Scent of a Wolf's Mate (11 page)

“I’m not,” she whispered, turning her head
slightly to look over her shoulder at him. A sharp gasp escaped her
when she met his eyes. Then he saw something else in her eyes, a
flare of excitement.

Connor knew what Serena had seen. The wolf
lust burning through his body was overpowering every one of his
human senses, causing them to morph back and forth out of confusion
until finally he was able to stop his wolf from coming through.
That’s when he picked up Serena and penetrated her from behind.

“You’re so fucking tight,” he growled deeply
into her ear as her exquisite silky heat enveloped and hugged his
cock. Connor lowered her feet back to the floor, still buried deep
inside her pussy.

“You feel so good inside of me,” she
countered, thrusting her buttocks out, which forced him even
deeper. “Fuck me hard and fast Connor, I want your cum inside
me.”

Her words fueled Connor’s desire. “It will be
my pleasure,” he teased, sucking on her earlobe. His hands fell to
Serena’s hips as he started to pump in and out. He couldn’t stop
the grunt of pleasure each time her small, tight pussy swallowed
him up. As their passion spiraled, heavy breathing and the sounds
of satisfaction echoed through the tiled room.

He reached around to find her clit. The
kernel was as hard as a little pebble, and slick with their
combined juices. Connor gave it a few flicks, before forming a V
with two fingers and pressing downward each time he entered her
body.

“Aaaaahahh!” Serena cried, trembling
violently against him.

Connor smiled at her reaction and picked up
speed until his balls were slapping loudly against the back of her
thighs.

“Connor,” her tone sounded desperate, then
with added force, “Connor!”

He knew she was coming, and she came hard.
Her cunt squeezed his cock between each contraction of her powerful
orgasm, calling out to his to take the journey with her. Connor
didn’t need much persuasion. He was ready to blast off, and soon he
was doing just that, burying his cock inside Serena as deep as he
could.

“Aaagggghhhh!” he groaned, pumping his seed
into her. The intensity of his orgasm took control, and for several
seconds all Connor could do was convulse against her until it
slowed down. He released his death grip on Serena’s hips and slid
his hands up her body to cup her breasts.

“You take everything out of me,” he said
against her ear. “You know that?

She nodded, still panting. “I like making
love with you, Connor.”

Her comment reminded him that he’d been her
first. “I like knowing that I was your first.” He kissed her
shoulder. “So, what happened while we were gone that made Rose drop
the window bars?”

Serena laughed softly. “Are we really going
to have this conversation while we’re still, ah, connected?” She
pushed her butt back against him teasingly.

Connor growled and bit down playfully on her
shoulder. “Not a very smart thing to do while we’re still in this
position. Did you know wolves can remain tied for up to half an
hour?”

“That goes for werewolves, too?” Serena
asked.

It was obvious to Connor she still had a lot
to learn. “Doesn’t matter, I can grow hard while still inside you.
If that happens, you can count on being fucked good and hard
again.” Even to his ears, his comment sounded like a mild threat.
“It’s the price you’ll pay for teasing me.”

In spite of Serena’s wild shiver, she said on
a husky note. “I would think that as the alpha you’d show more
control.”

Connor licked up the side of her neck to a
spot behind her ear. He inhaled deeply, closing his eyes to her
arousing scent. God, he wished he could turn Serena around so he
could suckle her breasts. The sudden wild urge to taste the heaven
between her legs caused his semi-hard cock to fill with the lustful
need to mate again.

“You challenge your mate?” he growled against
her. “That can be very dangerous.” Yep, he was growing hard again,
but the knot that kept him prisoner in her body deflated so he
would be able to thrust.

“I’m not afraid–”

Connor pulled from her body, flipped her
around, and had her back against the shower wall before she could
finish her comment.

“Oh!”

He grinned in the face of her surprise, then
ran his nose down the bridge of hers, kissing the tip. “I have a
lot of control when it matters.” Connor bent and took a nipple into
his mouth, suckling the sweet nub until it was hard.

Serena moaned, thrusting her breasts forward.
Connor moved on to the other plump delicacy, while his hands glided
over her wet curves. Her soft whimpers seemed amplified in the
stall, music to his libido. He was already hard as iron, standing
straight as an arrow, and pointing directly at her cunt. The heady
scent of their recent coupling surrounded them in a damp blanket of
sensual heat.

“I want to fuck you again already,” he said
against Serena’s lips.

“Who’s stopping you?” she sassed right back,
running her hands over his shoulders and down his back. She nipped
at his lips. “I hope you’re happy you turned a virgin into a sex
maniac.”

Her comment drew a laugh from Connor. “Very
happy.” He was done with the foreplay. Taking his cock in his hand,
Connor thrust forward, guiding it into Serena’s pussy with one deep
plunge. Her nails dug into his back as she cried out.

Connor covered her mouth with his, kissing
her long and hard as he fucked her fast and furious. Serena kissed
him back passionately, taking his roughness and giving her own
back. That was one thing he liked about his little mate—she gave as
good as she got. She wrapped her legs around his hips and held on,
it was man against woman, flesh against flesh, and together they
soared higher until the peak of ecstasy was reached.

“How big is Savage Hills?” Serena asked as
they drove away from Rose and Max’s. As the new veterinarian, she
needed to know how much area she would be covering. Not that she
would turn away an animal in need, but there might be times where
she’d be called out to investigate an animal incident, and she
didn’t want to over step her boundaries unless she was called
in.

“Savage Hills is the whole north side of the
mountain,” Connor explained, giving her a smile. “Including the
small town at the base of the mountain.”

“Oh.” He must be talking about the small,
one-street town Serena had driven through on her way up the
mountain. She remembered thinking at the time that it had to be the
world’s smallest town, but knowing what she did now, it made sense.
She supposed most of the residents of Savage Hills lived, like
Connor did, throughout the mountains.

“So, what kind of personal items do you have
back in Havendale that you need? I can send for them.”

“You’re taking a lot for granted,” Serena
couldn’t help saying. She had a storage unit full of furniture, but
there wasn’t anything there she had to have, certainly nothing of
value. In fact, the only items of value that she owned she’d
brought with her, and those were a few pieces of jewelry.

“Honey, after tonight you’ll realize this is
where you belong.”

“We’ll see.” She already felt like she
belonged there with him, but she wasn’t going to admit it. He
sounded too sure of himself. “What happens tonight?”

“We’ll talk about tonight later.” His tone
sounded so final. “Would you like to swing by the clinic?”

Serena gave him a look that said she knew
what he was doing by changing the subject, but her eagerness to see
the facility won over. “I’d like that.” She smiled at the thought.
“So, the sanctuary is open on the weekends?”

“Only for a few hours if there are any
animals there that need attention.”

Serena recalled what he’d said earlier about
the eagle. “And then what?”

“I thought we’d head into town for a late
lunch and then come home and—“ he gave her a significant look that
warmed Serena’s blood, “see what develops.”

Connor talked as if they were a couple.
Are we a couple?
So much had happened in such a short time,
so many surprises. Serena felt like she’d stepped into another
world, a place where the story book fables she’d read as a child
had become reality. Even though she’d seen Max and Connor change
into wolves right before her very eyes, the concept was still too
hard to fully fathom. What would it be like, changing into a wolf?
The image of Connor turning into one of the magnificent beasts had
seemed easy and pain free, but Serena wasn’t in any hurry to find
out.

She had so many questions concerning their
relationship. What exactly would it mean to be Connor’s mate? Was
it just a sexual thing? Serena knew that wolves mated for life. She
glanced at Connor out of the corner of her eye. They’d skipped the
courtship and getting-to-know-each-other-phase, yet she could see
herself spending the rest of her life with him. He was everything
in a man she could want, before she’d even known what she’d
wanted.

Smiling to herself, she watched the scenery
go past. She couldn’t wait to see the clinic.

“What are you smiling at?”

Serena shrugged. “Just thinking about the
clinic.”

“I think you’ll like it. When it was decided
it was time for you to come here, I had it built for you.
Everything is state of the art. The old clinic was run down and
outdated, so it was time to rebuild.”

“When it was decided? Who decided?”

“The elders have been pressing me for some
time now to settle down and start a family.”

“You didn’t want to settle down?” She watched
him closely.

“You wouldn’t be here had I not agreed with
them.”

The slightly amused look Connor tossed her
way sparked instant awareness, because his reflection revealed his
darkest desires. Her body reacted before she could rein in her
emotions. Would it always be like that between them? No matter
where they were, even when they were having a normal conversation
it took only one meaningful look for everything to become sexually
charged between them.
Maybe he doesn’t feel the intensity the
way that I do.

His response hadn’t exactly answered her
question, and he didn’t strike Serena as the kind of man who could
be forced to do anything, but she was curious about some things and
needed answers. “How did you know that I’d accept the job
offer?”

He chuckled. “The elders have been keeping
tabs on you, remember? They knew what your ambitions were, and your
passions. The job offer was legit, and they made sure it was
enticing enough so that you wouldn’t turn it down.”

Serena thought about that for a moment. “I’m
not sure I like the idea of strangers arranging my life for me,
even if I am getting my dream job.” She paused. “And what about…
this?”

“This?”

“Us, our situation. Are we supposed to be a
couple? You say I’m your mate but–”

Connor interrupted, “Wolves mate for
life.”

“I know that but–”

“What do you think that means?”

Serena sighed.
Did he forget that I study
wolves?
“Mate also means sex.”

A laugh burst from him. “Well, in our case it
means both. You’re my life-mate, Serena, which means there won’t be
anyone else for me, even if you don’t want this union.”

She felt her heart in her throat. “You mean I
have a choice?”

A tick appeared in Connor’s taut jaw. It was
clear he didn’t like her question. She chewed on her bottom lip as
the silence stretched between them. He kept his gaze on the road.
He had to know she was staring at him and waiting for an
answer.

Connor finally looked at her. “I took that
choice away from you when I mated with you.” Serena could only
stare at him, stunned by his admission.

“Oh.” She thought back to the first time that
they’d made love. She’d been burning up inside, and consumed with
an inexplicable sexual hunger that had bordered on pain. She’d
needed relief fast, and he’d given it to her. A warm blush spread
over her when she recalled how good a lover Connor had been, and
how sated and pleasant she’d felt after.

She glanced outside her window in time to see
them pass Connor’s rustic cabin. Not long after that a building
came into view, identified by the large wood sign that read “Savage
Hills Wolf Sanctuary.” Unlike any sterile looking clinic she’d ever
worked at, the knotty pine boards were natural, revealing the grain
and other imperfections in the wood. The roof was a dark green
metal with an overhang along the front, the color matching the wood
on the framed windows.

Serena liked it. “It’s beautiful, Connor.”
She couldn’t wait to see what the inside looked like.

He parked in front of the entrance doorway.
There was no need for a parking lot. A wildlife facility in the
mountains wasn’t anything like a veterinarian clinic elsewhere, yet
she could tell when he pulled up that other vehicles had recently
parked there. Tire tread marked the damp ground.

“It doesn’t look like anyone else is here,”
she said, noticing that theirs was the only vehicle present.

“They could have parked around back where the
kennels are kept.”

Connor opened his door and exited the truck,
and Serena followed suit. She met him at the front of the truck and
they walked together toward the entrance door. Connor reached
around her to open it for her. A short alarm went off as they
entered the building. The room was set up so that when you entered
through the front door you could see straight through to the back
door, which was made of glass. She could see movement outside.

Before Serena could say anything to Connor
the back door opened and two people walked through. The young man
of about twenty-five glanced up as he was wiping his feet on the
mat. “Well, hello! Ellie and I were wondering when you were going
to bring Miss James by.”