Page 16 of The Alpha's Bargain
“Well, she’s no alpha. You gonna have two bitches in your bed?” George, an older wolf, said from a side table. “Heaven knows we need a strong alpha bitch to lead this pack. She ain’t it.” His judgement of me cut to thequick.
Inside, my wolf growled, snarled, and clawed at me to get out. What George didn’t know was that I was in fact an alpha wolf. In my family, I had just never acted on it. There’d been no need, considering my father and brothers ran the pack and I hadn’t gone into heat yet. Therefore, showing that alpha would only draw more losers into my life than Ineeded.
Luca began to speak, but I squeezed his hand hard, getting his attention. If he wanted me to live this with him, then he needed to respect me, and that I knew how to handle thesesituations.
Heshutup.
I hadn’t let my waves off before, so I didn’t know if it would work, but I gave it a try while looking the man square intheeyes.
“No one will be in Luca’s bed but me. I’m the only bitch he needs. The only bitch this pack needs.Rememberthat.”
He smiled. “Well, this should be interesting.” He clasped his hands behind his head andleanedback.
Luca pulled me to his side, kissed the top of my head, then declared, “Let’seat.”
* * *
Iwokeup in Luca’s arms, the same place I’d been over the past several days. He hadn’t let me up except to go to the bathroom and eat, saying we needed to consummate our mating. When I’d said ournon-existent mating,he hadn’t taken that too well, fucking me until I’d felt that connection burn so hot I swore it would melt myinsides.
He’d been right, though. That bond inside of me was latching on like tree roots, imbedding deeply. Each moment only scared me as to what our future held. The temptation to bite him was riding me hard with each passingmoment.
Without a word, Luca rolled me onto my back, kissing a trail down my naked body then latching on to my pussy. I threaded my fingers through his hair, holding him to me, grinding my hips against his mouth and getting as much friction as I could. Luca was magnificent with this lips, tongue, and teeth down there. He knew exactly what he wasdoing.
Heat built inside me, and my orgasm was right there, hanging off a cliff. He must have sensed it because he removed his mouth, climbed on top of me, and then slammed his hard cock inside of me while lacing our fingers together by the side ofmyhead.
“Fucking love your pussy.” He thrusted deeply, rattling the bed. “You’re fuckingperfect.”
I groaned, arching my back and thrusting mybreastsup.
His hips became like pistons, firing at a rapid rate. I dug my nails into his shoulders and screamed as the climax hit. Luca bit me, causing another wave of explosions to crash over me like a tidal wave taking me outtosea.
He had a thing. Every time he made me come, he bit me. Sometimes in the same spot. Other times in different places. I said nothing. I liked it, and so did my wolf. She howled each time he sunk his teethinme.
Luca groaned out his release, licking my wound and sealing up the blood flow. We weren’t vampires or anything like that, but we did have a special something in our saliva that stopped the flow of blood. He’d used it …alot.
He rolled over, pulling out of me and flopping onto the bed. I curled into him, resting my head on his chest and listening to his rapidbreathing.
I loved that I did this to him—turned him on so much that his orgasms knocked the air right from his lungs. It gave me a sense of power that this strong alpha was completely wiped and out of breath because of what we’d just done. Thatwashot.
“I got work to do today,” Luca said, looking deeply into my eyes. “Don’t want to, but I can’t stay in bed all the time, fucking yourbrainsout.”
“That was your decision, captain,” Iteased.
He brought his arms around me, holding me securely. “Yeah, it was. We neededthattime.”
The time he talked about was what scared me. Without me biting him, the connection between us was relentlessly pulling at me. A true test of how powerful it was would be for us to separate for a while—him doing his thing for a while and me mine. Then we could see if that connection was still strong. Most mates didn’t like to be away from each other for long periodsoftime.
I remembered a time when my father had gone away on business and left my mother home with me and my brothers. We’d been young, and my mother hadn’t wanted to leave us. She’d been in agony at one point, physically hurting because her mate was nowherearound.
This was what Ifeared.
If Luca and I parted and we had this reaction, it would end up killing us both. This was not the bargain we had set up, but there’s nogoingback.
“I need to go to Howls; see if they need help and what myhoursare.”
“My wolf isn’t going to like other shifters around you, Caleigh. Are you sure you want to keep workingthere?”
I shifted my hand to cup his face. “Until everything gets back up and running, I havetohelp.”
