“Gods damn it,” Lee muttered as he buried his nose against her neck, inhaling a ragged breath that he let out in a reverberating groan. Lips hot and wet against her cold skin, he branded her flesh with open-mouthed kisses.
Not able to believe the sudden change at first, Quinn remained docile under him. Not until she felt the first gentle rumblings of his call pressing against her chest, pushing through her body in fiery ribbons of pleasure. A low hum answered his louder offering. Fingers splayed, working out the cramping tension before her hands drifted to his shoulders. Smoothed over his damp skin before she sent her palms skimming over the bunched muscles of his back.
The call was louder now, pulsing through her body, infecting her with simmering heat. It knocked loose her fear, shuttling it into a quiet place to be examined later. Quinn purred and wriggled beneath him, nails dragging low across his back. Gasped as her nipples tightened, rasping against his chest with each breath.
“Mmm, yes. This,” Quinn whispered when Lee pulled back to see her face. Heavy lidded and smiling she brought her hands to his jaw, cupping it to pull him in for a kiss. Her tongue teased over his lips, eager as he opened to her. Dancing, playful, she enticed the Alpha pinning her under his bulk.
“Fuck,” Lee said through a low groan, drawing out the word as Quinn clenched around him.
Gasping as she angled her hips up, pushing against him, she let the call work its way through her. Surrendered to her basest instincts and ignored the smoky taste of his skin on her lips as she worked her mouth against his shoulder. She gave him a quiet whimper as he eased deeper, but not in pain. With each ragged breath of him, each rumble emanating from his chest, she lost a little more of herself. Slick flowed from her pussy, skin slippery as they writhed against each other.
The first thrust was decadent, the second divine. Quinn cried out, forcing her legs wider, muscles trembling as she made room for the Alpha. Whining as he withdrew, moaning as he returned, she urged him on.
It was so very different.
The wet slap of flesh meeting filled the room. The scent of slick and musk heavy in the air until all Quinn could breathe in was pleasure. Hands working in fitful bursts, she ran her palms over bunching muscle, pulled him into her. Showed her teeth when he huffed a low laugh. Dared to snarl when he rose to his knees. Lee’s smile was lazy, edged with a violence she understood. Whining, she hooked her legs around his waist, bucking up into him, pumping herself full of his throbbing cock again and again until he growled low in his throat.
Grabbing her legs, he caught her ankles and held them high and wide. Pushed her back until she was folded over again, unable to move away from the heavy pounding of his hips, the brutal force of his cock slamming into her. It didn’t hurt this time. Instead Quinn cried out, spine bowing as white hot bliss threaded through her veins, setting her blood on fire. Toes curling as the heat swam low in her belly, pooling in a roiling maelstrom.
“More, more,” she pleaded, struggling to touch him, to taste him. Bringing the sweat slicked fingers of her hand to her lips after glancing the tightening muscles of his abdomen, she sucked the thin fluid down and moaned around the digits.
“Fuck, yes, pet,” Lee groaned. Then he was over her again, heels perched on his shoulders to keep her angled just so. Swallowing her body with his, he shoved hard and deep with every forward lunge, giving her every inch of him. One hand shoving between them, the action almost clumsy and awkward, he thumbed her clit with rough strokes.
The sudden shock of pleasure pulled a scream from her throat. Quinn bucked and jostled at the too much sensation, his thumb crushing the swollen nub as he pushed her higher. The simmering heat suffused her, crawling under her skin with a staticky jolt. Feverish, sweat soaked hair sticking to her cheeks, Quinn’s head thrashed against the bed in denial of the orgasm that barreled towards her with a force that promised to undo her.
“Come for me, pet,” Lee husked against her cheek, falling into a growl as he hunched tighter over her. Tucking her body just that bit more, changing the angle a scant inch. Changing everything.
Every slow grind pushed him against her g-spot, the firm pressure blending with the almost painful pleasure from her clit.
It hit her before she expected it, a punch to the solar plexus that stole her scream before she could give it voice. Nerves snapping, synapses misfiring in the sudden rush of pleasure, Quinn shuddered and jumped under the assault. Body clenching, pussy working in wringing contractions, her nails scored his back. A plea to the Alpha to give her what she needed.
She didn’t have to wait long.
Lee roared against her cheek as he slammed into her, shoving through her slick tightness in erratic thrusts until he hilted his cock inside of her. The knot swelled, another roar dragged from Lee as it forced Quinn to accommodate it, to accept it and all it promised. The first jettison’s force was felt, the second and third so hot it was like a brand, searing her insides. Lee groaned on top of her, his lips working against her collar and shoulder, scraping his teeth against her neck as each heavy spurt filled her up.
Panting as her body clutched at the bloated knot, wringing it for every drop he could give her, Quinn struggled to think. To remember there was a plan. The next time Lee nipped at her flesh she purred and tilted her head aside. Licked at his sweat slicked arm and held him tighter.
It worked. Too well.
Lee’s teeth clamped down on her shoulder, smooth skin caught between his jaws. Quinn stiffened, a squeal of surprise and fear mingling with his erratic breaths. Not daring to move more than that, she strained to catch sight of his face. To see if he was lost in the moment.
Murky brown eyes clouded with a primal need, he still held back. He also still held her shoulder, mouth clenching, driving his teeth deeper into the skin one millimeter at a time. Each pulse of his kicking cock, every contraction of her pussy around his knot, he bit down until Quinn wondered if he would stop.
Fear and uncertainty slipped through the haze of warmth. Trembling in the wake of an orgasm that should have left her sated for hours, she screamed at her mind to change gears, to take notice and fucking do somethingnowwhile fighting to remain still.
Hands splaying over his back, she hummed, soothing and quiet as she touched him with careful pets. Tried to calm that vicious look in his eyes as he stared back at her. Forcing her body to relax, to become pliant and offer no resistance took more effort than she was capable of, but somehow she managed to unlock her joints so she wasn’t stiff and unyielding. There was no room for error, even the slightest misstep could be provocation enough for him to finish what he’d started.
It’d be a weak claim, since she wasn’t in heat. Not enough to overpower Kahler’s by any stretch. It would kill her or perhaps drive her insane. More so than she was already. Humming to him as she did to Elise, she ran her palms over his shoulders. When the tension began melting away from his back, she stroked his hair, smoothing it back. Letting her eyes drift shut, she pretended she was at utter peace.
Continuing to touch him with gentle passes, Quinn kept her breaths slow and even. Refused to balk when he made a low growl deep in his chest and didn’t flinch when he ground the knot deeper. Instead she opened wider, accepting him without resistance. Through it all the quiet hum remained.
When his jaws parted, it took every ounce of her being not to spring from the bed. A faint shiver tickled down her spine, shoulders tensing for a breath before she let it out. Smooth. Controlled. The breadth of his tongue lapping over the warmth of his bite told her he’d broken skin, but not enough. There was no sense of him in the dark pit that raged inside of her now. The one that snarled and roared with an Alpha’s fury. And now that she recognized it for what it was, now that Ilya had told her what that horrible sensation was, she could feel him. Could see Tobias in her mind’s eye, destroying everything in his path.
Destroying her, maybe, but he’d protect his child. He’d keep Elise safe.
Lee’s powerful arms jerked her from her thoughts as they wrapped around her. Hugging her to him so tight each breath was strained, he pressed his face to her neck and inhaled deep. Let the breath out in a satisfied purr as his cock continued to jump inside her pussy, filling her up.
They remained like that long after the knot abated. Lee scenting her as Quinn gave him her compliance and touch.
