Suddenly, Stone flipped us over and pinned my hands above my head, his eyes a golden yellow.“Don’t you ever fucking say that again.You know I would do anything for you, but you’re not in the right mind, and I’m not going to fuck you while you’re like this.”
“B-but,” I whimpered, on the verge of tears, “I’m hurting.Badly.Please, help me.”
Somehow.Someway.I didn’t care how he did it, but I couldn’t do it myself.The only ease I felt was skin-on-skin contact with him; the only coolness right now was against my wrists.I tried grinding up into him, but he pulled his hips away.
And then he dipped his head and kissed me softly on the mouth.
Not hungrily, like I had been.Not ruthlessly, like usual.
“Relax,” he whispered against my lips.“I’ll give you a pup when you’re ready.”
“Stone,” I whimpered.
He slithered two fingers down my chest, between my breasts, and then to my pussy.I immediately relaxed against the bedsheets, wanting more, but the pain was not as intense.He moved his fingers around my clit in small circles.
“If you’re a good girl and stay just like this, maybe I’ll let you come,” he said.
I stared up into those glowing golden eyes and clenched, the pressure rising.
“Would you like that?”he asked.
“Yes,” I said breathlessly.“Yes, please.”
“Be a good mate for me,” he said, burying his face into the crook of my neck, his teeth gliding up and down the column of my throat and making me shiver in the midst of heat.“And maybe I’ll give you more than just an orgasm.”
I tilted my head to the side to give him room, heart pounding.“Please, mark me.”
This wasn’t even my wolf talking anymore.The heat had subsided substantially.And I was thinking in my right mind for once tonight.After the Moon Goddess had talked to me, something had clicked—that wasn’t my heat.
“Doyouwant it?”he asked.“Not your wolf.You?”
“Yes,” I breathed out.“I do?—”
Before I could finish the sentence, Stone plunged his teeth inside me.It was so sudden and so unexpected.I hadn’t thought he would actually do it, but pleasure soared through my body, driving me higher and higher as an orgasm tipped me over the edge.
I screamed and cried and clawed up his back in an attempt to displace all the ecstasy surging through me.My toes curled, and I moaned into his ear, my canines lengthening too.I drew my teeth against his bare neck, my body on the clouds but weak.
Too taken by the pleasure to move anymore.
And so I lay there in his arms with my teeth millimeters from his neck and his mouth sucking gently on the mark he had left on me.My body still trembled, but I grasped tightly on to his shoulders, bringing him closer.
“Goddess,” I whispered, “I love you.”
CHAPTERTWENTY-TWO
STONE
“I love you too,”I murmured back to Zuri so naturally.
I didn’t know if she had meant it.She had been too deep in the pleasure from my mark.But I didn’t care either way because I knew exactly what she meant to me, and now, we would forever be together.
She wore my mark.
After a couple of quiet seconds, Zuri stopped trembling and closed her eyes.
I turned onto my side and draped my arm around her waist.“Who were you talking to earlier?”I asked, tucking some coily brown hair behind her pierced ear with small golden studs and wondering why the hell the Moon Goddess had givenmea goddess as a mate.
She paused, then glanced over at me while still lying on her back, her lips curled into a soft and satisfied smile and her eyes still glimmering how they had been during her heat.“The Moon Goddess.”