Chapter 19 Rafe
Rafe’s heart sang in his chest as he grabbed the lube and ran after his mate.
He’d never seen Adri like this—playful and open.
Rafe’s mate had been so angry and determined for so long that he’d started wondering if that was just who he was after what happened to him, but deep down, he’d known it could be like this between them.
That once Adri processed that he was safe, he’d finally be free to pounce and twine and tear through the forest, making trouble.
It didn’t mean he wouldn’t also snap and ambush.
It just meant that murderous instinct of his was balanced with something else.
Something he’d been missing for too long since he was taken and forced into the fighting ring—love.
If he hadn’t already waited thirteen years, maybe Rafe would have dragged this out longer and let Adri lead him a merry chase through the forest. Maybe they would have shifted to their animal forms to stalk each other.
There’d be time for that later. Time for that forever.
Right then, he couldn’t bear waiting another second.
Desperation rode him hard as he used every bit of his alpha speed to power across the clearing, letting his dominance roll out ahead of him.
In the distance, a wolf howled in raw joy and was answered by others—Marco and the pack.
His Alpha could sense what was about to happen through their bond.
Rafe ignored it. Ignored everything but the way his mate’s scent made his blood run hot, and the tantalising view of his glutes tensing and releasing as he pounded across the grass.
Lunging forward, Rafe wrapped an arm around Adri’s waist, spinning to throw him to the ground and twisting at the last second so it was his back that crashed to the ground, and he could cushion Adri’s fall.
Their bodies slotted together like they were made for each other, and they groaned in unison as their throbbing lengths pressed close.
Dropping the lube beside them, Rafe reached up and grabbed Adri’s nape, hauling him into a filthy kiss that had his mate breathless and laughing.
“Did you seriously stop to grab lube and still catch me before I got past the edge of the clearing? You didn’t need it. I’m ready for you.”
Rafe grinned. “I was highly motivated. And I’m not going to risk hurting you. Plus, I don’t think I can take that ridged monster without a little help.”
Adri pulled back, eyes glittering as he stared down at Rafe. “You going to let me take you, Doc?”
“Of course,” Rafe said. “Doesn’t mean I won’t still be in charge, though.”
Adri huffed out a breath and leaned down, nipping at his ear with sharp teeth and sparking another moan of pleasure from him. “Only because I let you be in charge, and only when we’re fucking.”
“You’re so hot when you let me give you pleasure. And we’re not going to be fucking.”
“What are we doing, then?” Adri asked with a furrowed brow.
“Making love, mating, committing, breeding.” That last one made his mate throw his head back on a laugh like he knew it would.
“You gonna put your puppies in my belly, Rafe? Don’t think it works like that.”
“We’ll never know if we don’t practise. A lot.”
Adri leaned down, pressing a kiss to his lips at the same time as he reached down to stroke his hard length. Rafe’s wolf lunged to the forefront of his mind, and raw need flooded his system. Playful was nice, but now he needed.
Rolling them in one smooth move, Rafe flipped Adri onto his hands and knees, burying his face between his mate’s legs before he could do more than gasp a surprised laugh that quickly turned to desperate panting as Rafe laved over Adri’s soft, slippery hole with his tongue.
He’d been starving for his mate for thirteen years, and now he was ravenous.
Gripping Adri’s thick, muscled thighs tight enough to bruise, he ate him out like he’d die if he couldn’t devour his mate’s taste, like pushing his tongue deep into his mate’s body was his sole purpose in life.
Reaching around his waist, Rafe started jerking him off frantically at the same time as he used a touch of his power to make sure Adri didn’t come.
The next time his mate climaxed was going to be on his fucking knot with Rafe’s fangs buried in his skin.
“Fuck! Rafe. Please!” Adri moaned, pushing back onto his tongue before thrusting forward into his fist like he couldn’t figure out which sensation he’d rather chase. “Need you inside me. Need you to claim me. Don’t make me keep begging, Rafe.”
Grabbing the lube, Rafe pulled back to slick his fingers, pushing three of them in at once as he monitored his mate’s body for any discomfort. His knot would be no joke, but neither of them had the patience for drawn-out foreplay.
“But you’re so pretty when you beg, kitten.”
Adri snarled at him over his shoulder, and it sent another shot of lust straight to his dick.
Pausing in the moonlit night, Rafe slowed things down, sliding a featherlight hand up his mate’s spine until that delicious feline arch grew even deeper, and pressing gently between his shoulders until he dropped his chest right down to the grass.
“Rafe, please,” Adri whined, hips shifting as he sought the touch of his mate’s body where he needed it most that Rafe was denying him.
No way could he deny his mate’s sweet pleading.
Pressing the head of his cock to Adri’s body, Rafe felt tears gathering in his eyes as he finally, finally, pushed inside.
He’d waited so long to feel that tight heat wrapping around him.
Waited so long for his mate to choose to submit.
A part of him had wondered if Adri would ever be ready.
Now, as he pushed inside his body in one perfect, slow thrust, it felt like he was coming home.
Overwhelmed by sensation, Rafe could already feel the base of his cock tingling where his knot would form once they bonded.
“Do it,” Adri said, pushing back into him.
“Want to make it last,” Rafe murmured.
“Next time,” Adri said, because there would be a next time, and all the times after.
Reaching down to grab Adri’s shoulder, Rafe pulled him more upright. The next time he thrust hard into his mate’s body, his lips were brushing close to that perfect, tempting dip where his neck met his shoulder as his balls slapped against his mate’s ass.
“Fuck, yes! Right there,” Adri whined, his inner muscles gripping Rafe’s cock tight as he tried to pull further out again, only to give in and thrust back inside Adri in tight, desperate movements.
With his power, he could feel the way his mate’s prostate was being stimulated by every movement of his body. He amped up the sensation until Adri was rutting and desperate beneath him. He might not be able to make this last, but he could make it just as intense and satisfying.
“Love you so much,” Rafe said, biting his lip with sharpened fangs as he fought for control.
“So, show me,” Adri groaned, tilting his head to the side in a submission as perfect as any wolf would have.
It was too much. He couldn’t wait any longer. Leaning in close, Rafe caught Adri’s skin between his teeth, biting down almost hard enough to break the skin as he kept up his driving thrusts into his mate’s body.
“Please. Bite me. Make me yours. Claim me.” Adri’s words were becoming more and more slurred as he lost himself to pleasure. It was a thing of beauty to see.
With one final thrust, Rafe finally let his teeth sink into his mate’s skin, biting deep and feeling the sweet taste of life-changing, soul-healing blood fill his mouth.
His knot swelled impossibly fast as he felt the mate bond click into place between them, and a little piece of Adri take refuge deep inside him where he could hold him close forever.
As soon as his teeth pulled clear, Adri was twisting in an impressive demonstration of feline flexibility, and his jaguar’s teeth sank into the skin over his pec, right above his heart.
Pleasure like he’d never known flooded his body as their orgasms rocked through them, his vision whiting out as he sank into ecstasy.
When they finally came back to themselves, they were a tangled mess of limbs and sweat on the grass. Rafe nuzzled in close to Adri’s neck, mouthing over the quickly healing mate bite that would show his mark as a silver scar forever.
“I’m impressed you managed to bite that deep into my chest,” he murmured with a smile.
Adri twisted to press a kiss to his lips, tugging at them with his teeth. “Yeah, well. I’m not a wolf and I’m not going to bite like one.”
“You’re perfect.”
“You don’t mind?” Adri asked softly.
Rafe almost wished his knot would deflate faster so he could turn his mate over and see him better for this, but the thought was fleeting as the throbbing pleasure of Adri’s body gripping his length distracted him.
They were wrapped so tightly around each other that they didn’t need to be face-to-face.
Plus, Rafe could feel his mate’s reassuring presence deep inside now.
Could feel the cautious, fragile hope Adri had for this thing between them.
“I love it. I love you. Can you feel how much?” Rafe asked, pushing every emotion he was feeling down the bond toward his mate until Adri’s eyes turned wide and his mouth trembled.
“You … I had no idea,” Adri said.
Rafe grumbled against his mate’s skin, thrusting his hips a little to feel his body convulse around him. “I know. I waited so long for you to realise. Now you never need to doubt again.”
“Are you pouting?” Adri asked with a smile.
Rafe’s knot finally started to deflate, and he pulled out of his mate’s body with a groan, flipping Adri onto his back before caging him in with his arms on either side of his head. “I don’t pout.”
Adri grinned. “Does my big, bad, alpha wolf need to feel how much I want you again?”
And that was enough of that.
“Nice try, kitten,” Rafe said, raising himself up on his knees and grabbing the lube so he could slick his fingers.
“What are you doing, Doc?” Adri asked, cocking his head.
Rafe groaned as he pushed two fingers inside himself, using a touch of his power to ease the stretch faster before notching Adri’s cock against his body and sinking back down onto it.
“Fuck!” Adri shouted, bucking up into him as the delicious burn of his hole stretching around each and every one of those delightful ridges rocked him with desire.
Pushing one hand to Adri’s shoulder, and another to his hip, Rafe pinned his mate to the ground and started riding him in earnest, refusing to let Adri do anything but take it, take him. Adri’s hands clenched into fists by his sides like he knew Rafe wasn’t going to let him get away with touching.
Fuck, Adri was so good for him.
“That’s it, kitten. Just like that. You feel fucking amazing.”
“Rafe, please.”
“Please, what?” Did his mate want to take charge? Rafe would give him anything he wanted.
“Please make me come.”
Rafe’s eyes rolled back in pleasure as he squeezed tight around Adri’s cock, milking him as he rode him. “Come for me, kitten,” he cried, his power flowing through them both to rip their climaxes from them.
The sensation of his mate’s cum filling his body was everything, and his hand drifted down Adri’s chest, pinching at his nipple as he rode him to completion.
Rafe’s cock jerked in the air, untouched, red and throbbing as he shot ropes of cum all over his mate’s body, marking him.
It wasn’t enough. Nothing would ever be enough.
As soon as Adri’s shivers of pleasure started to subside, Rafe raised himself up, wincing in complaint as he felt the absence of his mate from his body before slinging one of Adri’s legs over his shoulder and shoving back inside him.
This time, he let Adri move with him as he fucked him into the ground, revelling in the way his mate’s eyes had rolled back in his head as his body tensed with pleasure. The bond between them was sharing every sensation between them in a never-ending crescendo of raw desire and ecstasy.
“Holy fuck. How many times are you going to make us come?” Adri moaned, already riding the edge of another climax as Rafe pounded into him.
Sweat dripped from his body to Adri’s despite the chill air as Rafe’s mouth twitched in a filthy smirk.
“All the times. And in between, I’m going to take you home and make sure you never want for anything ever again.”
“You already do that for me. You always have. You promised me once that you would always be here for me. That you would always come when I call. Now, I’m going to do the same for you.
Forever,” Adri said, wrapping his legs around Rafe’s waist and lifting his head to draw him into a deep kiss as their lovemaking turned slower and deeper.
It was everything Rafe had always wanted. Everything Adri had defied for so many years. It was just everything.