Page 53 of The Alpha and the Baker
I managed to make the beautiful, wonderful, entrancing woman below me come three times before my jaw reached the point of filing a formal resignation. Otherwise, I might have just kept going, because I was a man possessed.
I loved her smell, her taste. I lived for the way her thighs clamped around the sides of my head, the way her walls clamped down on my fingers like she wanted more. Alwaysmore.
I wasn’t a martyr—of course, I wanted to be inside of her and lose myself in her heat, but that kept falling to the background every time she told me she was approaching her orgasm. Her pleasure far outweighed my own. I could come anytime I wanted, but there was only so long I would be allowed to worship at her altar, and I wanted to make the most of it.
When her breathing was ragged, her voice hoarse, and her thighs shaking, the last of my delayed gratification faded. I needed to be inside of her. My wolf was besidehimself, howling tobreedlike never before.
“Do you have condoms?” I asked softly. I’d brought my own, just in case, but I’d learned it was best to ask partners becausethey often had condoms that worked best for them, especially in the case of allergies. And while I wasn’t exactly in the habit of sleeping with humans, this wasn’t my first time.
“I’ve got the implant,” Felicia said after a bit of a delay, and it stoked my ego quite a bit to see such a self-assured, put-together woman so fallen apart below me. She looked fucked-out and bleary-eyed, her cheeks red and a dewy layer of sweat all over her. Maybe some would be put off by that, but I loved it. It was natural, and proof of exactly what I’d done to her. Even though I was right in front of her, witnessing it,feelingit, it was still hard to believe it was real.
Now normally, her having an implant was only half the battle, but with my accelerated healing ability, the only disease I could get was the Feral Wilds and wolfsbane poisoning, neither of which I’d find in a human sexual partner. I also didn’t have anything I could transfer to her. Hearing that she was protected from any of the breeding my wolf so desperately wanted to do was more than enough.
I ripped my belt through its loops so quickly that Felicia gave a startled laugh before giving me a rueful grin. When I sent her a questioning look, she chuckled a bit more.
“I wanted to do that,” she said with a playful whine that let me know she wasn’t really serious.
“Next time,” I promised.
“Next time? Awfully confident, aren’t you?”
In response, I kissed her again—she didn’t seem to mind that I still tasted like her. “Do I have a reason not to be?”
I was being cocky, but everything with Felicia was so easy that I couldn’t help myself. I didn’t mean that in a disparaging way. We just gelled so well in pretty much every way—conversation, attraction, and even the way we treated others. I would never get the image of her all curled up with a group of young shifters out of my head, and I never wanted to. Feliciaradiated kindness just as much as she radiated confidence and poise. I was viscerally attracted to her in a way I never quite knew it was possible, but I certainly wasn’t complaining about it.
“I guess that depends on this next part, doesn’t it?”
The heat in her dark eyes was enough to immolate me on the spot.
Thankfully, however, I did not spontaneously combust. Instead, I opened my slacks and pulled my cock out of my underwear. Although I wasn’t some knot-headed alpha who was obsessed with their size, I did feel a wave of gratification at Felicia’s sharp intake of breath.
I was rock hard, nearly straining from how long I had made myself wait. Pre-cum glistened on the tip. My body was screaming, and I was sure if I got inside her immediately, I would die then and there.
But I knew better. No matter how much my wolf howled, no one had ever died from being patient or considerate. And while I fully intended to flip Felicia’s world inside out, upside down, and any other way she would let me, I had to be patient to get to that point.
“You ready?” I asked, gripping myself.
“Can anyone actuallybeready for something like that?”
I huffed out a laugh. I was on the larger side, but I wasn’tfreakishlylarge. With patience, effort, and a whole lot of foreplay, things would go just fine.
“I could always make you come again.” I was not bluffing. Sure, I was desperate to be inside her, but having her come on my face again would be more than worth it.
“No,no, I want you. Right now.” She reached a hand out to me, eyes half-lidded, and I knew immediately that I was done for. Somehow, a human woman I’d only just met had me hook, line, and sinker. “I’m ready. I mean it.”
Far be it from me to argue with a woman about her own body. I knelt on the bed, gently sliding my hands up her powerful thighs and parting them. Still gripping myself, I lined my cock up with her flushed, wet, waiting pussy.
Fuck, she was beautiful. A masterpiece made flesh. I was sure that I could go back in time and train with every single renowned artist from the Renaissance and still not be able to capture even a fourth of her beauty. There was something about the depth of her dark gaze, the irresistible flush to her cheeks on her high cheekbones, the petal-pink plushness of her lips, even the way she looked all spread out below me. Her form was a journey in rhapsody, from her long, pale neck, to her developed biceps and forearms that clung to me, to her modest breasts and her light beige nipples, to the generous swell of her lower stomach and hips that spoke of the softness and endless pleasure I would find there. I was enraptured by every iota of her.
“Cas?”
Perhaps I’d been a bittooenraptured. Giving her a lop-sided smile, I slid the swollen head of my cock along her wetness. The sharp gasp she let out was so gratifying, and I continued to tease her before it became too much for us. And then, with one last deep breath on my end, I thrust forward.
“Fuck!” she hissed. I paused immediately, my head only half in. I had planned on going slow, but I’d thought I would be able to get at least that much in before she needed to adjust.
“Are you all right?” I asked quickly, using every ounce of willpower to hold back.
She nodded, her lower lip caught between her teeth. “Surprised at the stretch of it,” she said before letting out a sound somewhere between a laugh and a huff. “It’s… intense.”
