"Ugh!" Ellie covered her face with her hands.
"You have ten seconds to lose the corset and the panties, or I am ripping them off. Leave on the garters and the stockings," he ordered.
When Ellie peeked back, he was standing over her.
"Ten... nine... eight..."
Ellie stood reaching behind her and made quick work of her corset strings before slipping out of her panties. She knew she had gone over ten seconds, but evidently her mate had enjoyed the show. He stood off to one side slowly stroking his hard cock.
"Come here, mate of mine," he said, pointing to the space in front of him.
The heat in his eyes added a sway to her hips, and she was rewarded with a low growl. When she was standing in front of him, he simply lifted her up and wrapped her legs around his waist.
"Grant!"
He held her tightly against his body with one arm and slid his other hand between their bodies. He used his fingers to tease her clit, alternating between gentle rubs and sharp pinches. She ground her body against him, wanting more. The space between their bodies quickly grew slick from her desire.
Grinning, he moved his hand and then the head of his dick was sliding into her. With both hands firmly grasping her ass, he easily lifted her up and down his body, impaling her over and over again.
His muscles never shook with strain, and his breathing never became labored. His strength allowed Ellie's mind to finally let go of her fears, and she grabbed his shoulders. Squeezing her thighs together, she began to ride him.
He groaned when she began making demands of her own. "Damn baby, you're going to kill me."
"Grant, I need more. Deeper."
Grant moved, and before she knew it, she was lying on the bed as he stood between her legs taking control. Pinning her arms over her head, he snapped his hips forward, burying himself to the hilt. It was exactly what she needed.
All too soon, she felt his pace increase, and he was shouting her name. At his climax, she tilted her pelvis so that his engorged head was pressed against that elusive spot inside her. Reaching down, she barely had to touch her clit to follow him into oblivion.
Groaning, he fell forward, pinning her to the mattress, his cock still buried inside her.
"Grant, move."
"Can't. I'm dead," he complained as he rolled to one side, sliding from her body. They both groaned at the action. He moved them up toward the pillows getting comfortable. "Still worried about being naked in front of me?" he asked, pulling her against his chest.
"No, you make me feel dainty."
He snorted. "You are dainty."
He wrapped his arms and legs around her as if he would never let go.
"Grant?"
"Yeah, baby?"
"Even if we weren't mates, I'd love you forever."
She heard him swallow. Once, then twice. Finally, he cleared his throat. "Me too, my love."
She had been blessed by Fate to have Grant as a mate, and she would do anything to make him happy, even learn to love herself.
*****
The next morning, Grant tried to talk her into showering together, but she adamantly refused.
"Do you know how many bathroom related accidents I saw while working in the ER? Besides those showers are tiny."
Grant pouted the entire time they got dressed, making her giggle. To see a warrior his size making a boo-boo face because he had to shower alone was a wonderful way to start her morning.
Walking hand in hand, they headed toward the children's courtyard. Outside of the Garcia's house, Keegan stood yawning. When he saw them, he waved them over, grinning.
"About time you guys got up," he griped.
Ellie checked her phone; it was only seven in the morning. "How long have you been up?"
Keegan cracked his back. "Technically, I haven't been to bed yet. Last night, after your gram left, the twins got into the cookies and ate them, like, all of them. At one point, I thought Leif was going to chain them to the floor. That's when Travis got the bright idea to use all that energy for something good. So we headed up here and went to work."
Grant and Ellie looked at each other. "Work?" Grant asked.
Keegan wagged his eyebrows. "Wanna see?"
He led them away from the wolves' housing and into the market place. Ellie was astonished to see a large stone building standing to her right between the entrance of the wolf refugee camp and the public bathrooms by the transport tunnel. It was amazing to see such a large structure where once there had been nothing.
Keegan indicated the large structure. "We set it off to one side so as to not block the vendors. The twins built half of it right into the wall that divides Wolf Street from the market place."
"Wolf Street?" Ellie asked.
Keegan shrugged. "We couldn't keep calling it 'that place where the wolf refugees live now'. Anyway, what do you think?"