Page 15 of Rituals & Runes

I opened my mouth to answer but could only suck in cold air.

“Aila, do you want more?” he said as he slid his finger out. “I adore that look on your pretty face. Your red, flushed cheeks and the sweat on your dainty nose, but I’m not giving you what you want. Not until you beg. Not until you suffer a bit for making me catch you, Wolfling.”

He stared at my entrance and licked his lips. As if he wanted to taste me. My dear. I wanted to know what that felt like. Wanted his finger back inside me. Along with his still hard shaft.

I shook my head.

His hand neared my trembling opening. He skimmed a finger over my throbbing clit, then swiped it over my entrance. I sucked in a sharp breath and twisted toward his hand. “You like to play games? You’re going to lose, Aila. By nature, you desire submission. You can’t go against yourself. Beg.”

He captured my achingly hard nipple between his lips, branding my skin with the wet heat of his mouth. He sucked and swirled his tongue around the beaded peak. My traitorous hips surged toward his hand which still hovered over my core. He groaned as he sucked harder, feathering his fingers over my wet skin in a torturous dance between my legs.

My wolf whined and rubbed her paw over her nose in supreme annoyance. She barked and huffed, urging me to submit.

“You and your wolf want me to claim you. Admit it. Tell me what you want, Wolfling. Submit. I will reward you if you give in.”

His teeth skimmed my nipple then he bit into the flesh above it, stinging and drawing out deeper pleasure. I moaned as he marked me, and my wolf howled.

We both wanted so much more.

His hand cupped my core. He was so close, yet too far away making me squirm again.

“More, Kaden, give me more,” I rasped.

He curled his finger back inside while he licked his mark. His thumb pressed down onto my clit with heavy, even pressure. “You fucking loved that, didn’t you? Me biting you? I bet you want me to claim you. In every sense of the word.”

I didn’t answer but nudged my hips onto his hand. He rewarded me with another finger and then circled his tongue around my beaded nipple. His thumb massaged my clit while his fingers drove faster and harder inside me. I moaned again, arching my back and pumping my hips in rhythm with his hand. Seeking relief from this ache that consumed me each day more and more. And unable to believe how I spread my legs to an almost complete stranger who wanted to sacrifice me.

Kaden’s dominance, skill, and power had me kicking aside any notion of the future.

His fingers pumped at a frenzied pace until my muscles tightened with a curious heat and energy that I’d never experienced. I’d pleasured myself, but this was a different experience. This wound my body up so tight I felt I would snap. In the most delicious way. He strung me tighter and tighter then shattered me.

“Kaden,” I screamed into the night as my core exploded with tingles of white light and heat.

When what I assumed was an orgasm stopped, I lay on the forest floor, limp, but hungry for more.

He pulled me to my feet molding our bodies together. My legs wobbled and he caught me, looping an arm around my waist. His fingers speared into my hair, tugging and bringing my face up to his. His tongue swept against mine, in a kiss meant to claim. Meant to make his intention that I belonged to him crystal clear.

Fire scorched through my muscles, down to my sensitive breasts, and to my still wet channel. When he broke away, he said in a low but firm tone that carried stark authority, “Your wolf and your body know who you belong to. My wolf is riding me to fuck you, Aila, to fuck and claim you, but I won’t, not until you’re ready. I want your mind to come along for the ride. Tonight, your punishment was to have just a taste so you can imagine what my cock can do for you. Do you want more, Wolfling?”

I stared up at his fuzzy face. With my blood cooling and the haze of arousal clearing, I still sensed my wolf pressing me to scream, yes, tonight. Make me your mate. But my mind hadn’t caught up with these primal needs. Besides, he still had to hand me over to his pack.

I was literally dead meat.

“Kaden, I’m being pulled in two directions. I hardly know you, and you have plans for me that I don’t know how to deal with. I never agreed to give up my life in this way.” I pulled away but he tightened his hold on me against his hard, sinewy form. My wolf and my body wanted everything he offered, but the rest of me skidded to a halt. “I don’t know what to say except when I’m in my human body I can’t see a thing. Any chance you found my glasses?”

A chuckle rumbled from his chest sending a soft vibration through me until it passed into the soles of my feet into the earth. “Soon, the rest of you will catch up, and you will want this with me, Aila. You won’t be able to help it. Not with you going into heat and us being fated mates. I know my uncle was right. We belong together and I own you.

“And when you become destroyed by your heat, I will be the one to take care of your every need, my Wolfling. I will ride this pretty pussy until every last drop of my cum fills you up. And you’re going to love it because I’m going to make sure it feels that fucking good.”

Oh, my dear. I didn’t know if my jaw dropped from his explicit speech or the sudden lack of warmth next to me. In the next moment, Kaden gingerly placed my glasses on my face with a tenderness I hadn’t expected from this big, bad wolf.

His strong, masculine features became sharp and clear. I could read a mixture of lust and conflict in his green orbs.

“Kaden,” I exhaled.

He silenced me with another searing kiss that sent tingles down my spine. His hands feathered around my back then slid down until he gripped my hips from the front. “I can’t keep away from you but the Council will be waiting. I’m their Alpha, and they expect an Alpha ritual.

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