Page 68 of Not Your Ordinary Shifter

“Please, Jacob? I can’t wait anymore.” She stared at him, mute and pleading.

He drew in a deep breath and his eyes closed for several heartbeats, as if he were considering. When he opened them again a slow grin crawled across his face, and she realized he’d just been gathering strength and control. There was a hard glint in his eyes, that made her shiver.

“You said you liked a little pain?” He tilted his head, not in question but like a predator watching his prey.

She swallowed and nodded. “Yes.” He was so hot.

“Okay, Elizabeth. Let’s do this, but unless you want to go home naked… I suggest you strip. Quickly. Because I can’t guarantee your clothes will survive if they get in the way.”

Chapter

Ten

It was killing him to hold back, to make sure she really knew what she was doing. His body kept urging him to pounce on her, take her, cement the bond between them. He was being controlled as much as she was, and that made it hard to think about anything but need.

His cock, painfully hard, pushed against the front of his jeans, demanding release, but that part he knew how to control. Any man his age could control his libido if he wanted to. This was something else entirely.

The bond brought a combination of physical, mental, and emotional stress to bear on the couple as it tried to pull them together. His mother had warned him that it wouldn’t be easy to hold back, but that didn’t even begin to describe the way every cell in his body seemed to pull at him, urging him to make it final.

He didn’t want her to regret it later. Didn’t want it to ruin what they might have, if she felt like she’d been trapped. That helped him, a little, when he reminded her of what would happen if they had sex. It gave him the strength to allow her one last chance to change her mind, and he held out against the bond, but he couldn’t hold out against her.

“Please, Jacob? I can’t wait anymore.”

Her words were like velvet sliding over his skin. They grabbed at him, hot and demanding, and he groaned. After that there was no way out for either of them.

When his hands faltered on the buttons of his shirt, he ripped it open and threw it to the floor. The jeans weren’t as easy to tear, so he forced himself to work the button and zipper with shaking hands. Every second of delay felt like hours, especially when she was already naked.

“I thoughtmyclothes were the ones in danger,” she said, laughing as she dropped back on the bed. Her body stretched taught, one arm over her head.

“No, I’d just feel bad about ripping yours. I don’t care about mine.” His gaze was drawn to her breasts first, and then traveled the length of her body. He swallowed hard and shoved his jeans down to free his erection.

Her eyes went straight to the hard length, and her tongue slid across her bottom lip. She certainly didn’t look disappointed. If anything, she looked possessive. He couldn’t help picturing his cock between those lips, thrusting into her mouth, and it nearly made him spill where he stood.

He had the presence of mind to take his glasses off and set them safely out of the way, before he hurried to kick away the jeans. That part would have gone smoother if he’d taken his shoes off first. There was an awkward minute needed to sort that out, and then he joined her in the bed.

In an ideal situation they would have talked to each other, hands stroking over bare skin, as they brought on the excitement with teasing touches and kissing.

This wasn’t an ideal first time.

Days of fighting against the near-constant arousal while the bond tried to force them together had worn him down. Added to that were the nights of sleeplessness, and his own personalproblem of walking around with his dick hard and pretending it wasn’t an issue.

The magnetic attraction had brought them no peace, and now that they were together, there wasn’t room for slow and gentle. He might have tried anyway, if she’d encouraged that, but she’d been suffering as much as he had.

Her skin was flushed and warm to the touch. Her eyes seemed to glow with eagerness, as she reached for him. One hand slid down to grip his cock, pulling like it was a leash. “Please,” she repeated. Her voice was soft, breathless.

Jacob wasn’t used to just rushing in. Foreplay was often of a kinky nature, and he tried to balance the sting and burn of those activities with pleasure before he got to the fucking. But he didn’t even know what she liked yet. Pain was vague. There were all kinds of pain.

And there wasn’t time for hours of exploring now, not when it felt like they’d both been edging for too long. “Normally I’d go slow and—” His words cut off as her hand tightened around his shaft and pumped it up and down aggressively.

The look on her face almost dared him to even try to go slow. He narrowed his eyes. “If you keepthatup, you’re not going to get much out of this.” It was a bluff, of course. He’d be hard again in a few minutes, but the warning slowed her hand a little anyway.

He groaned and closed his eyes as he tried to focus. “God, you’re such a fucking brat.”

A slow smirk curved her lips up at one side. “I can be. And if you keep trying to slow things down, I’m going to get worse. I want you inside of me.” It couldn’t be seen as anything but a demand.

“You know, there areotherholes you wouldn’t find as satisfying, smart ass.” The words came out with a hint of a growl,and suddenly he was flipping her over on her belly and landing a light slap on her ass.

She gasped and squirmed as a moan slipped out of her. The sound invited another slap. He put a little more sting into it. After all she’d said she liked a little pain, and she had a beautiful spankable backside with full round cheeks.

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