Claiming His Mate(29)

It was hard to focus on anything but her luscious body, but at her words he remembered she owned a high end day spa. “Where?”

She shrugged again, her mouth quirking up mischievously and his heart rate went into overdrive.

Okay, he’d go back to that later. For now, he had questions. “How’d you get your pridemates to leave?”

“It took some convincing, but after I gave them the brooch and assured them I was staying of my own free will, they had no choice to leave.” Her expression was smug.

“Your father is alpha. He can do whatever he wants.” His voice was wry.

“He might be alpha, but he listens to my mom…sometimes. I’m not going to lie, they’re both angry at me, but I’m a grown woman. They can’t force me to do anything. Even though I know they’d love to. I made it clear I was staying for a while.” She looked over at the door to his walk-in closet.

For the first time he noticed it was open and all her stuff had been moved in there. Elation built inside him in a rush, the feeling almost foreign. Lauren was staying. That was all he and his wolf needed to know.

Hell, yeah. “So I don’t have to worry about them barging in here later?”

She grinned a slow, wicked smile and leaned closer to him. The scent of her desire was potent and addicting. “Nope.”

God, he wanted to cover that hot mouth with his. He slid fully on to the bed and grabbed her hips so that she had to straddle him. Letting one of his claws extend, he sliced through the delicate scrap of her panties. It didn’t make a sound as the soft material fell from her body. Her thighs settled on the outside of his legs as her slick, wet opening rubbed right over his erection. This is what he’d been wanting. Still… “Are you positive you’re okay with what happened?”

She pursed her lips in annoyance. “I’m fine. Yeah it sucks that a maniac drugged me, but things could have been a lot worse. No humans saw us, she didn’t actually hurt me and now she’s gone. And…I’ve got a naked, sexy man between my legs. I don’t want to talk anymore.”

He didn’t want to either and before he could blink, her lips were on his, her mouth searching and hungry as he slid his fingers through her hair and cupped the back of her head in a tight grip. He wasn’t letting this woman go. Not ever. After the way she’d tried to shove him to the side earlier, to protect him—nope, she was his.

They weren’t done talking, not by a long shot, but she was right. They had more important things to do. Her fingers dug into his shoulders as she lifted up over him, stroking her wet slit right over him, teasing the head of his cock. He was so thankful they didn’t have to use a condom. Since they were both shifters they couldn’t give or receive diseases and he could scent it wasn’t her fertile time. He could be inside her with no barriers.

He wanted to plunge right into her, but knew he needed to work up to it. To test her slickness first. Somehow he released his other hand from her hip and went to cup her mound but she took him totally off guard and slid right onto him with a strangled moan.

The feeling of having her tight sheath wrapped around him made his balls pull up tight and his brain short circuit. She was so wet. The scent of her desire was almost overpowering and he hadn’t been expecting that.

“I was fantasizing about you before I fell asleep,” she rasped out, her eyes heavy-lidded, the need in them clear.

He tried to make his voice work. Right now he felt like a randy cub barely able to control himself. But he wasn’t going to embarrass himself before they’d even gotten started. “Don’t move,” he commanded, impressed that he’d found the ability to speak, though his words were more growl than anything.

Dipping his head to her breast, he kissed and licked a path around one hard nipple, never making contact with the tightened bud. Each time he got close, he withdrew, keeping his strokes light against her breast. And each time he pulled away, her inner walls tightened around his cock. Tiny little contractions that drove him crazy.

He could feel the tension humming through her as she forced herself not to move. As he’d ordered. Soon she started to rock against him, but he increased his grip on her hips.

“Tease.” Her voice was urgent, shaky, and he smiled against her satiny skin.

Yes, he was. And they were only getting started. Moving with the quickness of a shifter, he repositioned their bodies so she was flat on her back with him still buried deep inside her.

Much better.

Pushing up so he was on his knees with her legs spread wide around him, he stared down at her. “Beautiful.”

Her cheeks flushed at his words as she reached up to stroke her palms down his torso. Just the feel of her touching him lit him on fire and he loved seeing the hunger in her gaze. Loved seeing how much she desired him.