Page 145 of Just One Bite
She tests the words. “They … were framing you. They made it look like you bribed your way to team captain—”
“Wait, this is about … the Rage team?”
“The folder was slipped under my door, and it had all these falsified testimonies that you were involved in some illegal gambling scheme so you’d never be able to get into a pro team. I wanted to tell you, but they bugged my phone, and the file was enchanted for my eyes only.” Her bottom lip quivers.
“You … did this for me?” I blink. “You seriously thought I cared more about getting into the pro league than being with you? That I’d rather you risk everything you worked for so I could play? You were going to become someone else’smateforme.”
“It would have ruined your entire life and reputation, and I couldn’t be the reason something terrible happened to you again. I didn’t know if I was making the wrong choice and all I wanted was to go to you, but I couldn't risk it. You were right. I should have just told you. I might be the worst linked mate ever, but I want this more than anything and I love you. I’m so—”
I wipe the tears streaking down her dirt-stained face. “Stop. Don’t you dare say you’re sorry.”
I kiss her salty lips, and it’s like that first time in Noxx House. Like electricity free flowing through my veins while I caress her face.
“It’s okay now. I’m here. I’m never leaving you. We’ll fix it all together,” I say.
I can’t even begin to think of how with the fresh taste of her on my tongue, but we will.
“I want to be mated to you. Let’s seal the bond. Right now.” My eyebrows shoot up as she drops her camisole to the floor. “Please.”
I kiss her again. “Whatever you want.”
Everything else can wait till we’re bonded. Complete.
We’re wet and covered in dirt and blood, but none of it matters. Our bodies meet in a feral frenzy of lips and tongue.
I need to be inside her.
My shoulders shake as I lift her off the floor by her knees and lay her on the bed. She’s completely bare in the moonlight. My skin is on fire, and my teeth hurt. I feel so unhinged. Raw. The wolf in me wants to ruin her. To hear her scream and drain every ounce of pleasure I can from her body. I don’t want her to be sore … but the wolf in me does. I want to fuck her till she can’t walk straight.
“It’s the first dual full moon tonight after accepting my alpha blood … tell me if I’m too rough. I’m going to try to be gentle, baby. But I …” I lean down to kiss the inside of her knee, but that only makes me hungrier.
“You won’t hurt me,” she breathes.
“I won’t hurt you,” I repeat, already more sure.
I’m licking her stomach when she says, “What do I need to do to complete the bond?”
“I need to bite you again and then you’re going to bite me really hard too.”
“Then what?”
“Then I’m going to eat you out, drag you to the edge of the bed, and take you that way.”
“You’ve … thought about this,” she says, gasping when I bite her breast.
Fuck yes, I’ve thought about sealing our mating bond. I wanted to take her to a fancy hotel room and do it after she had a bath and a glass of wine, but we’re both covered in blood and mud, hungry for each other, and I can’t wait another second.
“Ineedthose two things to happen, but the bond is going to make you uncomfortable, and I don’t want to prolong it. Do you understand?”
She nods, so I move to the bed, hovering over her. A faint cry leaves her throat when my teeth sink into my mark on her neck, and it turns into a moan as I drink. The blood bag I was given earlier today doesn't compare.
My ears ring as she cries out. It’s just her and me in the middle of the woods. We can be as loud as we want. My inner wolf marks her while the vampire in me is satiated by her blood.
I lick the mark closed and cradle her till she’s sitting. The wetness of her lips grazes my shoulder, and I guide her head there.
“I don’t want to hurt you …” Her sigh sets the hairs straight on my arm.
“You won’t.” I trace her ear. “It’s okay.”
