Page 9 of Country and Clove
CHAPTER5
Clove’s heart was beating so hard she thought it might send her into cardiac arrest.Aaron. Everything about him was dangerously alluring, from those penetrative whisky eyes, to that deep voice, and the Southern lilt that teased its way out with every word. His body was a masterpiece of muscles and tanned skin. Aaron took her lips in another endless kiss. His scent swirled around her. It was smoky and masculine with the faintest bits of leather and sweet rabbit tobacco. She inhaled deeply, finding the scent comforted her and drove her crazy all at once. Clove buried her fingers in his curly hair, dragging him down and kissing up the outside of his jaw before biting down on his neck. Aaron groaned, his hands pulling her even tighter to his body.
“Damn, pretty girl, you make me rock hard,” he breathed against her ear. His hard length was pressing into her stomach, showing her just how true the statement was. She pulled one of his hands off her hips, guiding it lower and dragging his fingers through her wetness. Aaron’s growl sent heat rushing inside her. His other arm snaked beneath her ass and lifted her off the ground as if she weighed nothing. She wrapped her legs around his trim, firm waist and rocked against him.
“Fuck, Clove…” Her name on his lips ignited some primal piece of her soul. She reached between them, gripping his shaft and encouraging him to keep going.
Aaron dropped to his knees and lay Clove on the soft grass as his lips branded every inch of her bare flesh. Alcohol was still buzzing through her blood, making everything feel more like a dream than reality.Is this really happening? Everything felt too strange, too hot, too unbelievably good.
His fingers delved between her thighs, pressing inside and making her arch and purr at the instant pleasure he sent spiraling up her center. Lust flooded her veins as he pumped his fingers inside. The sensation was almost what she needed, so close, but…
Clove pushed up on her elbows, reaching down to grasp Aaron’s cock. Her words brushed against his lips. “I need you.”
His eyes glowed and his chest rumbled in a warning that contradicted his eager movements. Her knees fell wide as the tip of his cock nudged against her entrance. He paused, gazing down at her.
“You’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.” His free hand ran down the length of her body. “I can’t believe the stars saw fit to send you to me. But I’m sure as hell glad they did.”
It was a tender moment amidst the chaotic lust-fueled, lip-locked haze. Aaron’s eyes sparkled before darkening. Clove opened her mouth to reply but was silenced by the swift thrust of Aaron’s hips as he buried himself inside her. Her body tightened instinctively, the stretch of him momentarily unbearable. Aaron was thick, long, andsohard. His hips began to move and holy hell. Aaron captured her lips with his before she could cry out.
The pain lessened with every pump of his hips. Her body molded to his demands, relaxing into his movements. It wasn’t as if Clove had never been with a man before. While she’d never been one to kiss and tell, there had been a string of whirlwind romances throughout her adult life. None quite recently. But Aaron certainly rivaled the size of any man she’d had inside her. He filled her in a way that made her body ache with so many deliciously torturous sensations.
Aaron was moaning as he moved inside her, driving his hands beneath her hips and tilting her up as he claimed her beneath the light of the moon. Her wolf preened within, howling to the sky and repeating the mate claim again and again.Mine, mine, mine.
His wolf claimed her right back as the two of them fused into one sweaty heap of moans, groans, and indescribable pleasure. Clove wrapped her legs around Aaron’s back, urging him to go faster, deeper. Her body had grown greedy in these last few minutes, becoming accustomed to the thick, hard length. She already craved more. Her pussy squeezed around him, pulling him in with every thrust. The first inkling of an impending orgasm snuck up on her, taking her body from highly aroused to climaxing nearly painfully hard in a matter of a few powerful thrust-filled seconds.
Her mouth fell into an O as a deep sensation of warmth surged through her body and her muscles clamped down around him. Guttural, desperate moans poured from her lips, eliciting a dark growl of approval from Aaron.
“Fuck, you’re even prettier when you come.”
Clove was panting, mewling, practically drained by the time she came down. But Aaron wasn’t done with her yet. He flipped her over, pulling her hips back until they slammed into his. She dug her fingers into the earth to steady herself just as he rutted into her again. They were wolves at heart and he fucked her in the rough, feral, demanding way that only wolves seemed to fuck.
She wasn’t usually one to let a man bend her over and take her face down in the dirt. But hell if it didn’t feel so right to be commanded by him. To be completely at his mercy. Aaron’s position made one thing painfully clear.She was his. He owned her with every dizzying snap of his hips.
Clove’s eyes rolled back in her head. His movements felt even more intense after her first orgasm, and from this angle she could feel every hard inch of him. Aaron drove into her relentlessly, demanding pleasure from her body with every ferocious thrust. He picked up his pace, his movements becoming rough and erratic.
“Come on, pretty girl, let me hear you come for me again.” His voice was strained as he soared closer to his own release. Clove’s body tensed at his words, and the next time his cock drove fully inside, he buried his teeth in the crook of her neck, breaking the skin and digging deep into the tissue beyond. She screamed, climaxing so hard that she momentarily blacked out. Aaron pulled his fangs free and howled to the moon.
Clove’s mind was spinning as the world dimmed around her. Her shoulder burned where he claimed her. His howls transformed into snarls as he fucked into her with a primal need that matched her own. His body seized up and hot ropes of cum flooded her passage. Clove pushed her hips back, prolonging his orgasm and milking every bit of release from him.
Aaron stayed inside her a few moments longer, leaning over her body and panting hard. Clove was on a high like nothing she’d ever experienced. Her vision was swimming. Aaron withdrew from her body and she whimpered. He immediately scooped her into his arms, crushing her back against his chest as they lay near the edge of the lake.
Clove’s brain hadn’t had time to catch up with all that had just happened. Her body was burning off the excess alcohol, but it was taking forever. Did she really have sex with a total stranger, outside, in the dirt? Her wolf snapped in irritation. It didn’t like her speaking about their mate like that.Fine, he’s not just some stranger. Her inner animal huffed in triumph.
Aaron’s arm tightened around her, drawing her even closer up against his body. His heart beat strong and steady against her ribs, and she found comfort in its rhythm. He nuzzled into her hair, breathing in deeply.
“Mine,” he said aloud and her chest filled with warmth.
“Mine,” she whispered back, melting into his hold and inhaling his smoky, sweet scent. Moonlight caressed her skin as they held each other beneath the stars. The soft repetitive song of the last of the season’s cicadas filled the surrounding forest as she drifted off to sleep.
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Something tickled her neck, one puff of air, two. Clove woke up with a start. The doe that had been investigating her fled in a hurry, and a whole herd of startled deer followed behind it. They bolted from the clearing and disappeared deep into the woods. Clove sat up, adrenaline shooting through her veins as she took in her surroundings. She was butt-ass naked somewhere up in the mountains.What the hell?
She took a few deep breaths and worked to think back to the night before. The bachelorette party, the club, the forest, the cowboy. She sucked in a breath as visions of heated flesh and warm lips pushed to the forefront of her mind. A blush crept up her cheeks. The sticky feeling between her thighs confirmed she had definitely had sex with him. “Aaron.” That was his name. Her wolf jumped to attention at the sound of his name.Mine.
A jolt of surprise sent fresh energy flooding through her tired limbs. Her wolf had claimed his, and he had claimed her right back. She found her fated mate, something so rare it was only expected to happen in fairy tales. Then again, the reemergence of Celestials and their fated mates had sent a ripple out into the world, increasing the likelihood of Celestials and fated mates alike. Clove had watched her friends find their forever loves, but she never imagined she would be one of the lucky few chosen to be mated for life.
Her heart soared for several elated moments before sinking to the base of her rib cage. She looked around, not finding any trace of her cowboy.Where did he go? Maybe he tried to wake her and couldn’t. She was a deep sleeper. Or maybe he had to run off to work. If he hung around Lucas and Dane, he probably worked closely with Gideon’s inner circle. Those lycans were on call for anything the Alpha needed, which had been a lot recently according to Dane.
