Page 26 of Unbelievable Faith
Michael’s jaw clenched and unclenched, “They’ll challenge youand…”
“And I’ll fight whoever I have to.” She cut him off with a tip of her chin, “I’m stronger than I look. I’ve spent my entire life training with Leo and the Crescent Enforcers. I may not have a dominant wolf but I’m not a doormat and I know how to defend myself. If they want to challenge me thinking it’ll be an easy win, that’s theirmistake.”
“I won’t risk you getting hurtagain.”
“You don’t get to decide what I’m willing to risk to be with you, Michael. You’re my mate and my Alpha but I still have a mind of my own and I won’t let you treat me like a pup just because you’re scared I might get hurt. I have to stand up for myself or they’ll never take meseriously.”
He groaned and rolled off of her. She frowned and propped herself up on one arm, watching him. He rubbed his eyes with one hand and let out a long sigh. She could feel the tension bleeding off of him and she hated that they were arguing about this but knew they had to get it settled. She’d put off telling him the truth until he figured it out himself. She wouldn’t sit silently by and let him think he could get away with treating her like a porcelain doll when she was anythingbut.
She was his mate. She was strong. Even if she wasn’t an Alpha, even if her wolf wasn’t dominant, she could take care of herself and he would have to lether.
“Michael?”
He made a harrumphing noise and she smiled since he couldn’t see her face. He had thrown his arm over his eyes and seemed to be pouting. It was actually kind of cute. Too cute even because she felt the heat in her veins stir again as she looked athim.
He was still naked. All of his smooth, tan skin on display and those rippling muscles bulging. His cock was visible just beneath the sheet he’d pulled up over his lower body. Thick and long, she knew it hit her just right now, stretched her until she fit over him like a glove, like she’d been made for him, and her body ached with a renewed need that she couldn’tignore.
“Michael.” She eased closer to him and the softness in her voice must have alerted him to her change in mood because he shifted from beneath his arm and blinked at her. She smiled, “Michael, you know I’m right. You know I have to show strength for them to respect me. It’s why you’re not fighting withme.”
“I know I just…” He groaned when she slid a leg over his waist, his hands came down to her hips, holding her just inches above him. He swiped his tongue over his lips and blinked, clearly trying to remember his train of thought, “I just hate the idea of you being hurt. The way I found you, in that basement, Luna I thought you were dead and I can’t… I can’t go through thatagain.”
“You won’t have to.” She leaned down and brushed her lips over his softly, “Ipromise.”
He released one of her hips to tangle his fingers in her hair, “You can’t promise that. You don’t know what could happen. A challenge is dangerousand…”
“I’m dangerous.” She cut him off with a nip of her teeth against his jaw, “I’m an Alpha’s mate. I’m your mate and I’m not going to let anyone take you from meeither.”
Michael groaned as she dropped her hips and rubbed herself against his thick length. He was hard again already. She moaned at the feel of him. Close, so close, but not where she needed him most. She rolled her hips and earned a string of curses from his lips a second before he flippedthem.
He pinned her to the bed and she moaned at the exquisite feel of all that hard, male strength holding her down. She’d known he wouldn’t let her stay on top for long. He was an Alpha male and he needed to dominate. Luckily, she was just submissive enough not to fight him for the top spot, at least not right now. Not when they were still bonding and her wolf hadn’t found the strength to force her way forward to claim him in return. She couldn’t give him that, not on command, not until her wolf was ready. But she could give him this, give them more of this amazing pleasure andconnectedness.
“Oh God, Michael…” She groaned as he trailed his lips to her nipple and sucked hard, “I want… Ineed…”
“I know baby. I know.” He slid his hand between her legs and began to stroke her in a fast, hard rhythm that matched the tugs of his mouth on herbreasts.
A keening cry left her as the first shiver wrecked through her, “Michael! Oh God… Is this the heat? I can’t, I can’t get enough of you. More. Please, mate. Give memore.”
He growled at her pleas and adjusted quickly. Moving between her legs he spread her wide open and then drove himself deep. They both cried out. Her body arched and he found her hands, pulling her arms up and stretching her across the bed, holding her down with his weight as his hips began topump.
“Fuck. Fuck.” He groaned against her neck, his tongue swiping at the mark he’d put there already, “I don’t know, baby. I don’t know if it’s the heat, or the bond or if just the idea of losing you is making me crazy but I don’t think we’re sleeping tonight. I can’t stop. Don’t want to. Want to take you so many times you feel lost without me insideyou..”
“Michael.” She groaned as a flash fire in her veins made sweat break out across herbody.
“Never going to get tired of you yelling my name like that.” His teeth scratched her neck and she whimpered. “Say it again. Call me yours and I’ll let youcome.”
“Mine.” Luna’s voice broke as he slammed into her, jolting the air out of her lungs as their bodies collided, “You’re mine, mate. Allmine.”
“Fuck yeah Iam.”
He took her mouth in a deep, searing kiss and she broke apart beneath him. He caught her cries and swallowed them as his tongue plundered her mouth and his hips stuttered. She felt him swell inside of her, felt the heat of his climax as he spilled inside of her and her entire body tightened, wanting to hold him there, keep him there, where hebelonged.
Michael softened the kiss as his thrusts slowed and their climaxes began to ebb. They were both panting. Covered in sweat. They’d need another shower. But when he brushed her wild curls back from her face and smiled at her with that bright, sparkling, dimple accented smile, she knew they weren’t leaving the bed anytime soon and she didn’t mind staying dirty a whilelonger.
Not even a littlebit.
