Page 12 of The Wolf Prince's Mate

The blue in his eyes deepened, and I could tell his wolf was close to the surface. The combination of his looks and our bodies joinedtogether sent a strong wave of need through me, and I leaned into his ears.

“I’m ready.”

A deep growl that seemed to come from his chest rippled through the room before he slammed into me, burying himself completely inside me.

I was on cloud nine. Everything felt heavenly. My body hummed with pleasure every time he thrust into me. I held on to his shoulders, my claws digging tight into his muscles as I fought the urge to mark him.

“Griffin,” I moaned when I felt the second wave of orgasm building inside me.

“I know baby, I know.” He panted, deepening the intensity of his thrusts.

“You’re the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, and I want to spend my whole life buried in your tight pussy.”

His words were all it took for me to go into overdrive. This second wave was much more intense than the first, and I had to clamp my lips shut to keep from marking him.

Griffin released a deep growl, and I felt his body go rigid before his hips started thrusting into me in hard irregular patterns. Hot liquid filled my core, completely sating the heat that had curled up in me.

His spasms finally came to a halt, and I felt him peppering kisses on my neck and muttering gibberish before I slipped into oblivion.

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A screeching noise woke me from my slumber, and before I had the time to reacquaint myself with my environment, my butt connected to the hard floor in the most ungraceful fall.

“Lilith, wait. I can explain. It’s not what it looks like.”

My eyes finally focused to find Griffin grabbing hold of Lilith who had tears streaming down her cheeks.

The events of the night before came rushing back, and nausea washed through me in waves. I was ashamed of myself for sleeping with a man who was to marry another in hours, and more than the shame was the pain of being discarded like a used condom while he pleaded to be forgiven.

Lilith’s eyes finally found mine. The amount of hate in them caused me to recoil in fear.

“You.” She spat, her voice thick with venom. “I knew you were up to something, but I never pegged you to be this wicked.”

“Lilith it was a mistake. She was in heat and things got out of hand, but I promise you it meant nothing.”

Griffin's words felt like salt to a raw injury, and I felt tears welling up in my eyes.

“Don’t you even dare to shed those deceptive tears? You think I don’t know about how you induced your heat to try to stop the mating ceremony?” Lilith said, and I gasped.

Griffin’s eyes turned to me. They were so hard and cold that I almost shivered beneath them. “Is it true?”

I opened my mouth to deny the accusation, but Lilith wasn’t done. She pulled out a small bottle I’d never seen before and handed it to Griffin.

“I found a bottle of pheromones under her bed. A member of her former pack had reached out to me, warning me of her tendencies to seduce high-ranking males in hopes of being elevated from her status. That’s why she was demoted.”

Lilith’s words felt like a punch in the gut, but it was the look in Griffin’s eyes that cut through me. “It’s a lie. I don’t know where thatbottle came from. I’ve never seen it in my life.” I cried out in defense, but Griffin wouldn’t look at me.

His gaze was fixed on the bottle, and I turned to Lilith to find a look that caused my blood to run cold. She was lying. She was getting pleasure from this.

“Griffin, you have to believe me. You know it’s a lie. We had sex. I was a virgin. If I spent my days throwing myself at men, I wouldn’t be one. Plus, why would I go through the pain of being demoted to a breeder to get your attention? Your presence in Darkmoon was not announced so how could I have known you were there?”

“Oh please, you worked in the pack house and were privy to private information,” Lilith scoffed. But I was done listening to her. My focus was on Griffin and trying to convince him that I was innocent.

He opened his mouth, and my whole world came to a halt. “Your Alpha was right about you. You’re indeed a social climbing whore. I wonder why it took me this long to finally see through you.”

His words felt like a slap to the face, and I recoiled from the force of it. “Griffin, I would never resort to such means to secure male attention. I was in heat. I was out of control. I might be dirt poor and at the bottom of things, but one thing I am not is desperate, and you know this.”

A look crossed his eyes, and for a moment, I thought I had been able to change his mind. But then Lilith started crying about how I had ruined the most important day of her life and how it was certainly not a coincidence that I had gone into heat on her wedding eve.

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