Authors: Milly Taiden
SIXTEEN
Andi was going to officially murder the wolf. Her lioness snorted.
My mate? Not in this lifetime.
Andi wanted to slap her lioness upside the head. The animal really didn’t give a shit how bad it made her look. No matter how good he was at making her chubby legs shake, he had to have lost his fucking mind to tell her people he was her mate.
Forget what Gerri said about giving him a chance. The collective gasp going around her elders and some of the males was enough to make her slam her forehead against the nearest tree.
“What does he mean, your mate?” Christoff, Shantelle’s grandson, spewed, his face raging red. Christoff wasn’t usually this pushy, but she knew he wanted to know so the pride was under control again.
“Exactly what I said,” Kasen growled. He took her hand and pulled her forward to stand next to him. “Miranda is mine.”
She glared at Kasen but didn’t bother denying his words. The reaction amongst the men in her pride was interesting to say the least. There was an instant looking at each other. For what, she didn’t know. Then they sized up Kasen. Big, strong, super alpha Kasen. They backed off instantly.
The women, on the other hand, seemed to want to get closer to him. Andi frowned at the look of interest Claudia gave him. Even Shantelle had a grin on her face.
“I scent no mating between you,” Shantelle winked at her. “But I think we can assume it will be forthcoming.” She glanced around at the others. “Let’s go. Miranda has business to handle.”
She ground her teeth to keep from snapping at the other woman. Elders were known for being nosy and minding anyone’s business. She didn’t care how intrusive they were until they started trying to tell her what she needed to do with her life.
After the group dispersed, she turned to face Kasen and yanked her hand out of his grasp. “Are you out of your mind?”
He looked so annoyingly good. His spiked up hair, and that damn beard was still there, still making her crazy.
His gaze met hers and the wolf snarled. She pressed her legs together. No fucking way. No. Getting turned on by him snarling was totally insane, but then again she wasn’t known for doing anything like normal people lately.
“Kasen, good to see you again,” Naya said as she returned from ushering everyone to the front. Naya wiggled her brows at Andi. She wanted to roll her eyes. Like alpha mutt didn’t see that.
“Very nice to see you again, Naya,” Kasen smiled. “Spike, get your ass over here,” he growled.
She’d noticed the guy giving all the males an evil glare and wondered who he was. She should’ve known. Big alpha mutt had his beta with him. Of course, with Kasen’s size and the look of pure dominance he gave the other males, clearly, he didn’t need anyone to have his back.
Spike was shorter than Kasen but bigger, with so many muscles she couldn’t help but stare at his body as he moved. He might be big, but he had the grace of a feline. He was the type of enforcer she wished her men were. Strong. Silent. Ready for anything.
They filed into her kitchen and the sudden scent of rotted meat made her wince. She glanced around to see something on her table.
“What the fuck is that?” Spike asked. “Please tell me you weren’t actually eating it.”
Andi rolled her eyes and glared at Naya for laughing.
“She’s not the best cook, but even she knows when meat goes bad,” Naya giggled.
“Someone’s idea of a fucking joke,” Andi growled and took a step forward only to be stopped by Kasen’s hand wrapped around her arm. She glanced up and met his ice blue gaze. “Yes?”
“You get these kind of jokes often?” Anger flashed in his eyes. If she were a woman that feared anything, she might have backed down. Instead, she shrugged.
“Not really, but with the discontent in the pride lately, I wouldn’t be surprised that some of the younger males thought to leave me a little ‘present.’”
Kasen growled, sniffing around the table with a frown. “I scent nothing. Not even a trace of who was here. All I get is the dead animal.”
She scrunched her nose and surveyed the carcass. A large house cat. Really? People needed to get more original. “It doesn’t matter.”
Spike cleared his throat and everyone’s attention turned to him. “Actually, it does. If someone is willing to put a dead animal in your house, it means they want you to feel uncomfortable and unsafe in your home,” he said pensively. “Sort of rattling your cage in order to make sure you don’t feel at peace here.”
“Well, they clearly don’t know me because it would take a lot more than some dead kitten to get me nervous.”
“Listen,” Naya gave her the look. The stop being such a bitch look. “I’ll clean this up,” she grinned at Spike. “Spike here will help me while you two have a chat in the living room.” Naya mouthed the words
be nice
as if she were back in grade school.
She bypassed the table and went straight into her office. She slammed the door behind her, but Kasen easily caught it before it hit him and closed it after he entered the room.
Andi stood behind the desk and stared at him. Damn, he was fucking hot just standing, doing nothing. How could someone do that? Fully clothed, even. “Why are you here, Kasen?”
He breathed deeply, ignoring her question. Asshole. He had to know how much her body wanted him. She turned away and rubbed her hands down her face. “Kasen, I don’t have time for this.”
SEVENTEEN
He calmly walked up to her, spun her around and took her mouth. The kiss was rough. Hard. Fast. Hungry. Everything she was trying to control in herself, he pushed to the surface with that single meeting of their lips.
A low rumble traveled from his chest to hers. He pulled his lips and kissed from her jaw to her throat. He yanked, she pulled, and clothes tore off in a lust-induced frenzy. Then his lips were on her breast, sucking and licking. He made her fucking crazy.
“Kasen,” she moaned. “Fucking hell! I love that sound.”
Another rumble sounded around her nipple. It sent a wave of heat straight to her clit. Her skin felt tight and hot. Her heat was so close. Too close. If she wasn’t careful, she’d end up mating him right here, right now.
The world shifted and he had her on her desk, pushing her large legs apart. The amber ring around his irises brightened. He sniffed, a loud growl coming from him. His wolf was dying for a taste of her, just like her lioness wanted to lick her way up his body. He stared at her—from her hard nipples, down her belly, to her wide spread pussy lips aching for his touch.
“You,” he said with barely intelligible words, “are so fucking sexy.”
He ran his fingers down her jaw. Zaps of electricity warmed her everywhere he touched. He cupped her breast and flicked his thumb over her nipple. The heated trail continued. He cupped his other hand between her thick legs, fondling her clit and making her whimper.
“Kasen, god!”
“Feel that, love? You’re hot, wet, desperate. Do you know what’s making you this way? No,” he shook his head, almost reading her mind. “It’s not your heat.” He leaned toward her, brushing his tongue over her nipple. “It’s basic, beautiful. You. Want. Cock. My cock. You want me to fuck you.”
Lord, yes. She really did want him to fuck her. “Kasen, yes. Now.”
He slid a finger into her and her muscles gripped tightly. “That’s what I want. Your hot pussy surrounding my cock, hugging it. You want it. Me, balls deep in you.” He met her gaze, his features pulled tightly over his face. The wolf was winning.
“Fuck!”
“Let it go, baby. See the way your legs shake every few seconds? Soon you won’t be able to stop them.” He pressed a kiss at the center of her chest and reared back. “Have no doubt in your mind, Andi. I’ll take you. Fuck you.” He inhaled hard and her pussy slickened some more. “Ah, baby girl. I will eat your pussy like it’s my last meal and then,” he gave a feral grin. “Then I’m going to fill you with my cum.”
She gasped, her lioness loving the way he spoke and promised her offspring. Her human brain had already started embracing the idea of him and her making babies.
He licked his lips and fingered her pussy. “I’ll make you pregnant. And I’ll continue to fuck you for the rest of our lives.”
“How about you get me coming for now?” she moaned.
A whimper left her lips as she watched his muscled body lower to bring his face between her thighs. He lifted her thick legs to his shoulders. She crossed her feet behind his head, pressing the heels of her feet into his back.
She leaned all the way back on the desk. He wrapped his arms around her thighs, tugged her down and lifted, bringing her ass off the desk, pushing her knees wider. She ran her nails into his hair and made a soft moaning sound when he kissed her inner thigh.
“Fuck, baby. Do that again.”
She cleared her throat, unsure what he was talking about. “Kasen?”
“Purr, sweetheart. I love hearing you do it.”
Another involuntary purr rolled through her as her cat let out the soft rumble.
“You’re so fucking beautiful,” he said between kisses closing in on her pussy, “and that sound. Sexy as hell. It drives me wild.”
She took a sharp breath. He was so close. His breath was right on her. “Kasen...”
“You’re perfect,” he grunted. “So pink and wet and ready for me to fuck. I want in you.”
A louder purr left her body. Good god, she was beyond ready for him to take her. She’d offer him anything. Everything. All she wanted was to shove his face in her pussy and not let him up for air. “Do it.”
He breathed over her clit and glanced at her. “I’ve never wanted to watch my dick go in and out of a pussy as badly as I do now. Yours.” He took a feather-light swipe of her clit with his tongue, enough for the legs around his ears to press against his head.
She choked on the air, struggling into her lungs. “Do it.” She bit her lips and gripped his hair tightly. “I want your tongue inside me. I want you to make me scream. Make me come.”
She hadn’t finished when he dropped his head farther and did a long, slow lick from ass to clit.
Her back arched. Her blood heated with every swipe of his tongue on her sex. Bolts of electricity darted down her spine, straight to her pussy. He licked at her folds, groaning and rumbling. Her grip on his hair tightened. Purr after purr rolled up her throat. Lust grew thicker around them, cocooning them in tornado of blazing need.
Tension gathered around her core, a quick twining that would unravel with her release. Another swipe of his tongue and she growled for him to go faster. Harder. He lapped at her pussy, growling and snarling with every drive of his tongue into her.
“Oh, god. Oh. My. Fucking. God!”
She yanked his head closer to her folds. He growled harder. The vibration combined with his licks was like having a vibrator right at her clit, rubbing it side to side and pushing her just over the edge she was desperate to leap from.
A loud purr-scream sounded in the room. Pleasure swept through her, driving the urge to have him inside her out the window.
EIGHTEEN
He grabbed her large legs from around his head and helped her bring them down. She watched him, the fire in his eyes so bright, she knew her own reflected the animal inside her. He stood, his face wet with her orgasm. He licked his lips, and the lust riding her took control again. She scraped her nails on his arms, pulling him close for a kiss. He gave it. Deep. Fast. Then she was off the desk, her body now draped over it instead of lying on it.
He slid a hand to her ass and growled. “Beautiful.”
“What?” she asked, glancing over her shoulder and catching him licking his lips and staring at her cheeks.
“Your ass.”
She flushed. Damn, the wolf was good. “Thank you.”
She splayed her hands on the hardwood of her desk, clumps of papers in her hands. He leaned forward, pressing his dick hard on her ass and grabbing clumps of her hair. With a gentle tug, he came close, his lips by her ear. “Baby,” he whispered and kissed her shoulder, the same one she knew he’d want to bite to make her his mate. If she let him.
As if there’s any doubt
. Stupid cat. “I want you. Now.”
Her pussy throbbed. “
Yesss
.”
She was finally going to get him inside her. He pulled away for a second. Then he grabbed her wide hips and tugged her back, pressing the head of his dick into her entrance.
With a hard, hard thrust, he plunged deeply into her, stretching her pussy muscles to the limit.
“
Fuuuuck
,” she hissed.
She leaned harder on the desk. The papers in her hands were shredded when her nails turned to claws. She scraped her claws on the desk surface, looking for something to cling to. He yanked on her hair. The lioness purred again.
“Ah, yes,” he rumbled. “You are so hot every time you do that.”
“I don’t mean to.” She couldn’t really help it. Her lioness made itself known. He pulled her head toward him and kissed her spine.
“I know. That’s why I fucking love it.” He thrust deeply and pulled back, taking the air in her lungs with him.
“Every time,” he rumbled in his gravelly voice, pulling out and driving forth. “I slide into you,” he bit on her shoulder and her lioness purred harder. She loved that he did that.
“Do it again,” she moaned.
He bit the back of her shoulder. Not hard enough to mate her, but enough to push her toward the edge. “I want to feel you come around me.” He dug his hand into her hip and fucked her with increasing speed. “I want that hot, wet suction your pussy does. Hear your purring. Have you shaking under me.” He kissed the back of her neck, licking circles with his tongue. “You know you want me to fuck you harder until you come. Tell me.”
She gasped for air. “God, yes! Fuck me. Faster. Deeper. Rougher.”
He growled. He slapped both his hands at her hips and squeezed as he plunged faster and faster into her. Sweat slid down her chest, making it easy for her to slide back and forth on the desk.
“Kasen,” she whimpered.
There was no notice. One second he was driving into her like an animal and the next, her body soared. Explosions rocked her core. Her pussy gripped him so hard, it became painful. Waves of pleasure cascaded through her, cooling her heated body and turning her previously tense muscles lax.
Kasen howled. His claws dug into her curvy hips. He plunged once, twice, and stopped, tensing at her back. His cock thickened inside her, rubbing hard against her channel walls. He continued to howl, spilling his semen and filling her with his heat. Goddamn! This was unbelievable. Twice now, he’d fucked her to within an inch of her life.
She gasped for air, grateful she lay over her own desk, trying to figure out what just happened. They panted for breaths for long moments before he gathered her into his arms and sat at the sofa by her door with her on his lap, still naked.
“We still need to decide who’s living with whom. I have no problem moving in with you. My place may be bigger, but yours feels…more like home.”
She sighed. “Kasen, how many times must we go over this? You are not what I need and I am not what you want.”
“How do you know what I want?” he asked. She really didn’t. She knew she was using that as a crutch to keep him at a distance. Two reasons why they were wrong for each other were better than one lame reason from her.
“Look at it this way, we are the same person within our packs needing the same type of person, not just another of ourselves. Only one can rule.”
“You are wrong, Andi. How do you think your parents and all the alpha couples before them worked out? It wasn’t because one was all the power and the other was a doormat. They were in it together.”
Of course, she knew that. There was give and take in a relationship. She just wanted to be the one giving—giving orders, and protection and love, of course. But what if he wanted to control her people, tell them what they had to do? How much could a wolf know about a pride’s needs?
But wouldn’t that be her part of their relationship? Knowing what’s best for her people? If he would only stand by her without taking over like Josh demanded he would. She felt so confused. If only her mother were here to give her advice. The family business she could handle. This love stuff sucked.
Kasen sighed. “How about you just give me a chance? You’ll see that I’m different than these pricks here trying to push you into something you don’t want.”
She wasn’t happy with him calling her prides’ males pricks, but right now they were acting like one, so she’d let it go.
“Just go out with me one time. What can that hurt? You can even meet me at the location so you won’t be stuck in a car with me. How does that sound?”
It did sound okay. She didn’t have any qualms with anything. With her own car, she could leave anytime. And Gerri insisted she should give him the benefit of the doubt. What the hell? “All right, Kasen. I’ll go out with you. When?”
Kasen collected his clothes and hopped around pulling his pants up. “I’ll text you the address.” He leaned down and kissed her forehead. “See you in a few hours,” he said as he walked out her office door.
“Wait. A few hours?”