Sebastian (Bowen Boys) (7 page)

“She will be fine
, Sebastian. A person like her will heal quickly, and whatever it was that frightened her will be gone by the time she wakes.” He doubted he’d leave her but told his mom he agreed. But when she asked him what had happened shortly before she’d fainted, he stumbled around on how to tell her.

“
She bit me. Not that I noticed, but there was blood on my neck after we’d pulled apart. I didn’t take her because I was told I need permission, but we’d gotten into heavy…she bit me on the neck and I nearly…Christ.” She was laughing, and he felt his face heat up with embarrassment. “This isn’t easy on me.”

“I don’t doubt it.
If she took you first, then you’ve been given permission to take back, I would think. But I’m not sure. She’s so much different than us.” He wanted to agree with that whole heartedly, but only said that she was right. “You should have something for her when she wakes up. Something romantic. Do you have anything?”

He hadn’t
, but a quick trip to the woods behind his house provided that for him. He looked up at the large vase of flowers he’d picked for her. He’d wanted to give her chocolates and roses, but it was the best he could do and not leave her. There was no way he was leaving her now.

“Where am I?”
He stood up when she spoke softly. Asking her if he could turn on the light, he did so and sat on the bed next to her.

“You fainted.”
She looked away from him. “You also bit me. Does that mean I can bite you back?”

He was half teasing with her
, but she looked at him as if he was going to tear her throat out. Before he could tell her that he would never harm her, she sat up and put her finger over the tiny scar that had already formed there.

“Does
it hurt?” He shook his head no. “I didn’t even know that I’d done it until I saw the blood. I had hoped that you’d cut yourself shaving, but you didn’t, did you?”

“No. You marked me.”
She shifted on the bed, and her breast brushed against his arm. She stilled, and he watched her. “You’ve marked me. Does that mean that we’re bonded?”

He heard his question but had a hard time thinking that the voice that spilled from his lips was his.
He’d heard his voice go husky before when trying to win a woman over to…he looked away from her and at the flowers.

“I got these for you.” She didn’t look at them but kept staring at
him; he could feel her eyes as they took in all of him. When he turned to her, he pulled her to him and took her mouth. Need to mark her back was pulling his cat to the surface.

Her moan was his undoing.
Had she pushed him away or pulled away, he might have been able to stop. But when she also wrapped her arms around him, he rolled over her and pressed her into the bed. He had to have her right now.

He tore at her ruined shirt and lifted her bra up as he made his way down her throat. Her taste was erotic
, and he needed more. Shifting his body over hers, he settled between her legs and rocked into her.

“Answer me
, Ama. Tell me that you’ve marked me and that I can mark you as well.” She moaned again when he nipped hard at her nipple. “Tell me.”

“Yes,”
she screamed out. “Yes, I’ve marked you and now you have my permission to mark me as well.”

He didn’t wait for her to change her mind
, but rolled to his back and sat up. Her breasts were heaving and he wanted nothing more than to lean down and suckle at them until he came, but he wanted her fully and reached down and tore her jeans from her. Long legs, pale as the moon shining over them, moved under his stare, moving wider for him until he thought he’d die from the pleasure.

Rolling over her
, he stood up at the side of the bed, pulled his shirt over his head, and dropped it to the floor. Next, he unsnapped his pants as he toed off his shoes. She watched him as hungrily as he watched her. Pulling his pants off, he stood before her naked, his cock straining to be buried deep within her heat. He ran his hand up and down his aching cock.

“I know
you’re a virgin so you’ll hurt when I take you. I’m sorry for that.” She nodded and reached for him. He let her touch him, and when she took the pearl drop of his precum onto her finger, he watched to see what she’d do with it. When she put her finger into her mouth, he had to stop what he was doing or he’d come all over her.

“You taste like your blood.
Hot, spicy, and like I’d think you would.” He watched her lick her lips, then move toward him again, this time with her mouth. He took a step back from her.

“You do
that and I’ll come down your throat. As much as I’d like to do that, coming inside of you is what I need more than anything.” She nodded at him and lay back. “Christ, you’re like a feast for me. I don’t know where to start.”

Her fingers curled
into the sheet as she moved on the bed. “Come to me, please? I need you, all of you.”

Sebastian dropped to his knees before her and took her breast into his
mouth again. While he nibbled on her nipple, he ran his hand down her body to the juncture at her thighs. She nearly came up off the bed when he slid beneath her curls and into her. She was soaking wet.

Lifting his head
, he watched her as he fucked her this way. Her body rode his fingers, and he realized that he wanted to taste her when she came the first time. Moving down her body, he kissed her and nipped at her flesh until he was where he wanted to be in the worst way. Lifting her leg up, he put it behind him and then turned her in the bed so that she was open for him. Lowering his head to where her scent was the strongest, he opened her lips and suckled her clit into his mouth as he slid deeper into her.

She screamed
as she flooded his mouth. Her legs tightened around him so tightly that he was sure she was going to hurt him. Nipping at her again brought her to peak again, and he knew that if he entered her now that she’d not feel the pain of him taking her. Pulling her off the bed, he had meant to have her stand, but her pussy touched his cock, and he jerked her down over him before he could think.

Christ, he knew
that he’d hurt her badly this time. Holding her without letting her pull away, he spoke to her softly. He had no idea what he was saying. Just words, stories of his childhood and things that he’d learned on the computer. When she raised her tear-stained face at him, he smiled back at her when she smiled at him.

“I’m
sorrier than I’ve ever been for taking you this way. I only meant to give you as much pleasure as I could before I took your maidenhead. I can’t tell you how horrible I—”

“Did you really
get caught skinny dipping with a girl named Paula when you were ten?” He tried to think where she’d heard that when he realized that he’d told her. “I can’t believe your mother didn’t beat you within an inch of your life.”

“She didn’t actually
, but told me that my dad would. When my dad took me out to the shed, he had a long talk with me about sex, and how as a panther I had to be careful, that girls were precious no matter what they were. I agreed, but wondered why anyone would want to have sex. He looked at me very strangely and asked me if that was what I’d been doing with Paula. I told him no, that she’d had a pool and it was hot.”

She laughed
, and he smiled again. Then she laid her head on his chest and he held her there. He needed to move soon or his knees were going to go out on him, but for now he was enjoying holding her.

“You didn’t come
, did you?” He shook his head. “You hurt me. I didn’t think it would hurt that badly when I’d thought about sex at all.”

“I didn’t
mean to take you this way. When I pulled you off the bed, I’d meant to…I’m not sure what I’d meant to do, but I needed to be inside of you, and I was jerking you around to take you. I’m profoundly sorry.” She nodded. “I need to stand up, love. My knees are killing me.”

She moved a little and his cock jerked
inside of her. She looked up at him, and he nearly begged her to leap off him before he hurt her again, but then she wrapped her fingers into his hair and rolled her hips over him. He moaned.

“You keep that up and I’m going to roll you to the floor and finish what we started.”
Her hips rose and lowered again when she wrapped her legs around him. “Ama, I’m not kidding. I’m so close to taking you that I ache.”

“Then take me. Now,
Sebastian. Please? Take me.” He lifted her closer to his body and stood on one foot. Her body seemed to stretch to take more of him in. He nearly threw her to the bed then, but he needed to at least get off his knees. Standing up, he held her to him and took her mouth. He moved slowly toward the wall opposite of them while all the time lifting and lowering her over him. By the time she was pressed against the wall, she was crying out her release and sinking her teeth into his throat. With a roar of his own, Sebastian let his canines drop as his cock exploded in her, and snapped his teeth into her shoulder.

Chapter 7

Ama sat at the table and watched the steam curl off the top of her cup. She didn’t care for hot tea normally
, but she needed something to do with her hands and the tea bags had fallen out of the cabinet when she’d been reaching for a glass to have a glass of tea. Making the tea had been somewhat relaxing, but now that she was done she didn’t know what to do.

She was mated to a panther.
Gently touching the scar at her shoulder, she shivered at the sensations it created. He was her mate. They had had sex twice more after he’d put her to bed. Both times had left her limp and so sated that she doubted that she’d ever move again. But he’d touch her and she’d be ready again. She had just gotten up to use the bathroom and found her way down here about an hour ago. She looked down at her arms and wondered what the rest of her looked like.

When she’d used his bathroom
, she avoided looking in the mirror. It wasn’t hard to do. She’d been doing it for years, but her arms were something that she could see without the aid of a mirror. And the change in them was amazing.

The webbing no longer moved along her skin but seemed to have filled it.
Now instead of the crossing marks on her skin, there was an almost sheer undertone to them in a shade of the palest green she’d ever seen. And it seemed to sparkle. She had a moment to wonder what a human would see if they saw her now, and pushed that thought to the back of her mind. She was sure she didn’t want to know.

“Are you all right?” Startled
, she turned to look at him, and he smiled at her. “I reached for you and you were gone and I panicked. Are you okay?”

“I’m not sure I will be ever again.” He grinned bigger at her.
“That’s not what I meant. I meant that now that we’ve done this, I’m not sure what happens now.”

He sat down across from her and noticed the tea. “Do you normally drink hot tea?
I do sometimes but not often. If you’d like I can get you one of those brewers. I’ve been thinking about it for some time.”

“I never drink it.
But I needed something to do.” He nodded and stood up to get a glass and ice. He dumped her now warm tea over the ice and handed it back to her. “Thank you. I think I’ll like this better.”

“You never answered me.
Are you okay?” She took a sip of the tea and nodded. “You don’t act like it. Are you sorry we did this?”

“No,” she answered him immediately. “Never this. I’m afraid but I don’t regret it.
Do you? Regret this, I mean.”

“Never.” He stood up and went to his
refrigerator and started setting things on the counter. “I’m starved. How about you? We didn’t get any dinner last night. I don’t know about you, but I worked up quite an appetite.”

She stood up
, walked up behind him, and wrapped her arms around his waist. He turned in her arms and pulled her tightly against him. She felt the tears threaten as he ran his fingers up and down her back.

“We’re
a couple now and you’re going to become more powerful. Is that what you’re afraid of?” She nodded against his chest. “I’m not. I know that whatever happens now will only make us more of what we already are. I’m not afraid of this.”

“You’re going to have what I have.” She felt his chuckle and looked up at him. “You might be marked like me. What will your brothers say then?”

“Congratulations? I think they’ll be happy for us. In fact, I know they will.” He pulled her back from him slightly. “And as for the marks, I think that’s already started.”

She stepped back
, and he lifted the sleeve of his shirt and showed her the webbing curls of lines on his shoulder. His were as dark and detailed as hers were, with the same diamond pattern. She had him turn around, and she lifted his shirt up and could see it starting there as well. When he turned around to face her again, she sat down in the chair.

“I have more
, but you’re changing. You’re going to be like me soon.” He asked her if he could see her back. “I’ve not looked at it in a very long time. Just after my birthday, I used to look daily. Now I try not to look.”

She stood up and turned for him. When his breath touched her there
, she felt her sigil move. Then his lips brushed over her and she felt her body tighten with need again. He skimmed his hands up and over her shoulders and down again before he kissed her along her spine.

“They’re wings
, aren’t they?” She nodded at him as he took her breath away with each touch. “I think you’re the most beautiful creature in the world, and you’re all mine.”

She moaned when he pulled her hips to his.
His cock was hard and she moved back against him. He pulled her shirt over her head, and then her bra. He was pulling down her pants when she realized where they were and told him they could go upstairs.

“No, I want to take you in every room in this house
, and then start all over when I’m finished. I want to enter any room and know that I’ve made you scream out my name while I pounded into you.” She felt his cock and knew that he was as naked as she was. “Scream for me, Ama. I want to take you hard like this and have you scream out my name.”

He leaned her over the table and entered her all in a
smooth motion. He pressed her head to the table and she lay that way while he moved in and out of her slowly. She turned to look at him.

“You want me to scream
, then you’d better do better than this.” He laughed and rolled his hips so that he touched something deep within her. “I want to watch you while you fuck me. Please?”

He pulled out and helped her lay on the table.
He moved between her legs and lifted them up to his shoulders. He was so deep that she could almost feel him in her throat. When she cupped her breasts and rolled her nipples, he stilled inside of her and she looked up at him.

“You want me to fuck you hard
, you keep that up.” She tweaked her nipple hard enough to make herself cry out. His cock jerked deep inside of her. “Again. Do it again and again until I come.”

He watched her th
rough hooded eyes as she played with her nipples. Soon he was pounding her hard enough that the table shook beneath her. When he dropped her legs down, she wrapped them around his hips and he leaned over her and took the nipple she offered him.

“Come.”
Her body responded immediately to his command and she screamed out her release as she grabbed for him. Pulling him down, she nipped at his shoulder and then felt his teeth scrape along her throat. As soon as she cried out again, he bit her and she heard him roar against her throat as he drank from her. She reached for his shoulder and bit him as well; hot blood filled her mouth as she screamed out his name again and again.

The lights dimmed and the room seemed to shift beneath them.
She knew he felt it, too, because he lifted his head to look down at her. He looked so concerned that she ran her fingers over the creases in his forehead. He kissed her quickly, then licked along the wounds at her throat.

“I should move off you.”
She wrapped her arms around him tighter. “I’m all for staying for the rest of the day, but I think if we don’t have a meal soon, other than each other, one of my family members is going to come here looking for us and we’re going to be locked together in a shriveled mess.”

Reluctantly
, she let him go. When he stood up, he gave her his hand and helped her to stand. Then when he asked her if she was all right several times, he went to the laundry room right off the kitchen and brought her back one of his shirts and a pair of his boxers. He’d slipped on a shirt and pants as well.

“You’re going to have to bring your things here soon.
I don’t mind you wearing my clothes, but I’m pretty sure that you’re going to get cold before winter hits.” She felt a little odd nodding at his statement. “You are moving in here with me, right?”

“I don’t know.”
He watched her as she washed her hands and began to put bacon in a skillet. “I don’t know what to do. I know that we’ve mated and all that, but what happens when that man finds out where I am? I don’t have the first clue how to keep you safe.”

“You’re not going to.” She looked at him and he grinned at her.
“We’ll keep each other safe. It’s the way we’re going to survive this. And according to Jacob, this guy can’t take you so long as I’m your mate. So he’ll have to look elsewhere for a person to have his children.”

She was turning the bacon over when she looked up at him.
“Do you really think that’s the way it works? I mean, now all I need to do is tell him that I’ve taken another for my mate and he quits?”

“Probably not. But for now we’re going to believe that while we have ourselves a big
, unhealthy breakfast.” He handed her a glass of tea. “And I’m going to have to go to the store to get more tea bags. You’re drinking more than my family does on pizza night.”

She knew he was kidding her
, but she still flushed. When they sat down to eat, he handed her each platter before he took anything off it. She really was hungry and took a large part of each thing that they’d cooked.

“I’m stuffed.”
She leaned back in her chair thirty minutes later. “I don’t think I’ll eat ever again.”

“You will.
In about four hours. What’s the plan for today?” She looked down at her borrowed clothes and then back up at him. “Right, clothes. And for your information, I think you’re extremely sexy in my clothes.”

They were headed to
the “Y” when his cell phone rang, and she watched as he pulled over to answer it. He was getting tenser as whoever was on the other end continued to speak. She waited, knowing for some reason it was about her. When he closed his phone, he sat there for several seconds before he pulled back into traffic.

“That was
Khan. He said that someone broke into one of the buildings we have downtown. He wants me to go and have a look at it.” She nodded, wondering about the rest. When he didn’t say anything, she finally turned to him.

“What else happened that you’re not telling me?” He glanced at her. “I’m not stupid
, so tell me.”

“First of all, I never thought you were stupid. And the reason I didn’t want to say anything
is because what he wants me to look at might involve you. I can’t tell you what it says, but he said that you’re mentioned not by name but by reference. Khan is worried about you.” She nodded and looked away. “Ama, they’re not going to get you. None of us are going to let him take you.” She nodded again, worried that it had begun so quickly after they had bonded.

~~~

Sebastian walked around the room where the most damage had been done. He thought he had seen his share of graffiti, but this was beyond anything he’d ever seen. Not only were the walls drawn on, but the floor as well. He glanced over at Ama, wondering if she could read what was written on the floor that had been squared off.

“You
can.” He jumped back when Jacob appeared before him. “You should use your new skills to know when I’m about. I wouldn’t frighten you so badly if you did.”

“New skills? I haven’t the
slightest idea what you’re talking about.” He glanced at Ama when she came toward them. “She’s scared, so whatever this says and if it involves her, don’t tell her.”

“She will ask and I will tell.”
When she walked up to him and wrapped her arms around him, Sebastian felt he could take on the world. Jacob bowed before her. “My lady. Congratulations on your recent change.”

“You should know that I’m slightly mad at you.
You told me that you’d come back and help me. You didn’t.” He nodded at her and bowed again. “What does this all mean?”

Jacob looked at him and shrugged.
Damn it, Sebastian had hoped she wouldn’t notice the place he’d been wondering about. He nodded to Jacob, knowing that he was going to tell her anyway.

“Read it, you both can.”
Sebastian looked at him and wondered if the man had lost his mind. “You should know that you’re projecting yourself very loudly, my lord. Anyone within a mile could hear you.”

“I don’t know what you mean.” He had a feeling that the walls were closing in on him.
“I’m feeling sort of strange.”

He felt hands
grab at him and he wanted to push them away, but a voice kept telling him to breathe. He wanted to shout that he
was
breathing, but did try to slow his heart down as he’d been ordered to. The room seemed to grow incredibly smaller as he looked around. And when it began to shift and roll, he put his head down. Something was very wrong.

“You’ve had a bit of a delay it seems.
Just sit there and drink this.” He felt something shoved into his hands. “And drink it quickly so I can refill it.”

The tea tasted so delicious that he didn’t mind draining the glass.
As soon as he pulled it from his lips, another was pressed into his hands. He was drinking his third glass when he realized that he could raise his head without being sick. He looked at Ama, who was holding his hand.

“What was that?
And what did you mean by a delay? Delay of what?” Jacob looked at Ama before he looked back at him. He was afraid of the answer and was about to tell him never mind, he didn’t want to know when Ama spoke.