Page 31 of The Protector’s Heart

Her soft smile spread into a wide grin. “That’ll be round two.”

He growled at her playful tone. Bending forward, he inhaled slowly, letting her scent saturate his senses. He would never forget the way she smelled when she was turned on, like wildflowers heated by the sun—warm, sweet…his.

Her pussy was free of hair. He nuzzled the juncture of her thigh and she giggled. Smoothing his hands down the inside of her thighs, he felt her tremble as he lifted his head and kissed the top of her pussy. He pushed her thighs open further, making room for his shoulders before pressing his lips against her hot flesh and touching her clit with his tongue. She arched under him, and he slipped his hands under her hips and lifted her lower body off the couch. His brain fizzled out as the first, heady taste of her exploded on his tongue. He groaned, and she echoed the sound.

He lapped at her clit, wiggling his tongue over the fleshy bud until her breath hitched in her throat as he stroked the top of it. Lifting her closer to his mouth, he sealed his lips over her clit and ran his tongue over the top of it, rubbing and licking. She clawed the couch as her body trembled, and he sucked harder.

She cried out his name as her back bowed and her body tensed. Releasing her clit, he tilted his head, pushing his tongue into her pussy to lap at the sweet taste of her climax. She moaned, shivering, as he fucked her with his tongue.

“Mal, please, Mal,” she moaned, tugging on his hair.

He lifted from her body and said with a snarl, “Mine.”

“Yes, I’m yours. Make love to me.” Her voice was rough with use, and he flexed his fingers on her ass before lowering her to the couch.

He couldn’t control the trembling in his hands as he stood up and undid his jeans, shoving them off with his shorts. He looked at Nila and she lifted her arms to him. A well of need opened up in him. He’d never wanted anyone more than he wanted her, and it had nothing to do with his attraction to her physically and everything to do with the emotional tie. She was his mate; his everything.

He went to his knees on the couch and leaned over her, placing one hand on the cushion where her head rested, and with the other, he grasped his throbbing cock. He squeezed the base, trying to stop the orgasm that was pushing hard. He didn’t want to come like a teenager on the first stroke.

When he felt like he was back in control, he watched her face as he pressed into the tight, hot heaven of her body. Her gaze locked with his as she hooked one hand around his bicep, the other resting on his chest over his heart. Her mouth fell open as he pushed into her, but she never stopped watching him, and he couldn’t look away either.

As he sheathed himself completely inside her and his vision winked out a few times from the sheer pleasure, she wrapped her legs around his waist and hooked her ankles in the small of his back. The motion drew him even deeper into her, and he bit the inside of his cheek to control himself.

Angling his hips back, he slipped his cock nearly entirely from her and thrust back in, slowly, until he was certain she was ready to take him. Her nails dug into his arm as she lifted her hips to meet him.

He drew in and out of her a few times, slowly, making sure she was ready for more. Her head lifted and she kissed him, her thighs tightening on his waist as she urged him to move faster. He stroked into her body as his tongue played with hers, and he moved his free hand under her hips and lifted her up, moving faster and harder until their kiss broke and her breath gusted from her mouth.

“Yes, fuck, yes,” she panted as her nails sank into his chest.

He found the angle to make her come again, his body hitting hers just the right way so that her pussy clutched at him rhythmically and heat flooded his cock. She rubbed her body against his, using her legs as leverage to keep rubbing her clit against him. His balls drew up tight and the base of his spine tingled, but he gritted his teeth, determined to let her come before him.

He lifted her a fraction higher and she screeched in pleasure, her heels digging into his back as her pussy locked down on his cock, and he couldn’t have stopped himself from coming if he’d had a gun to his head. The world dropped away until it was just the two of them, and the hot pleasure that poured over him as his cock spasmed inside her welcoming pussy.

His fangs elongated and he snarled, fighting his wolf’s instinct to mark her neck and make her theirs. It was too soon, and he hadn’t asked her. The urge to bite rode him hard as his cock spasmed a second time and his vision blurred. Doing the only thing he could think of when he had zero blood left in his brain, he sank his fangs into his bicep and bit himself.

Nila stopped squeezing his waist with her legs and her arms moved around him, tugging on his body until he lowered enough so they touched, chest to hip. He kept most of his weight off her with his arms, and extracted his fangs from his bicep. He’d heal quickly, even if his wolf was a little pissed that he’d bit himself instead of her.

Nila pressed her face into his neck and hugged herself closer, and he held her tightly, never wanting to let her go.

CHAPTER TEN

Nila had never felt such peace on the heels of pleasure. No one had ever rocked her world the way that Malachi did. He’d made her come twice, and he’d seemed determined to make her happy. Which she so totally was. She was certain now that she and Malachi were meant to be together. Something had clicked in her heart for him. She knew she was human, but maybe humans could have mates, too, and if so that meant that Malachi was meant to be hers and she was meant to be his.

She inhaled and smelled something metallic.

“Mal?”

He lifted off her slightly, his hair mussed from where she’d gripped it so tightly, a sleepy, sexy look on his face.

“Yeah, sweetheart?”

She looked at him, wondering why she smelled blood, and then she saw bleeding teeth marks on his bicep.

“What did you do?”

He glanced down, looking guilty. “I bit myself.”

She frowned. “Obviously. But why?”

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