“Give it to me. You feel so good. Come for me again. Just once more,” he demanded, and her body obeyed.
As she climaxed for the third time, Mark drove into her to the hilt, the force of his thrust denting the thinly plastered drywall behind them as it gave under their combined weights. Limp with pleasure, Carol could do nothing but hold on as his knees buckled and they slumped to the floor.
She glanced over her head. “We broke the wall.” Mark‟s head rose from her shoulder, and his gaze followed hers. “I‟ll help you fix it.”
Now that she was sated, sanity returned. She pushed on his shoulders, trying to rise and free herself. “This was a mistake.”
“No.” His hand wrapped in her braids and tugged so that her face lifted to his.
“You will not push me away. Not now, not after this.”
“What this? It was just sex,” she lied, knowing it was so much more.
He gently shook her. “It‟s more, and I‟m not going to let you run from what‟s between us.”
She vigorously shook her head from side to side. “You don‟t understand.”
“Then tell me. Tell me why we can‟t be together, and don‟t give me some bullshit about not wanting to get attached until you get your studies out the way.
I‟ve never felt about any woman the way I feel for you. I‟ll be damned if I‟m going to let you toss away what could possibly be the best thing that ever happened to me without at least giving us a try.”
Carol stared at him. She couldn‟t tell him the truth, and he‟d already shot down her only other reason.
“Carol, give us a chance,” he said, gazing deeply into her eyes.
Unable to see a way around it and knowing she really didn‟t want to, she hesitantly nodded her head. “All right.”
He smiled in relief and leaned forward, then laid a gentle kiss on her lips. She could feel his cock stirring inside of her. Unable to help herself, she arched her hips and tightened her sheath around him.
Mark planted his hands on the wall, caging her in. “You said something about studying?”
Carol rocked on him again. “It can wait.”
“Exactly what I wanted to hear.” He lifted her off him, rose to his feet, and helped her stand. “Which way is the bedroom? That was nice, but this time I want a bed.”
She pointed up the stairs and started toward them. Mark caught her from behind. In a quick motion, he had her turned and flipped over his shoulder. Letting out a Tarzan yell, he carried her upstairs and into her room. After tossing her playfully on the bed, he removed the rest of his clothes, then pinned her to the mattress with her hands above her head.
“I don‟t know what it is, but you bring out the beast in me,” he told her.
“It‟s only fair since you do the same to me.”
His eyes lit up, and he smiled. “Now…where were we?” Carol wrapped her legs around his waist, opening herself for his possession.
“Right about here.”
“Oh yes, now I remember,” he stated as he sheathed his cock inside her.
Chapter Four
Being Mark‟s lover was a heady experience. In her near-virginal state, she didn‟t have the necessary emotional savvy to handle how he made her feel. Her one previous sexual encounter had taught her that it was hard to hide anything in a houseful of shifters who, with one sniff, could smell sex and identify the culprits.
Between the alpha and Alex, the guys of the pack quickly learned to turn their attentions elsewhere or suffer the consequences.
She reveled in being able to touch, taste, and fuck to her heart‟s content. The more sex they had, the more she wanted. Her world narrowed to Mark and school.
Even her grades would have suffered if it hadn‟t been for Mark. He forced her to study and to attend class, stating that they‟d come too far and were too near the end to mess up now.
For the first time in her life, Carol was in love. It was breathtaking, exhilarating, and so incredibly wrong. Their very relationship was taboo and destined not to last, which made her desperate and greedy to capture and hold on to every moment they spent together.
Mark virtually moved in. When he wasn‟t with her, she was with him at his place, but he had a roommate. It was only in her town house—or rather, the pack‟s town house—that they could truly be alone. There wasn‟t a room in which they hadn‟t made love. They couldn‟t keep their hands off each other, and when Mark confessed his love for her, she was over the moon.
He spoke of the future as though it was understood they would be spending it together. This would be the last semester of classes for both of them. The next phase was internship before they earned their respective degrees. Because of their fields of study, their options were almost limitless.
The alpha would understand, she told herself. She loved Mark, and that was all that mattered. She was ready to give up everything—her pack, her home, her chance to have children of her own—to be with him. Somehow, someway, she‟d pay back the money the pack had spent financing her education.
It would all work out. Please, God, let it work.
“Mmm, that feels good.” Mark‟s hands tightened painfully in her hair.
Mouth full of cock, Carol hummed her appreciation, loving the way his thighs clinched and his hips jerked in response.
“Yeah, that‟s it,” he groaned. “Suck it just like that.” She swallowed the entire length, loving the way he smelled. She smiled inwardly when her wolf rolled over onto its back, luxuriating as the residue of their combined cum coated her nose. It was pleased that she‟d left her mark on him, however temporarily. With her wolf so close to the surface, every sensation was magnified—touch, taste, sight, hearing, smell.
She slowly withdrew until only the tip was in her mouth, sucking strongly as she did so.
“Fuck, baby.”
Mmm, not yet, but soon. Her nether lips were still swollen and slick from their earlier joining, but she was hungry for more. She slowly slid her fingers down her stomach to stroke her throbbing clit.
“Are you touching yourself, Carol? Is sucking my cock making you hot?” Carol released him long enough to murmur, “Yes,” then took him back into her mouth.
“Swing that pussy around here, and let me eat you out.”
At his order, a delicious shudder shook her body. Rising quickly to her knees, she crawled alongside his body, turning so she straddled his face. Mark‟s hands came up to grip her hips, positioning her to his liking, then licked her from clit to anus.
“Hey, I wasn‟t ready,” she complained.
“Too bad. I am.” He licked her again, this time swirling his tongue around her protruding, oh-so-sensitive nub.
Not to be outdone, Carol quickly lowered her lips and scooped his penis up so that it filled her mouth. She suckled strongly, then swallowed, smiling when his fingers dug into her hips.
“So you want to play?”
Carol hummed her agreement, knowing the vibration would drive him crazy.
“Okay, baby. Show me what you‟ve got, but remember who holds the title of King of Pleasure.”
What followed were several moments of slurping, licking, and sucking, as each fought to bring the other off without coming themselves.
Carol was trying her best to focus on everything but what Mark was doing between her thighs when a familiar-sounding vehicle turned into the cul-de-sac and she tensed.
“What‟s wrong?” Mark asked, displaying his sensitivity to her sudden change of mood.
When the car slowed to a stop outside of the town house, Carol forgot about sex, scrambled off the bed, and flew to the bedroom window, which overlooked the street. “Shit! Hurry; get dressed,” she hissed.