Chapter 51
Ethan
“Better do something about it?” I shook my head. “Just try and stop me.”
Cupping my hand around her throat, I pulled Nadia up so her back was pressed into my chest. That left my hands free to caress every damn inch of her, but I couldn’t see to settle anywhere in particular.
The frantic swallow of her throat, the way she pressed her breasts into my hands when I covered them, then the swell of her hips.
Even placing it low on her stomach, I was caught by the softness of her skin, her feminine curves, and for just a second, a brief vision of my mate’s stomach swollen with our pups.
Fun first, I told myself, because we’d discussed the idea of having kids and agreed we weren’t ready now.
It made sense at the time, but with the floral scent of her arousal in my nose, I wasn’t so sure.
Some primal part of me rushed to the fore.
Mate, claim, bite, that mantra played over and over in my head, until the moment her lips touched mine.
I loved the sharp little intake of breath she gave each time I kissed her. It was like she wanted it so much she wasn’t sure she’d get it. The doubt I didn’t like at all, but that desperation? It made me feel a whole lot better about the need raging in my own heart.
“Ethan…” she moaned as we were forced to take a breath.
“I know.” Pressing a far gentler kiss to her forehead.
“Don’t need to be mated to know you need this just as much as I do.
” When I pressed my aching length against her arse, she started to get fractious.
“Shh… I’ve got you.” My hand slid lower.
“I’ll always give you what you need. All you have to do is feel. ”
Worried my mate was going to be a little oversensitive, my finger barely grazed her clit, but a whine escaping through clenched teeth made clear that was not the case.
I stroked the hood of her clit slowly, methodically, feeling the little nub roll around like a marble coated in oil.
My hand stayed on her throat, just gripping it lightly so I could feel every moan she made as well as hear it.
The moment when her breathing grew harsh, when her hips bucked up against my hand told me when she was close.
“Ethan—”
“I know,” I said. “Just give me one more orgasm and I’ll give you everything I’ve got.”
“Ethan—!”
“That’s not what she wants.” Grey’s tone forced me to focus on him, not Nadia, which earned him a snarl. His hand seemed to move of its own accord, trailing down her breast bone. “There’s a terrible emptiness inside you.”
“Yes!” she snapped.
“Tex eased it, but Ethan took that from you.”
“Yes.”
Sometimes it was hard to remember that Nadia could turn into an actual apex predator, but now she moved with a swiftness that shocked even me, throwing me down on the bed.
Before I could protest, she was on me, hand around my throat, but I couldn’t seem to care, not when the other went around the base of my cock.
Fuck…
I think I hissed that out, right before she shifted her hips to take me deep.
Holy crap, I don’t think I’d ever experienced something as intense as this.
It was like Nadia was ten times hotter, wetter, so when she pulled back slightly, I was forced to claw at her hips.
Couldn’t let her get away, not when she had me feeling like this, but we both had the same idea.
Her downward stroke coincided with my thrust upwards, the way our bodies crashed together making my teeth clack together.
The ache in my fangs intensified as I stared up at my mate.
“You need this?” I meant for that to come out all growly and sexy, but instead there was something vulnerable about my words. “You need me?”
“Always.”
Her hands smoothed across my chest, tracing the shape of every muscle, right before she began to move. Long, galloping strokes at first, then they got faster. The suck of her cunt made me feel like I was going to spill on every stroke, but I held off.
“How’re we feeling, my mate?” Grey had sidled up, caressing Nadia’s body, working her hips to perform each stroke, right before his hand delved between her legs.
“Pretty fucking good, from what I’m getting,” Tex said. The man appeared to have recovered and came to kneel beside Nadia as he rained kisses across her breasts. “You’re getting close.” She nodded sharply. “Then you need to let Ethan in.”
That, I needed that more than my next breath. To feel her fight to take my knot and right when I thought it wasn’t possible, she’d open up and I’d drive myself home.
“You know what you want.” Grey nipping at her neck had me baring my fangs. “You know we’ll give it to you, so now you just have to reach out—” His fingers had to have clamped down on her clit, because a little shriek cut him off. That was the moment I felt her start to flare around me. “Take him.”
She did.
My hands went to her hips, fingers burrowing deep lest she try to pull away, but there was never any risk of that.
With a groan, she bore down, swallowing me deeper by the second.
Every time I thought it wouldn’t fit, the pressure as maddening as it was mindblowing and every time, I popped past her pelvic bone, just like I did now.
Rolling her over, I stared into her eyes, catching the look of shock, then bone deep satisfaction.
“Ethan, I…”
I was moving, unable to stop, even if my strokes were somewhat truncated.
“I know.” Shaking my head, I tried to hold back the tears, because I wanted to mark every shift in her expression. “I know, omega. You’re mine.”
“And I’m yours.”
Her head fell to one side, revealing the creamy expanse of bare skin.
For a second I just stared, unable to believe this was happening.
How the hell had we gone from a workplace hookup to this?
The man wanted to interrogate that further, but my wolf had grown into a more persistent presence in my life and he shouldered forward right now.
Lunging for her neck, clamping our fangs down on unmarked flesh, I felt the connection snap into place.
Ethan… she said, right as the world fell away and was replaced by this.
My wolf stared at hers, glowing white in the swirling darkness.
Her paws danced across the earth, then with a bark, she whirled around, as if inviting me to chase after her.
My wolf was helpless to do anything else.
As our paws thundered across the ground in my mind, our human bodies moved, rocking back and forth, over and over, getting faster and faster with each passing moment.
A bright light formed on the horizon and we raced towards it.
Fuck, Nadia, I gasped, as the world turned to gold.
My arms wrapped around her the moment our orgasm hit, as if sheltering her from the blast, but there was only pleasure, no pain.
I felt every shake of her body, every twitch as I thrust through each one.
Prolong her pleasure, make it stretch out forever, that’s what I wanted, but of course, we had to run face first into the fact our bodies had limitations.
My balls were wrung dry and so I started to soften and pull free of my mate.
But Nadia needed more.
It was like a hunger burning deep inside her, one that just couldn’t seem to be satisfied. That was enough to have me flopping down beside her, still holding my mate close.
“You’re not done,” I said.
“How is that possible?” Even as she said the words, her thighs started to rub together. “I feel like my body is on fire.”
“And it won’t go out.” Grey’s voice was a lazy purr. “Not until you wear each one of our marks.”
Letting her go so she could roll up into a seated position and confront my packmate only hurt a little. We would always share Nadia, but right now, he was the thing that was missing.
You OK with this? I asked her, careful not to let what I was feeling show to Grey. His wolf is riding him really hard right now.
And that wolf is my mate, she replied with a backwards look, right before turning back to Grey. Each one of you is perfect for me, even him.
“Shit…”
I looked at Tex and he looked at me in a way that was all too familiar. Usually it was just before a bar fight or when facing down the other team on a footy field, but we’d get through this too. It never occurred to me that we could become a pack.
I used to think I was broken. Nadia looked back at me, concern replacing heat in her gaze, so I smiled. In some ways, I think we all thought that. Now I know that we were all just pieces looking for where we fit.
She nodded slowly.
Together.
“Together,” I said aloud. “Now go claim your man.”