Total pages in book: 69
Estimated words: 64392 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 322(@200wpm)___ 258(@250wpm)___ 215(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 64392 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 322(@200wpm)___ 258(@250wpm)___ 215(@300wpm)
I usually don’t care when people cry. It’s a completely neutral experience for me, typically. On this occasion, I feel as though my insides are being carved out.
Before I know what I am doing, I have crossed the room and engulfed her in a hug. She feels perfect in my arms, even shuddering with tears. Her body feels correct pressed against mine, her soft curves melting against my merciless frame.
“I’ll give you money. You’re not going to go hungry, or without a roof over your head.”
She looks up at me, tilting her head back in a watery, suspicious gaze. “Why would you do that?”
The question stumps me. The honest answer is because I feel guilty, but I can’t say that to her.
“I want you to be taken care of.”
That’s another honest answer, and I immediately know that it is even more confusing.
“Why?”
She steps back, wiping her eyes on the back of her sleeve in a motion that is endearing. “What is wrong with me?”
“There’s absolutely nothing wrong with you.”
God. Her scent is clinging to me now. I don’t think I am going to be able to get it off without a shower, and I don’t think I’m going to be able to take a shower soon enough. My cock is rock fucking hard, and she will know that the second her eyes dip down…
She looks down. Her eyes widen. She covers her mouth with her hand as her lips form a perfect ‘o’ of surprise.
Suddenly, her scent is even more intense.
Suddenly, I can’t help myself.
Instincts are made to be followed.
I’ve encountered plenty of females in heat before, and yes, there’s always a pull to them. But not like this. This woman is demanding I fuck her. It is a biological imperative.
I draw in a breath, trying to clear my head, but all it does is draw her scent in deeper. I have always had almost complete control over my impulses and instincts. An alpha has to. If I fucked every female who came into heat around me, I’d have pups up and down the state, and a pack mired in scandal.
The reason the Lupin pack functions so well is because I can control myself. Could control myself.
I’m losing control completely now.
This woman is a stranger to me. A nubile, soft, curvy stranger with a scent that maddens me and eyes that make me melt. She represents a whole new world. A series of firsts that threatens the very core of who I thought I was. I am always in control, of myself first, and everybody else second.
I kiss her, and that carefully curated control crumbles even further. I feel my inner animal taking over as my tongue enters her mouth. She tastes like mine. She gives herself to me with such sweet surrender.
“I’ve never…” She practically whispers the words when I break the kiss. “… been with anybody before.” She finishes the sentence after a brief hesitation.
Her words make me swell with protectiveness and more than a little arousal. She’s going to be mine. Mine entirely. Mine forever. She’s a virgin. My virgin mate.
Lust charges through me, but I restrain myself. I cannot hurt her. If this is her first time, then I want it to be perfect. She deserves better than to be mated in my office. She deserves champagne, roses, courtship. She deserves a four-poster bed and silk sheets. She deserves everything I can give her and more. But what’s started between us is not going to stop for any of that.
I am an animal, and one way or another, I am going to fuck her like one.
I clasp her face in my hands, looking down at her. She has dark eyes, full of emotion. I see lust there, but there’s more than that. There’s fear. There’s need. There’s something like shyness. And there’s a little beast that has never come out before. I am going to bring the animal out in this curvy young woman. She doesn’t know who or what she is yet, but I will show her.
“I’m going to be careful with you,” I say softly. “But this is going to hurt.”
She draws in a gasping little breath. “Does it have to?”
“In time, you’ll come to adore it,” I promise her, tilting her head forward so I can press a kiss to her forehead.
Kira
He says it is going to hurt, and I feel a pang of fear and a little thrill of something else. I have never had sex with anybody before. I have never wanted sex this badly before. I’ve felt little flutters of arousal, but nothing like this full body demand.
He could do absolutely anything to me, and I would let him. I trust him, though we are strangers. He’s been gruff and he’s been stern. He’s tried to fire me. If I had any sense, I would turn and run from this room. I know I won’t be the same once he is done with me.