Chapter 22 #2
She needed to go back to the basics, the fundamentals, from a time long ago when she was a young pup, finally learning what potential lay in this body of hers. She felt the smallest shudder of her bones, her back arching at the now-familiar wash of icy pain.
Isla cursed, her arm snapping out as she took hold of Kai’s shoulder. He closed in, the warmth of his body chasing the cold away. “I’ve got you.”
Isla nodded, panting through gritted teeth.
Focus. Breathe. Let the energy flow.
Her energy moved like sludge. And there was that wall—a shimmering, impenetrable veil.
Claim me.
Maybe she could call on her wolf another way. Isla fed off the possessive tug, allowing that deep, ingrained desire for her mate, her other half, to take over. Her breathing shallowed as she became dizzy, her limbs feeling like they were about to shatter.
“Kai.” A near whimper.
“I’m right here.” He pressed in, wrapping his arms around her.
Isla’s eyes fluttered open, flaring with determination as they met his, still burning that blood-red.
Kai’s hold on her tightened ever so slightly. “What do you feel? What do you think when you look at me? Say it.”
Isla swallowed. “Mine,” she answered lowly. “You’re mine.”
“Good. Now, show me.”
Isla gave one last pull, hauling up whatever she could from inside herself, and in a flash of pain, tasted the salty tang of sweat mixed with copper in her mouth.
Her tongue slid over her teeth, then recoiled at the sharpness of her canines.
Her lumerosi burned, and from the way Kai beamed down at her, as brightly as she smiled up at him, she guessed her eyes glowed, too.
“There you are.” Kai smiled, brushing back her sweaty hair. “I hope that didn’t tire you out too much because we’ve only just started.”
Isla failed to give him a deadpan look before lifting on her toes to kiss him, using gentle hands on his partially bandaged chest to usher him back.
She’d spotted a small couch earlier with her wandering eye, and she knew exactly where she wanted him next.
The moment his legs hit the base of the seat, he fell back.
As a conquering queen, Isla looked down upon him, her canines still sharp and eager to pierce his skin. Soon.
First, they would play.
While Kai finished the work she’d started while they moved, tugging down his pants, she lifted her slip over her head. They still wore their crowns.
With his fist wrapped around his freed length, Kai’s eyes greedily drank her in. “So fucking perfect.”
Isla chuffed a laugh, watching as he pumped himself slowly, her fingers twitching at her sides, eager to take over.
She lowered herself onto the couch, straddling him. Kai released his hold on himself and cupped her ass again. Isla’s nose twitched at the scent of the air thick with their arousal. The peaks of her nipples barely grazed his chest, her slickness nearly dripping between them.
Cocking her head to the side, she gripped his chin and asked with seductive sweetness, “Who do you belong to, Alpha?”
“You.” Kai didn’t hesitate and sucked down a breath when her hand drew a blazing trail down his abdomen, muscles flexing with every bid for air. “Only you.”
Isla traced a single finger along the smooth underside of his shaft before gripping tightly near the tip.
Her hand barely fit around him, and yet, when they fucked, it felt like he was made for her.
She stroked him, making him hold her tighter and arch his hips into her touch.
A Goddess-damn alpha in the palm of her hand.
She ran her thumb along the broad head, her mouth drying at the moisture she collected there. “And what do you want?”
“Anything you’ll give me.”
It was said with such conviction that a thrill zapped up Isla’s spine. Another leisurely stroke. She leaned in, running her tongue along the column of his throat to his ear. “Would you beg for it?”
“I’d crawl for you.”
Isla hummed, allowing the sound to travel the path where she’d returned to his neck, where she let her teeth graze that spot her wolf craved. The scars of her previous bite still lingered, and she scraped along the raised, pearlescent skin, the animal inside her thrashing to be set free.
“Isla.”
That was a plea from his lips.
She leaned back, smirking. “Later,” she whispered and rose on her knees.
She positioned him at her entrance, rubbing the head through her wetness before sliding down, down. Her muscles strained as she slowly took every glorious inch of him into her body, Kai’s hands guiding until he was so deep inside her that she couldn’t think.
“Fuck.”
She needed to hear him say her name again. Needed him to keep looking at her like she was all the realms in one.
Isla lifted and slammed her hips down, moaning at the shock of pleasure that sparked every nerve, that flared hotter when she rocked her hips, brushing that spot at the apex of her thighs. Goddess, he felt incredible. The stretch and fill to the very edge of pain.
Isla crushed her mouth to his, the kiss deep, claiming, and desperate as his tongue slid into her mouth, and they built a rhythm. He met her stroke for stroke with an upward thrust of his hips, his hands exploring her skin as she chased her pleasure. More, more, more.
With her back arching, his name a prayer on her lips, Isla gave herself over to him and every alive thing he made her feel. To this divine bond that linked them. To their mingling breaths, the twining of life, the pounding of their hearts as they barreled through ecstasy together.
Together. Always together. They couldn’t be ripped apart. Never again. She wouldn’t allow it.
It didn’t take long for her to reach that precipice of oblivion again, her cries and his grunts echoing off the study’s walls as the knot in her belly became impossibly tight and ready to snap.
“Isla.”
A low, growling beckon—one that resounded deep inside her and made her teeth ache.
Isla tore her mouth from his, bringing it down to the tender flesh between his neck and shoulder.
She wrapped her arms around him, hugging her sweat-slicked body closer as their movements slowed to an intense, purposeful, and luxurious pace, as he shifted his hips in a way that made her eyes roll back, hitting her deeper than he ever had.
Pushed her right over that glittering edge.
Her orgasm ripped through her as her teeth pierced his skin.
Mine.
The word echoed in her head along with Kai’s moan as her bite dug into him, staking her claim on his flesh and feeling the warmth of his blood trickle into her mouth.
And then, she was that golden thread, their bond, humming with pleasure, brimming with pressure, about to burst with whatever magic this universe their souls crafted was made from.
Isla pulled back, licking his blood from the corner of her mouth as she met his drunken, smug, sex-dazed smile that made her want to fuck him for hours. She wasn’t done with him. Not even close. And judging by the fact he was still hard, he wasn’t done either.
Kai brushed away a piece of golden hair stuck to her forehead. “That’s my girl.”
Isla bit back a smile at the praise. She leaned in closer again, her mouth brushing over his. “You said you’d take anything I gave you.” Before they retracted, she dragged her canines over his bottom lip. “Now, give me everything.”
She knew the unspoken words were clear to him. Don’t hold back.
And thank the Goddess that when he flipped them, pressing her back into the couch and lifting her legs over his shoulders, he didn’t.