Page 14 of Fated
Coming into his sheets, Kai thrust his tongue deeper, coaxing her into her orgasm as he stroked her clit with precise, deliberate pressure. Her cries echoed off the walls—his name tangled with broken moans that triggered fresh waves of arousal through him. His free hand traced circles on the small of her back, grounding her as she fell through her release.
When she finally came down, quivering thighs braced against his head, Kai licked through her folds, savoring every drop. He pressed a final kiss to her clit before pulling back, face slick with her arousal. Ava collapsed beside him, chest heaving, a contented smile playing on her lips. The same smile she’d worn the first time he’d tasted her when they were young and sure they could defy destiny together.
Seven years.The thought came uninvited as he wiped his mouth and stared at the ceiling, the familiar cracks mapping their history together. Seven years of memorizing where to touch, how hard to press, when to stop—his body conditioned to approach the edge but never fall.
Kai’s pulse spiked as he imagined finally claiming her, feeling her walls grip his cock instead of his fingers. The recurring fantasy was vivid: Ava’s body welcoming him, taking him deep, sinking his fangs into her neck as their chosen bond blazed to life under Selene’s blessing.
Orion’s presence plowed forward with such force that Kai’s canines lengthened involuntarily, pressing against his bottom lip.
“She isn’t ours.”The wolf’s voice scraped raw against the inside of his skull.“You dishonor our mate every time you touch her. Every time you let her touch you!”
Kai closed his eyes, the wolf’s dismay twisting like a knife in his chest. He loved Ava, but deep down, he knew Orion was right. What he shared with her was meant for someone else.Someone he hadn’t met. Someone Selene had chosen for him. Yet, he couldn’t bring himself to stop.
Ava curled into his side, breath warm against his chest. Kai wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close.
She tilted her head up, lips brushing his jaw. “Goddess, Kai...your tongue is sinful. I can never get enough of you.”
Her words shot straight to his cock, leaving him aching and desperate to have all of her. Orion’s accusations still echoed in his mind, but they only fueled his need to prove his wolf wrong. Kai’s blood surged hot beneath his skin, and his alpha power crackled through him as his restraint snapped.
“Present!” The command tore from his throat, raw with equal parts desire and defiance. He would make her his. Mark her in his own way. Silence every doubt with the evidence of their connection.
Ava scrambled to comply, pride flickering across her features. The same look she’d worn when he’d first stood up to his father, when she’d whispered“That’s my future alpha”like she truly meant it.
She presented herself at the foot of the bed. Head bowed, shoulders pressed to the mattress, back arched beautifully, pussy on full display for him. Kai caught the slight tremor in her thighs, the way her breath hitched not with anticipation but with something that looked like desperation—maybe fear. These glimpses of genuine feelings made it so hard to walk away from her. Made him believe their love could be enough.
Her submissive posture stoked the primitive essence in Kai’s blood. He moved behind her, large hands spreading her cheeks to reveal her still-swollen sex, glistening with evidence of his earlier attention. Her willing surrender—a power no birthright could bestow—sent heat rushing through his veins.
His cock throbbed as he wrapped his fingers around it, torn by the urge to slide inside her—to obliterate boundaries they’dpromised not to cross until their mating ceremony—and claim her. Instead, he leaned forward to taste her again, letting her still-trickling release coat his tongue like a brand.
Each lick was a declaration of ownership. Each moan he drew from her ammunition against his doubts.
He alternated between fucking her with this tongue and rubbing his erection against her clit. Her arousal slicked his length as he stroked himself, his movements growing more frantic, more defiant.
With each push through his fist, Kai tried to shove everything away—the looming summit, his father’s expectations. A hollow ache in his chest whispered of something missing, making every touch feel like both victory and betrayal. The harder he tried to lose himself in the sensation of rutting against Ava, the more aware he became of what wasn’t there—some indefinable connection, some spark that should ignite but never quite caught fire.
Orion pushed forward one final time, the wolf’s anguish manifesting as a physical ache behind Kai’s sternum, a vacant territory that no amount of pleasure could fill.
“This is not the bond Selene chose for us!”
The truth scorched his lungs, each ragged breath tasting of smoke and ash, but Kai was already too far gone, vision narrowed to a pinpoint of desperate sensation.
His orgasm hit like a tidal wave, pleasure warring with guilt as he pressed the head of his cock at her entrance. His release painted her flesh in thick spurts. Marking her with his seed momentarily sated his possessive alpha nature—the same territorial instinct that drove wolves to mark their lands, their dens, their mates.
Unlike the clear boundaries of pack territories or claiming bites, this marking was temporary. As futile as trying to carve his name in water and watching it disappear even as he wrote it. Thesatisfaction was hollow, never quite reaching his core. Pleasure without fulfillment.
As Kai’s body shuddered in the aftershocks of his climax, Orion’s presence softened briefly, a whisper of compassion threading through their bond.
The wolf understood Kai’s longing. His need to belong to someone, but that understanding only made Orion’s grief more profound—a reminder that no matter how many times he marked Ava like this, she would never truly be his to claim without Selene’s blessing.
Ava’s ice-blue eyes found his over her shoulder, satisfaction mixing with something sharper, more cunning.
“Mmm, Kai.” Her lips curved into a smile that claimed as much as it promised. “You always know how to make me feel…” She paused, letting her words land with the precision of a well-aimed arrow. “Loved.”
The word struck something deep inside him, its echo bouncing off empty walls. Even as Ava pushed back against him, content and mollified, he found himself listening for another sound, searching for another scent. Someone whose face he didn’t know but whose absence left phantom pains like a limb he’d never had but somehow lost.
He pressed a kiss to the small of Ava’s back, lips resting against her damp skin. For now, he would let himself believe in this. For now, he would ignore the growing tempest inside him and pretend that Orion’s current silence wasn’t more damning than his previous protests.
When Kai slid into the sleek limo an hour later, the evidence of his morning still clung to him—Ava’s perfume on his skin, her taste on his tongue, unfulfillment aching in his chest.
