He cupped her face in his hands. “Never again, angel. I promise.”
She sank back against his chest. “You let me leave.”
“I know.” He kissed her forehead.
“I felt like I lost a piece of myself.”
“That’s the bond. I had hoped you wouldn’t be so affected.”
She shook her head. “It’s more than the bond. I love you, Maddox. I’ve never loved anyone in my life before the three of you, and I’m still learning what that means, but I know it nearly killed me to leave you behind.”
“I’m here now.”
“For how long?” she asked, then plastered her lips to his before he could dare say this was only temporary, that he’d come to rescue her and then she’d lose him again.
* * *
MADDOX
Alyssa’s kisspulled him in, calling not only to his wolf, but him, the part of him he’d tried closing to her, the part that she’d awoken, the part that he didn’t know existed before he’d met her. She was the air he breathed, and he’d sworn to protect her at any cost. The way her hands moved down his body, with desperation and determination, he wondered if she knew that destiny had already betrayed them both.
Nothing had changed.
Except now he understood the pain he’d put her through.
As hard as it was, he pulled his lips away from her and rested his forehead against hers. “Angel, I only came to get you out of here. My situation hasn’t changed. I have to return to my pack.”
“We’ll discuss it once we’re out of here,” she said with that defiance he loved in her, except he didn’t want her deceiving herself. She had to accept their reality.
“You’re avoiding the inevitable,” he said.
“I’m refusing to accept there isn’t another alternative. Totally different thing, Maddox.”
He scrubbed his face. “Fine, we’ll talk about it later. Get dressed. Dark colors, sturdy shoes. I got rid of the guards in this building, but we still have to avoid the ones patrolling the camp.”
When she stripped out of the nightgown and bent over to pick up a pair of pants from the bottom of the armoire, he glimpsed that pretty pink pussy of hers and growled.
She peered up at him. “What’s that about?”
“My wolf doesn’t like that you offered yourself to another male outside our little pack.”
“I explained that.”
“Maybe he needs convincing.” Maddox waggled his eyebrows to let her know he wasn’t mad. But he had missed her and he’d been so fucking scared and distracted not knowing what was happening to her. He’d nearly let a human gut him with a knife. A simple knife!
With a sly smile, she walked over on her knees and caressed his legs close to his cock, making him hard without even trying. Wide, beautiful hazel eyes looked up at him. And the vixen licked her lips.
“This isn’t the time or place,” she said, that innocent look of hers clinching her fate. He smelled her arousal and his eyes latched onto her pupils, watched them dilate. There was no way he could let her go without touching her, making her his, reasserting his claim on her.
On her knees, she backed up under the desk, leaving him hard and wanting, the tease. Another few inches and she bumped the legs of the desk, causing the lamp to wobble. He reached forward, catching the lamp before it fell. As he righted the lamp, Alyssa’s tongue wrapped around his dick. He stilled, pressing his palms against the desk for support as she drew him into her mouth fast and hard, then bobbed on and off of him, delivering an exquisite sense of pleasure. Completion.Rightness.
Her mouth covered him as she sucked on him with fervor.
So tight. Warm. Wet.
And he couldn’t reach her, not with her under the desk he leaned on, not that he wanted to move with her swallowing his dick. He was ready to lose his load. He stepped back, sacrificing the warmth of her tight mouth, and pulled her out from under the desk.
He tossed her on the bed and straddled her chest. “You think you can control the situation, angel, but you can’t.”