“Fuck,” he groaned against my mouth, his hips pressing deeper.“You’re so tight.So perfect.”
I sobbed, my nails raking his back as my body struggled to adjust.He was everywhere.Thick and heavy and huge, and yet, as he bottomed out, the ache morphed into something darker, something needy.
“More,” I gasped, my hips lifting to meet his.
His growl vibrated through me.“Greedy girl.”
And then he moved, his hips rolling in deep, punishing strokes, his cock dragging against every nerve inside me.
I cried out, my body igniting on fire.My walls clenched around him, my nails digging into his shoulders as he filled me so completely I couldn’t breathe.But then I felt it.His cock swelled, thickening even more inside me, stretching me to the point of breaking.
I gasped, my back arching.“Tanner!What?”
He groaned, his hips surging into me before he held himself still.“My knot,” he ground out.His voice choked with restraint.“It locks us together when I claim you.”
“Locks?”I whimpered, my body trembling around the impossible size of him.
His fingers framed my face, forcing me to meet his gaze.“It seals us,” he growled.He bucked his hips, pressing deeper.“You’ll take all of me, Felicity.Every.Last.Inch.”
I shook my head, my body tensing.“It’s too much,” I sobbed.
His lips crashed onto mine, swallowing my cries as his knot pressed deeper.The pain of the stretch was exquisite.Not the sharp, warning kind, but the deep, burning kind.His knot pushed me beyond what I thought was possible, and yet my body melted around him.Surrendering.Yielding.I’d spent my life fighting to be independent, and here I was, begging to be possessed.It was overwhelming.It was perfect.
He was right, my core hugged him as he moved, and then, once I finally adjusted to his size, his fingers slid lower, gathering the dew that dripped down my crack before pressing against the tight ring of muscle between my cheeks.
“Tanner!”
“Shhh,” he murmured.“You can take me here, too.”
I shook my head, my body tensing.“It’s too much—”
Despite my cries, his finger pressed inside my ass, forcing past my tight ring of muscles.His teeth grazed my neck as he began to move, faster, deeper.All of my senses were overloaded as he stimulated both of my channels.I could only cling to him as he took his pleasure from my body.
“Mine,” he snarled, his breath hot against my skin.And then his teeth sank into my shoulder, sharp and possessive, sealing the claim.Rapture and pain tangled together, my body convulsing around him as his release spilled inside me and our souls merged into one.I came with a sob, my vision blurring as his growl vibrated through my bones.
When it was over, he held me close, his lips nursing against the claim mark on my neck.“Forever,” he murmured.
Afterward, we lay tangled together on our makeshift bed, my body hummed with satisfaction and a new awareness.I could feel him in ways that transcended the physical, a reassuring presence in my mind, a warmth in my chest that hadn’t been there before.
“I can feel you,” I murmured, wondering at the new sensation.“Inside me.Not physically, but…”
“The bond,” he confirmed, fingers tracing patterns on my bare back.“It will strengthen over time.”
“I love you,” I said, the words slipping out naturally, as if I’d been saying them for years rather than for the first time.“Human and wolf, both parts of you.”
His eyes glowed with emotion, the amber light of his wolf visible just beneath the surface.“And I love you, Felicity Foster.With everything I am.”
As the fire crackled beside us and the storm raged outside our shelter, I felt a profound peace settle over me.The circumstances that had brought us here should have left me terrified and uncertain.Instead, I found myself exactly where I was meant to be, in the arms of a man who was so much more than I’d ever imagined.
Chapter 9
TANNER
I woke to the distant thrum of helicopter rotors cutting through the quiet of the mountains.My body tensed instantly.Instinctively, I tightened my arm around Felicity’s sleeping form as I strained my hearing to confirm what seemed impossible after days of isolation.
“Felicity.”I nudged her gently.“Wake up.”
She stirred against me.Her scent, now permanently intertwined with mine through our bond, flooded my senses with warmth and belonging.