chapter EIGHTEEN

chapter EIGHTEENMads had no idea when she fell asleep. She just knew that at some point in the night, her side really hurt. So bad, she must have made some sound because Finn told her it would be okay, pressed a fresh ice pack to her side, and brushed her hair off her face. That was the last thing she remembered until she woke up around three in the morning with her head on Finn’s shoulder and her arm thrown over his massive chest. She had no idea how she’d got there, but she didn’t really mind.They didn’t agree on a lot, but she had to admit that she felt perfectly situated at the moment. Tucked against his body like this.She also felt something she didn’t feel except when she was with all her teammates in a hotel room or on the basketball court. Safe. She felt perfectly safe with Finn Malone.She couldn’t think of any male she’d ever felt safe with. Comfortable, sure. But safe? Nope. Especially while in bed. Which was why most guys said the same thing when they called the next day. “I woke up and found you gone. Where did you go?”Of course, that was after sex. She hadn’t had sex with Finn. She was just lying here. But the fact that she didn’t feel like escaping to a cabinet or leaving the state . . . that was new.“You need to stop doing that,” Finn muttered next to her.She thought he might be talking in his sleep because his eyes were still closed, but just in case, she replied, “Doing what?”“Rubbing my chest.”She was?Mads lifted her head from his shoulder to take a look and yes! She was rubbing his chest. Under his black T-shirt no less!“Oh!” She pulled her hand out. “I’m so sorry.”He smiled even though his eyes remained closed. “No need to apologize.”There wasn’t? “Then why did you complain?”“It wasn’t a complaint. I just needed you to stop.”“Was it irritating?”“Irritation was not the problem.”Mads was trying to figure out what the hell he was talking about when she happened to glance down and—“Oh!” She fell back on the bed and his arm. “I see.”“I’m a strong man but the tiger inside has its limits.”Mads closed her eyes. Not because she was embarrassed. She wasn’t. It was because she was trying to get the outline of Finn Malone’s massive cock pressed against his black jeans out of her head. She’d had no idea it was that fucking huge!Closing her eyes, however, did not help. Now the image was burned into her brain.“Okay.” She sat up. Shook out her hands. Blew out a breath.“Are you all right?”Dammit. His low voice wasn’t helping either.“I’m fine, I’m fine.” She shook out her hands again. “It’s just I’m so damn horny.”“Wait . . . what?”“It’s been a while since I got laid. And winning a game always gets me a little riled up.”“Uhhhh . . .”“And I had no idea your cock was that big.”Finn sat up. “What’s happening?”“So seeing the size of that thing made my nipples really hard and my pussy really wet—”“Woman! What are you doing?”“You asked me if I’m all right. I’m telling you what’s going on.”“You just had a fight.”“That wasn’t a fight. That was an assault. And what does that have to do with anything?”“Is this the fever? I feel like this is the fever.”“No.” She took his hand, pressed it to her forehead. “See? No fever.”“So then you’re just . . .?”“Horny.”He pulled his hand away. “With a damaged kidney.”“That healed ages ago.”“I doubt it. I almost rushed you to the hospital. You were groaning in your sleep and when I checked, the bruise had spread and there was this humongous lump that just looked terrifying. But when I tried to lift you out of the bed, you grabbed the headboard and squealed so loud, the coyote started yipping and the bears on the street started to roar. I was afraid if I took you outside, they’d eat you.” When she frowned, he added, “They’re omnivores. They’ll eat anything. So I changed the ice pack and let you settle down, hoping I could take you to the hospital when you passed out. Then we both fell asleep and . . . here we are.”“Well, it’s fine now.”“It can’t be fine.”Mads reached back and yanked the ice pack off her back. “Look.”She leaned forward, making it easy for Finn to see. She felt his hands slide across the area that her cousins had hit repeatedly, his fingers brushing over the skin. She had to close her eyes again because her nipples became so hard they hurt.“Holy shit. It is healed.”“Told you.”“Sure there’s no internal—”“Bleeding? No.”“That’s amazing.”“Honey badger.”He sat up again and said, “I just don’t want to . . .”“What?”“Take advantage of the moment.”“Why are you whispering?”“I don’t know,” he whispered again.“Okay. I get it. If I were in a fever, this would be very wrong.”“Exactly,” he finally said in his normal voice.“Except I’m not.”“True. But the whole experience with your cousins could be emotionally traumatic.”“Could be. Probably should be. But I have been down this road so often . . . I’m sadly used to it. Kind of stopped thinking about it when we were watching the movie. I can promise that I will get angry about it again sometime tomorrow. That’s how the pattern goes.”“But at this moment—”“Not even thinking about it. Because we won a game. We’re in the championships. Saw the outline of your cock. Now I’m horny.”Finn started to say something but she was worried he might guilt his way out of this so she cut him off by offering, “If you want, I can make things easier for you by taking the lead here. You know . . . to start.”He took a moment to let that sink in. “Huh.”“You can kind of lie back and . . . not have so many thoughts. Just let that big cat take over. And let my honey badger take the lead.”He frowned. “Your honey badger won’t gnaw, will it?”“It won’t. Promise.”“Well . . . if you’re sure—whoa!”Mads pressed her hand against his chest and shoved him back against the bed. She dealt with his jeans and boxer briefs first, dragging them down his hips and legs until she got them to his ankles. Then shucking off the shorts and cami she put on earlier, she scrambled on top of his lap but faced away from him, her legs straddling his hips.Mads grabbed his cock in both hands. As the outline of his jeans had promised, the size was delightfully massive and she allowed herself to stroke it before settling in and letting her tongue swirl around the tip a few times. Since she loved a good long fuck, she knew it was best to get Finn’s first shot out of the way. But because of the size, she also had her work cut out for her. Not that she minded. She did love a challenge.She started by sucking on the tip first, bringing it into her mouth, pulling out, then sucking it in again. She took her time. Played with it. Let her tongue tease around at the top. She heard Finn groan and felt his hands on her hips. Because of their height difference, sixty-nine was out, but that was okay. She had a feeling he’d take care of her later.Besides, she was too focused on what she was doing to worry about anything else. She had his cock halfway in her mouth and was determined to get it all the way to the back of her throat without gagging. Wouldn’t be easy. Plus, her mouth was already stretched pretty wide.But she kept going. Taking him deeper and deeper. Loving that his groaning kept getting louder. The hands on her body a little rougher.What she wasn’t expecting, because she hadn’t been thinking about it one way or the other, was his two fingers slipping inside her. She was already really wet just from sucking on him, so his fingers easily slid out and when they came back, it was three. He pushed them in hard, and Mads jerked forward, ending up taking all of his cock. At the same time, she growled. Because his fingers inside her felt so good.He kept fucking her with those fingers, too. Kind of rough, which she liked. Rocking her back and forth, with his other hand rubbing her ass. As he pushed her forward, she came back and arched her ass into his hand. When she did it the fifth or sixth time, he pulled his hand away. Then he brought it down, slapping her ass. Not too hard. But enough to entertain. Enough to keep her attention and make her cry out against his cock.He tried to pull her off his cock, but she held on and he came in her mouth. He shot three times into her and when he was done, he yanked her off and slammed her onto the bed. Before she could say a word, he was buried face-first between her legs, his tongue taking long, deep strokes. She gripped his hair and planted her heels in his back.She’d been licked before but never like this. And it took her a few minutes to figure out why. Why she felt wild and overwhelmed and almost afraid of how hard she was going to come. It was his tongue. It was rough. It wasn’t a full tiger tongue. That would rip the flesh off. But he’d shifted it enough to give her a rough ride, so to speak, and since she was honey badger anyway, the whole thing was making her toes curl and her body shake.What was driving her to the edge was that when he reached her clit, his tongue curled around it before letting go. It happened each time. Bottom to top. Curl. And rough.Nothing. Nothing had ever felt this amazing. And he kept it up for ages. Toying with her. Teasing her. Until she knew he was hard again. He didn’t stop, though. He swirled that amazing tongue around her clit, rammed three fingers inside her, slipped his free hand under her ass and squeezed off and on. While all that happened, Mads played with her nipples and let her mind go. Just let her body feel whatever this amazing male was doing to her. When her legs began to shake and her back arched, she didn’t fight it. She just let go and came so hard, she cried out and possibly went blind for a few minutes.When she could see again, Finn was lying next to her and he growled, “I need to fuck you.”“Then get over here and—shit. Condoms.”Finn suddenly sat up. “Shit. Condoms.”Mads scrambled to her knees. “You didn’t bring condoms? Not even one in your wallet?”“I didn’t want to look presumptuous.”“Idiot.”“Wait.” He raised his brows. “Nelle.”“Oh, no. You don’t think . . .”Together, they both looked over at the end table next to the bed.* * *Finn had never prayed so hard that a woman he barely knew was truly obsessive. But he was praying.Mads, beautifully naked, a tattoo of a spear on her left side, crawled across the bed to the end table. When she opened the drawer, she let out an annoyed growl and Finn wondered how fast he could get to the pharmacy and whether it would be faster if he ran rather than driving his SUV.Then she held up a big box of condoms.“Oh, my God! She’s so insane!”“Why are you complaining?” he demanded.She tore off the sticky note attached to the box and handed it to him. He read what was carefully printed on it.

We both know this will be used by you and Finn.—N.

“Do you see?” Mads demanded. “Do you see how crazy she is?”Still holding the note, he turned and grabbed Mads’s face between both his hands. “Can we obsess over the insanity of your teammates later? Please? And instead just be happy there are condoms? Think we can do that? Because you may not have noticed . . . but I just realized, I’ve never kissed you.”“Because neither of us thought of it before now or because I had your come in my mouth?”She was a woman willing to deep throat him right out of the box, and he wanted her to have no doubt that he was willing to kiss her before and after she had his come in her mouth.Still holding her head between his hands, Finn leaned in and pressed his mouth against Mads’s. She reached up and gripped his wrists, turned her head, and easily opened up to him. Her tongue slid against his and his cock got even harder, which he hadn’t thought possible. It was the way Mads met him on his own ground. He hadn’t really expected that. She was so quiet, he’d thought maybe she’d be subdued in bed, too. Not that he would have had a problem with that. Everyone had their own pace, and it could be hard to find someone who was your match. Especially when they were a different species.And yet, here she was, still kissing him while reaching out for the condom box. He could hear her tearing it open and before he knew it, she had the condom on him.They were still kissing when she put her arms around his neck and straddled him. She didn’t pull her mouth away until she started to settle herself onto his dick and that was only so she could gasp out as she took him inside her.“Fuck! Yes!” she cried out with a smile as she rocked onto him.Finn could feel her squeezing him and his eyes crossed from the power of it. To distract himself, he sucked her left nipple into his mouth and began playing with it. He then moved on to the right while Mads got into a nice rhythm riding his cock. When he was sure she wouldn’t expect it, he slapped her ass.That’s when her pussy turned into a vise, locking around him each time he slapped her ass again and getting wetter. Her big smile was awesome, too.What he loved was that he didn’t need to go too hard. He liked things light and fun. Not dungeons and darkness. Everyone had their thing and he had no problem with that, but it wasn’t for him. Knowing that Mads seemed happy with light fun had him ready to come again. Not until he got her off first, though. He desperately needed to see her come.Sucking on her breast, he pulled his hand away from her ass and brought it around to the front. He slipped it between them and searched out her clit. He pressed his thumb against it and began to move it in tight circles.Mads’s head fell back and her fingers dug into his hair.“Oh, God,” she groaned. He sucked harder on her nipple. Stroked harder on her clit. And she rode his cock harder. For a little extra, he began flicking his tongue back and forth while sucking on her nipple, and picked up the speed of stroking her clit.Before he knew it, she was gasping and gripping him tight as she came hard. Her body spasmed at least four times before she finally slumped down on him.Finn rolled her onto the bed with him on top and began to fuck her hard. Mads’s eyes opened and she stared straight at him. She raised her hands and pushed him off. But not to stop him. She grabbed pillows and put them under her waist. “Fuck me from behind,” she ordered him, rising up on her knees.He pushed his cock inside her and she said, “Grab my tits.” He did as he began to mercilessly fuck her.Not only did she pound back against him, ordering him, “Fuck me harder. Harder!” but she played with her clit the entire time so that when he finally came, she came with him. Finn roaring. Mads growling. Both of them collapsing on the bed in a sweaty, snarling mess.