Page 54 of Unleashed

And the next piece stood here before her — the next experience, the next desire, her need of him only enhanced by their lack of intimacy to this point.

“Aduun,” she rasped.

His pupils dilated an instant before he snatched her around her waist and laid her on the blanket faster than she could react. He held himself over her, nostrils flared, hesitating only long enough to rake his eyes over her body. Her nipples hardened beneath his stare as cold air kissed her skin.

She sensed the lust and possessiveness of his beast at the forefront, but he wasn’t resisting; in this, man and beast were unified.

Aduun inhaled deeply. He lowered his face, brushing his nose against the side of her throat. Nina tilted her head back and placed her hands on his arms. Aduun snarled, raising his head with bared teeth. Gripping her hips, he flipped her over onto her stomach, nearly knocking the air from her, and raised her backside. He covered her with his body, slamming his clawed hands, palms down, beside her on the blanket, and brought his nose back to her neck. His cock was a searing brand against the backs of her thighs.

A sliver of fear skittered along her spine. This was the unknown to her. Aduun intended to claim her. Now. Without hesitation.

And yet hewashesitating despite being a single thrust away from entering her.

“Aduun,” Nina said, licking her lips, “stay with me. Beherewith me.”

Aduun stilled. His claws curled into the blanket, tendons straining along his forearms. Slowly, carefully, he lifted a hand and slipped his arm around her, smoothing his palm down her stomach toward her pelvis. Nina’s breath hitched. His clawed fingers delved between her thighs, his calloused fingertips carefully brushing between her folds. A rumble of appreciation vibrated from his chest as he spread her moisture around her sex.

Nina panted, hips bucking each time he stroked her clit. He focused on it, rubbing the pad of his finger over the little bud with alternating pressure, circling it with confident strokes. She came quickly, rocking against his hand. Her cries filled the shelter as her slick ran down her thighs.

He removed his hand, and she glanced over her shoulder to see him lick her release from his fingers. Aduun tilted his head back, quills rising, and growled. He pressed his hand against the back of her neck, forcing her head down while keeping her ass in the air, and in the next instant, the head of his shaft was against her entrance. There was no hesitation this time. Aduun thrust his hips forward, shoving his cock into her. It broke past the small resistance of her hymen and stretched her, forcing her to accept him.

She opened her mouth in a soundless cry, clutching the blanket, and gasped for air. The breaking of that small barrier had been painful, but the feeling offullnesswas far more overwhelming; he was going to break her. She tried to push herself up, to rise, to escape, but he kept her down with another snarl.

“Aduun!” she yelled, ceasing her struggles. He was stretching her to the point of pain.

He shuddered and sagged forward, removing his hand from the back of her neck to brace himself on the ground. His chest expanded against her and receded with his ragged breathing, and his shaft pulsed inside her, in time with her own heartbeat.

“I…I am with you, Nina,” he rasped.

Nina didn’t move. She knew he was giving her time, restraining his primal instincts. She sensed his need to claim his mate, sensed the beast raging to do sonow, but Aduun held himself back.

His other hand smoothed along her side from breast to hip and back again in a soothing, petting motion. His callouses grazed her skin, and the gentle brush of his fur sent a thrill through her limbs. Soon, her desire rekindled. Her inner walls clenched around his shaft. She wanted him to move, wanted him to go deeper. Aduun’s hand froze. She shifted her hips experimentally. There was a slight twinge, accompanied by that fullness, but it suddenly wasn’t enough. She needed him to fill her completely, tomove.

“Now,” she breathed. “Now, Aduun.”

Aduun groaned. Rearing back, he settled his hands on her hips, withdrew his hips, and plunged into her again. Nina gasped as the power of his movement rocked her forward. She gripped the blanket, and he slammed into her again and again, moving deeper with each thrust, filling her, stretching her, stroking her.

It was too much; it wasn’t enough. Each time he pumped forward, he pulled her backward to meet him, allowing her no escape, forcing her to receive all of him.

His pleasure flowed into her, enhancing her own. Soon, his control over the beast slipped; Aduun’s movements grew erratic, frenzied, and his panting breaths became guttural grunts and growls.

He lowered his head and trailed his fangs over her shoulder, sending a thrill through her spine. The graze of his teeth set her off. She cried out, nearly howling as she came. Her sex clenched him, pulling him in deeper still, and her inner walls quivered.

He slammed a hand on the blanket near her head as he leaned over her back. His other arm wrapped around her waist, locking her in place as he roared. His shaft grew impossibly thicker, and then she felt the hot spray of his seed inside her. Aduun continued to pump his hips, every shallow thrust releasing a little more until he finally stilled, pressing his pelvis against her backside. She felt his seed drip down the inside of her thighs, mingling with her own slick.

Snow crunched somewhere nearby, but the sound was muffled by the languid haze that settled over Nina’s mind.

Aduun’s warm, ragged breaths teased the hair at the back of her neck, and his shaft continued to pulse within her, showing no signs of diminishing.

“You’re mine,” he growled, nipping her ear. It sent a thrilling shiver through her, making her sex tighten around his shaft again.

“I scent blood,” Balir said. “What is—”

Nina turned her head to see him just within the entrance, Vortok’s bulk blocking the outside light behind him. Balir’s nostrils were wide; his nose was particularly sensitive to blood, but she knew he’d smelled the musk of sex in the air too.

Aduun’s beast flared, its possessiveness triggered by the proximity of the other males. She winced against its power, its looming aggression, and prepared herself for another outburst.

But just as quickly as it had arisen, the beast receded, pushed back by a pang of guilt. The arm banded around her waist loosened to embrace her across her chest.

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