knew just how sweet and wet and fucking hot you’d feel, and just wanted to get inside you every moment of the day.” He stroked my hair with one hand. “But not always. Pack’s big and needs a lot. Kids…” His eyes slid down to my stomach, his knuckles brushing against the curve of my stomach. He bent down and kissed me like he needed it, the feel of my lips against his, but he drew back again. “We’re not human. We don’t have relationships like them. Ten years from now, I won’t be sitting slouched in front of the TV, demanding a beer and bitching because your body doesn’t look like it did when you were eighteen. I’ll be with you, growing with you, loving you. Seeing you use that amazing gift of yours. Maybe working with you to raise our kids…”
I had to look away, the mental picture he created so vivid, so intense, I couldn’t bear another’s gaze. It was…so far beyond what I’d fantasised about in maths class. Back then, I’d dreamed he’d shoved all the girls clamouring for his attention out of the way and crossed the floor of the canteen to be with me, but this went so much deeper. My eyes jerked up again, my brows pulling down in a frown as I searched his face.
“If you’re playing with me…” I growled.
Somehow, that made him smile more. He brushed the side of my mouth with his thumb when I wouldn’t stop frowning, jerking it away when I went to bite.
“Here,” he said, taking my hand. He pushed my fingers around the thick swelling at the base of his cock. “A wolf shifter’s got this for you? It means there’s a serious compatibility thing happening. His beast sees you and is interested, real interested. It’s basically an offer on the table. Take this.” My hand flexed around it, and his eyes fell closed for a second before he forced them open. “Take it and he’s yours. Beast, man, he’s locked down from all other sexual partners. We don’t stray, we don’t look for side chicks, just you, our mates. Because when we take mates…” He grabbed my other hand and placed it on his chest so I could feel the steady beat there. “We’re yours, body and soul. It's supposed to be the single greatest feeling a shifter can experience. Hopefully, if things work out, it’ll be like that for you too.”
It devolved after that into long slow kisses that got harder and fiercer until I broke away. My eyes dropped down, focussing on that swollen lump.
“Let’s get into bed. I want to get to know your knot a whole lot better.”
Chapter 29
“What did you want to—Oh fuck!”
We’d changed the sheets and then laid down again, but I wriggled further down to Jai’s complaints.
“If I’m gonna…” My voice faded at the sight of the swollen lump at the base of his cock. I reached out, hesitating, then forced my fingers to touch the taut surface, his outcry loud and sharp in the quiet room. “If I’m going to be expected to take this, I want to get a whole lot more acquainted.” I just let my fingers trail across it, fascinated by the way it made his cock jerk and twitch, his knot seeming to shift with it. “Like, is it sensitive like your testicles are?”
His hand snaked down to cover mine, forcing the fingers much tighter around the firm bulge, and then he squeezed. My eyes jerked up when a long groan eased out of him, but from the tense flexes from his body, he was enjoying it. He thrust his knot into my hand, obviously wanting firmer and firmer strokes, so I gripped him harder.
“Oh fuck!” he yelped. “Jesus…no, don’t stop. Please don’t stop. Yeah, yeah, just like that. That’s what your pussy will feel like, squeezing me tight, forcing the cum out of me.” My eyes jerked up to see a clear trail of pre-cum pooling on his stomach. It just kept leaking out in a thin trickle. My tongue flicked out, wetting my suddenly dry lips
“Baby…that feels so fucking good…”
“Have you… Is your knot always there?”
He stilled my hand. I’m not sure he wanted me to, so I rubbed it with my palm until he forced me to stop, then rolled up on his elbows, the cobblestones of his stomach standing out in stark relief.
“Sometimes. The first time was when I brushed past you when you were ovulating. Had to