Chapter 12
Chapter Twelve
Karsyn
Sensations unlike I’ve never felt before flow through me with each touch of Corbin’s lips. My body hums with need. It’s foreign in so many ways, and it makes me crave for more.
I want his lips on mine, but the feel of his teeth scraping across my shoulder sends tendrils sparking throughout the rest of my body.
The more he touches me, the more I want .
. . no, it’s more of a need. I want nothing more than for him to bite down and mark me as his.
A jolt of surprise hits me at the thought of him biting me.
Never has such an idea enthralled me so much.
Corbin scraps his canines across my skin, moving his way farther down, ripping my shirt open, exposing my breasts to the cool air.
“What are you doing to me?” I breathe out, gripping his shoulders and upper biceps, digging my nails into his skin.
Lifting his head, Corbin meets my gaze, and it’s all I can do to keep breathing due to the intensity.
“I’m claiming you, Syn. My sweet little Syn.
All mine and you aren’t leaving me . . .
” Dipping his head down, he runs his tongue between my breasts, making my body jump at the feeling.
“You’re not disappearing on me. I won’t let you. ”
I open my mouth to say something . . . anything, only to gasp as his lips surround one nipple while his hand cups the other. Fingers rolling the tip.
Everything in that moment explodes around me. The world goes off kilter. Color becomes that much brighter, and between my legs grows slicker. I don’t know how to explain it any other way. My mind and body seem to become one with each other in a way they never done before.
Corbin switches breasts, his fingers toy with the one his mouth left and flicks his tongue across the tip of the other. His free hand moves farther down, going under the waistband of the sweatpants he’d given me to wear. My back arches, and a moan slips past my lips when he finds my slick slit.
Ripping his lips away from my breast, he lifts. “Fuck, Syn, you’re drenched for me. I want inside you, baby. You okay with that?”
Am I okay with that? He would actually ask me if I were okay with him being inside me. It might scare me, but something inside me tells me I need to do just that. Trust him. I feel it deep to my core. He’s my mate, as I’m his. The goddess of the moon gave us to each other.
“Yes,” I whisper, licking my lips, “please. I want you inside me.”
“I’m not going to hurt you, Syn,” he swears, dipping a finger inside me. “Trust me, baby, to make it good for you.”
“I trust you.” The way he calls me Syn feels good. I also like the way he touches me.
Corbin’s eyes darken further, and he comes up, claiming my mouth, his tongue duels with mine.
Hands move, and pants are pushed down. Soon I feel his thick shaft pressing at my entrance.
Keeping his lips sealed to mine, he slides inside me inch by inch.
The pleasure mixes with pain as he fills me.
His thickness stretches me, and I rip my lips away, crying out at the sensations flowing over me.
“Just feel me, Syn, feel my cock stretching your pussy,” Corbin states gruffly. His cock thrusts past the barrier, taking my virginity, and he lowers his head to where my neck and shoulder meet, teeth scraping there once again. I’d seen the marks on my mom, the one marking her as a mate.
Cocking my head slightly, giving him better access, I brace for the pain, but there isn’t any.
Laving his tongue along my skin, he sinks his teeth into my neck and thrusts fully inside me.
A cry of pleasure leaves my lips, and I wrap myself around Corbin to hold him to me, not wanting to lose any of what he’s giving me.
With his teeth still holding me still, Corbin takes me, thrusting inside me in wild abandon.
My body heats, and moisture seeps from my entrance, coating him.
Heat, unlike any other, flows through my veins, and suddenly, the two of us are consumed in the flames of it as my orgasm washes over me.
Corbin growls into my neck, lifts his teeth, and laps at the spot, sealing the wound.
The flames brighten, and a cry of pleasure leaves my lips as Corbin picks up pace and lifts ,meeting my gaze.
I thought he’d say something, but he doesn’t.
He’s enjoying what’s happening as much as I am.
I can sense it just as I can see it in his gaze.
Corbin powers inside me, hands gripping my waist, and his body looms over my own.
The fires lick at our skin with their warmth but not burning him or me.
I’ve never experienced anything like this, but it’s a beautiful feeling, one I never want to lose.
Growling, Corbin’s movements become erratic as he comes, his cock doing something I didn’t think possible as he thickens further, making it impossible for him to pull out of me.
From the look in Corbin’s eyes as he locks gazes with me, I don’t think he knows what’s happened either. Or maybe he does. I’m not sure, and honestly, I don’t care.
Long moments pass before the fires dim around us. Not once does Corbin stop watching me with that heated look. I want to say something, but all thoughts leave me altogether. I’m not sure what I should say.
“You’re going to have to explain to me the fire thing, Syn,” he finally states, rolling us until I’m straddling him while he lays underneath me. How he was able to do something as such without leaving me has me baffled. Then again, he’s kind of stuck inside me at the moment.
“Maybe you should explain yourself,” I whisper, lying against his chest.
“It’s called a knot, baby, and it only comes out from a wolf shifter after a mating,” he answers without me asking what I wanted him to explain.
“Is that why you bit me?”
“Yeah.” Grunting he shifts under me, his cock moving inside me, drawing a moan from my lips.
“A male shifter bites his mate, and the mark heals, except where the canines embedded. It’ll look like puncture marks, but it’s the marking of my scent that will now permeate your essence that’s the important part of it all.
It lets others know you belong to me. My mate. ”
I nod, suck in breath, letting those details sink in.
“You gonna tell me about the fire thing?” he demands, his fingers stroking along my spine.
“I’m not sure exactly, but I guess it has something to do with you and me being mates.” Honestly, I don’t know exactly why we were consumed by fire, but I’m not going to apologize for it either. It was magnificent to experience.
“That is because you two are fated mates.”
I jerk up at the woman’s voice. The musical voice is one I’d not heard but a few times in my life. Looking to the side of the bed, I see the shimmering sight of not just one but two women glowing in misty forms.
“Goddesses,” I greet them in a hushed whisper, knowing immediately who they are.
“Karsyn.” Corbin’s body stiffens under mine, and he flattens a hand on my back, holding me to him. “What are you looking at?”
“He can’t see us,” one of the two women says, watching him with a sweet smile. Like one a mother would give to their child.
“Why can’t he?” I blurt out before lowering my gaze. “I mean no disrespect, my goddess.”
“None taken, Karsyn, and to answer your question, it’s because he doesn’t know the truth yet. Just as his father never knew.”
“What truth doesn’t he know?”
“Who are you talking to, Karsyn?” Corbin demands, seeming frustrated. “What the hell is going on here?”
“Such a temper on him.” The Moon Goddess sighs. “He’s a stubborn one but fierce. An Alpha who will protect you and his daughter both. He’ll keep you safe.”
“It is why we’re here, my sweet child,” the other woman announces. I knew immediately she was the Earth Goddess. She’s beautiful, and you can see the earthy aura surrounding her even in the misty glow. “Now that you two have found each other, the battle is only beginning. You must warn Corbin.”
“Warn Corbin of what?” I ask, not understanding. “What battle? Do you mean what’s coming from Death?”
“Yes,” the Moon Goddess answers. “Death is out for vengeance as well as power. He’s not happy to have lost you so easily, but he also wants something more.”
“What does he want?” None of this makes sense.
“Death’s name was once that of a man’s. He once went by Victor, Victor Wulfsige. Tell Corbin the name, and he’ll understand more of what’s going on. He won’t be in the dark then,” the Earth Goddess states.
“Victor Wulfsige,” I whisper, my lip trembling.
“The fuck.” Corbin snarls.
“Yes.” The Moon Goddess nods. “Corbin will take care of it. It is up to him to handle this part as it is his brother’s to take on his own fate.
The future changes constantly with choices made.
You know this well, Karsyn, but what you don’t know is with each change, the past always has a way of coming to the present.
Remember that. The past never dies. Not truly.
Yours and Corbin’s paths has changed as has that of Cyrus and his mate’s.
You must take on Death as they have their own journey. ”
“But I don’t understand . . . what of the key?”
The Earth Goddess smiles brightly and steps forward, cupping my cheeks in both hands.
“The key has been placed in the keeper’s hands.
Both you and Harmony are where you need to be.
The fire . . . my child, that was the seal that bonds you to your wolf.
You not only mated with Corbin, but you’ve also merged with the one within you.
You will never be able to truly shift, but you are no longer two halves but whole. ”
“With the fire, you have made it so that nothing can harm Corbin. He’s protected as you are.
That is unless you’re hurt. When you die, he too, will die.
It’s in the bond that you two now share as you now share one soul.
” The Moon Goddess finishes and looks back to Corbin.
“You were destined for Corbin. Not just fated. He needs you as you need him. Take care of my grandson, and know that we’ll both be watching over you both. ”
Once those words leave her lips, both women disappear, leaving me shell-shocked.
“Talk to me, for fuck’s sake.” Corbin snarls, rolling us until I’m pinned beneath him.
Blinking, I stare into the raging eyes of my mate’s. Licking my lips nervously, I manage to find words. “You’re the grandson of the Moon Goddess.”