Page 27 of Beast

“Breakfast.” I nodded to the food. “Eat up while it’s warm.”

She dug in, but after several bites, she pointed her chin at me. “What about you?”

“I’m fine,” I lied. If I was going to kill her, the least I could do was make her last day pleasant. “I’ll draw you a bath for the pain.”

Her blush colored her cheeks and my cock jumped in reaction. Shit. I wanted to devour her right here, right now.

“Thank you,” she whispered.

I ducked out of the room before I gave in to my animal instincts. She would think I was a savage beast if I tried to have sex with her now so soon after last night.

After I ran the bathwater, I added a healing herb packet I’d bought in town months ago. The old woman said it helped speed healing, and I humored her at the time, but now I hoped she was a fucking witch and this would ease Natalia’s pain. Or maybe my little captive was getting under my skin.

I waited in my room until I heard Natalia’s sigh as she eased into the bath. The urge to join her burned through me, but I went to my balcony and shifted into my wolf.

Then I leapt onto the sand dune and raced across the island, trying to put as much distance as possible between me and the woman who was taking my heart without realizing it.

Istayed in my wolf form all day and into dusk the next day. But I couldn’t stay away from her. I yearned to see her, to touch her, taste her. I wanted to bury myself deep inside her until she screamed my name and orgasmed multiple times.

When I entered the house, her scent drew me up the stairs.

I found her in my bed, wrapped up in the sheets, a light gleam of sweat across her forehead like she’d been tossing and turning. She was naked and it seemed like she was going into heat. Her scent engulfed me and I wanted to drown it in, in her.

Slowly, I laid next to her and her body turned to me like she somehow sensed I was there. My cock twitched in anticipation, ready to go at the sight of her voluptuous body and the memory of how fucking good she felt.

“Tomas?” she moaned, and I gently rubbed a thumb across her nipple. She shivered and I relished in the feel of her.

“I’m here.” My voice came out rough and she opened her eyes.

“Good,” she replied in a sleepy tone with a brush of sultriness in it before she reached out to touch my cock and I sucked in a breath.

“What are you doing?”

“I want you,” she said and tugged me closer. “Please.”

Shit. She was so fucking tempting. I prayed she wasn’t too sore. If she told me to stop, I would, but it would be fucking hard. I wanted her with a desperation that had me shaking inside.

Desire and emotions rushed through me, threatening to drown me. She wanted me and I’d be a fool to deny her.

My cock throbbed with need and desire raced down my spine, leaving a hot trail in its wake. There was nothing I wanted more than to ravage this woman for everything she was worth and more. Claim every inch of her body as mine. The thought of taking her left me shaking with a primitive need that had nothing to do with my animal form.

I took her mouth in a hungry kiss, and it was like coming home after a long journey. Her body shivered against me and I understood how a man could lose his soul for a woman like her.

She groaned against my lips; the sound echoed mine as a hot rush of desire shot through my balls and straight up my cock, making me moan in desperation for relief from that unbearable pressure… to thrust deep inside of this woman who drove every rational thought from my mind. Knot her and make her mine. She, who had once been my enemy.

I shoved aside the thoughts that I shouldn’t be doing this. That I should be distancing myself from her. Instead, I licked one gorgeous nipple until it stood erect and then moved to the other.

She squirmed against me, yanking on my dick.

“Patience, little minx.” I kissed her pout. Then my kiss turned possessive, demanding. I slid my finger across her wet folds and she moaned, grinding against my hand.

My beast roared for release, but I kept it in check. She clung to me, murmuring my name as I kissed her neck and down her sweat-slicked body.

“If you keep making those sounds,” I teased, my voice tight with lust, “I won’t be able to stop.”

Her body quivered under me. “Then don’t.” She tilted her chin higher and her eyes were feral with desire.

“No,” she gasped. “I need you now.”

---