Page 19 of Love & Violence

I remain still, waiting to see what will happen, but she never opens her eyes. My thumb flits across her clit, and her channel grips me tighter. Her back arches at the contact, and her tits are level with my face, perfectly positioned for me to suck a nipple into my mouth. Slowly, I start to rock my hips.

I know the moment my little mate is fully awake. She pushes at my shoulder, silently asking me to lie on my back. I comply. Not because I like a woman taking charge in bed but because I want to know what she has planned.

Aryanna moves with me, never allowing my cock to slip from her. She settles her legs beside my hips and smiles down at me.

“I don’t know what I’m doing, but I wanted to try something,” she says and looks away shyly. “Will you tell me if I’m doing something wrong?”

“My beautiful mate,” I say, caressing her hips. “You are perfect no matter what.”

Slowly I rock her hips back and forth, keeping her movements slow and steady. Aryanna mewls as she throws her head back. The length of her hair flows down her back, the tips tickling my balls. Lifting my hips, I spear up into her. Her breasts bounce from the force, and I can’t seem to drag my gaze away.

“Again,” my mate moans.

Both of us have all but forgotten that she may still be sensitive from last night. Our baser instincts push us to mate once more. The need to fuck her until she swells with my cubs has a grip on me that I don’t see easing anytime soon.

“Draven,” she cries my name as her orgasm steals over her.

The pressure of her channel gripping me, the flutter of her walls massaging my cock, is enough to have me pumping into her harshly as I hold her hips in an unbreakable grip. She will wear more than my mating mark before this is through. When I spill my seed inside her, I roar to the heavens.

Aryanna collapses on my chest, once more spent from my attention. Our breathing is labored as we both come down from our orgasms.

She rests her chin on my chest as she smiles up at me, a sated look on her face. “That was a great way to start the day.”

I chuckle lowly. “I agree, love. But we need to get our asses out of bed so we can discuss what to do next. If we stay here, I can’t promise not to fuck you again.”

“Can’t we just stay here? I mean, in this cave or cabin or whatever you want to call it.”

My hand caresses her cheek. “I won’t make you a prisoner.”

“It’s no different from how I grew up,” she says, nuzzling into my hand.

“I want to show the world, my beautiful mate. I want everyone to see our happiness. It’s not every day that someone like me gets the girl of his dreams.”

She stares at me for a long time before extricating herself from my grasp. Beside the bed, she opens a chest of drawers and pulls out a navy t-shirt. She smiles at me before tugging it over her head. It’s so big on her the hem hangs down to her knees.

“I thought you said we should get dressed?” she teases, and I quickly find myself wearing a pair of sweats.

“Do you think either of our fathers would be able to accept us? As mates?” she asks sadly. “I miss my brother and Isabel.”

“You will see both soon enough,” a strange voice says.

I shove Aryanna behind my back, trying to figure out where the voice came from. In one of the leather recliners sits my mate’s father, Stefano Esposito. The malice and hate in his gaze has my panther ready to pounce at any second. How the fuck did they get into the cave?

“You’re just like your father, boy,” he continues to speak. “Coming into my world, taking things that don’t belong to you. Don’t worry, though. I will fix my errant daughter’s mistakes before it’s too late.”

I feel a sharp pain in my neck and lift my hand to feel what it could be. But I never get the chance as darkness overwhelms me.

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Aryanna

I watch as my mate crumbles to the ground, a pain-filled scream ripping from me.

“Father, he’s my mate. Please,” I plead.

“I’ll not have my only daughter be a whore to a West!” my father yells. “You’ll have to kill me before I allow it.”

I go down on my knees beside Draven and shake him. “Draven, wake up!”

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