Chapter 18

Chapter Eighteen

Merrik

"You don't know what you're saying, little one. You can't possibly understand what will happen when I lose control."

"Then show me." I curl my finger up in a come-hither motion and lay back on the bed. I don't have to wait or give him a second invitation. He is on me in the blink of an eye, pulling at my shirt and leggings. I hear stitches popping and know that he's about to rip me out of them. I try to work my shirt over my head as his eyes latch onto the tops of my breasts spilling out of my bra.

I save my shirt but not the lace bra. He's got the delicate material ripped off me before I can even try to unlatch it.

He brings his mouth to my neck and starts sniffing and licking and kissing me. I feel his teeth nip at me and remember the place over my pubic bone. I grab his face and bring his attention fully to me.

"You bit me."

"It's how I claim you. That and to make love to you."

"We'll be discussing this more, but later." He goes back to kissing my neck and shoulders as his hands come up to cup my breasts in a surprisingly gentle touch. "Um, is it…supposed to...well, when I was feeling upset or scared it…well it sort of tingled. God, that sounds so bad."

"It's the way we stay connected, my love. Just you and me. It's how I was able to tell exactly where to come to find that asshole who was scaring you. You called for me and I came. I always will."

His words have a slow smile stretching across my face and I bring his lips to my own as we share a kiss that melts my heart -and most definitely my panties as well. He kisses down my chin and neck before he starts using his tongue to trace little designs all over the tops of my breasts before finally licking across my aching nipple.

I gasp his name out and arch my back. I can't help it. The sensations he is causing go all the way down to my clit like there is a direct link between the two places. He rolls the other turgid pebble between his fingers, squeezing until I gasp again.

"Merrik, oh shit! Merrik, please!"

The man plays my body like I'm an expensive guitar and he's been doing it all his life, making such beautiful music.

He finally wraps his mouth around the hard peak while maintaining eye contact with me. It's so much more intimate, like we are both sharing in the feelings he is causing, both working towards the same goal. His cheeks hollow when he sucks, taking more of my aching flesh between his lips. I can't help but close my eyes as the feeling of him tonguing my nipple becomes all-consuming.

He licks a line across me to the other breast and waits until my eyes flash back open. "I can't wait until these are heavy and full, sweetheart."

"H…heavy and…"

"Mmm," his agreement only comes out as a muffled sound as he swirls his tongue around the puckered skin of my areola, "when you have our babies and these fill with delicious milk. I'll be on them all the time. But I'll make sure the babies have all they need."

"Oh…oh God!" Why does that make me ache and throb in between my legs so badly? He finally wraps his tongue around the stiff pebble before hollowing his cheeks out again. The connection between my nipples and my clit peaks and I'm rushing towards an orgasm before I even realize what is happening.

A growl is my only warning that Merrik can tell I just came. He pops off my breast and rips my leggings from me in one quick jerk.

"I can smell your release, little one. It drives me insane!"

My panties are quick to follow as he licks his way down my body. When I feel his mouth on my soaked pussy all I can do is cry out and sag against the soft surface under my back. He throws my legs up over his broad shoulders and licks me like I'm a fucking ice cream cone and just like an ice cream cone on a hot sweaty day, I melt for him.

"After I take your sweet innocence, I'm going to fuck you with my tongue. Pushing it all the way inside until I can lick your fucking womb."

Oh shit! Oh God! Oh, hell yes! Please!

"Patience, little one. That comes later. Right now I want to get you ready to take my cock and my knot."

"Your what now?"

"It's…the part of me that comes from my wolf. When I am ready to cum inside of you, I swell at the base of my cock so that what I put in you will stay long enough to insure pregnancy. It's what I was trying to find a way to explain to you before but…there's not really a good way to explain that."

"You…swell up enough to…lock us together." Why the hell did none of the shows or books tell us about this? Never in a romance have I read about a…knot. Where the hell were they hiding this tidbit of information? "Will it hurt?"

He looks me in the eye so I know he isn't going to lie to me. "I don't know. I never really asked a mated female. It didn't seem…mannerly to ask."

I have to admit, I'm really glad he doesn't know.

"You've never, um, done that with anyone before?" I just have to find out.

He shakes his head. "That would only happen with my mate. Never with someone else. I've never been with anyone but you, my love. We'll be figuring all this out together."

"Seriously. You've never been with anyone before?" he shakes his head in the negative. "But you seem to know how to do everything."

"Our connection lets me know what you like, what you want more of, what you want me to do next. It will be the same way with you when you take my dick in your mouth, sweetheart." My mouth falls open, half in shock and half in excitement. "It's what makes our matings so…intense."

The fact he can tell what I like and my level of arousal, that we share and compound on that sensuality and intimacy, solidifies in my mind what I already understood in my heart. Merrik is incapable of hurting me.

I give him a smile and brush my fingers across his cheek in a light caress. "We should get started then. It seems like it is going to be a long night."

He grins back at me with a heart-melting smirk and dips his head so he can run his tongue over the top of my mound where his bite is. I gasp at the sensation because it feels like he is directly licking my clit. He makes a humming sound deep in his throat and I'm certain he is experiencing the same thing I am.

"The mark is highly sensitive. Under the right circumstances, I think I can make you cum by just licking the mating mark."

I believe he could because, even though I just came, my body is gearing up for another release. He takes one more swipe over the mark and then sinks his teeth in the exact same spot as he did the first time. It sends me flying over the edge and all I can do is cry out his name. When I come back to my senses, it's to find him licking and sucking on my over-sensitized clit and working my entrance open with a finger.

"Fuck, baby, you are so fucking tight! I should send you away, wait until this damned moon is over before I take you."

I reach out as his words hit me right in the heart. "Don't send me away."

"I can't. I couldn't possibly send you away from me right now. I can't ever be without you."

A smile stretches across my face at his words as he comes up to kiss me, sharing with me how I taste. He tries to slip another finger inside of me, making me feel stuffed full. He tips his fingers up and starts rubbing something inside of me that has even more liquid pouring from me and my eyes roll back in my head. Merrik sure knows what he is doing for someone never having done this before.

"I've read about how to do this. From what I gathered when I read it, it might make you have a really intense orgasm." He must have been able to hear my thoughts or I just blurted them out without realizing it.

"Oh! Oh shit! Merrik! I…it's different…I…I think I'm going to cum again."

"Cum for me baby! Cum so I can slide my cock inside you deep."

I give a strangled shout before convulsing through a huge orgasm and the place Merrik is playing gets a whole lot wetter.

"Son of a bitch, baby! You…you just…fuck!" He holds his fingers up and they are soaked. He runs his tongue over his fingers and licks me off them before a growl vibrates out of him. "If you get any tastier, I just might have to tie you back to the bed and live off your perfect body."

"You better…oh, not…do that again." I end the serious statement with a moan that kills any sting the words might have had. "Now get up here and give me a reason to howl at the moon…mate."

Our eyes meet and the look he gives me makes me love him even more. Holy shit! "Merrik, I…I love you!"

Never would I be so free, so at ease, with anyone else but Merrik. It feels like I've known him my whole life. Like he is the other part of me.

"I love you, Merrik."