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Chapter 21
This was a waste of time. Blake already knew precisely how they ought to handle the situation those cougar bastards had put him in. Unfortunately, he underestimated needing the clan alpha’s permission to go through with it. Why hadn’t he thought of that earlier?
Probably because back then, everything had been a working theory and nothing more. And now he was leading Tanith further away from her daughter, her gallery, and her life. He couldn’t imagine how she must feel, but angry had to be an understatement.
Usually, no one used the cave rooms for much. If there was a party and you were too drunk to find your way home, the caves offered a dark, quiet reprieve from the outside world to nurse your head and get back on your feet. Ursalina maintained them, as the sacred clan cave was her home.
Blake followed the path, marked with torches, musty and cool compared to the broiling heat of the summer day outside, and then chose the first room along the way. He tapped on the wooden door, just to make sure they weren’t walking into anything, then pulled Tanith inside when there was no response. The room illuminated as soon as they stepped in—like magic, if Blake had to guess. After all, the lamps on the bedside tables weren’t plugged into anything.
He sighed, rubbing at his face as he shut the door and locked it, then turned to face Tanith, expecting her to be glaring, arms crossed, and demanding further explanations. Instead, as soon as he faced her, she all but threw herself at him. He braced, half expecting an attack, only to suddenly find her kissing him—hard. His inner bear stirred, eager for his mate’s affections, but Blake knew better. This wasn’t the time for… Oh, but she was so beautiful, and his favorite thing in the world was kissing her.
“Wait,” he mumbled, holding her back, their breaths coming hard and fast. “Tanith, what are you doing?”
“I know we should talk about things,” she whispered, cheeks flushed, “but I just…I can’t right now, Blake. I need you. I want you. Please, take me away from all this.”
Who was he to argue with such an impassioned plea? He dragged her to him with a growl, forgetting all about clan politics, the cougar threat, and his plan with Ursalina. In that moment, nothing and no one mattered more than Tanith, and if she wanted a distraction, Blake was happy to comply. There would be time to talk later.
He kissed her feverishly, flipping them around and pressing her back against the door, savoring the delectable taste of her lips, her tongue, his hands roving the curves of her body. She moaned, arching against him, and threaded her fingers through his hair.
It wasn’t long before he was all but tearing her clothes off, knowing the clan had spares if he ruined anything beyond repair, and falling to his knees to worship at her altar. She cried his name as his tongue swept along the tender flesh of her thighs, licking and kissing and nibbling, eager to mark her for his own.
He found her wet and wanting when he reached the crest of her thighs, her scent the only thing in this world that could drive him to delirium. Blake swept his tongue over her wet slit, then delved between her folds, enjoying the way she squirmed and squealed and wriggled about above him. Once he had had his fill of her, he wandered up, tongue swirling around her swollen bud as he parted her legs and slipped two fingers into her.
“Fuck!” she cried as he pumped in and out of her, desperate to please her, to bring her pleasure, to push her over the edge into an orgasmic bliss so potent that she would forgot everything that had happened today. Her knees buckled, but he held her up, his pace unrelenting and his tongue unforgiving, driving her, worshipping her in the only way he knew how.
“Come for me, baby,” he urged huskily as she clenched around his fingers, her body quaking and her eyes clenched shut. “That’s it… I want to see you come.”
She complied with a hoarse whimper, tumbling into bliss as he continued to stroke her inner pleasure spot as his mouth latched over her clit.
“Blake! Oh God!”
She almost collapsed on top of him, a thin sheen of sweat broken out across her forehead. While he wanted nothing more than to rise up and take her against the door, Blake forced himself to practice self-restraint. There was no telling how she would feel now that the distraction had happened—potentially now that it was over. He was a man with a beast prowling inside him, but he couldn’t give in to his urges just yet, not until he knew she was all right.
From the way she dragged him up and kissed him, sucking on his tongue before shoving him back toward the bed, Blake suspected his beloved mate was doing just fine.
“Tanith,” he whispered, his cock straining against his pants, tented up and eager for her attention. He stumbled back and onto the bed, grinning as she climbed on top of him—looking very much the sensual predator stalking her prey.
“Yes?” she whispered back, voice heated as she all but ripped open his shirt and trailed her tongue down his chest. He groaned, bucking up against her, desperate to bury himself inside her. Her chuckle, throaty and darkened with lust, awoke him from his stupor.
“I love you,” Blake said when she glanced up at him with an arched brow. “And I’m sorry for all I’ve put you through.”
She paused, swallowing hard, then dropped her hands down to his pants and hastily undid the button-zipper combo. “I love you too, Blake,” she told him. “There’s nothing to apologize for. We all come with baggage of one kind or another. Yours is just a three-hundred-pound bear who has cougars after him. No big deal.”
Their laughter broke the heat of the moment, though only temporarily, for she soon had his thick shaft in hand, pumping her fist up and down as he tried not to come all over her fingers like some inexperienced schoolboy. He growled her name and lurched up, yanking her hand away and guiding her heat over him.
She grinned, a veritable goddess who merely deigned him worthy of her time and affections, before sliding down the full length of his cock, moaning wantonly. Head thrown back, she braced herself on his chest before slowly rocking back and forth. He wanted to guide her, pound into her, quicken the pace to match his frenzied lust, but Blake merely sat back in awe, forever grateful that such a breathtaking creature was destined to belong to him. And he belonged to her.
Tanith rode him with a ferocity that took his breath away, throwing herself into their lovemaking wholeheartedly with wild abandon. Blake lay beneath her, bucking his hips up, knowing he hit her pleasure spots with each thrust, and watched her come undone a second time. Her skin flushed in the most beautifully delicate way when she came, and only when she folded down against him, spent, did he let himself find his own pleasure.
He whispered her name and declarations of love as he spilled himself into her. When the spasming stopped, when the delirious pleasure finally started to ebb, neither moved. They held one another, catching their breaths, and fell deeper and deeper in love.
Despite the world outside crashing down around them.
***
“I don’t know about this, Blake. What if you get hurt?”
“I know this is hard to understand,” Blake assured her, stealing a quick kiss before taking her hands firmly. “I’d think it was a load of crap if it were any other kind of hoodoo bullshit, but I’ve seen what Ursalina can do. I trust her with my life.”
