Chapter 8
Chapter Eight
Solan woke as he shifted back to human. Kaeli had been wrapped around him, her face resting on his furry chest. She stirred as he shifted back, and he brushed the hair from her face and kissed her forehead, breathing in her sweet scent.
She breathed his name as she came awake, rolling to her back and stretching.
“You’re human again,” she said softly.
“Yeah. Are you okay?”
She hummed and yawned, then said, “Could we go for a walk? Get some fresh air?”
There was something off about her tone suddenly, and he wanted to ask her what was wrong, but she stood and folded the blanket, laying it over the back of the couch. “I’m going to use the bathroom, be right back.”
“Kaeli?”
“I’ll be right back.”
He grabbed his jeans off the floor and felt the shredded seams. His shift had come on him so fast that he’d ripped through his clothes, which had never happened to him before.
He grabbed his things and dumped them in the kitchen trash, then went to the bedroom and got dressed.
While he waited for her to finish in the bathroom, he texted the security office to alert them that he and Kaeli would be taking a walk in the woods behind his house.
She joined him in the living room a few minutes later.
“Are you okay?” he asked.
“I’d just like to stretch my legs and get some fresh air, if that’s okay.”
“Yeah, of course. We can walk through the woods. Do you want to borrow a coat?”
“Ah, no, actually, I’m feeling kind of warm.”
The way she said warm made him think she didn’t quite mean it, but she was walking out the front door before he could ask her what was really going on. Her whole demeanor had changed, and he wondered if it was because he’d bitten her wrist.
He hurried to catch up to her as she walked around the corner of the house and headed toward the woods. They crossed into the woods together, and he grabbed her hand.
She stopped and faced him, and that was when he saw her eyes were amber, practically glowing in the moonlight that filtered through the trees.
“What’s going on, Nightling?”
He cupped her face, and she shivered, then grasped his wrists. “I don’t know.”
The trees rustled as a light breeze moved, and that’s when he picked up the subtle scent of her arousal, the sage and honey sweetness of her warmth like sunshine.
“I’m trying to stop myself,” she whispered, her voice raw. “I can’t.”
His first thought was to ask her what she wanted to stop, but he knew without asking for clarification that she was having some kind of hyper arousal and was fighting it. His fingers pressed her skin gently, and he leaned in.
He pressed his lips to her forehead, breathing in the sage and honey that he found wholly enticing, and then both cheeks, and then her lips. She opened her mouth on a sigh, her nails digging into his wrists as their bodies slowly pressed together.
“I can’t resist you,” she whispered between kisses. “I don’t want to.”
“You don’t have to resist anything, Kaeli. I’m yours.”
“I know you are,” she said. She moved backward as they kissed, and he followed until she stopped with a gasp as her back pressed against a large tree. “I don’t want to think right now, I just want you.”
“You’ve got me,” he said. His wolf howled in his head as his own arousal rose inside him like a tidal wave.
She tilted her head back to rest against the tree.
He dropped his hands to her shoulders and down her arms. He pressed them gently against the tree and followed his instincts.
He slipped his fingers up under her top, touching the soft skin of her belly as he ran them along the waistband of her jeans.
“Tell me what you need, Nightling.”
He kissed her, and as their tongues touched and danced together, he could feel her magic rising, but it wasn’t the frenzied rush that had forced his shift out in protection; it was slow and deliberate.
And filled with need.
“I just need you,” she said, her voice hitching.
He could feel the pulse of her desire like an echo in his heart. He was going to suggest they head back into the house for privacy, but she moaned softly, her hips tilting toward him, and every thought he had in his head disappeared except for one: take care of Kaeli.
He twisted his fingers against the button of her jeans and undid them, then slid the zipper down. He leaned in to kiss her as he eased her jeans and panties down her hips. Slipping his hand between her thighs, he found her folds soaked with arousal.
He kissed her jaw and made his way to her neck, sucking on her skin lightly as he teased her folds with the tip of his finger. She curled her hands into his hair and pressed her head against his shoulder, groaning his name.
The sound went straight to his cock.
He bit her neck gently and slipped his finger inside her heat. Her legs moved restlessly, and he knew she didn’t want to be teased. She wanted relief, and he was just the male for the job.
He sucked on her neck and pulled his finger out, then pressed two inside, soaking his fingers with her arousal. He pressed them against her clit, and she gasped, her body jolting against him. Rubbing her clit with both fingers, he let out a low growl from his wolf, the sound vibrating in his chest.
“Solan, oh Solan.” She dragged her nails down his neck as she leaned back, her hips tilting toward him.
He felt her body heat, felt her magic flare, and then she bit her bottom lip and stifled a moan of pure pleasure.
She came hard, and he fingered her, dragging out her pleasure as she pulsed around his fingers.
“It’s not enough,” she said, pulling him to her for a kiss. He tasted blood and knew she’d bit her lip hard enough to make it bleed.
“More?” he asked, pulling his fingers from her pussy, putting them in his mouth, and tasting the sweet heat of her pleasure.
“All of it. I want all of you.”
Wanton.
She finally understood that word.
Solan had just driven her to the first orgasm she’d had that hadn’t come from a battery-operated toy. He’d known just how to touch her, just how to drive her to the height of pleasure. But she was still feeling empty and not quite finished.
And she wanted to know what he sounded like when he came.
Her hands were shaking as she toed off her shoes, her socks soaking up the dew as she shoved her jeans down her legs.
He was there suddenly, taking the reins with calm assurance. He stripped her jeans and panties off, and that’s when she realized he’d pushed his own jeans down to free his thick, hard cock.
He leaned in, spreading her open to flick his tongue against her sensitive clit, and she nearly fell over.
As he worked his tongue on her, she could only hold onto the tree behind her, her nails digging for purchase in the rough bark.
As she neared another climax, he squeezed her bottom and grinned up at her, his eyes flashing to the amber of his wolf.
Then he tugged on her hips, and she lowered herself down onto his lap, and right onto his thick length. She struggled to take him in. It had been so freaking long since she’d had sex that she felt like a virgin again. But it was such a good, tight feeling she never wanted it to end.
“Fuck, Kaeli,” he ground out, teeth clenched together. “You’re fucking perfect.”
She tossed her head back with a sharp groan as their bodies touched, his cock buried deeply.
Then he lifted her from him and lowered her down, and her body lit up.
The climax that had been close when he’d been playing with her clit was right back there again, as every movement up and down rubbed her just right.
He leaned her backward, one arm at her back and one on the ground, and drove himself into her, and she could only hold on, only let herself go into the heat that spiraled through her.
They kissed and teased each other, her hands clutching at him as he drove the breath from her with each powerful thrust of his hips. She thought she was going to burst, she was so full, so hot. And then she did.
Her body clamped down on his, and she came hard, shuddering in his hold as his name spilled from her lips and her magics combined inside her, making her whole body light up and her skin tingle.
He roared as he came, the sound morphing with a howl of pleasure from his wolf, and then his fangs were in her neck, and she finally, finally felt the twin magics of earth and fire blend together.
The air turned red and gold for a moment, flashing with her magic, as he extracted his fangs and made the marks permanent by adding his own blood to the wounds. She hugged him tightly, her body humming.
“You were made for me, Solan,” she said, feeling reverent. “And I was made for you.”
“You’re mine forever, Kaeli.”
He stared down at her, his cock still inside her, his eyes amber and his face lit by the moonlight. And then his head snapped up, and he growled.
It wasn’t the sexy growl of earlier, but one of aggression.
He pulled from her body and grabbed her jeans. “Get dressed, we’re being watched.”