Page 52 of A Beta Protects

“You did?” I want to bite her again, to cover her skin with my marks so everyone knows she’s mine.

She nods, clearing her throat, still not looking at me. “I’ve never…”

I get so hard waiting for her admission that it’s painful. “You’ve never…” I prompt.

“I’ve never climaxed that fast before,” she says in a rush.

I’m across the room with no memory of having moved, needing to hear more of this. My wolf needs to touch her, to inhale her scent, lap the bite that marks her as ours.

I just need.

I slide back under the covers, easing the sheet from Kira as I slowly urge her down on the bed.

She peers up at me, and I get lost in the blue of her gaze. “You’re so beautiful,” I breathe, running a hand through her hair.

Her fingers brush my jaw. “You touch me and nothing else matters anymore. I just want you, and I think I always will.”

I stare down at her.

Is this woman mine? Truly mine?

“You do?”

She nods.

“You’re so gentle with me, like you think you will hurt me, but you won’t,” she says quietly. “I don’t know how I can be so sure of it, but I am.”

I kiss her. There’s no way I can’t after that. She softens against me, her eyelashes brushing my cheeks as her eyes flutter closed.

I stroke a hand over her hip and waist, my fingers seeking between her thighs, needing to know she’s as ready for me as I am for her. She arches under me, her thighs parting as my fingers slip into her wet heat.

Groaning at the soft sound she breathes into my mouth, I ease my hand away and move over her. Just like before, being inside her is like nothing else. Nothing could be better than this. She opens around me, inviting me deeper.

I break the kiss, rest my head on hers as I fight to stop myself from setting the hard, fast rhythm I’m suddenly desperate for.

I slow the pace, swiveling my hips as I treasure each soft gasp and moan I wring from my mate.

“Dom?” Her voice is breathy as her fingers dig into my ass. “Harder. Please.”

My mouth slants over hers in a drugging kiss.

I give my mate what she wants. What we both want. I drive into her, going as far as I can, ease back with only my tip lodged in her and stroke inward again. She pants, moans, and cries out my name as we come together.

Her head tilts back, and my tongue laps at her bite. Her pussy clenches around me and my brain short circuits as she drags me into my climax.

Her breathing is still unsteady, as is mine, when I gather her in my arms, pulling the sheets up and around us both. I flick off the lamp, plunging the room into darkness.

“Kira?”

“Hmm?” She yawns, burrowing closer into me as if she’s not close enough.

“I’m not the man you think I am,” I say, holding her tight, my mouth against the top of her head.

“You are,” she whispers.

I peer into the black room, knowing I need to say this, but wanting desperately not to say the one thing that will cost me my mate, the woman I’ve wanted all my life.

“I’m not human, Kira. I change into a wolf.”

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