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“Hey,” he said, wrapping his arm back around me. “It won’t. I promise.”
I melted into him, and he pressed a kiss to my forehead, murmuring softly into my hair.
“I will never let anything keep me from you, princess.”
Chapter Twenty-Five
“How are youfeeling, princess?”
I groaned. “Like I’m going to be humiliated in front of the strongest wolves in the whole academy in about two hours.”
Cole glanced out of the window. “More like one.”
“Not. Helping.”
He grinned mischievously at me, a glint in his eye. “Oh, you want me to help?”
I backed up a step, eyeing him. “Um…”
He stepped in to me again, backing me up against the wall. “Because if you need a distraction, I’m happy to provide one.”
“Uh…” Words. Try somewords,Cali.
“It’s my duty, as your mate, to protect you…even from your own imagination.”
Oh, I did not needanykind of distraction from what was going through my imagination right now. I swallowed, and Cole chuckled darkly, nostrils flaring as he scented my arousal.
“Does my little mate need my help?”
I nodded wordlessly as he leaned over me, planting one hand on the wall beside my face, caging me between it and him. I reached for him and he tutted, using his free hand to capture mine and pin them above my head.
“Uh-uh, princess. I’m distracting you, not the other way around.”
I whined, and he ducked his head to mine, capturing my lips and swallowing the sound. His tongue demanded entrance andI granted it, tasting the possessive growl that rumbled through him.
He released my hands, his eyes warning me against lowering them, and I shivered with delight as I kept them there…for now.
“Good girl,” he murmured, and nipped at my lips, claiming them once more as his free hand slid up my side against the bare skin beneath my shirt to cup my breast. His touch sent shivers down my spine as his tongue danced with mine.
I moaned softly against his mouth, unable to resist as he nipped at my bottom lip before sucking it gently. He pulled back slightly to nip at my earlobe, causing goosebumps to rise on my skin.
“Devouring you is going to be so sweet,” he murmured against my earlobe as his hand teased my nipple into a hard point. I whimpered at the sensation and wrapped one leg around his hips, pressing myself against him. The feel of his hardness, his desire for me, only heightened the need uncoiling in my stomach.
His hands fell down to cup my hips, grinding me against his hard cock, then he drew back. A growl slipped from my throat and his eyes gleamed in the moonlight filtering in through our window.
“Fierce mate,” he praised. “…but don’t think that means you’re getting your own way.”
He repeated the action, teasing me, and my hands fell down from the wall to cling to his broad shoulders. His eyes narrowed.
“That wasn’t what I told you to do, princess.”
“I don’t…submit,” I gasped as he rubbed himself against me.
“You sure about that?”
I was sure about nothing except that I wanted Cole’s cock inside me, right now. My hands made for his waistband and he tutted again.
“Patience, princess,” he said.
