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“You’re still mine, and I won’t give you up. Bond or no bond.” My words are possessive and angry, because I am. Belle won’t get rid of me that easily. I’ll prove to her exactly how much I want her.
Belle moans, breathy and tormented as I dip my tongue inside her, delighting in her taste, drawing back to swirl it around her needy clit.
“You belong to me. You always will, no matter what you do. Don’t ever forget it.”
As I continue to lick and stroke, slowly increasing the pressure and speed until I know just how she likes it, her body gives in and she melts into me. She whimpers as I tease her clit, adding one finger, then two, to her tight channel, pumping them in and out in time to the movements of my tongue.
“This isn’t fucking amazing because we’re fated, Belle. This is just us. No bond. You still want me just as much as I want you.” Stroking one hand up her thigh in a gentle caress, I savour how goosebumps dance across her skin even without the tingles. When my hands skim along her sides and I take the weight of her breast in my hand, letting my thumb ghost over the straining tip, she gasps and I smile smugly, my lips wrapping around her clit as I suck hard.
“It’s me making your insides flutter and heart pound so hard.”
Thrusting my fingers even harder, curling them inside to stroke against that spot that makes her legs shake and twitch, I take her higher and higher. I’m exhausted, every cell in my body in pain, but I have a point to prove and I’m not giving in to the darkness beckoning me until I’ve made it.
“Ethan, you have to, you have…” My teeth tugging on her clit silences her and her pussy clamps around my fingers, looking for more, keeping me inside her. My mate is fooling herself but not me. This is more powerful than her rejection will ever be, and I’m not losing her.
“Oh, fuck.” Her teeth bite into her plump lower lip as she twists her head side to side. “Harder Ethan. Harder.”
Wanting to please my mate, I do as she asks, the effects of what I’ve just gone through sapping my strength rapidly, but I’m not giving in until she’s screaming my name.
Reaching up, I twist her chin, forcing her to watch where my mouth meets her cunt, my tongue caressing her more firmly, adding the pressure she needs. Her wolf shines in her eyes, loving the rawness of the moment.
“No, I can’t Ethan!” Belle whimpers as she fights giving me what’s mine, even as she rolls her hips up to meet my face. “Oh fuck, this wasn’t supposed to happen.”
She’s squirming, trying to hold off the orgasm that’s about to swallow her, but it’s useless. I stroke her clit while my mouth devours her tight core, and she erupts. Arching off the bed and digging her fingers into my hair and shoulder, she holds on for dear life, marking me, once more, in her own way. As she flops back onto the bed, her dark hair fanning out around her on the white covers, I’m completely spent.
Crawling up her body, I collapse on top of her. Kissing her once more, I roll to the side and hold onto her waist protectively, pulling her tight to me. I curse my traitorous body for giving out on me as blackness fills my vision, and I feel my limbs going limp.
I know that the next time I wake up, she’ll be gone.
29
ETHAN
“You look even worse than yesterday. Are you sure there’s no silver left in that wound?” Rex stands, arms crossed, leaning against the island in Cooper’s kitchen. “Where’d you go anyway? I thought you’d stay in your old room.”
Rex looks hurt by the fact that I didn’t spend the night in the packhouse; I never even made it to dinner. Given Marie knows what’s going on, I’m sure she weaved them a convincing tale, but I should have been here. I know Rex feels that if I had really wanted to, I would have made it back.
More than anything, I wish I could speak to him about this. He’s the only one who has experienced the pain of what I’m going through. Sleeping for almost twenty-four hours hasn’t helped me at all. I still feel like I’ve been hit by a truck, and my wolf is practically feral. His instinct is to go and find her, to hunt her down and claim her by force. He’s not interested in anything other than making sure she’s marked as ours. It’s scary how ruthless he is.
“I’ve never been shot before. Let me milk it a little,” I joke, plastering a smile onto my face that I really don’t feel. It’s so forced, that ordinarily everyone would be able to see right through it; but they’re all so distracted by their own problems right now.
“Lucia called to check on you. How’s that going?” Rex doesn’t sound impressed, or all that interested. Not wanting to lie, I shrug and frown, mirroring Rex’s stance with my arms crossed.
“It’s complicated. She’s complicated.” I tug down my sleeve, making sure the score marks from Belle are covered. Complicated doesn’t even begin to describe this.
Rex huffs out a laugh and smiles. “Aren’t they all?” He’s completely enamoured with the enigma that is Leah Walker. He thinks I understand, but my feelings for Lucia are nowhere near the same. Belle, on the other hand… the woman rejected me, and I can’t think of anything other than making her realise what a mistake that was.
“I’m afraid they’ll come for Hayley and the baby. It has to be a ransom they’re after,” I whisper, not wanting to disturb a sleeping Hayley with concerns like this.
Cooper appears in the doorway, as if he knew the turn this conversation was about to take. He heads straight to the coffee machine and turns it on, looking like he needs to crawl back into bed beside his mate.
“Toby wasted their money on fancy cars and renovating the packhouse, thinking the hotel sale was a done deal. Now they don’t have enough money to complete the work, but they need the hotel up and running to turn it back into a profitable business.”
Rex and Cooper wince. It’s a tough situation for the pack. It’s not their fault Toby mismanaged the funds so badly.
“A lot of the pack still blame us and want to make us pay for it. Alpha Anderson is incapacitated, to be blunt, he doesn’t look like he’s going to make it much longer. It’s tough; there are a few bad eggs running the show, and the rest are afraid to speak up.”
Cooper shakes his head. “You need to tell Steel how sick Anderson is, and that Lucia isn’t taking control. I know that seems hard on her, but the pack needs a new alpha – unless you’re up for the job.”
