“You’re not going to lose me,” I said into his ear.
“You keep me strong.” He interlocked our fingers and said those three little words that made my heart tingle all over, “Mark me, Aurora.” He tilted his head and closed his eyes. “Please,” he said so softly that I could barely hear him. “Please be mine forever.”
My breath caught in my throat, and my canines lengthened under my lips. I gently grazed my teeth against his neck. “Ares,” I said through the mind link, “you’re mine. And I’d do anything to protect you.”
And then I sank my teeth into his neck and claimed him.
Chapter 43
Aurora
Ares shuddered in delight against me, his body relaxing into mine. I sank my teeth deeper and deeper into his neck until I couldn’t anymore. Every single insecurity, every single harrowing memory, every single ounce of fear from him exploded through my body.
My poor Ares had been holding the entire world on his shoulders all this time.
When I was about to pull my teeth out of him and lick his wound, he gently grasped my head and held me against him. “Please, just a little bit longer,” he whispered. “I just want to feel you.”
I plunged my teeth back into him, inhaled his hazelnut aroma, and closed my eyes. I’d meant everything I had said to him. I would protect him from his enemies even if his fiercest foe was himself. And if I couldn’t protect him, then I would stand by his side during his darkest battles. I would pull out every sword, spear, and arrow from his armor. I would give him love because even a god like him needed it.
When he released his grip on my head, I pulled my teeth out of his neck and swiped my tongue across his large puncture wounds. With a big smile on his face, he turned in the water, making it splash everywhere, wrapped his arms around my waist, and picked me up. Stuffing his face into the crook of my neck, he pulled me closer to him and walked into our bedroom.
“Ares, we’re both wet,” I whispered, tugging on the ends of his damp hair.
He pressed his lips against my neck, moving them up the column, under my ear, against my jaw, leaving sloppy kisses all over my body. “I don’t care.”
I wrapped my legs around his waist and pulled him closer. Cradling my head, he laid me down onto the bed and rested his forehead against mine. He trailed his lips back down my body and then up my thighs, kissing like he had been starved for so long.
He lay between my legs, rested my thighs on his shoulders, interlocked my fingers with his, and pressed his hot mouth against my core. My back arched, and I grasped his fingers tighter. Pleasure rolled through my body, my legs slowly starting to shake. He sucked my clit between his lips, tugging on it gently, and then flicked it with his tongue.
I moaned out and felt Ares groan in response against my pussy. His thumbs brushed against my knuckles, and he continued to eat me, his face dropping even lower to my entrance, his tongue lapping up my juices.
“Ares, please, I need you,” I said in a breathy whisper, my pussy tightening. I needed him inside of me more than I needed anything in my entire life. “Please.”
He continued to massage my clit with his tongue. Closing his eyes, he inhaled the scent of my arousal and groaned again. “I’m not going to make love to you until you come for me, Kitten.”
I swallowed hard, my pussy tightening even more. For the mere week I had been here, I had never heard those words come out of Ares’s mouth. Ares didn’t make love. He fucked, and he fucked hard. But something about the big, bad alpha, the god of war, the strongest and most terrifying wolf in the entire world being soft for me … that was an unexplainable feeling.
He grasped my jaw and made me gaze down at him. “Watch me, Kitten. I want to see your eyes when you come.” He trailed his fingertips across my breast, took my nipple between his fingers, and tugged on it.
I dug my heels into the bed. A surge of ecstasy coursed through me, and I curled my fingers into his hair, staring down at his warm golden eyes. He continued to eat my pussy, his free hand splayed open across my stomach to hold me against the mattress.
“Come for me,” he murmured.
Almost as if on cue, I grasped the bedsheets in my fists and tugged harshly on them, my whole body quivering. Wave after wave of pleasure pumped through my entire body, making it tingle. I squeezed my eyes closed, the intensity almost too much.
“Open your eyes for me, Kitten.”
“Ares,” I moaned, staring back down at him. “I need you. Please.”
He crawled between my legs, the head of his cock brushing against my aching pussy, and pressed his lips to mine in one lingering kiss.
Please, I mouthed when he pulled away.
Resting his forehead against mine, he steadily pushed himself inside of me, stroked his thumb against my cheekbone, and stared down into my eyes. Unable to hold back, I wrapped my hand around the back of his neck and pulled his lips onto mine.
As our lips collided, he began to thrust into me. Pumping in and out slowly. His tongue slipping into my mouth. His lips devouring mine. With every moment that passed, he thrust harder and faster.
After he broke our kiss, he pulled me to his chest and rolled us over, so I straddled his waist. I placed my hands on his abdomen and moved my hips back and forth to ride him.
Taming an alpha might’ve been hard, but it had all been worth it.
This moment was more than
