to scare you. I don’t want you to ever walk away again.”
It strikes me—Billy is scared. He’s scared of losing me, and he’s sharing his feelings. This moment is more important than any bite, at least to me. This is how we learn to be a real couple. Listening and sharing.
I lay my head on the pillow. “Would it hurt if I were a wolf?”
He shakes his head. “The pain would be pleasurable, and the wound would heal instantly. But for a human, a mating bite could be fatal if I hit the wrong spot. You’ll bleed and scar. I heard Madi scream when Brick marked her.”
Shock ripples through me. I should’ve pumped more information from Madi.
“You were there?”
“Yes. We were there to protect Madi. When an alpha wolf doesn’t find his fated mate or worse, finds her and doesn’t mark her, he can turn feral. We call it moon madness. The wolf takes over, and the human is lost and has to be put down.”
My mouth rounds into a silent “O”. My eyes probably match the shape.
“Brick went moon mad?”
“Yes. We nearly lost him.”
The memory of Ruby coming to get Madi and begging for her help after they broke up returns.
”So he was nearly mad when he bit her.”
Something about Billy quiets. He can see where I’m going with this. “Yes.”
“But you’re perfectly sane right now.” I touch his cheek and massage the shell of his ear. “I know you don’t like to lose control. Even when we’re having sex and you let go at the end, you seem to pull back and try to snap it all together afterwards.”
Billy props his head up with one arm and cups my breast with his free hand, thumbing over my nipple. “You saw that?”
I nod. “And you said you didn’t like losing control in front of me at the wedding with your dad.”
He scrubs a hand over his face. “I hate that you saw me that way.”
“ I don’t,” I insist. “I’m not afraid of that guy.
I know you would never hurt me.” I press a kiss to his lips.
“I want to see all your parts and pieces. Even the ugly ones. Even the parts you’re ashamed of.
I love you, Billy. That means all of you.
I didn’t walk away because I saw something I didn’t like.
I walked because you weren’t willing to share all of you with me. ”
Vulnerability flashes on Billy’s face, and for once, he doesn’t shutter his expression.
“So go wild with me. Let yourself off the leash. I love that you have a powerful animal side, Billy. Mark my body with your teeth and show me what it’s like to be claimed.”
And just like that, his control snaps.
I find myself pinned on my back. Billy yanks my shorts and panties the rest of the way off.
He unzips his pants, and I reach for his erection.
I’ve never seen his eyes quite so silver. And his canines are definitely long and sharp. He’s going to bite me with those. A shiver of excitement jolts through me.
“Condom,” I choke when he forgets and starts pushing into me. “Unless you want to start on those pups now.”
I don’t know what makes me say it, but it feels right. I wasn’t lying when I said I was all in. I want this whole thing with Billy–marriage, family, everything.
He freezes on his reach to the bedside table.
“Yes. ” His voice doesn’t sound human. The deep growl from his chest is otherworldly.
He shoves into me, spearing me with his erection, plowing deep on the first thrust.
I gasp and brace my hand against the headboard.
“I’m going to put my pup in you, Aubrey White.” He rocks in and out.
“Not taking your name,” I interject, but I smile from ear to ear. We’re getting married. This is crazy.
“I’m putting my pup in you, Aubrey Cook-White,” he amends and continues to thrust into me, holding my shoulder to keep me from flying toward the headboard.
I’m already delirious with pleasure. Steeped in the hormones of love.
He bends his face to flick his tongue over my nipple, then nips it.
“I’ll do the whole human wedding thing–whatever you want–but tonight, you become mine.
Tonight, I embed my scent in your skin, Silver.
” He says it like it’s a warning. Or a punishment.
Maybe he’s giving me a last chance to back out.
I wouldn’t dream of it.
I clasp my ankles behind his back to drag him in deeper, to show him I want more.
“I’m claiming you, and there’s no going back. No walking away.” His eyes glow in the dark. They make my heart race.
My boyfriend is a wolf. It’s thrilling and real and right at the same time.
Billy pounds into me, gathering speed, using enough force that I’ll be walking funny tomorrow. I want more. I reach for him, scoring his shoulders with my nails, rocking my pelvis to take him even deeper.
“There’s no future where we’re not together,” he growls. “You’re my mate, and wolves mate for life.”
I laugh, but I’m crying. At least, my face is wet, so I must be.
“Do it,” I urge. “Make me yours.”
He lets out a wolf-snarl. His jaws open, and his fangs gleam in the moonlight. I experience a flash of fear, but it’s instantly eclipsed by pleasure.
He comes inside me, and I orgasm around his pulsing cock. The walls of my channel squeeze to suck his essence in and up. I gasp out my pleasure.
“ Mine, ” Billy roars, shoving deep and going still.
“Yes, yours!”
He cups my breast with one hand and lowers his head. “Mine.” This time it’s quieter.
He closes his jaws. The bite is gentle and shallow, at the outside of my breast, on the pectoral muscle.
I come again, bucking my hips, and squeezing around his cock as he carefully extracts his teeth from my breast and licks the wounds closed.
“Are you okay, Silver?” He grips my jaw and turns my face to his. His eyes are back to blue, and they search my face with concern.
My lids flutter open, and I smile. I rock my hips to show him how good I am.
“Does it hurt?”
“It’s a good hurt.”
“Yeah?” He pinches the nipple of the marked breast and holds.
I orgasm again. “Oh,” I sob.
He pinches the other one. “Mine.” He whispers it this time.
“All yours,” I whisper back.
“I love you.” He kisses the tears on my face. “I don’t know how I got so lucky, but I’m never going to let you go.”
“You better not.”