“Yeah. I could watch you all night.”
She makes a mock frown. “And let me do all the work? That’s not very gentlemanly of you. I might have to tease you until you snap and flip me over and wreck my pussy.”
I groan. “God, I love your filthy mouth.”
She just laughs. It’s the closest I’ve come to saying I love her, and I honestly don’t know what’s holding me back. Well, I do, but I’d rather not think about my parents while I’m inside her.
“It’s never been like this with anyone else,” I tell her to change the subject.
Then I wish I hadn’t, because she slows to look at me carefully. “I kinda wondered if you were a virgin before me. The whole size thing.”
I wince. “Was I that bad?”
“No, just the way you were so worried about it.”
“I’ve been with three other females before you. Are you sure you want to hear this?”
She shrugs. “I don’t mind it. Clearly none of them rocked your world like I do.” She undulates her hips just to illustrate her point, and my mind goes fuzzy around the edges like it always does when she gets going.
“I had to go so slowly. Be so careful. Even then I think it hurt them sometimes, but you…”
She grins. “I don’t want slow and careful.”
“You don’t, do you?”
Vera leans in, taking my face in her hands, looking intently into my eyes. “I want all of you. Your length, your bear, your claws, your knot. All of it.”
At these words, my bear wakens inside me with a satisfied rumble, and Vera groans as my body swells. I roll her over onto her back and cage her in with both arms. When I pull back and slam into her there’s an audible slap as my slick-soaked balls meet her ass, and her eyes roll back in her head. “Yes!”
“You want my beast? You’re about to get him.”
“Yes, yes, yes.”
With a growl I slam hard into her pussy, pistoning my hips to give her my full power. Her small breasts bounce, and she reaches up to push back against the headboard and meet every thrust.
Here’s where I should tell her I love her, but the wounded cub inside me is too scared to say the words. So I reach out through the bond, trying to feed those feelings into her and let her know without words how much she means to me.
Her eyes widen. Her mouth opens on a silent scream.
And even though I didn’t think I had another in me, my balls tighten and my knot swells as her pussy clamps around me, milking a third orgasm from me in twenty-four hours—milking me fucking dry.
I pump until I’m forced to stop, trying to draw out her pleasure for as long as possible. Once we’re locked together, she squeezes me in rhythmic pulses as she comes down from her climax.
I cup her cheek and stroke with my thumb, cherishing the blissed-out dazed expression on her pretty face. Her flushed pink cheeks, her hair spread out on the pillow around her in wild red tufts.
She smiles up at me. “You have to teach me how to do that.” She taps her head and then her chest so I know she’s talking about the mate bond. “Feels like I’ve got you in here and in here as well.”
“You’ll find it. Just like your shift.”
Vera sighs. “I still haven’t been able to shift again. I’ve tried, but I can’t do it.”
I pull her over into her spot on my chest and stroke her back. “It will happen. Maybe I’ll just let Riley hit me again. That seemed to do the trick.”
“No way! Let’s just go out into the woods and practice later.”
“Mmm.” I’m trying to be supportive, but my eyes don’t want to stay open. “Just let me rest a minute. I’ll be right with you.”
She laughs and plants a kiss over my heart. “Awww, I wore you out. Sleep. It’ll keep until morning.”
