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Her body responded to his need, and she was stunned by the force of her second orgasm. She barely had time to breathe before feeling the ferocity and fever that seemed to be barreling down on her again. She flashed back to a time she’d fallen out of a raft in white water and had struggled not to go under. Like the white water, Bodie was a force of nature, and she could either surrender to her need for him, or risk being drowned.
Quinn barely had time to process what she was feeling or allow her body to recover before it was striving again to reach the ultimate release she had found only in Bodie’s arms. She felt the moment her body surrendered to his dominance. There was no part of her that remained unscathed. Even now as he fucked her hard, her nipples ached for the feel of his hands and her pussy demanded to feel even more of his strength and power.
She couldn’t hold back the scream as another powerful orgasm shook her to her very core. Her sheath pulsed in rhythm to the pounding of her blood. As she recovered enough to catch her breath, she realized Bodie had stopped moving and was buried to his root.
“You are mine, Quinn. No other man will ever touch you again.”
Although still reeling from the furious coupling he’d subjected her to, reason started to return. She brought her elbow back into his ribs, forcing the breath from his body. Good, let him be breathless for a minute. Instead of swatting her backside or pinching a nipple in retaliation, he nuzzled her neck and trailed his fingers down her body to circle and play with her clit, before drawing back and beginning to stroke her once more with long, sure thrusts. Quinn had never experienced this feeling of complete and utter rapture in any other man’s arms.
He drove into her repeatedly and with a strong, steady rhythm as his hand came up, tickling the back of her neck as he parted her hair and pushed it until it fell in front of her shoulders. Bodie continued to pummel her pussy, ramming himself into her over and over. One hand reached up to cup and play with her breast. He continued to surge in and out even when she climaxed again, feeling her need coat his cock as he continued to ravage her cunt.
Bodie nipped the back of her neck—once, twice—the third time he bit down viciously. He held her tight, not only in his grip, but in his jaws. She tried to duck away, but she was trapped and couldn’t move. He thrust into her sheath again and again, until she felt his cock swelling in preparation of filling her with his cum. It burst forth as his cock exploded with the power of his release. This time, her orgasm was so intense as he pumped his essence into her that she nearly passed out as she screamed again in release and triumph.
Somehow, Quinn knew everything had changed forever. Bodie collapsed against her, groaning as a seemingly never-ending stream of his seed filled her to overflowing.
What the hell had just happened, and what was she going to do about it?
CHAPTER10
BODIE
Leaning against her, still buried within her, Bodie tried to catch his breath. Bending his head, he kissed the claiming bite.
What the hell did I do?Not only had he claimed a human without her informed consent, he’d done it in the heat of passion and with her not even knowing shifters existed. That she would stay with him was not in question. He had never intended for her to leave him. She was his mate. She would be at his side and bear his children. They would be happy.
He was going to have a lot of explaining to do, and he hadn’t even allowed the barbs that covered his cock to come out to play. Given her response without them, he was quite certain his mate would yowl for him on a frequent basis.
“Did you just bite me? Get off,” she snarled as she gave him a sharp jab in the ribs with her elbow.
This time he swatted her backside. “No. I will remain inside you until I decide to do otherwise.” Bodie felt her shoulder move forward, no doubt in preparation to send her elbow back into his ribs for a third time. He nipped her neck. “The next time you try to do that, you’ll feel the sting of my hand on your very pretty backside until you find sitting uncomfortable. And yes, I bit you.”
“Why?”
“Because you are mine, and I claimed you as such.”
Bodie was trying to be understanding. After all, she knew nothing about their kind. But she may as well learn from the get-go that her life had irrevocably changed. No longer would she be human. She would be a human/tiger shifter—stronger, faster, healthier.
He felt the fight go out of her. She hadn’t surrendered to him, but she was on the point of breaking, and he couldn’t allow that. Gently he withdrew from her, spinning her around so he could pick her up and carry her over to the comfortable chair that sat by the window. Sitting down, he held her close in his lap.
“What have you done?” she whispered.
“I have done only what needed to be done—what would have been done in the fullness of time. I got carried away, and for the timing alone, I apologize. There is so much that I need to explain to you. But know this, I have known since I drew my first breath that you were out here, somewhere, waiting.” She shook her head. “Yes. I know you probably don’t believe in soulmates, but among my kind we have a deep belief in what are known as fated mates. One soul that travels with yours throughout all time. Sometimes we don’t find each other in one life, but most often we do.”
“And I’m supposed to believe we are these ‘fated mates?’” she scoffed.
He chuckled. “Yes, my hard-nosed, journalistic fated mate, we are.”
She shook her head again. “I don’t know what you’ve been smoking, but I’d like to have some. Right now, all I know is that I’ve pretty much thrown the career I worked so hard to build a second time right out the window. Who’s going to believe that the biggest badass gangster’s girlfriend is a legitimate reporter and can be trusted to report the truth? My professional integrity is pretty much shot. Damn.” Her eyes welled with tears. “If you care anything about me, how could you do this to me?”
“Because you are my fated mate and I had no choice but to claim you as mine.”
“No. I won’t agree to this. You said no one saw us last night. Good. I’ll get my things, go home, and we’ll pretend it never happened. We’ll never speak to each other again, and I will never make you the target of one of my investigations. If you can trust your people to keep their mouths shut, I still might be able to salvage my career.”
She struggled to get up, but Bodie held her fast. “Enough. You will remain where I put you. Right now, I want you in my lap.” He waited until she stopped. “Better. You are not going anywhere. People will see us being happy and raising our children together.”
“Don’t worry about that. I’m on birth control. There’s very little chance of you getting me pregnant.”
“Your becoming pregnant is a matter of when, not if. But that is beside the point at the moment. I have searched most of my adult life for you. Now that I have found you, I will not give you up.”
