Chapter 52
Conrí
My mum dabbed at her eyes and I watched my dad’s arm tighten around her. Now that I understood the bond from the inside, I understood them too—his instinct to pull her closer, the way she leaned into it without thinking. Years of watching them and it had taken my own mate to make it make sense.
“When can we meet her?” Mum sniffed. “Oh, this is wonderful news. The best in years.”
She set herself off again.
“Dad,” I said helplessly.
“Aye, yer brother told us.”
Of course he had.
“I was going to ease her in gradually. She’s never been part of a pack before. She needs time.”
“Your brother told us everything.” A pause. “I suppose I could wait a few days.”
Days.
“You’re coming over?” I asked, eyeballing my dad over her head.
“I’ll try and hold her off,” he said, and softened the blow by kissing her cheek.
She leaned into his shoulder.
I watched them for a moment. Was I looking at our future? Nika and I, decades from now—would she still have that bite to her, that wildness I loved unreasonably? I hoped so. I rather thought so.
I glanced at the timestamp on the laptop.
Not lunchtime yet.
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Her scent hit me the moment she walked through the door.
I fumbled the lock behind her—half of me focused on securing it, the other half already reaching for her. I hoisted her up until her legs locked around my waist and her arms found my neck.
For a moment we just held on. Faces buried. Breathing each other in. Our wolves settling—that quiet reassurance that passed between the bond when the distance had gone on too long.
It had only been a few hours.
It had been horrendous.
I carried her to my chair, one hand braced under her, and lowered us carefully until she was in my lap. Chest to chest. Her growl rose to meet mine as our wolves greeted each other through the bond—low and warm, nothing threatening in it. Just recognition.
When I leaned back she growled louder, tightening her grip.
As if I was going anywhere.
As if I could.
That's when she shifted her hips on my lap, rubbing herself along the hardening length between us.
I pushed my hands beneath the hem of her skirt and slowly felt her bare flesh beneath the fabric.
Her chest heaved a little harder. The desperate movements of her hips were accompanied by the scent of her arousal.
Not as rich a scent from her heat, but enough to incite a riot within Alphas.
I guided her motions, tightly gripping her cheeks until she moaned.
A single low and broken sound.
“Do you want me to bend you over my desk?” I murmured.
“Why are you even asking?” she groaned, taking my face in her hands and lowering hers to mine.
The relief hit the moment our lips met—shared, immediate, running through the bond in both directions. I couldn’t tell where mine ended and Kael’s began but I felt it the same moment she did. I saw the curve of her lips just before they landed on mine.
Everything about her flipped a switch. Her playfulness. Her scent. The knowledge—still new enough to feel remarkable—that she’d decided we were worthy of her.
Her hands tightened on my face as the bond rekindled between us. A few hours apart had taught us something we hadn’t expected to learn so quickly. I couldn’t be too far from her—not yet. Not while everything was this fresh, this enormous, still finding its shape.
We kissed the way people kissed when they’d been apart too long—desperate, licking, nipping, snatching air where we could. I was the one groaning when her arousal reached me.
No time to strip her blouse. No time for any of it. I needed to be inside her.
I held her hips and tilted upward. That was all it took—she rocked against me, ground down, and gasped.
“Yes,” she hissed.
“Face down. On my desk,” I commanded, sliding her off my lap.
Her eyes flashed defiance. Then they dropped to my trousers.
Without a word she turned, swept everything off the desk with both hands and lay across it.
Items hit the floor. Neither of us looked to see what they were.
I shoved the chair back and unbuckled my belt in one motion. Her hands found the hem of her skirt and began to raise the black fabric—and then the forest green thong came into view.
Oh, she was so fucking bad.
I loved her all the more for it.
Ours, Kael said, just as gone as I was.
Our first rut. It was to be expected. The bond was new and the pull of it was not entirely rational and I was at peace with that.
She could be a serial killer and our response would be the same. We’d have to keep her in a dedicated containment facility—a sex dungeon, essentially—but I could work with those parameters.
“Why do I sense dark thoughts?” she asked, glancing over her shoulder.
Right.
The bond.
I hooked my fingers beneath the dark green material and peeled it off. I crouched down to her slingback heels and removed those too. She accommodated the theft by lifting her feet without being asked.
Booty secured in my pocket.
I traced my hands back up her legs as I stood.
“I was considering stealing you away to a sex dungeon,” I confessed, parting her cheeks.
“Or I could keep you in mine,” she snickered. “Visit you every other weekend.”
Every other weekend.
I stared at the back of her head.
My hand moved before I’d fully decided to move it. The slap rang around my office with a clarity that suggested the acoustics in here were also quite good.
“Bad girl,” I murmured, rubbing the pink imprint into her flesh.
It wouldn’t last. We healed fast.
Bad Girl’s growl surfaced—low and immediate.
She moved. I pressed my palm flat against her back.
“Don’t you want to finish what we started?” I murmured, sliding my fingers between her thighs.
The irritation dissolved the moment she remembered what she’d been irritated from.
Stop pissing her off, Kael snapped.
Did his opinion matter right now?
He was one sniff away from building a shrine.
I traced my fingertip around her until it was soaked. Then two fingers circling her clit. Taking my time.
She moved to her elbows with a moan and shuffled her feet wider without being asked.
Good girl.
I kept that thought entirely to myself.
With my other hand I gripped my cock, fisting and pumping until the precum smeared across my length.
My office would never be the same again.