Page 22 of The Bodyguard and the Alpha
Then she touched my cock with her small hand and I was lost. With her hand underneath mine, stroking my skin, it took only a few pumps before my balls tightened, the need to claim her, to mark her, taking over. Cum spouted like I was a fuckingfountain, coating her skin in my seed. A primal claim. My mate. Mine.
Pride surged in my chest at her next action. Rubbing my cum into her body, she accepted me. The madness began to rise like a tide.Claim. Bite. I wouldn’t wait any longer.
I dropped my head to hers, capturing her lips in a deep kiss, sharing the taste of her juices. When I pulled back, she frowned, beginning to sit up.
“You’re right, we need to move on.”
My thoughts scattered from the mating haze, my jaw throbbing with the need to bite. The human was shouting in my head but it was white noise. I shifted until I was sitting against the wall, lifting her slight weight easily and arranging her on my lap. She smelled of sex and cum.Mine.I wanted to roar my satisfaction to the world.
“Bastien?”
Seconds passed while I searched for words. One of my mate’s hands rose to my face, brushing her fingers along my jaw. Her touch was like cool water on a scorching day. Words rose from the maelstrom of my mind. “Say yes, sweetheart. Say yes to me.”
Chapter 25
Electra
I searched Bastien’s face, trying to understand what he wanted from me. The flames in his eyes burned so brightly. His jaw tightened and he seemed to be searching for words. Underneath me, his cock was still hard, but he seemed oblivious to it. Something else was more important right now. He was feeling some strong emotion, but I couldn’t read it from his body language.
With one hand, I reached out and traced his jaw.
“Say yes, sweetheart. Say yes to me.” His voice was impossibly deep.
I couldn’t think straight, my brain a fog. I still didn’t know what he wanted. Why he wanted me to say yes. But I didn’t care. In this moment, every part of me belonged to him. He had shown me all the passion, tenderness and possessive intensity that I had always wished for. Since I had met him, I had wondered what he would be like when he let go of his rigid control. My secret fantasies that he wanted me, and only me, were nothing compared to the way he had made me feel in the last few minutes. All that fire, focused on me, was a heady thing. Somewhere in the back of my mind, a thought was trying toform, but I didn’t try to chase it. For once, I was going to let my heart lead. Whatever he wanted, I would give it to him.
Knowing it wasn’t true, I let myself have one more moment of fantasy. I shut my eyes. I could pretend that he was asking me to be his mate. That this was forever. That he was asking permission for his bite.
My voice was rough with pent-up emotion and all the words I didn’t say out loud. “Yes.” In my head I spoke my vows.Yes, I’ll be yours. Yes, I want to be your mate. I want forever.
Chapter 26
Bastien
“Yes.”
That one small word pierced me like an arrow to the soul. She was everything I had wanted since the first moment I saw her. And now she had seen me in my true form. She welcomed the Beast. I made her climax and I marked her with my cum before she rubbed it into her skin, ensuring that every Shifter would know she is mine.
Seated on my lap, her eyes drifted shut before she spoke, and her delicate neck tilted in unconscious invitation.
She’s mine fucker. The pathetic man locked deep inside my mind was still shouting meaningless words.I win the prize. And what a prize she is. She is mine and I willneverlet her go.
Grasping the nape of her neck so that she couldn’t flinch and hurt herself, I struck, biting deeply.
Chapter 27
Electra
Bastien’s large hand cupped the back of my neck possessively.Yes, just like that. This was how he would hold me when he bit me.
I imagined what would come next. The sharp pain of his teeth in my neck. It would hurt, but the pain would be worth it because his bite would bond us together.
Teeth bit into my neck.
I stiffened in shock but Bastien’s hand on the back of my neck held me still. This was real. My imagination wasn’t that good. My eyes flew open even as my back arched at the pain, my hands scrabbling instinctively at Bastien’s chest. But almost as soon as my hands touched his body, the pain faded and a wave of intense pleasure took its place. My nipples hardened against his hard torso and my clit throbbed.
This time, when my body arched, it was because I wanted to be closer to my… mate?
Yes, mate. Words that weren’t mine sounded in my mind.
