Chapter 13 - Owen
So much for this being clinical and cold.
The only thing I can feel is heat. Trina’s lips and tongue are like fire against mine, and her breasts almost singe my mouth as I devour her nipples. Between her legs, a furnace rages, and the more I tease her with my fingers, the hotter she burns.
She gasps and struggles under me, but I just pin her with my left hand, running my tongue across her breasts and sucking on her nipples as I slide my fingers into her, slowly pumping back and forth.
Even though she struggles and I feel her hands gripping my shoulders as if she wants to push me away, her hips thrust against my hand in time with every stroke.
I have to taste her.
The thick, floral scent of her is so strong, I can barely think, as if freshly cut petals from dozens of sweet flowers are drifting around my face. With every breath, I get more intoxicated, my body wresting full control from my mind.
Growling with frustration, I slip back a little, putting my hands on her thighs and pushing her skirt up. Trina writhes under me, opening her legs, and I tear off her panties, hurling them out of my way.
I savor the sight of her spread out before me, her arms above her head, beautiful breasts bare and heaving up and down, legs spread wide, and her dress tangled around her waist. Her eyelids flutter, and before she can look up at me, I lower my head and sink my mouth into her pussy.
Trina gasps, bucking underneath me. I groan with pleasure as I taste her sweet juices and feel the heat of her, sliding my tongue downwards and exploring every slick fold. I take my time, holding her thighs apart as I sink lower.
When I lick all the way down to her slit and tease the edges of her entrance with long, slow flicks of my tongue, Trina writhes under me, murmuring under her breath as goosebumps flare across her skin.
I dig my fingers into her thighs, pushing her knees even further apart and groaning in ecstasy as I devour her, deeper and deeper, until her hips start to jerk up and down.
I wrap one arm around her leg and lick my way back up to her clit, teasing it with the tip of my tongue, then kissing gently with soft grazes of my lips. Trina moans and thrashes under me, forcing me to hold her even tighter so I can keep teasing her.
When I wrap my lips around her hot, wet clit and gently suck, Trina goes mad underneath me, screaming and raking at my shoulders with her nails.
Just as she’s about to orgasm, I plunge my mouth back down to her throbbing slit and groan in complete ecstasy as I feel the spasms of her body against my mouth.
Trina comes again, and I feel her hand twisting my hair as she drives her hips into me. I relax against her, lapping my tongue into her pussy and teasing her clit with my lips until she lets go of me, collapsed against the couch, almost shivering from the intensity of her orgasm.
I sit up and look down at her, the beautiful honey-gold hair in a twisted halo around her face, her beautiful pale skin sheathed in sweat as her breasts heave up and down with heavy breaths. I run my hands along her thighs, and she shivers, looking up at me with her wide, blue-green eyes.
She watches me as I stand up, slowly undoing the buttons of my shirt before I roll it off my shoulders. When my hands go down to my pants, her eyes widen, but she doesn’t look away.
I take off my belt and slowly drop my trousers, enjoying the way she’s watching my every movement. As I come back to kneel between her legs, she doesn’t take her eyes off my cock. Her breathing increases as I get closer.
“Hey,” I whisper.
Her eyes snap up to mine, pupils dilating as she responds to me.
“Are you okay?” I ask.
Trina pales, her eyes widening even more, but she nods. I settle between her legs, gripping her knees gently as I shuffle towards her, never taking my eyes from her face.
My cock slides against her wet heat, teasing her with pressure. Trina leans her head back, closing her eyes and arching her back as she moans. I run my hands along her thighs, then back to her knees. She lifts her legs, wrapping them around my waist.
“Yes, Owen,” she cries, her voice desperate. “Please fuck me.”
Any lingering control I might have had is shattered in that instant.
All rational thought leaves me, my body taking over as I grab her hips and thrust violently towards her.
My huge, hard cock slams into her, and Trina screams, wrapping her legs and arms tightly around me to bind us together as close as we can possibly be.
Pleasure ripples through me from the marrow of my bones to every inch of my skin.
I lower my head to her shoulder, gasping as I try to maintain a thread of sanity.
The scent of her around me, the taste of her on my lips, her body coiled around mine—all of it is too much, and with a low growl, I start ramming her into the couch with long, hard strokes.
Trina clings to me, crying out at the end of every thrust. Her heels dig into my ass and her hands clench tightly at the small of my back as I hold myself up above her, every stroke harder and faster as my body is overwhelmed by pleasure.
Suddenly, Trina grabs me even more tightly, howling as her body spasms, caught between me and the couch.
I feel her hot, slick pussy gripping me, spasms exploding through her and running through her whole body as she writhes and screams under the force of another orgasm.
I try to keep it together, but I’m already too far gone, and my cock swells to the point of pain.
As Trina’s orgasm peaks, my own release shudders through me, a loud groan ripping from my throat as my cock blows deep inside her.
Moments pass. To me, it’s timeless. Our breath comes and goes, like waves on a shore in perfect harmony. I can feel her heart beating against mine, and for the first time in my life, I feel completely whole.
She murmurs softly, and I realize I’m trapping her under me and quickly move to get up. I expect her to cuddle against me, so when she immediately gets to her feet and hurries down the hallway, it surprises me.
Maybe just going to the bathroom?
I wait for her to return, dozing a little. Through my exhaustion, I begin to realize she isn’t coming back. Sadness leaks through the soft, warm contentment, waking me up and leaving me feeling lonely and a bit lost.
I thought… I thought both of us felt it. But maybe she felt nothing at all.
The idea is disturbing, but before it can torture me too much, I hear a shout further down the hall. Knowing it can only be Trina, I hurry to her room, fully expecting to find her in trouble.
Why someone would attempt to assault an alpha’s mate in his house is beyond me, but that scream was pure terror. What could possibly make her scream like that?
When I reach the bedroom door, Trina’s scent is thick, borne on the heat from her body. She’s writhing in bed, twisting the sheets around herself as she struggles.
What the hell?
The last nightmare she had wasn’t this intense. I assumed it was a one-off, but now I know I’m looking at deep trauma, something severe that’s buried in her psyche.
She might not even be aware of it.
My poor girl, what has been done to you?
I approach the bed slowly, my heart slowly breaking as I watch her face twist in fear.
Her eyes are screwed tightly shut, and her lips twist and fight against each other as if she’s trying to say something.
A short scream bursts out of her mouth, and her entire body jerks up and down on the bed.
She’s so twisted up in the sheets, her body is bound by them, and the restraints frighten her even more.
Trina shrieks, fighting against the pressure, completely senseless.
“Stop, Trina, stop,” I say softly. “Wake up. You’re okay.”
“No,” she moans, a long, drawn-out sound as if she’s directly arguing with me. “No, don’t!”
“Hey,” I try again, putting a hand on her forehead. “Trina, please wake up.”
She struggles away from my hand, and I realize how deep she really is. She’s lost in her mind somewhere, a vault that she’s locked so tight, she can’t reach it with her waking mind.
Gently, I ease the sheets off her, getting rid of the restricting bands around her body. Even though she moans, she seems to settle, just a little. She’s soaked with sweat, her muscles trembling with exhaustion, and my heart goes out to her all over again.
I put my hand on her forehead, summoning up the feeling I had right after we climaxed together.
I know that was real. She may have run away immediately after, but that moment was pure truth.
As the sense of wholeness envelopes me, I send the feeling towards her, and her breathing begins to slow. Keeping one hand on her forehead, I shake her shoulder gently with my other hand.
“Trina,” I say, loudly now. “Trina, wake up.”
She screams, her eyes opening suddenly as she comes out of the dream. At first, she looks up at me, her eyes wide with fear as if she’s going to run from me.
Then she hurls herself into my arms.
Relieved, I pull her against my chest, holding her tightly and soothing her. She cries against my shoulder, her body shaking in my arms. I rock back and forth a bit, finally relaxing myself now that she’s free of the nightmare.
Suddenly, a horrible sense of fear casts a shadow over me.
It’s like nothing I’ve ever felt before, even when I was watching my people die.
I feel like a rabbit on a wide-open plain, exposed and alone, not the wolf that makes him its prey.
A powerful shudder runs through me, and Trina tightens her grip on me, screaming at the top of her lungs.
Fragments of memories blast through my mind, all of them sensory, even if they’re incomplete.
My stomach aches with starvation, and my fingers are torn, nails cracked as I claw desperately at a solid wooden door, desperate to be allowed out.
Lines burn around my wrists and ankles—deep, infected rope burns.
A sudden crack echoes through my mind, forcing my head back as if someone slapped me across the face.
Finally, a deep, slicing loss rips through my body. Horrific grief, like losing half my heart. Trina starts keening in my arms, and I can feel her helplessness, her utter despair as she watches someone she loves disappear behind the veil forever, with her powerless to stop it.
“Mother,” she whispers, her voice pitifully broken. “Don’t leave me.”
My heart breaks so completely, I don’t know if the wound can ever heal. I know I’m feeling all of Trina’s pain and loss, and that she doesn’t even understand how deeply it has broken her.
I wrap my arms around her even more tightly, vowing that I will never let anyone hurt her, ever again.