Page 136 of Grin and Bear It

He fell down upon me like he was in animal form, not a man. His kisses burned my lips, tasting of me, then him, before he sucked my lips to a swollen state, then notching his body against me.

“Yes… Yes…” I panted. “Cole, I need—”

“I know.” He paused then, a stricken expression on his face, one I slowly shared, the heat of the moment not cooling, but transforming somehow, becoming more.

I saw him, Cole, remembered what people had told me about his mother, a sharp flicker of memories of all the different versions of Cole I’d seen running through my head. Grumpy Cole, snarky Cole, sweet Cole and pushy Cole, but all of them were shoved aside for this. Naked Cole, vulnerable and open. A man who stared into my eyes with his soul bared.

“Gimme this,” he said in a low raspy voice. “Give me this forever. I promise I’ll make it good for you every fucking day I’m alive, El. I’ll give you everything. The strength of my body, my protection, the fruits of my labour, my focus, my attention. I’ll give you every fucking thing you could possibly want, love, if you could just give me…”

“Give me?” I prompted softly, feeling like the moment was both fragile as class and as bright as sunlight refracted in crystal.

“Give me your heart,” he asked, fearing my response but asking anyway. “Give me everything you’ve got, love, because I’m not sure I can hold back from giving you everything I’ve got to give.”

I reached down between us, gripping his cock, not because I was out of my mind with lust, though there was some of that. I rubbed the swollen crown against me, hearing his hiss mesh with mine, right before I wrapped my legs around him and drew him deeper.

“You got it,” I whispered, but with that preternatural hearing of his, he caught all of it.

He smiled then, his face transforming, becoming lighter, almost boyish, right before his brows creased and he stabbed into me.

This wasn’t fucking, not the heated clash of two bodies. Rather we fit together, like a key in a lock and when he turned, something opened inside both of us, our hearts beating harder, faster, each in time with the other. I watched his expression shift, a strange kind of wonder crossing his face, forcing his eyes wide and staring, right before they met mine.

“El…” He barely breathed that out. “Ellie…”

“Yeah, Cole,” I said and then found myself smiling, sweet and sloppily. “Now.”

When he’d told me about that baculum I’d been horrified and fascinated in turns, but when he actually locked down inside me? I felt it jut forward, raking across something so damn sensitive, then digging in, forcing explosions of pleasure from me.

This was how a bear would convince his mate, if nothing else worked. The feel of him locking down inside me, forcing the two of us to thrust carefully, in slow, truncated movements, that drew our focus not to the explosions inside our bodies, but each other. It was a far more intimate, intense kind of sex than I’d ever experienced.

“How we doing?” he ground out, his words choked out.

“How am I…?” I raked my nails down his back. “How are you…? Oh god, Cole. Fuck…”

“Yeah.” A kiss pressed to my lips. “Me too, love, me too.”

The door to the room was slammed open and I couldn’t find the energy to look up, to stop what we were doing. This was a train on its tracks, and it had a destination it had to reach before we could stop. But it wasn’t the boys that stumbled in, but them.

“Cole, we talked about—” Nash growled, dropping down onto the bed.

“Shut the fuck up!” Cole snapped out. “She asked and I… Oh fuck…”

“Good?” Lin looked from me to Cole with envious eyes, then settled at my head, placing it in his lap and stroking my hair. “I bet you’re feeling so damn good right now.”

And all I could do was nod violently, no words coming. I was full, so fucking full of sensation, of feeling, of him—and my focus shifted back to Cole. Those blue eyes were wide open and staring, not a mask or barrier remaining.

“Give me forever, beautiful,” he asked in desperate tones. “Make the jump, take the leap, and I’ll catch you every damn time. Do it with me, love, please.”

My conscious brain had no idea what he meant, other than an abstract commitment between the two of us, but my body? It had my head tipping to one side, the intensity of what was happening feeding into that great golden sensation, filling me up, up, up, until all I could do was bare my neck to him.

And he took everything I had to give.

His fangs bit down into my neck, blood bursting into his mouth as he growled, but I barely felt it. Just a sharp little nip of pain and then pleasure, pleasure of the like I had never felt before, but would so often afterwards, and that’s when we came. Each pulsing around, into each other, no longer separate beings, just the one thing, one heart, beating at the same time.

I felthim licking my mating mark clean, that’s what brought me back to the room, the world and when I blinked I saw I had an audience.

“How’re you feeling, love?” Nash asked.

Good,I heard Cole’s voice inside my head and he smiled at my look of surprise.But you better reassure the others of this before they tear me away from you to ‘protect’ you.

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