I didn't know how to answer him, or what to say, but thankfully, I didn't have to because the next thing I knew, he was pressing his cock back into my entrance. This time it was even more intense, and when he bottomed out, I cried out, my pussy clenching around him.
“So good,” he breathed.
He held my hips steady as he started to fuck me, his pace fast and rough. The new angle was hitting that secret placeinside of me, and it wasn't long before I was writhing beneath him, panting and gasping.
“Please. Oh my god. Please!”
“You like that?” Joe growled, gripping me harder. “You like how I fill you up?”
“Yes! Yes!”
His hand slid from my hip to between my legs, and he found my clit with his fingers, rubbing the swollen nub in time to his thrusts. “That's it, baby. Come for me.” He leaned over my back, nuzzling my neck and shoulder, and bit down gently, sucking at my skin. It was enough to send me over the edge, and my pussy spasmed around him hard. The feeling was unlike anything I'd ever felt before, so much stronger than the one he'd given me with his mouth. The pleasure started in my core and spread through my entire frame, wracking my body with ecstasy until my legs were quivering, and I was nearly sobbing into the blanket.
“So... good...” I managed to choke out. “Oh, Joe...”
“Fuck!” Joe groaned, and his pace became frantic. “You're so damn tight. I can't last much longer.”
“Knot me, Alpha.”
I wasn't sure where those words had come from, or if they were even really mine, but when they left my lips, Joe made a strangled sound and grabbed my hips, driving into me with even more force than before. His cock was swelling, stretching me even further, and then he buried himself over and over, letting out a howl as the knot expanded and locked us together.
My whole body was pulsing with pleasure, and I could feel him filling me up, pumping me full of his seed. I'd never imagined it would be like this, and as my third orgasm washedover me, Joe leaned forward and covered my body with his, teeth skimming over the sensitive scent gland in my neck and making me cry out.
I was lost, awash in pleasure, and by the time I came back down to earth, Joe had lowered us both to the bed and tucked my ass into his hips as his knot swelled. One arm was around my waist, his lips pressed to my shoulder.
“Gwen,” he breathed. “That was...”
“Yeah,” I whispered.
We lay there, panting, and I felt so incredibly warm, safe, and cared for. It was like nothing I'd ever experienced before, and even though I knew what heat meant, I didn't know what it would really be like until I was in it.
“This is going to take a while,” he said, and laughed softly. “I hope you're comfortable.”
“Very,” I replied, smiling against my pillow. When Joe shifted his hips, and I felt just how big the knot was, I gasped, and he laughed again.
“It's okay. You'll get used to it.”
Even with him still buried inside me, the frantic, drumming need had finally subsided, and I felt like a fog had lifted from my mind. I felt loose, boneless, well pleasured, and satisfied, but beneath it all was a worry that was creeping in.
At one time in my life, I'd wanted nothing more than to end up with Joe just like I was, connected in such a powerful way. But then he'd rejected me. Not only that, I'd heard him telling the other Alphas that I wasn't his type. That he wasn't into me, even if everything that just happened told me the exact opposite.
He'd been hard for me before we'd even kissed, just because of the healing. Didn't that mean he wanted me, and that he was attracted to me?
His fingers made patterns on the skin of my stomach even as my concern silently grew. Was it just because I went into heat that he couldn't resist me? Or had he just been so busy with Rose lately that the only option for a hookup was the live-in nanny?
No matter how good he'd made me feel, I didn't want to be a last resort. I could feel my heart starting to ache, and I had to do something before the worry spiraled out of control. The sex had been amazing, but I couldn't get attached. Not if I wanted to protect myself.
“Joe,” I blurted out.
“Hm?” His muted response made me think he'd already been drifting off.
“This was...just a casual thing, right? I mean...this doesn't change anything between us?”
“Gwen...” The question had obviously taken him off guard.
I tried to make my voice sound nonchalant. “We both knew what this was. We agreed to it. So... now it's over.”
There was silence behind me, but I could feel his knot pulsing inside of me, and his grip around my waist tightened. “Yeah? Just a one-time thing?”