Page 75 of Blade's Battle
“We’ll figure this out, together,” she said. “I won’t let anything happen to you. You’re too important to me.”
He kissed her forehead. “As you are to me.” His voice relaxed, as if they had agreed on a resolution after a big fight.
He said he loved her.
He shouldn’t have done that. Especially when it couldn’t be true. Blade loved life and kidding around. He loved his pack, and he loved being a shifter. Loving her. . . he was mistaking friendship for love, that’s all.
She glanced at the door, wondering if she should leave him and find another place to sleep or stay with him.
Two fingers touched her under the chin and coaxed her head up. Deep brown eyes held an easy-going light she hadn’t seen in a while. “That day we made love on the overlook, I asked if you’d stay with me until I go feral. You turned me down. But I’m asking again, Anna. Can we have this time together? I prefer not to be alone.”
His words, his voice, those soft brown eyes of his melted her resolve. Against her better judgment, she said, “Yes.”
The embrace was sweet, as was his kiss. One way or another, she was going to find a way to save her shifter.
* * *
BLADE
Blade listened to Anna’s slow breathing as she slept beside him. He carried her to the bed after she had fallen asleep on the sofa. The night air was warm, so he changed into a pair of lightweight sleep pants while Anna slept in her dress.
His Angel was so sweet, so innocent, and she didn’t know what lay ahead. He had to make plans. A signal that he could give the guys. Something easy so at that last moment, before his wolf seized full control again, while Blade still had rational thought but would lose all ability to speak, he could let the guys know it was time. They would separate him from Anna and ensure she wouldn’t be around to watch. Putting down a wolf was never easy, and he wouldn’t have her further traumatized by watching. He’d have to make Callen and the others promise that no matter what she said or did, they wouldn’t allow her to be close enough to see or hear.
Anna turned onto her side and propped herself up on her elbow. Lazily, her hand trailed over his chest muscles. Blue eyes stared at him, waiting for what, he didn’t know.
“Come here,” he said as he lifted her to straddle him. Both of her hands skimmed his pecs and his ribs with the lightest touch. His cock responded to her sensual stroking.
With only her panties and his thin sleep pants between them, he could feel her soft folds. His cock hardened against her and her mouth opened in a surprised ‘oh’. With a slight lift of his hips, he ground against her; she wasn’t objecting. Far from it. The scent of her arousal filled the air. She rocked against him as her wetness soaked through his sleep pants.
“Off,” he said as he tugged on her dress.
She pulled the dress over her head, revealing a lacey red bra. The sexy lingerie stole his breath away. “That too,” he finally said, his voice gaining an edge to it.
She cocked an eyebrow, not realizing how much he’d enjoy a challenge right now. “Get rid of it before I tear it off.”
That smitten expression turned to intrigue. His Angel had a submissive side to her.
Anna reached behind, unhooked the bra and slipped it off. Her breasts bounced as he pulled her torso against him. With his tongue he laved a nipple, taking the hard peak into his mouth. Her delicate moan heightened his need to be in her, to sink into her warmth and make her his.
As he played with her breasts, she started grinding against his hard cock. He cursed the layers between them, even though it was safer this way. He didn’t have a condom, and he didn’t want to risk a pregnancy, not when his time with her would be too short. She would leave here soon enough, move on and find another male, have the family she’d talked about, the family he’d always dreamed of having.
As he switched his attention to the other breast, she changed her rhythm to long grinding strokes against his cock. “So close,” she said as she closed her eyes.
He wasn’t letting her have it that easy. Not tonight. Not after being away from her for far too long. “I need to taste you,” he said as he slid down the bed, positioning himself beneath her pussy.
“This is different,” she started to say but when he shoved her panties to the side and swiped his tongue through her folds, she moaned deep and sensual, like a cat purring.
“That’s soooo good.” She braced her arms on the headboard, spread her knees wider, and sank down onto his face. Perfect.
Blade latched onto her clit and sucked until she was writhing uncontrollably against his face. Her panting ratcheted, and his cock responded in kind, throbbing, anticipating. After he dragged a finger through her slick, he slipped his hand between her rear cheeks and fingered her tight hole. She jumped slightly at the surprise, giving him the chance to line his tongue up with her entrance as he pulled her back down onto his face. As he tongue-fucked her, she forgot about his finger entering her ass and plastered her hands to the headboard.
“Oh, God. Oh, God. . . Need you in me, babe,” she was screaming when her walls clamped down around his tongue.
He’d never tasted anything so sweet as his Anna, but she was squirming now she’d become too sensitive. Blade slid out from under her and coaxed her down on her stomach, running his hands up and down her lovely back. He massaged her ass cheeks, nudging her legs apart as he did so. The view, perfect and sublime, only served to harden him further. He needed to be inside of her, to make her his, to claim her so that she would know what she meant to him. His Angel smiled as she hugged the pillows beneath her.
“Don’t move an inch,” he said as he captured her mouth with his one last time before disappearing around the corner into the bathroom.
“Where’d you go?” she asked, her voice taking on a sated and dreamy quality when he returned, naked.
