Chapter 11 #2
“Whatever that was,” he relaxed, and my cock slid in several inches.
I bit my lower lip, and Banner smiled. “Yeah, that was what I needed.” He rolled his hips a little, just enough to pull my cock out a bit, but when he moved backward, I slid in even more.
Another roll or two, and Banner would be sitting on me completely.
I didn’t say anything; I didn’t have to because Banner figured that out on his own, and when his ass touched my hips, I took a deep breath and closed my eyes.
My beast wanted to pull our mate down and pound into him so he could claim him, but that wasn’t going to happen.
I opened my eyes after several moments and saw flames flickering around the edges of my vision.
“There is no rush,” I said. “Whenever you are ready.”
“That is really cool,” Banner said. “But I have to wonder just what it means when you have flames in your eyes. Is it because your beast is close?”
I nodded. “He wants to take over. I have control of him though, and he’s not coming out, so don’t worry. We’re taking things at your pace.”
Banner nodded. He slid his hands down his sides and grabbed my hands. I let him pull them from his hips, and when he laced our fingers together, I gave his a gentle squeeze before holding his hands in between us.
“I want to move so bad.”
“Then move. I’m going to lie here and let you control everything. I’m happy to be here with you like this, and already this has been amazing. I know that no matter what, it’ll get even better.”
Banner smiled at me before he lifted off me and then sat back down. He made a face, then rolled his hips. Once he started that momentum, a look of bliss overcame him. I moaned when he did, because yeah, he felt amazing.
“Oh, this is…” Banner opened his eyes and looked at me. “So good. Dante, I feel like I need to come again.”
I smiled. “Don’t hold back. Take everything you need.
” I pulled my hand free and wrapped it around Banner’s cock, which was rubbing against my stomach.
He moaned, closed his eyes again, and let his head fall back.
His pace picked up, and I felt a tingling at the base of my cock that I knew was my knot.
Just seeing Banner, experiencing his pleasure with him, was all it took for my body to overload, and in moments, I was ready to explode.
“Dante,” Banner said, his eyes widening when he pushed back and we both felt my knot catch.
“That’s…” I nodded. Banner rocked his hips but couldn’t move much, and then he just froze, before his body spasmed while his channel massaged my cock and knot.
That was all it took for my knot to feel as if it ballooned, and then I was coming, filling my mate while Banner came on my torso.
He moaned over and over, his body starting to fall to the side, but I caught him.
I pulled him down on top of me, and without a thought, I kissed his cheek before I moved to his shoulder and bit. Banner screamed my name and then moaned loud and long as his entire body spasmed intensely.
I felt teeth in my chest, smiling at where my mate instinctively put his claiming bite.
I pulled my teeth from his shoulder and licked, sealing the bite, Banner doing the same moments later.
Banner sighed loudly and lay on my chest. He scooted down a bit, then moaned, but when he settled with his head in the center of my chest, I wrapped my arms around his back and gently rubbed up and down his spine.
His skin was softer than any I’d ever felt, and I would never get tired of touching him. Especially not in moments like this.
“Are you all right, baby?” I asked after several moments of silence. Then I felt it. There was a loud hum in my mind, and then there was my mate. Our bond had opened, and I could sense Banner in my mind, and his memories suddenly started flashing as if I were watching home videos sped up.
“I’m good. I like you calling me that,” Banner said before he sighed again. “Why did you wait? This was amazing.” He moved enough to rest his chin on his hands so he could look at me. “I know you enjoyed it.” Banner grinned.
I chuckled but stopped when my mate’s eyes widened, and then he winced. “Sorry,” I said. “But to answer your question. Because I’m an idiot. I couldn’t protect you. I thought you would never want me and, really, that you should have a better mate than me.”
Banner was quiet for a long moment before he nodded. “I think we need each other,” he said. “That’s why they put us together. Because we experienced that together, and we will understand it best.”
“I’m going to do everything I can to make you the happiest omega on Treasure Ridge,” I told him. “And if you want to move away, we’ll go anywhere you want.”
Banner smiled while shaking his head. “No, silly. We’re going to stay here and raise hellhound babies, and they’re going to join your pack and run free without having to worry.
” He smiled before he laid his head down on my chest again.
Banner’s finger started tracing my nipple, and I bit my lip to keep from moaning.
It didn’t matter though; he’d felt my entire body tense and my cock throb again.
“Is that a good spot?” he asked. Banner didn’t wait for an answer.
He leaned down and licked across my nipple, and I moaned out loud when he bit gently.
He was a little vixen, and I was going to love life with him.
He picked up on the fact that my nipples were indeed a good spot, and he did it again and again.
I growled in warning, and it was only then that he stopped with a smirk on his face. “You’re really trying to start something that I don’t think you’re ready for, baby. I need you to stop so my knot can go down and I can finish our claiming.”
Banner’s eyes widened. “Oh! I forgot. I don’t know how though.” He turned his head and tried to look at his bite but couldn’t quite see it. It was cute. Like him.
“Does it look bad?”
I shook my head. “No. Right now, it just looks like a red bite mark. It will take a day or two for it to get angry-looking. But when my beast licks over it, it’ll heal.
Then the teeth marks will turn black and will have flames around it.
Someone mentioned Brice’s to him once and asked how he had a tattoo. ”
Banner smiled. “I think it’s going to be cool,” he said. “I’ll behave so your knot can go down.” Banner’s head popped right back up. “How long is it going to stay?”
I shrugged. “I don’t know. I’ve heard ten minutes to an hour. I think it will be around longer when you go into heat though. At least that’s what Warwick said. Damien and Atticus said theirs was out longer when they claimed their mates, but it’s only there for a few minutes now.”
Banner rolled his eyes. “Do you all honestly talk about sex with your mates?”
“No,” I told him. “We answer questions when others have them, but we do not go into specifics. I asked, they answered. I only asked because of us, and I wanted to be as prepared for anything.” The tingling in my cock started to fade, and I knew that my knot would free itself in moments.
That was another thing that Warwick had warned me about.
That and the mess that would be a lot now, but more later when Banner went into heat.
“Tell me you don’t regret this,” Banner said suddenly.
I reached up and cupped his face. “The only thing I regret is making us wait. I was an idiot, and you have my permission to remind me of my idiocy in the future.”
Banner snorted, but it quickly turned to a moan when my knot released, and then my cock slipped from his hole, along with what I was certain was quite a mess.
Banner made a face, and I did chuckle now because I wouldn’t cause my mate any pain.
I rolled us again, this time looking down at my omega before I kissed him.
I deepened the kiss and dueled with his tongue again.
When he grabbed my shoulder and wrapped his legs around me, I broke the kiss.
“Not just yet,” I whispered.
Banner blinked several times before he shook his head in confusion. “What? Why?”
“You need to meet my beast, and he needs to seal your bite. Then we’ll spend the rest of the night knotted together if you want.”
Banner nodded. I moved off him and to the floor, and he pushed up onto his elbows. “No funny business,” he said.
I chuckled again. “Of course not. He’s going to say hi and lick over the bite.” I remembered something else that Warwick had warned me about. “Warwick did say that Cecil said it burned for just a minute, and then it feels like any other claiming bite. Or so we’ve heard.”
Banner smirked. “So when you lick it in your human form, it’ll turn me on?”
“Yeah, that.”
Banner nodded. “All right. Let me see your beast because, really, I’ve been wanting to meet him in person. You are slow about things, Dante.”
I kissed Banner’s thigh. “Sorry, baby. I’ll be quicker about things going forward.”
And I would. I called for my beast, and he was entirely too happy to come out and meet Banner. He did exactly as I had thought—he sniffed certain parts, and Banner let out a warning growl, which I think actually surprised my beast because he looked at our mate.
“You don’t get to play with that. Only the human side of you.
” Banner sat up and reached out for my head.
He touched my ears before he moved his hand down to my nose.
“You look so different from the others. But Atticus is a bit different-looking as well. But I guess that should be expected because I look different than other grizzly bears.”
I moved closer, really wanting the rest of our bond to fall into place.
I sniffed Banner’s face, then moved to his neck where I’d kissed him.
He laughed and scrunched his shoulder up, and I moved to the bite, which was still red instead of healed like I knew mine was.
That would change in just a moment though.
I sniffed the bite, then licked over it several times before my beast deemed it truly sealed. I sat back and waited. Banner’s eyes widened, and he looked over at his shoulder again.
“Ow. Okay, that does burn.” The bite turned from red to dark, and I knew it was healing now. I didn’t know how long it would take for the flames to appear, but it didn’t matter. Our claiming was complete, and my mate wouldn’t have any pain from the bite.
“It will only burn for a bit,” I told him. I didn’t know if he would hear me or not.
“I heard you,” he said with a smile. “I know you were seeing my memories, and I was trying to talk to you, but you weren’t hearing me,” Banner said.
“Can you talk to me through the bond now?”
“I don’t know. What should I say?”
I nodded, and after promising my beast that Banner and I would go for a run later or tomorrow, he let me have my human side back.
I looked up from where I was kneeling on the floor and smiled at my mate.
“You should say anything you want,” I told him.
I moved closer, then crawled onto the couch and held myself above my mate.
“Thank you,” I said. “For not being afraid of my beast.”
“He’s part of you,” Banner said. “I’ll never fear him.” He sighed. “Even in the jungle, before I knew what or who you were, I wasn’t afraid of you.”
I leaned down and kissed my mate. Somehow, I already knew that, but it was good to hear the words out loud. Since I’d been an idiot, we had some things to make up for, and it was time we started, so I set about seducing my newly claimed mate again.