By the time they got to the bottom of the stairs, Daegan had let Xavier in, and the man was stalking toward her. He didn’t stop until he gathered her in his embrace, kissed her like he wanted to inhale her, and then lifted her into his arms. He practically had her stripped bare by the time they entered the bedroom. He dropped her in the middle of the bed, dragged his own clothes off and covered her with his body.
“I missed you,” he said on a ragged breath a moment before he snaked his tongue back into her mouth and sent every one of her senses reeling.
“I missed you, too,” she sent telepathically, unwilling to break the incredible kiss just to say a few words.
“I need you,” he said a moment before he lifted her hips and plunged his thick cock into her pussy. She squealed at the rough intrusion, but he swallowed the noise as he thrust harder and harder into her body.
Holy fucking cow! Every nerve ending was alive, screaming for release. Never had she been taken so roughly, so completely, so overwhelmingly. Damn, if she’d still been human, it would have hurt. But the wolf part of her reveled in the rough fucking, celebrated it with gleeful abandon, willingly submitted to her alpha mate.
“Come for me,” he demanded with the full force of his arrogance. If she’d been able to deny him, she probably would have, but he pushed a hand between them, found her clit, and squeezed. Every cell in her body reacted. She screamed into his mouth, her body undulating, shaking, the rocking, rolling, sliding rollercoaster ride drowning her in liquid heat.
She moaned as he released her mouth, fucking her even harder as he groaned out his own orgasm and then finally stilled. He dropped his head to her shoulder, his mouth opening over the skin, his teeth rasping over her flesh. Instinctively she knew what he wanted, understood what would happen if he bit her at this moment. She shifted, touching his head, pulling him closer, inviting him to finish what he’d started.
But instead he pressed a kiss against her skin and moved away. Confusion washed over her, and she whimpered as he pulled his cock from her body. “Please.” The word escaped before she could call it back, and she closed her eyes as humiliation replaced her confusion. As if it wasn’t bad enough that he was denying that they were mates, she had to compound her idiocy by begging.
Shit, she’d obviously learned nothing from her disastrous marriage.
He still held her trapped against the mattress. “Get off me,” she growled in a voice an octave lower than she’d been capable of before.
“Why?” Xavier asked with a confused smile.
She rolled her eyes again and answered his question with one of her own. “Why did you come here?”
Xavier frowned, his eyes narrowed, but he answered in a mild voice, “Because I missed my mate.”
“Oh, so I am your mate. You admit that much.”
“Of course I admit that.”
“Then why didn’t you claim me?”
Two identical gasps came from the doorway, and she looked around the man lying on top of her to realize that Daegan and Isaac had been watching the whole time. Desire swirled again, pooling in her womb as naughty thoughts sped through her mind.
Xavier searched her face, for what she had no clue, so she gave him a belligerent look and waited for his answer.
“I haven’t claimed you yet because I didn’t think it was what you wanted.”
Damn.
Logic.
How was it that she was angry over him not doing something she didn’t want him to do in the first place? She should be grateful that he’d held off. So why wasn’t she?
* * * *
Isaac stepped into the room, feeling his mate’s confusion. It had been so unfair that they’d had to change her the way they had. The fact that she would have died without it didn’t really matter in the face of everything she would lose. It had been more than obvious over the past three days that she loved the life she led and had been quite content in this small town.
But it didn’t change the fact that in less than two weeks the full moon would force her to change into a wolf.
“How long can you stay?” Isaac asked his brother.
“I’ve cleared my schedule until Thursday. I’ll need to head back Wednesday night at the latest.”
Daegan whistled, the high-pitched noise sounding very much like disbelief. Five days off in a row was longer than Isaac could ever remember his older brother taking. Hell, the guy rarely stopped for weekends.
Xavier was a very big reason why their pack was financially secure. He worked tirelessly to make certain that everything in both business and pack life was running smoothly. The fact that he’d taken five days off to be with his mate said a lot about his state of mind.