Page 20 of Unbreakable Bond
He swept her up into his arms and marched into the woods just off the road. They were in the middle of nowhere. Had run at least a couple of miles. Nothing to him but well done for a human really. They were far enough out of town not to be spotted and she couldn’t go anyfurther.
It wastime.
“Rafe?” Zoey glanced up at him questioningly, “What are youdoing?”
“Claimingyou.”
Her breath caught and her eyes widened even as her pupils dilated, “Here?Now?”
“Do you want to wait?” He found a small break in the trees with thick grass and bent to lay herdown.
Zoey bit her lip again, “No. I want you. I want to beyours.”
He groaned as he kneeled down with her. Moonlight glinted off her coppery tresses. Her green eyes glittered against the background of the forest. She stretched and smiled up at him and he was lost. Completely lost in her and in them, in the mating bond and the future it would givehim.
The heat lit his blood until he felt like he was burning alive. Sweat broke out all over his body despite the cool night. He’d heard about the mating heat. He’d heard that the longer a shifter put it off the worse it got but he couldn’t imagine the heat getting any stronger than it was rightnow.
“Rafe, please…” Zoey shuddered when he reached back to pull off his shirt, “I can’t wait anymore.”
Neither couldhe.
He dropped down and took her mouth. Claimed it. Just like he intended to claim her. It wasn’t as sweet as that first kiss had been. They were too far gone for sweet now. It was all clashing tongues and teeth andmoans.
He jerked at her clothes as they kissed. Fabric ripped. Her hands were all over him, stroking his chest and abs and anywhere else she could reach. Everywhere she touched burned hotter than silver. It was too much and not enough and his wolf was right there beneath the surface, growling for more of her, all ofher.
He flexed his jaw and ground his teeth, mentally reminding his other half that teeth weren’t allowed this time around. Not yet. He hadn’t earned that from her. He hadn’t earned this, earned her. Nothing he’d done so far in his life had warranted a gift like Zoey as his mate but he wouldn’t screw this up. Not with her. She was the first bright spot in his life in solong.
Rafe pulled back enough to look at her and his wolf growled again. Naked in nothing but moonlight, all that pure, porcelain skin on display for him and him alone. She was a tiny little thing with soft curves and freckles he intended to trace with his tongue. But not tonight. Tonight, there would be no going thatslow.
He cupped her breast with one hand and slid the other down to her slick folds. She was wet. Soaking wet. For him. And when he rubbed her she arched and moaned and wiggled beneath him, gasping his name and causing a jolt of awareness to slither in beneath theheat.
“Zoey…”
“Hmm?” She hummed, eyes closed, head tilted back with pleasure as he continued to tease her nipple and strokeher.
“Baby, look at me.” He ordered firmly and her eyes slowly drifted open, glassy with a need that only made the answer to the question he had to ask that much more important, “You’re not a wolf but you grew up in the pack. You know I won’t judge you if you didn’t wait. You’re human. You couldn’t have known you’d have a mate. But I… I need to know… if you… have you… willI…”
She softly reached up and cupped his cheek, stroking his hair back gently, comforting him when he found it difficult to ask the question. She must know what he was asking. Not just if she’d been with anyone, ever, but if she’d been with Michael. He didn’t think so but the very thought, it unnervedhim.
“I waited foryou.”
His heart clenched tight in his chest and his wolf eased back a little, pure pride in their little mate radiating from him. His wolf wanted to reward her for that. For saving herself for him and him alone. And the man was so overcome with emotions his throat felttight.
She was his. His mate. And he would be her first, and last,everything.
“Mine. You’ll only ever bemine.”
“I always have been. It just took us a while to catch on.” Zoey smiled softly and leaned up to brush her lips across his, “Now claim me before I go out of mymind.”
Bossy little mate. His nearly feral wolf grinned and Rafe did too. She was theirs. To protect. To cherish. To love. And all he had to do to keep her forever was seal the matingbond.
“It might hurt a little at first.” He warned as he positioned himself at her entrance because he hated the thought of causing herpain.
“No. It won’t. My body was made foryours.”
Rafe’s heart melted, crumbled, was simply putty in her hands. Fate had gotten it right. She was perfect for him. So sweet but smart and demanding and understanding as well. She was going to be the best mate for him and he would be the best for hertoo.
“Ready?” He groaned as her wetness coated hislength.
