“Oh so fierce, Del-Rey,” she snapped. “I catch another woman in your arms, a woman you spent hours fucking, and I shouldn’t feel cheated? Doesn’t work that way. You cheated me and you know it and now you expect me to just accept that things will be different? That you can control yourself? Go to hell!”
“Keep running your mouth, Mate, and we’ll see how fast that mating heat can jump back into your system. Don’t push me like this.”
“I dare you!” The words were out of her mouth before she could stop them.
Cassandra had warned her: never dare a Coyote. She’d been pushed past the point of caring.
Sofia had had what should have been hers. Hours of pleasure, and she should just calmly accept it?
“What the hell did you say to me?” His voice deepened, roughened.
“You heard me, Alpha,” she sneered. “I dare you.”
It was the wrong thing to say. He’d warned her years ago never to dare him. He took dares and bets seriously. Both challenged that core of animal genetics within him, and in some situations, well, in this situation, he had no intention of pulling back.
He jerked one hand from her arm, speared it into her hair and jerked her head back.
“You little witch,” he snarled down at her. “You’re not pissed off because of some long-forgotten affair with Sofia. You’re pissed because you believe she had something you didn’t.”
“She had plenty that I didn’t,” she ground out. “She had a man. What the hell did I have, Del-Rey? Slam, bam, knot you, ma’am? It sucked. And you sucked for daring to allow me to walk into my own bedroom and see that affront to the paltry excuse for sex you gave me.”
Enough was enough. He growled low and hard, his lips coming down on hers, his tongue striking sure and deep past the parted curves, as she met his kiss and gave her own.
Her nails bit into his biceps for long, shocked seconds as he felt her lips close over his tongue and her hungry moan filled the room.
There it was. Fuck. Hell. Control. He vowed control. Had sworn for eight months he would love her slow and easy if he ever had the chance again, but all he could do was devour her mouth, her lips.
The glands at the side of his tongue throbbed fierce and hard as he fought to push back the animal rising inside him, striving for satisfaction. Nearly nine months without her. Too many months, too many weeks craving her. He could count the hours if he could clear his head enough.
She drew on his tongue, moaning that soft, feminine little sound of hunger that he remembered only in his dreams.
He pumped his tongue between her lips, fucking her mouth with it as she sucked at it. The mating hormone flowed free now, drawn by the heat of her mouth and the unique taste of her kiss.
He could feel fire gathering at the base of his spine. His balls drew tight and hard beneath his cock, and his muscles locked as he fought for control. Fought to please his fiery little mate.
“Damn you.” His lips jerked back, moving over her jaw, nipping roughly as she arched in his arms. “You’ll drive me insane.”
He jerked at the neckline of her snug sweater, pushed it over her shoulder and attacked with lips and tongue the mark he had left between her shoulder and neck. He stroked it; he sucked at it. He worked his tongue over it and scraped it with his teeth, as his other hand moved from her hair to the hem of her sweater and pushed beneath it roughly.
She was his. His mate. His sweet, tempting little Anya. So soft and defiant. A challenge and a pleasure. She was the perfect mate for him, smart-mouthed little hellion that she was. He loved that about her. She gave him that spark of challenge he needed and kept him on his damn toes.
He intended to keep her on her back.
He picked her off her feet, one arm behind her back, the other at her hips as he laved and caressed the sensitive mating mark.
As he bore her back to the bed, his lips caught hers again. He didn’t want to hear objections. If she dared push the word no between her lips, then he might lose any control he had on the fragile leash of his lust.
Her back met the bed as he pushed her legs apart, settling between them with a groan of triumph.
He had her where she belonged. Beneath him, locked in his embrace, his lips moving over hers as he pushed her sweater over her breasts and palmed the lush, full curves.
“Bra off. Off.” He tore the fragile lace, but her breasts were released to him, her hard little nipples like ripe berries. A delicate, fragile pink. Hard, stiff.
He growled, a demented animalistic sound, as his lips covered one, his tongue licking and stroking, laying that powerful hormone along the throbbing tips.
Oh, dare him, would she? Push him to show her who her alpha was, would she? She would learn better than that here and now, right here in her own bed where she would never forget his possession of her. Then, he would take her to his bed. If he could still walk.
Her nipples were so damned sweet. She was too sweet. The taste of her fueled the flames burning in his gut as the glands in his tongue became sensitive, swollen again.
He lifted his head from her breast, pulled the sweater from her then stared down at her in amazement. She was perfect for him. Beautiful. So sweetly rounded. Lush breasts, curvy hips, thighs that could hold a man through the night.
He eased his hands down her waist. Slow, he reminded himself. Slow and easy. Love her. Touch her. Feel every inch of her silken flesh.
He pulled the button of her jeans free, watching her face, her eyes. His fingers brought her zipper down.
“Toe off the shoes,” he growled.
He expected her to object, to deny him. God help him if she denied him.
She moved, pushed her sneakers from her feet as he pushed his hand beneath the material of her jeans. He was breathing so damned hard it hurt his chest. His fingers slid over her lower stomach, into the band of her silken panties, and he found paradise.
Slick, saturated curls. He loved curls between a woman’s thighs. Breeds had no body hair, though over the past months he had developed chest hair, since mating her. But there was none on his genitals. He was fascinated with his mate’s fiery curls.
He let his fingers pet the sweet curls, scratch through them, feel her heat and the promise of her passion as her hips arched to his hand.
His tongue was throbbing as he lowered his head, his lips taking hers again, capturing the deep, tongue-thrusting kiss he craved from her.
She sucked his tongue into her mouth, moaned at the taste of him, her arms digging into his hair, clenching in the strands and holding him to her. His fingers slid through the thatch of wet curls again, then delved into the narrow, swollen slit of her pussy.
“Fuck!” He snarled the word against her lips as he found the luscious, juicy flesh beyond, filled with her sweet syrup, the temptation of it filling his senses as she lifted to him again. He was drowning in her, and he wanted nothing more than to sink farther.
Anya’s lips parted for air. She couldn’t seem to draw enough into her lungs, couldn’t seem to drag herself from the heated haze of hunger and need that enfolded her. Her thighs parted farther, allowing his fingers privileges she’d sworn she would never give them. Privileges she ached for now.
“More,” she whimpered, desperate for his taste.
It wasn’t like the first time. That freezing, burning, clawing agony. This was just hot, desperate pleasure. So much pleasure she pulled at his hair, dragging his lips back to hers, wanting more of his kisses.
The taste of him was addictive; even with the hormonal therapy in her system, his taste was like a drug she couldn’t get enough of. Was this normal or mating heat?
It was a stronger need than the one she had known before he had betrayed her. Before he had lied to her. It was that same driving, intense need to explore. But the pleasure. Oh, the pleasure was exquisite.