She jumped at the shock of pleasure and grasped handfuls of damp grass and flowers to keep from grabbing him and demanding more.
The assault on her pussy continued with licks, flicks and suckling that made her whimper, cry and shout. Yet, he wouldn’t let her come. Every time she thought she was close, he’d change position, change the pressure.
“You don’t play fair,” she cried, trying to press harder against his mouth, but he pinned her legs and abdomen so she could barely move, only submit.
Submit.
Become his.
The thought sent her into orgasm.
Javier growled against her and slipped long fingers into her cunt. “Again,
And she did. Again, and again as he suckled her clit and hit her G-spot with those beautifully long, thick fingers of his. When she thought she couldn’t possibly take any more, when her ears rang and her cries of ecstasy were hoarse, a sharp, stinging pain pierced her inner thigh, and she came so hard she saw stars in the brightness of the foggy gray sky.
And then he was within her, over her, his weight heavy and wonderful as he pumped into her, slammed into her. He gripped one thigh and raised her leg. She tucked it over his ass, her limbs rubbery.
He looked down into her face, and she stared into his beautiful eyes. “I love you,” she whispered, her voice rough.
He kissed her then, and yet another orgasm rolled through her at the same time he stopped moving, pressed hard into her, and his cock pulsed within her. “I love you too, Heidi,” he began then murmured telepathically, Oy, chata, te amo mucho. Mi corazon...mi vida.
Javier held Heidi against him until she shivered, and then he told her to get dressed. After pulling on the pair of jeans from the tent, he glanced at the cloud cover and decided the rain would hold off a little longer, so he built a fire in the small pit he’d fashioned a few days earlier and brought down the cache of scavenged foods he’d raised into the tree limbs overhead.
“Where’d you get all this stuff?” she asked, huddled in her damp jacket, warming her hands over the fire.
“Here and there.” He handed her a package of cookies and a can of cola.
Heidi narrowed her eyes at him, and he grinned.
“You’re a thief.”
“Where I am from, jaguars are considered wily, not thieves. Sit here.” He positioned a piece of deadfall close to the fire.
She sat without another word and tore into the cookies’ plastic wrapping. After she consumed a couple and popped the top on the cola, she said, “I was really pissed when I got here and saw the tent and fire ring.”
“I...heard you.” He opened his own can of soda and sat on the ground next to her.
“Why didn’t you show yourself then?”
He gave her a sheepish grin. “You are rather formidable when you are angry.”
She shoved his shoulder and laughed. “It’s good to know I can put the fear of God into my mate.”
She sipped the drink. “My brothers have never been scared of me.”
He took her hand in his and brought her fingers to his mouth, kissing the backs of each one. “Your brothers have never lived in fear of you rejecting them.”
She wrapped her arm around his shoulder and laid her cheek against the top of his head. “I told you, in your hotel room, I didn’t want you to go. How could I ever reject you?”
He sighed in contentment. His woman. His mate.
“We didn’t use protection,” she said softly.
He tensed. She did not want to have his children? He’d been so sure. “No, we did not.”
There was a long stretch of silence, in which he tried to decide how to continue the subject. This was something they needed to discuss, and he’d do anything in his power to convince her to try to have children with him. If it didn’t work, he was open to adoption, so long as she was there by his side. He would never let her go, of course, even if she rejected both ideas, but it would hurt. Knowing there was hope, even if it were slim...
“My period came the day after you disappeared,” she murmured, and then she slid off her seat and onto his lap, wrapping her arms around his neck after she set her soda can on the ground. “I cried. I had so hoped that a miracle happened that one night we weren’t careful.”
“You want children,” he said, gazing into her amber eyes, willing to lose himself there forever.
“Almost as much as I want you.”
“Then why the condoms?”
She nuzzled her nose against his neck and sighed. “I didn’t want you to feel obligated.”
He chuckled and squeezed her tight. “
With a frown on her face, she leaned back and looked at him. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
He just grinned. “I will do everything in my power to impregnate you.”
“I’m sure you will.” She sobered a little and her face grew wary. “Um. There’s...” She cleared her throat and patted his shoulder. “Shit.”
“What is it?” he asked, worried at her change. “What is wrong?”
“Axel.”
“Ahh.” He nodded. “Yes. I must admit he has crossed my mind.”
“You didn’t exactly ask his permission to claim me.”
Javier raised one eyebrow, which made Heidi laugh.
“What are we supposed to say to him? He’s going to be pissed, you know that, right? He’s the family alpha.”
Javier cupped her chin. “Heidi.”
She raised her eyebrows in question.
“He is not your alpha any longer. I am your protector now, your mate.” He held his breath, waiting for her response.
A smile tilted her lips, and she placed a soft kiss on his cheek. “I know. I am yours. But I’m going to be far, far away when you tell my big brother that.”
He hugged her hard, crushing her body against his, and laughed.
“I do have a couple of questions.” She pushed back to look him in the face again and then straddled his lap, making herself more comfortable.
“Anything, my love.”
She touched the scars at his throat, then on his stomach and sides.
“Is the Russian snow leopard...”
“Dead.”
“Good. So we never have to worry about anything like that again?”
“I pray that is the case.”
She huffed out a quick breath. “What about Isabel?”
“I do not understand. She has been gone for two years.”
Heidi swallowed hard and set her hands on his shoulders. “When you first came here, you dreamed about her. The first time you kissed me, you were half asleep, and you said her name.”
“I am sorry, Heidi. I was...not myself.”
