Savage (Wolf Ranch #4) - Renee Rose Page 0,29

I think it’s bleeding.”

“I know, I’m sorry. Shit, I’m so sorry.” Clint moved my hand and—to my shock—licked the place his tooth had punctured my skin. The throbbing immediately eased.

“Seriously. I don’t even know how that’s possible.” I tried to imagine how his teeth could be so sharp because he hadn’t bitten me that hard.

“You felt so good,” he groaned, trying to catch his breath. “I lost control. I will never bite you again, I promise.”

“It’s okay,” I murmured, already sleepy after the two orgasms. The idea of him getting that turned on, that kinky, that he wanted to bite me, well, was over the top. Knowing I made him that wild filled me with female power. “I’m fine.”

“Fuck,” Clint whispered, but he settled behind me, curling his larger body around mine and wrapping an arm over my waist. He splayed his palm right over my abdomen, like he knew about the pregnancy. Like he was laying claim to the baby. Or protecting it.

But that was silly. He couldn’t know because it was dark, and I’d covered his hand with mine, so he wouldn’t slide it around and explore the shape of my belly.

As I drifted off to sleep, I heard myself humming contentedly, my voice mimicking the pleasure in my body. The warmth in my limbs. The satisfaction of feeling Clint’s cum leaking from my slit as he held me in his arms and brushed his lips in my hair.

For now, I was happy. Safe. Sated. The rest? It wasn’t going away, but it could wait.

11

CLINT

I marked my mate!

My wolf was off the fucking rails.

Now, as the first morning light filtered through the windows, he was just as content as could be because as far as he was concerned, I was right where I was supposed to be. My mate was sleeping in my arms. My cum had dried between her legs. My scent was permanently embedded in her skin to mark her as mine. No one could doubt who she belonged to now.

My pup grew in her belly.

Yeah, she kind of missed telling me about that.

If things weren’t so damn precarious between us—if she understood that she now belonged to me for the rest of her sweet life—I’d turn her over my knee and spank her juicy ass for keeping her pregnancy a secret.

Keep the lights off, and I’m all yours.

Had she really thought she could hide it from me? Of course, she didn’t know I could see in the dark. Even if I couldn’t, I would’ve known her breasts were bigger. More sensitive. Her belly had grown, and her pussy had been practically dripping for dick. Her hormones were out of control, and I was the only one who could ease her need. And mine.

Knowing she had my pup in her made me crazed. The fucking had been intense, as if I were trying to give her everything I’d saved up during our months apart.

Hell, if I’d known she was pregnant, I’d have given up the enforcer job months ago. I hadn’t known I had a mate or a pup on the way.

As she slept soundly in my hold, I had to wonder how long she planned to keep the existence of our pup from me? How long?

She’d have to tell me eventually. Winter clothes and heavy coats hid how she grew with my child, but before long, it couldn’t be kept a secret. And naked and in the light of day? I’d see it. What then?

Hell, we’d run into each other at the grocery store by accident.

I paused, realized she’d thrown up because she was pregnant. How much more of a sign could I have gotten? Four months, and she hadn’t gotten in touch with me. She was friends with Audrey. They worked together, and she could have gotten my number at any time. But she hadn’t.

A piece of me was angry, but when I considered the shitshow her marriage had been and the state of her life right now, I could easily see how she might not be in a hurry to open up dialogue with a near stranger about the fact that they’d conceived a child. In the storeroom of a bar.

Maybe she was in denial about the pregnancy. I didn’t mean she didn’t know. Hell, she’d vomited on my shoes. She knew.

Audrey hadn’t said anything about it, and since the night I hooked up with Becky, I’d definitely paid attention when Audrey was around in case she mentioned her friend. I’d been away