Chapter 19
Dorian
“He’s going to smell me?” Good grief. “Okay. Not-human senses. That makes sense, but how do we fix this?”
Doing things with Braun was one thing but having anyone know was another.
Braun was doing his best not to smile but he needed to work at it. “First, we’re going to head inside and change clothes. You’re going to get a shower because you smell so good I’m going to walk around hard for the rest of the night at this point.”
Oh.
Really?
No. I had to stay on track.
“I should be presentable by the time I get over to my mother’s, so I’ll be fine.” Braun kissed my head before letting me walk ahead of him up the stairs. “Best view ever.”
Ugh.
“Stop that.” His laugh said he wasn’t even going to try to behave. “How do…how do people with children in the house do anything?”
With every sense being better than human how was privacy ever a thing?
“Every kid I know has been raised with a sound machine and their parents are all talking about which home purifier is the best.” Braun shrugged as I laughed that time. “It took me way too long as a teenager to understand why they were doing that.”
“That sounds like a good plan, though.” I’d have loved to have seen a young Braun finally connect the dots on something like that. “I’m guessing everyone pretends not to notice anything related to intimacy?”
Nodding, he shut the door and we headed for the stairs. “Yes, partly out of good manners and partly because we’re just closer to those kinds of instincts. It’s like shifting and removing your clothes. It’s something that happens but not something most people notice like humans would.”
That was going to be hard to get used to.
“That makes sense.” I could ignore bodies and not notice things. I could do that. “We’re getting an air purifier tomorrow, right?”
His laugh echoed through the house. “I got gifted one as a housewarming present when I first moved into the packhouse. It’s actually come in handy a few times when families needed to stay here. I use it so rarely I just stuck it under the bed.”
Thank goodness.
“Is there anything else I need to think about?” Besides smelling like sex because we’d basically been making love in the woods. “I don’t want to make anyone uncomfortable.”
“They wouldn’t be.” Braun bent over and wiggled his ass at me as he pulled the little machine out from under the bed. “But you would be if Emeric or my mother did something like smirk at us for doing new couple things.”
Oh.
He might’ve had a point.
“I’m not used to this.” My private life had been fairly dry for a long time, so I hadn’t even run into the human equivalent of it, whatever that might’ve been. “I need you to point out stuff like this that should be obvious but I might not think of.”
“Of course.” Braun came over and gave me a quick kiss. “You go turn on the shower. I’m going to turn this on and go downstairs and grab you some sweats and a T-shirt for tomorrow. I know I’ve got some your size in the guest room. It’s stocked with all kinds of things.”
Yes, that would be good.
“I need to get some stuff from my place tomorrow.” Because it didn’t seem like I was going to be spending a lot of time there this week. “Clothes and some papers I have to grade as well.”
Nodding, he seemed to be trying not to smirk.
I was pretty sure it was about the basically moving in part, so I ignored it.
He was the reason we were mated and I was taking over his life, so I didn’t have to feel embarrassed about it.
“And what about we grab a few things that might make your office here feel more comfortable?”
I was going to move in with him before we’d even had a single date.
“That sounds reasonable.” Under the circumstances. But as I headed toward the bathroom, random thoughts filled my head. “Are my students going to be able to smell you on my clothes? Like regular just being around you kind of scents?”
We weren’t going to do more than a fifties TV peck before I went to work, so I wouldn’t have to worry about anything else.
“It depends on what kind of shifter they are, but someone like a mage isn’t going to have the same sense of smell.
” No, mages were just probably tripping me in class, but Braun was going to help me with that.
“So you might get a few strangely worded questions about what you were doing over the weekend but they’re not going to be about intimate things.
The kids are literally just going to be trying to figure out why you smell like an Alpha wolf. ”
That probably made sense.
“Thank you for clarifying that.” He’d given me a lot to think about already, but as I turned on the water and started stripping, my brain kept coming up with new ones. I had a ridiculous list going by the time he came into the bathroom, but I didn’t let him getting naked distract me.
Too much.
“Is it possible for someone to give me…I’m not trying to sound rude or ignorant…some kind of charm or spell to keep my students from messing with me?” I was really tired of tripping over nothing but drawing attention to the prank would only make it worse.
Wow.
No.
I wasn’t going to get distracted no matter how big he was…everywhere.
“And is there anything I’m not supposed to talk about…not intimate things, of course…but pack-related things I might’ve seen and shouldn’t talk about?” I wasn’t sure if that would be obvious but I decided it couldn’t hurt to ask. “Um…”
What had I been saying?
His broad chest, the way it barely tapered down to wide hips and strong legs, wasn’t a surprise. I’d expected that based on his shape alone, but what I hadn’t expected was the perfectly proportional cock or the slight bulge about two-thirds the way down the shaft.
He had a knot.
The rest of his shaft was smoother than a human male’s would be, but he had a knot.
I managed to open the glass door and step into the oversized shower without falling or looking too stupid but his grin said I hadn’t been subtle. “I think…”
Something.
I’d been going to say something.
“You think you’d like a close-up of my knot, wouldn’t you?
” Braun tossed the last of his clothes in the hamper before slowly walking toward the shower.
It felt more like he was stalking me and I knew it wasn’t me being ridiculous as something I thought was his wolf flashed in his eyes.
“We’ve got more time than I thought we would, so how about I let you explore it? ”
Really?
Wait.
“More time?” I closed my eyes to make sure I could think.
Braun let out a wicked chuckle, but didn’t make me guess as he stepped into the shower. “My mother and Emeric just started a movie, so she asked if he could stay over a few more hours. I think she’s going to invite a few of the pack members his age over again so he can hang out with them.”
“He…he needs friends here…that’s good.” And it seemed like it was going to be good for us too. “Yes…that’s good.”
Braun’s pleased hum had my cheeks heating up, but the way he wrapped his entire body around mine had everything else getting hotter too. “It’s very good.”
The way he almost purred the words out went right to my dick, but it was still satisfied enough that I didn’t get distracted. “You…you didn’t get to come when we were on our walk. I’m sorry I wasn’t thinking clearly.”
It hadn’t even occurred to me until we’d been halfway back because it’d taken that long for my brain to finish coming back online.
“I told you before, it’s okay.” The way he kissed my head made me sigh, but I still felt bad about ignoring his needs. “I was completely focused on you and we did exactly what I wanted.”
I couldn’t help focusing on that part even though most of my body wanted to focus on the way he was pressed against me.
“You…you were being…” I’d never had a conversation like this before. “You were being clear about how you wanted our…the sexual side of our relationship to look, right?”
Asking if he’d been honest sounded rude and wrong, but I needed to clarify what he’d said while I could think.
“Yes, Wolfchen.” Braun didn’t sound frustrated with me but he leaned down and kissed my neck making it feel like I hadn’t been rude. “Being the one to steer the physical side of our relationship will make me very happy.”
He was patient, but his careful wording was going to make me frustrated if he kept it up.
My huff made him laugh, especially when I wiggled my hand between us and poked his chest. “Say it right. I’m not a fragile flower.”
Chest jerking, he managed not to laugh but he did let his teeth graze my neck. It sent my eyes rolling back in my head and made my knees weak, but just as I caught my breath, he got me back.
My nipple.
I’d forgotten about that.
He hadn’t.
Strong fingers tweaked the tender spot he’d marked me, sending a shower of sparks and some kind of emotion or sensation through me.
I wasn’t sure if the desire was mine or Braun’s but there was something tying us together as he teased the mark.
“Owning my sub and claiming my mate every way possible and however I want is going to make me very happy, Wolfchen.”
Yes.
I wasn’t weak.
I was just confused.
“I just…I don’t know how to do that, so you’re going to have to take charge.” Yes. It was his job as my mate. “And…and you don’t have to dance around it with polite words.”
It might confuse us in the moment.
“Such a naughty little slut.” Braun cut off my response as he pinned me against the cool wall of the shower and his teeth found my ear. But it was the way his fingers rolled my marked nipple that had every functional thought flying out of my head. “You need to be used and marked again, don’t you?”
Used?
I had questions but he kept distracting me.
And if he was going to say such sexy things, it wasn’t my fault if I tried to hump his thigh so I could come again.
“My sexy mate is already desperate for more.” It was definitely his fault so it was nice not to have to worry about it. The way he was distracting me was his doing too. “Let’s see how my dirty boy likes wearing my cum.”
Oh.
Rocking his hips forward pressed me tighter against the wall of the shower and sent a wave of pleasure through me as I felt even more trapped. “It’s time for you to focus on your Dom, naughty boy.”
If I was naughty, it was his doing.
But the way his cock was fucking the tight space between our bodies said it wasn’t the time to point that out.
It was his turn to come and I was going to show him that I was a good partner, so I wrapped my arms around him and ran my hands from his shoulders down to his ass. Braun’s muscles clenched and he moaned, rocking again and encouraging my touch.
“I’m going to come all over you. Use you.” Every muscle in him seemed to tense as he fucked my stomach faster and I could almost feel his cock throbbing against me even though that probably wasn’t possible. “Mark you with my cum. You’re such a dirty sub, I know you’ll love that.”
He would too.
I could hear it in his voice.
“You’re my mate…you have to mark me.” And I was pretty sure he’d find a thousand ways to do it too. “You’ll use me and make me come.”
I had to admit to not knowing much about dirty talk, but echoing his own words back at him seemed like a good plan and had his body jerking against me.
Bingo.
Kissing his shoulder, I licked his skin and nibbled on him the same way he’d been doing to me. “Would you let me mark you if I could? Would you let me suck on your chest and mark you so you could feel me every time you brushed your hand over it?”
Oh, he liked that.
His hips snapped forward like he was fucking me hard and I could feel how close he was. “Yes, Wolfchen, I’d love your mark. I’d play with it and run my fingers over it so much I’d be hard and aching.”
Like he was right now.
“And when I couldn’t take it anymore, I’d wrap my hands around my knot and squeeze it as I pressed your mark.
” Braun’s body jerked and his cock throbbed against me as he came.
As his cum streaked over my chest, he moaned and tightened around me giving me another round of the wonderful trapped feeling.
When he finally came down from his high, he kissed my head. “Kneel down and clean me, Wolfchen.”
Something about the order left me feeling heavy and floaty as I sank down to kneel on the floor of the shower. The spray was pounding over me, but the view was all I could focus on.
His cock.
His knot.
It looked bigger up close and I found myself reaching for it, barely running my fingers down the softening length until I got to his knot.
The rest of his cock looked underwear model big but not porn star startling.
The knot was obvious enough that I’d have known he was something more incredible than human right away, though.
“That’s going to feel so good in you, little slut.” Braun’s tender but dirty words sent a shiver through me. “Kiss, Wolfchen. Show me you know how a good sub behaves when his Dom is generous and lets him play.”
Play with Braun’s cock.
He was letting me play with it because he was my Dom and he was in charge.
The logic played over and over in my head but it felt far away as I leaned in and brushed my lips against his knot.
The knot that was going to tie me to him.
“That’s my sweet mate.” The deep tone in his voice sent another shiver through me and got a pleased sound from him as reality seemed to drift in and out. “My needy, naughty mate.”
I had a mate.
Yes…that was the only thing I needed to remember.
I had a mate.