Page 31 of Primal

“Why not?” she asked.

“Not yet, sugar.” I stroked my hand along her hip and up to her waist.

“You just told me you want to fuck me from behind in a field, and now you don’t want to do it?”

“Every inch of me wants todo it,” I countered.“Can’t you feel how hard I am for you? Fuck, I could pound nails with my dick right now.”

“Then why?”

“Gotta make sure we’re on the same page, sugar.”

She didn’t answer, which bothered me. A lot.

Finally, she blew out her breath and said, “Fine. No sex.” She paused for a moment, and that was when I wished shifters could be mind readers like Marion. “I don’t know how you control yourself. You make no sense. Is it your wolf that’s being a prude?”

I couldn’t help but laugh. “I ate you out while youwere tied to my bed and fingered you in a public restroom. You think that’s being a prude?”

I rolled onto my back and pulled her up on top of me to straddle my waist. I slid my hand from her waist and down to cup one perfect ass cheek. Supple. Taut.Perfect.

I knew what she would see when she looked down at me. My wolf was right at the surface, howling to claim her. That dirty talk and the way she responded had me right on the edge. Even her inexperienced words about my wolf being a prude. “Look at my eyes, sugar. Do I look human to you?”

She gasped. I was certain my wolf was showing, making my eyes change from brown to amber, as they did when I was angry or turned on. And right now, I was beyond turned on. Especially when my mate looked so fucking gorgeous with her tits spilling forward in her thin top. “No,” she agreed.

“I’m all wolf, baby. And my wolf wants to claim you as his fated mate. That means I’m not fucking you until you’re all in. Until you have no more questions. Doesn’t mean I won’t make you come, ‘cause that’s my job now, but we’re waiting.”

I gripped her ass to keep her still. Fate knew the feel of her squirming on my cock was driving meinsane. My cock was so hard, I feared it would break off.

“What’s the difference?” Her voice was husky with want.

She thought claiming her meant sex.

It did, of course. But it was so much more. “Claiming you means you’re it for me. For always, sugar,” I explained. “I’m down. I already know you’re the one for me. But I’m guessing I still have to prove myself to you.”

She ran her hands over my chest, exploring my muscles. “You’re saying this is a forever thing?”

It wasveryhard to focus with her soft touch.

“Yes. I know this is probably a lot to take in, and I made it extra complicated. I admit, drugging, kidnapping, and tying you up wasn’t the best approach.” I sighed, thanking my lucky stars she wasn’t freaking out. That she was… intrigued. She wanted me. Wanted this. I wouldn’t be in her bed otherwise. The question was, did she truly understandalways? Humans had marriage, which had vows of always, but there was divorce. An out.

With shifters and a claiming, there was no out.

“You’re mine, sugar.” I couldn’t stop saying it, even though I knew it was not a comfort to my skittish mate. “I never thought I’d find my fated mate. Andnow…the biological compulsion is intense. Trust me, I’m having a hard time holding back from fucking you. But that pussy’s too sweet to forego another taste.”

With ease, I gripped her hips and tore the tiny pajama shorts off of her and threw them aside. While she gasped in surprise at my haste–and eagerness to have her bare–her eyes also heated. She liked fierce, which was good because I was holding back.

I had to. For now.

But that didn’t mean I couldn’t rock her world. I lifted her from being sprawled over me to higher up, so she straddled my head. She snagged the headboard with one hand for balance, not that she was going anywhere.

“Cody!” Her surprised and amused eyes stared down at me. Her look of confusion, interest, and amusement did something crazy to the insides of my chest.

“Sit on my face, sugar.”

Her mouth opened into the perfect O shape for my dick.Shit. Later. She would suck my dick another time.

“Cody.” When she hesitated, I pulled her down, so I could lick her from asshole to clit. “CODY!”

No time like the present to subtly teach her that no part of her was off limits. She had more than one virgin hole, and I’d take them all.

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