Page 108 of Rejecting his Mate

Cade.

His wolf is fully in control now, but mine is trapped in an endless cycle of hell as she tries to break free and fails.

I reach deep inside me, finding my magic and pushing it through my body. I have no idea what I’m doing; I just want the pain to stop.

I cry out as my body twists again and my stomach contracts. I want to vomit, but I swallow it down.

Enough!

I hear Cade’s voice in my head, and it is not through the pack link. This feels different. I feel him in every cell of my body, and he exists in every fragment of my mind.

Stop trying to shift!

The barked command makes my wolf stop, ending the shift that she was trying to force.

My body feels looser, and my bones return to their normal place, making me groan. Exhausted, I sag face-first onto the floor, the scent of the wood filling my nose.

Then Cade is there.

He is back to his human form. If I wasn’t in so much pain, I might have cracked a joke about him being naked, but the look in his eyes tells me he would not take it well.

He pulls me up off the floor as if I weigh nothing, pressing me back against the wall behind us. I grunt as I hit it, but I barely have time to focus on that as he pins my arms over my head.

My towel must have slipped off during my forced shift, and I’m hyperaware of our nakedness and the tattoos he has running down his arm and across his chest. I want to study every inch of them, lick each one, but all I know is how much I want him right now.

I don’t move a muscle as he gets in my face, his mouth inches from mine. His chest heaves as he tries to draw in air as if his lungs are being choked. Mine feel the same. He seems dazed and wild, need reflected in his eyes as he takes me in.

He bares his teeth at me, looking more wolf-like than human. I bare mine back, a challenge.

Come and get me, wolf.

He accepts, a curl of a smile playing on his lips as he growls, “Mine,” at me.

My body buzzes, my pussy clenching as he ducks his head and licks over the mark on my neck. It feels as if his tongue is connected to all the nerves in my clit. I lift my hips away from the wall, pushing my pussy against his stiff cock.

There is an ache inside me, an emptiness that only he can fill, but Cade is in no hurry. Instead, he holds me captive, the cold wall at my back and his heated body at my front.

“Your eyes,” he sounds breathless.

I grimace. Fucking Dalton. “I know I look demonic—”

“No, you don’t. They’re amber.”

Amber?

He uses his free hand, the one not pinning me in place, to seize my chin. I can’t look away as his eyes become red, like his wolf’s. “Your wolf might not be able to shift, Halle, but she’s greeting me all the same.”

Something jolts in my chest, like someone has taken a sledgehammer to my sternum. My heart feels strangled into silence for a moment, but then it starts to beat again, only stronger as if Cade’s and my heart are one.

“Fuck,” Cade breathes the word as if it pains him to speak it. “I’m going to fuck you now, little wolf, until you’re screaming my name.”

I clench my thighs together as fire pools deep in my belly.

Yes.

I want him to fuck me.

Now would probably be a good time to tell him I’ve never done this before, but that thought skates right out of my head the moment his lips crash against mine.

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