Page 47 of The Pack Next Door
It was such a different touch. Soft rather than rough and callused, though each had a specific pleasure associated with it. Right now, this was just like the soft shift of the breeze. A dizzying array of imprecise sensations, like raindrops on my skin. Each one coalesced into a wave, the tide pulling out, out, threatening to obliterate me with ecstasy when it finally crashed.
“Jace…?”
As I gasped that out, he pulled back, letting my clit pop free of his lips.
“I know what you need, omega.” His hand slid up my thigh. “I always will. You’re my mate and that means…” I sucked in a breath as his fingers breached me, forcing swollen flesh apart,only to curl his fingers and rake across something exquisitely sensitive. “You need my knot, right here.” Another pulse and another robbed me of my ability to reply. “And when you accept the bond, I will give it to you gladly. You’ll come so fucking hard, you’ll strangle it, forcing my seed out and into you. I’ll fucking breed you, Briar.”
Breed me…
I had a love/hate relationship with that word. The idea of being utterly vulnerable and open, at the mercy of my instincts as we rutted the day away was indescribably hot. That was the moment when I could surrender everything. But with breeding came the biological imperative behind it. One I didn’t need messing with the fun. For a second, I thought about telling him he’d never be able to breed me, that the fates had determined that his mate was barren, but he had to lunge forward, lashing my clit with his tongue. All that promise of a terrible pleasure came rushing to the fore. Clamping down on real, hot flesh, not cold silicone, was indescribably good, but even as ecstasy had me screaming, there came a sadness.
This couldn’t last.
My lips moved, even as I gasped, but he had to pull free. My whole body shuddered, wanting, needing, more and that’s when he slotted our bodies together. His cock between my thighs, rubbing where I was the most sensitive. Each stroke pulled the pleasure out further and further, until I was sure I’d snap.
“When you accept the bond, it will be so good.” He slowed his stroke, and the bulbous head of his cock grazed my entrance, forcing a frantic whine from me. That, I needed that, so my hands slapped down on his arms, clawing at his skin. “It’s taking everything I have to stop myself from thrusting into that hot little cunt.”
“So don’t…” His eyes were blazing perfect silver as they stared down at me. The moon turned him from a man into aharsh idol. “Don’t, Jace.” I was being so terribly selfish, but if this was the only time I got to fuck my mate, I’d take it. “Bend me over and force me to take your knot, then?—”
“Like this?”
His voice came out in a low growl as he did just that, slapping my hands down on a tree trunk as he bent me at the waist. My heels were kicked wide and then… “Ohh…” I moaned as I felt the ponderous slide of his cock along my entire seam. “Gods, yes, Jace.”
I went to push back, sure I could take him in one thrust, but I was held right where I was.
“Not yet, omega,” he said. “So stay very still, or I’m going to do something we’d both regret.”
I couldn’t ask what, because with exquisite control, he rubbed himself around my entrance. The anticipation of being knotted, without actually doing it, had my claws springing free and burying themselves in the tree trunk.
“Do it.” That challenge came from the wolf, not me. “Do it, alpha. You know you want to and…”
His body slammed against mine, but not his cock. It slipped between my folds, his fingers finding my clit. Quickly, expertly, he played my body, bringing me right to the edge of ecstasy, before he nipped my ear.
“Nothing I want more than to knot you. Actually… there’s one thing. I want you, Briar, not for tonight, but forever, so be a good girl and come on my cock, so I can paint you with my seed.”
I did just that, but at my cry, I felt the first spurt. Scalding hot and searing his mark into me, cum jetted all over my over-sensitive flesh, and somehow that allowed the fiery flames to finally die down to coals inside me.
“You on birth control?” Jace was on the edge, fur prickling across his skin as he turned me around.
“It’s not an issue,” I replied, feeling like the fever had broken. Didn’t explain how I responded when his fingers moved. At first, it felt like he was playing with the mess, only for me to realise he was working it into me.
“Might be if I push my fingers inside you. It’ll help ease the heat for longer.” That cocky smile was back as he gazed down at me. “Can’t say I’d hate to see your belly swollen with my children, but I’m not doing that without your permission.”
It felt like someone had tipped a bucket of ice water over me. Part of me wanted to shove the alpha off me, but the other part grabbed his hand and pushed his fingers inside. I stared into his eyes as I rode them, achieving one last, vicious little orgasm, because this would be the last time. Mum had decided she was going to work out her next steps on her own, so there was no reason for me to stay any longer.
“Thanks.” As I pulled free, I knew that was an entirely inadequate response, but it was all I had right now. “Now if I could just work out how to get home…”
“This way.”
That cocky grin faded as he took fur, a massive grey wolf standing before me. It looked over its shoulder and then barked, taking off. My wolf took control, obviously having achieved what she was after. She trotted after him, not stopping until we reached our back fences. Jace wolf came closer, shoving his nose in my fur, and for just a moment we stood there, letting us breathe each other in, before we pulled away to leap over the fence. In through the back door and upstairs, she didn’t relinquish control until I was in my room.
Leaving me to stand by the window, seeing a dark shape lift his hand in farewell, my own twitched, ready to return the gesture, but instead I fell into bed. Tired beyond measure, I fell asleep within seconds, only to wake late the next morning.
“Morning!” Mum called out when I finally came downstairs. She was hobbling with all her might around the kitchen, but it was the fact she was obviously dressed for an outing, her cane in hand, that had me staring. “I’ve left some French toast in the fridge for you. It’s not as good microwaved, but I thought you must’ve needed your sleep.”
“Where are you off to?” I croaked as I took a sip of the coffee she handed to me.
“The first alpha trial is happening today.” Her tone made clear she was excited by that. “You wouldn’t have seen it as the Hart’s were in power years before you were born, but I did. It’s happening at the local park, and the whole town will be in attendance.”
