With the mating bond completed, I regain control of my body. We collapse on the bed together. The moment we just shared is somehow not enough; I need her skin on mine, so I pull Ava into my arms. I’ll never let her go.
We are both breathing as if we just finished running a marathon, and I flit my gaze to Ava, searching for any sign that she is upset by what just happened. It’s like I’m trapped in a dream. Because she doesn’t seem real. Face flushed, parted swollen lips, eyes glazed over with post-orgasmic bliss. I almost pinch myself just to be sure.Fuck me.She is so arrestingly beautiful it hurts to look at her.
“God, I can’t believe I attacked you like that,” Ava says in a sexy, low, raspy voice after a few beats of silence.
“There’s nothing you could have done. Our wolves took over. I just wish I had more time to explain that to you before it happened.” My heart kicks up in my chest, beating so hard I can hear it pounding its way out of my throat. I loathe to admit it, but I know it to be the fear of rejection. “How are you feeling?” My hand trembles as my knuckles brush the side of her gorgeous face, and Iwait with bated breath for her response.
“Honestly, I know I should be furious with you. I still am in some way, but somehow, I feel like I finally found something I’ve been searching for my entire life. Like my heart is whole again. I finally feel at peace. I don’t know how else to explain it.”
I let out a shaky breath of relief. “I know what you mean. I feelexactly the same.”
She starts making circles on my chest with her index finger, and I drink in her casual touch as if I’m dying of thirst. “You know…I’ve never had an orgasm before. Well, not like ever, but with someone else. Now, I finally understand what the fuss is all about. It was…I don’t even have words to describe it. Not a single word can do it justice.”
Male pride filters through my veins at her words, and I want to kiss her so fucking badly, but I don’t want to do something to ruin the moment.
“It’s a good thing I have an IUD because we didn’t use protection. Is there something I should be worried about?”
I twirl a silky mocha strand on my finger. “I’m clean; I haven’t had sex since I started dreaming about my fated mate five years ago. I haven’t even kissed anyone in these five years…until you.” I cringe at the mention of Hope and swallow hard.
Her hand stills, and she looks at me, a frown etched on her forehead. “That’s why you ran away from my apartment like your ass was on fire. You were trying to be faithful to your mate.”
I nod. “Yeah…I was so confused. I didn’t understand why I felt like I couldn’t stay away from you when I knew I had a fated mate. My wolf knew who you were before I did. That our hearts were meant to find each other. But I didn’t listen to him. How could I? It made me fucking miserable. I’ve never felt that sort of war inside me before. My heart ached for you, but at the same time, I felt like I was cheating on my fated mate.”
Sympathy fills her eyes. “That must have been so hard.”
“It was like being trapped in Hell.” I swallow hard and inhale a shallow breath. “And then, the night before Halloween, I dreamed about your wolf for the first time. It fucked with my head. You have to understand, for almost five years straight, I have been dreaming only about golden fur and azure eyes. I thought something was wrong with me. Then, the next day, mypack and I were hunting a herd of deer near Shadow Lake, and I caught a scent. I knew it in the very fabric of my being that it was my fated mate. But then I saw your wolf over the dead bodies, and in that moment, my heart splintered. I let my fury take over. I thought you were the rogue and had cast some kind of spell to deceive me. That you did something to my mate—”
“You do believe me now, right? That I had nothing to do with it.”
“Of course, Ava. I’m so sorry for everything. I have no excuse…” My chest is filled with lead.
Her eyes narrow playfully. “I’m still mad at you, but I no longer feel like throat-punching you, so I guess it’s a start.”
“Thank God. I’ll take anything that I can get, and I’m not above using dirty tricks to make you forgive me.” I flip Ava onto her back and settle between her thighs. She gasps in surprise, and I take a moment to admire how stunning she looks. Her soft body beneath mine cast in the warm glow of the sunset light streaming through the window. Creamy bronzed skin and satiny just-fucked hair fanned on the pillow, lust-filled mesmerizing eyes, perfectly etched fuckable lips, and a constellation of freckles smattering the bridge of her upturned nose and cheeks. She is pure perfection; my wet dream come to life. My throat burns with the realization she is finally mine. Euphoria, like no other, makes my insides pitch as my heart beats like a jackhammer against my ribcage.
“You’re so fucking beautiful,” I tell her.
Her eyes soften. “Ditto. Too bad you’re an oaf,” she says, and the little smirk curving her plump lips drives me crazy.
“Your oaf.” I can’t stop myself from dipping down to taste it. I lick the seam of her lips slowly before spreading them with my tongue and stealing her breath. Biting her lower lip with just enough pressure so I don’t draw blood, I take my time to savor her lips properly, moving my tongue against hers in aslow, tantalizing dance. I start tracing kisses all over her face and continue downward, mapping the column of her throat with my tongue as I begin sliding my cock slowly over her clit, using our cum to create mind-numbing friction.
My hands glide across her body, desperate to feel her skin against mine. It doesn’t take long before Ava turns into a writhing mess beneath me. I breathe against her taut nipple before I circle it with my tongue and suck on it greedily. The other begs for my attention, so I pop it into my mouth next.
“Oh God,” Ava whimpers, and her fingers weave through my hair, pumping more blood to my cock.“I need you, Logan.”
I don’t think she even realized she spoke to me through the mental link only fated mates have.“What do you need, little wolf?”
“I need you inside me.”
“Do you need me to fill that pretty pussy?” I rumble against her heated flesh as I continue the assault on her sensitive nipples.
“Yes,” she pants. “Please! I can’t take it anymore.”
Fulfilling one of my many fantasies, I part her thighs further and hike her legs on my shoulders. My eyes don’t leave Ava’s while I push the head of my cock through her drenched entrance. It takes everything in me not to slam into her. My muscles tremble with the sheer effort. I want to savor this moment since earlier, we were too consumed by the lust-induced frenzy. So, I use every ounce of willpower I possess to slowly sink into her tight heat. In stark contrast, our chests move in unison with rapid heaves. I grab her chin and thumb her lower lip before pushing it into her mouth. Her cheeks hollow as she sucks on my thumb as if she is sucking my cock. Fuck me. This woman. I almost bust my load like an angsty teenager.
“Look how your perfect pussy is stretching around my cock,” I rasp. Fiery topaz greens lower at our joined bodies. I pull out fully, and with a snap of my hips, my balls slap into her ass.Intense pleasure surges through my veins, zapping my nerve endings. Her eyes roll to the back of her head with a loud moan, and the moment her eyelids shutter, I slide my thumb out of her mouth and circle her throat with my hand, applying slight pressure. “Eyes on me, baby!” I command, and when she obeys, I slide out again fully before I ram into her.
I apply a little more pressure on her throat, watching closely for any sign that she might not like what I’m doing, but her already blown-out pupils stretch further, and her body starts trembling beneath me. “You like being at my mercy, don’t you, little wolf? My hand wrapped around your throat as your pretty pussy takes my cock.”
