Chapter 36
Cat
I was pacing the downstairs entryway when my sensitive ears picked up on my mate’s voice. He’d been in church with his brothers, discussing everything that had just taken place with Kane. His determined footfalls, like his familiar face, couldn’t be confused for anyone else as he came into view.
As soon as I saw my mate, I lobbed a volley of questions at him. “Where’s Anna? Is she okay? Is she hurt?”
“We can talk about that upstairs,” Ace stated flatly, his eyes still wild-looking after the events of the night.
My arms folded stubbornly across my chest. “Just tell me where she is. We can talk later. I need to see my best friend.”
The space grew still and quiet then. “Get upstairs,” my mate sternly commanded once more. “We’ll talk about it in my room. I’ll be up shortly.”
“No!” I growled back, not in the mood to wait. “We’ll talk about it now! I’ve waited long enough for an update about Anna. I can’t wait any longer.”
In response, Ace slowly unbuckled his belt. “Get upstairs, Cat.”
Glancing down at the leather snaking through his belt loops, I swallowed hard. Not sure if it was from fear or longing, or maybe a bit of both, I tried to reason with the pumped-up ware.
“Ace, let’s talk about this,” I said, trying to calm my testosterone-flooded mate.
“No more talking,” Ace returned, folding the leather in half as his towering body corralled me toward the stairs. “The longer you make me wait to get to our bedroom, Cat, the more strokes of this,” he swatted the leather in his palm for emphasis, “you’re going to get.”
Putting my hands on my hips, I mulishly argued, “You can’t be serious! I was only trying to—”
Before I could finish my protest, Ace was on me. I was up and over his shoulder in the blink of an eye. With each step he climbed, he smacked my rear hard. His palm stung, but it wasn’t going to be anything like what I knew was coming next.
Anticipatory chills coursed through me then.
My pussy clamped with need and grew slick with desire.
I might outwardly fight this mountain of a man, but I wanted him so badly at the moment I ached.
I secretly needed to feel the sting of his hand and belt on my ass.
It got me impossibly wet and made me long for his cock in ways I could never admit out loud.
At least, not without a little inducement from my very dominant mate.
As soon as we got inside his bedroom, Ace ordered, “Take off everything except your panties, then spread your legs and bend over the bed. This discipline is far overdue.”
Blowing a stray blond hair that had escaped my ponytail out of my face, I frowned. “How did I earn this spanking, exactly?”
I knew I shouldn’t be this defiant, but damn I wanted to be.
Ever since meeting the pack, I found myself growing more and more confident by the day.
Plus, though I’d never admit it, I loved pushing my mate’s boundaries and testing his resolve.
For lack of a better explanation, it made me horny as hell.
Ace’s grey eyes narrowed. “You know why, Cat.”
“I really don’t,” I mulishly returned.
“It’s because at the first sign of trouble, you doubted your pack. You decided to fight Kane, a fully grown alpha shifter, alone, and that can’t ever happen again. You need to trust not only your alpha, but that your pack will always be there for you,” he passionately reprimanded.
For a moment, I actually felt guilty over his little speech.
Then I rallied and arched a brow at him.
“I almost decided to confront Kane on my own. In the end, I went to you and my pack for help,” I quickly corrected, eyeing the belt in his hands like a cobra that was poised and ready to strike.
“That should count for something, right?”
“I took your eleventh hour change of mind into consideration when I was crafting your punishment,” my mate stated with a cold smile. “That’s why you’re getting my belt and not a flogger.”
My eyes widened incredulously. “Flogger? You wouldn’t!”
“Don’t test me,” Ace warned, taking a meaningful step forward. “Strip. Do it now, or I’ll be adding ten more strokes to your count every time you hesitate to obey me.”
Ten?! For the love of everything holy, that was crazy!
Deciding I’d pushed my mate far enough, I begrudgingly pulled off everything I was wearing but my panties.
Turning around, I bent over, facing the bed.
Locking my knees, I rested my palms onto the soft mattress, presenting my ass high into the air for my mate.
Ace stroked my back with his fingertips, eliciting a shiver that cut through me with the force of an electrical shock. “Such a good omega, baring her ass to me like I said. Do you need me to bind your hands so that you don’t interrupt your punishment, Cat?”
Shit? Did I need to be restrained? I might not need to be restrained, but I realized I wanted to be. “Yes, please. I think I should be.”
My acquiescence greatly pleased my mate. His fingers quickly slipped under my thong then between the folds of my eager pussy. Ace hissed with desire when he discovered how slick I already was there.
“Fuck, Cat! You love the idea of being bound and spanked with my belt, don’t you?”
I groaned when he slipped two calloused fingers deep into the well of my squelching pussy. “Yes, I do, Ace. I reeeeally do.”
My honesty earned me a few plunges of those delicious digits in and out of my weeping core. Then, all too soon, they were removed and placed against my lips.
“Open up,” Ace demanded, and I quickly obliged, sucking the digits into my warm, wet mouth as he raptly watched. “Lick them clean.”
The filthy act caused my juices to flow again, soaking my panties through. Ace sniffed the air and growled. “Are you trying to get out of your punishment by creaming so nicely for your alpha?”
Shaking my head, I began to hum and gyrate my hips to entice him to act.
It was as though I was falling into a trance and no longer in control of myself.
Perhaps it was his spiked adrenaline or the post-fight pheromones, but I needed him to dominate and possess me in every way possible tonight so that I could cum and release all this tension that was building up inside of me like an atomic bomb.
“Please, Alpha, give me what I want. What I need!” I begged, practically slithering in place.
“Oh, Baby, I’ll give you everything you need,” Ace vowed, before his t-shirt twisted and knotted around my wrists, eliminating any chance of my hands interrupting what was to come.
“I’ll give you everything you need and more,” he promised, with a sweet kiss on my temple, before he stood upright.
A few seconds later, the long strip of leather landed on my left ass cheek.
The sound of the belt cutting through the air did not prepare me for the shock of its landing.
The thick material bit into my skin with the fierceness of a shark and left a burn so strong it felt as though I’d been branded with a hot iron.
Branded and owned by my mate. Just how I wanted it. Just how it should be.
Glancing back to watch, I saw my big, Alpha mate raise his powerful arm into the air and swing it down to meet my blushing ass.
His eyes were glazed with equal parts determination and lust. My pussy wept at the heady sight.
With each successive stroke, the pain bloomed alongside my desire.
Each crack of the belt on my tender, bare skin made my pussy clench and pulse with wanton desire.
I counted thirteen swats but soon surrendered to the process and stopped counting altogether.
My ass got the brunt of it, but my thighs and pussy weren’t spared.
They too felt the sting of the belt’s cruel tongue over and over again.
I was a writhing, begging mess of desire but I’d held my position until the last stroke landed upon the center most part of my ass, the hardest one of them all. Unbeknownst to me, tears had streaked down my cheeks, leaving wet tracks down my flushed skin.
“Do you trust me, Cat?” Ace demanded then, his intense gaze burrowing into the deepest part of my soul.
As I regarded him over my shoulder, I saw that the man’s enormous cock and balls had been freed from his pants. Wetting my lips, I thought of how good he would taste in my mouth. In response to my interest, the beautiful appendage bobbed with approval.
“Do you trust me?” Ace repeated emphatically, more sternly this time.
Nodding slowly, my eyes rose to my handsome mate’s face. “Yes, Ace. I trust you. I trust you completely.”
“Good, because we’re going to need it tonight.” His statement, though ominous, was music to my ears.
Without any further conversation, Ace lined up the head of his cock with my slit and speared directly inside of me. He thrust so deep, I swear I could feel him nudging the entrance of my womb.
My knees spread wider to help absorb the shock of his pounding and to stabilize my besieged body. Ruthlessly, Ace punished me with his hot flesh, driving me to the brink of madness within mere seconds. When his thumb found my clit, and began working it hard, I blew apart.
“That’s it, cum for me, Omega,” Ace ground out, as he ground into my cunt over and over, “Get sloppy wet so I can conquer your final virgin hole.”
Again, those twin emotions of fear and excitement hijacked my brain. But when Ace forced yet another spectacular orgasm from my overstimulated body, I gave up the fight and accepted my fate. I was his, and he was mine. There were no borders between us anymore. We were now one.
Using my copious slick to coat my dark entrance, I began to squirm away from his touch in such a sensitive, untried, shameful place. Ace commanded, “Do not fight this, Mate. You’re mine to fuck in any way I see fit. Tonight, I’ll teach you that.”
His thumb, so delightful on my clit moments ago, was now offensively probing at my anus. Coated in my juices, he gave it a little push before he breached the clenched muscle of my rectum.
“Can you feel how tight that is, Cat? Fuck me, that’s going to feel like heaven around my cock.”
His member, still sheathed inside my pulsing pussy, kicked and throbbed. After he worked another finger into my rear passage, Ace commanded me to stroke my clit while he continued to loosen my untried hole.
Moving slowly at first, his massive digits soon picked up their pace. Shamefully, I enjoyed this dark pleasure more than I’d ever expected I would. It was sinful, base, and dirty. All things my alpha mate brought out of me, and that I suddenly realized I loved.
When I began to moan and meet his strokes with my own, Ace pulled his cock out of my sopping core.
Already lubed with my slick, he aligned the spongy head against the gate of my virgin hole, demanding entry.
Adding some force behind it, the blunt tip widened my innocent passage, making me burn, and my clit began to tingle with the stirrings of another orgasm.
“Christ, you’re so hot and tight!” Ace spat out, his fingers cinching my waist like unbreakable pincers forged from iron.
Pushing relentlessly, his shaft was a third of the way in, but it already felt like too much. “You’re too big,” I wailed, gnashing my teeth together as the delicate tissue gave way to the demands of his greater strength.
“Shhh,” he soothed. “You’re my mate. Your body was made for mine. You can take it,” he insisted, before mercilessly forcing himself the rest of the way inside.
I gasped at the final stretch, keening through the burning, stretching, humiliating pain. Though it hurt, he also felt amazing seated so deep inside of me, inside my most forbidden place.
Reaching around to my clit, Ace began to stroke the overused bundle of nerves. Like I hadn’t just come a handful of times already, my libido began to instantly climb once more.
Taking hold of my hip roughly, Ace began to slowly pump his hips.
With each successive stroke, I began to soar higher and higher.
That’s when he began to absolutely jackhammer his massive cock in and out of me.
His hips slapped against my hot, red ass, and the sound caused my jealous core to leak more viscous fluid down my already soaked thighs.
My desperate cries of despair and longing caused my mate’s knot to thicken and bulge. Though it remained outside my dark hole, I could feel it growing and abutting my delicate entrance with the insistence of an invading army.
“Are you ready for my knot, Cat?” Ace demanded, his tone strained alongside his neck muscles.
Looking over my shoulder, I saw that my mate’s face was a grim mask of heaven and hell. He needed to cum so bad, but was holding out, waiting for me to invite him in.
Even though I was frightened and unsure of what it would be like, I trusted my mate and said, “Yes, Ace. I’m ready. Give me your beautiful knot in my ass.”
Throwing back his head, Ace howled and drove his knot all the inside my dark channel.
The instant his massive knot locked into place and his hot cum jetted into me, I erupted into a full body orgasm that was downright tantric.
Every nerve in my body came online simultaneously and lit up so brightly I must have glowed in the dark.
We hovered within the realm of purgatory and orgasmic bliss for what seemed like hours, and mere seconds, all at once. When his knot finally deflated and he was able to pull free of my slickened hole, Ace gathered me into his arms and kissed my lips.
“Welcome home, Cat,” he whispered into the shell of my ear.
Carrying me over to the side of the bed, he tucked me under the covers and climbed in beside me.
“Even though I have loved you for only days, I have waited my entire life to find you and make you mine. You shall have everything and anything you desire, my sweet omega. I live only to make you happy.”
Kissing his beefy shoulder, I smiled and settled my forehead against his warm chest. “I’ll hold you to that, mate,” I saucily returned.
Before I fell into a deep, contented sleep, encircled by his loving embrace, I heard Ace chuckle and say, “I hope you do, my love. I hope you do.”