Chapter 41 #2
I heard him enter and set something down on the nightstand. I cracked an eye open and saw he’d brought me the nectar of the gods.
“Oh, you really do love me!” I squealed like a little girl, pushing myself to sitting and grabbing the fresh iced coffee from the little bakery food truck that frequented Ian’s neighborhood.
“For sure,” he replied with a big smile. “I mean last night was okay, but iced coffee in bed really seals the deal, I think.”
He leaned in to brush his lips against mine, then climbed over me into the bed. We snuggled against the headboard in comfortable silence while I drank my coffee, and we shared a scone.
After a few minutes, Blake said, “Ian met the memory mages from the coven early this morning, and they’re at the airport now waiting to intercept the Shifter Council members. They said this was standard procedure and didn’t anticipate any issues.”
“I still feel like shit that I got you and Ian into this mess and almost blew the secrets of all mage-kind,” I said sullenly. I felt great this morning, but it didn’t assuage my guilt for what had almost happened to Blake and Ian.
“Fuck that, Wolf Girl,” he said. “I’m the one who was fucking around with magic at the dance like it was nothing.
None of this is your fault. And Ian told me this morning before he left that this is more common that we even realized—mages are always getting themselves seen by humans or other supernaturals and then needing a cleanup crew.
The covens do the best they can, but we were never going to be completely hidden forever. ”
I sighed and relaxed against him. “Still. The fucking bond and the fucking Alpha—that’s the reason you were almost taken, Blake.
I….” I sniffed. Moons, my emotions were all over the place this morning.
“I was so scared you were going to be taken from me, Blake. I had a really low moment when I was tied to that chair in Nikka’s basement and the skin was burning off of my hands.
I was determined, but deep down I thought there was a chance I wouldn’t get out of there in time. And I’d never see you again.”
“I know, baby,” he said quietly, softly rubbing my knuckles while he held my hand.
“I had a moment like that, too, down in that fucking warded cell. I’ve never really been in a situation that I couldn’t magic my way out of.
All I thought about was you—I’d be trapped by the council and you’d be stuck to Knox forever and you wouldn’t ever be truly happy. ”
I couldn’t help the tear that escaped from my eye and slipped softly down my cheek. I wasn’t sure if it was a happy tear or a sad tear—I was feeling a confusing onslaught of all kinds of things.
He reached up and brushed my tear away, then he pressed gentle kisses across my cheek, jaw, and nose.
“We did it though, Wolf Girl. We fought our way out and then we broke the bond. We fucking won.”
“Moons, we did!” I exclaimed. “We fucking did. It’s really gone, baby.
I woke up and worried for a second that it was all a dream, but that sickening pull that was always eating at me is just…
not there anymore.” I turned my head from where it was positioned against his shoulder to look up into his beautiful eyes.
“That day that it all happened—the day I was rejected, you know? I was absolutely crushed by it. And even though I put on a determined face and decided to just fucking deal with it, I also had this moment of knowing, deep down, that my life as I knew it may have been truly ruined. But you… you saved me, Blake.”
He met my lips for a deep, intense kiss, but then he jerked away and held my face in his hands.
“Listen to me, baby. You saved yourself. Sure, you needed my magic to make a clean break, but you had this handled no matter what. You’d have worn that bond down to nothing with or without me, and you’d have held strong against whatever bullshit the Pack threw your way.
It’s why I fell in love with you—you’re the fiercest girl I’ve ever met. I’m constantly in awe of you.”
I dove at him with my whole body then, tangling us together in a frenzy of love and carnal hunger.
He stripped me of my dress with impressive speed, his own shirt following while I fumbled with his sweatpants, shoving them awkwardly down his body as we devoured each other.
I palmed his rigid dick while I straddled him, luxuriating in the feeling of him quivering beneath me while he enjoyed both my firm strokes and the feel of my breasts in his hands.
“These are the best tits in the entire fucking world,” he said before he reached up to suck a hard nipple into his mouth.
I moaned, lost to the pleasure, and I replaced my hand with my slick pussy, sliding back and forth across his hard length.
“Hell yes, baby,” he groaned as he switched to latch his hot mouth onto my other nipple.
I reached down between my legs to line him up with my entrance, when he suddenly flipped me, my back bouncing off of the mattress.
“Not today, Wolf Girl,” he purred as he hovered over me.
I reached up to rub my hands over the sexy tattoos that crept along his pecs and collarbone, excited for whatever he had planned next.
“I don’t think I’ve quite come down from last night, so I need to fuck you hard and fast, and I need to see your face when you come. ”
I moaned my assent to this plan. I needed it, too. It was just another way to prove to myself I was not a fragile, breakable female who let people kidnap her, but a strong as fuck Alpha wolf. An Alpha who would take everything her mate had to give her and fucking love it.
Blake thrust into me then in one hard, powerful stroke. He reared up onto his knees and gripped my hips with such intensity as he pounded into me that he would’ve left bruises on a regular human.
I loved that he didn’t treat me like a regular human.
He continued his ferocious pace, staring into my eyes, and the mind-numbing pleasure built in my core so quickly that I couldn’t tell where he ended and I began.
“Blake, holy shit, holy shit, ohhh…,” I mumbled, and then my jaw dropped open and my eyes shut of their own volition as an orgasm more powerful than I’d ever felt exploded from my core. I screamed incoherent words as spots danced behind my eyelids and I lost feeling in my arms and legs.
“Fuck yes,” Blake growled triumphantly. “Scream for me, Wolf Girl.” By some miracle of mage strength, he started to pound into me even harder, extending my orgasm and throwing me straight into the stratosphere.
I screamed again, and he followed me over the edge with a loud moan of his own.
We collapsed next to each other, panting, sated, and happy.
“God, I love you,” Blake whispered in my ear.
“You’re stuck with me forever, Mr. Blaze,” I whispered back. “But it’s time to get our asses out of bed. We still have work to do.”