“The things I want to do to you,” he said into my ear, watching my body react to him. He curled a hand around my throat and squeezed lightly. “Bend you over my bed and fuck you until you can’t stand. Push you to your knees and watch you suck my cock.” He took my hand and placed it on his hardness. I clenched, slowly stroking it up and down. “Eat your wet pussy until you beg me to stop.”
I drew my brows together, moaning softly. Another wave of ecstasy.
“I love the way your pussy pulses on my fingers,” he said. “Imagine how tight you’d get with my cock inside of you. Thrusting in and out. Filling this tight … little … pussy.”
My fucking Moon Goddess.
“Eyes on me,” he said, tightening his grip on my throat. I gazed at him, breaths quickening. “Only me.”
He brushed his thumb against my clit, and my legs shook as I released myself on him, not breaking eye contact once.
Wave after wave of satisfaction rolled through me. My entire body tingled. I closed my eyes and moaned, my hips moving back and forth on his fingers, riding out my orgasm. Hell, I had known my mate for two whole minutes, and I was a mess.
Coming on his fingers. Aching for more.
Tony never even fucked me this well.
He continued to thrust his fingers into me, not stopping.
I wrapped my hand around his wrist, trying to pull it off of me. “I-I came. You-you-you can st-stop” My eyes rolled back, and I doubled over, resting my forehead on his bicep. Another surge of pleasure rushed through me.
“Is that what Tony does? Makes you come once and leaves?” He gave me an empty laugh. “I’m not finished with you. Not until you’re begging.”
I squeezed my eyes shut, the pressure in my core becoming harder to bear. My nails dug into his wrist, and I moaned out again as I released myself on him for the second time.
How was he even—
He smirked down at me. “How long do you think you’ll last?” he asked. “Ten, fifteen times?”
My eyes widened, and I pushed his hand away. “Please, Moon Goddess, that was enough.”
My mind was foggy with that hazelnut scent; my body was tingling in all the right places. He hadn’t even touched the rest of me yet, but my body wanted more. My body was craving more.
Chapter 2
Mars
“Seventeen,” I said, lying back in the grass next to the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. With brown locks that lay so perfectly down her back to the way the moonlight bounced off her pale skin, my mate was beautiful. “Not bad.”
She lay next to me, her chest rising and falling with each heavy breath she took. The water from the lake just barely wet my heels. I watched her close her big blue eyes in utter bliss. She smelled so much like freshly picked lemons—my favorite—and it reminded me of Mom.
My fingers brushed against her bare hip bone in small, soothing circles. All I wanted was to bring her home with me, let her sleep in my bed, get her away from this Tony and his pungent scent, which was all over her.
“Alpha,” my beta, Liam, said through our mind link. “We have a problem.”
“Can’t you handle it?” I asked, pressing my lips together. “I’m busy.”
There was a pause on the other side of the mind link, and then Liam said, “It’s urgent.”
Though I wanted to bring her home, I couldn’t. My pack warriors had run to this part of Sanguine Wilds Forest for one reason and one reason only. The Malavite Stone. And we couldn’t leave without it. We needed it more than we needed anything.
“I’ll be there in fifteen minutes,” I said, staring down at the rippling water.
My mate shifted next to me, curling her head into the crook of my neck, her breaths warming the spot on my skin where she’d mark one day.
“What’s your name?” I asked, desperate to hear her speak again before I left her here alone for twenty minutes, at the most.
She opened her eyes and smiled up at me. “Aurora.”
“Aurora,” I whispered to myself so softly, like her name was meant to linger on my tongue for eternity—because it was.
I had heard Aurora’s name spoken by some of my warriors before. Smart, sassy, and so damn sexy, she was the soon-to-be alpha of the Darkmoon Pack—the pack last known to have the Malavite Stone.
But what was the alpha-in-training doing outside her borders, unprotected and alone, meeting this man named Tony, who would definitely need to be taken care of? I might’ve known her name and title, but I didn’t know the first thing about who she really was, and I definitely didn’t know if she would like me when she found out who I was … but I wouldn’t let her go.
After everything Ares and I had been through, after all the shit we had done, the Moon Goddess still had blessed us with a strong mate. And I wouldn’t take her for granted. She would be ours and ours only. For eternity.
Deep inside of me, I could feel a dark, sinister rage, my beast awakening. Clawing at our insides to see our mate for the first time, ripping me apart to touch her, growling at me not to leave her.
And I didn’t want her to be afraid of him.
“What’s yours?” she asked, her voice softer this time, her eyes closing.
“Mars,” I said, brushing my fingers against hers.
I needed to get out of here sooner than I’d planned. I didn’t want her to see that vicious side of me yet, but something told me that she’d find out who I was sooner rather than later.
Aurora’s breathing evened out, and she curled into a
