Chapter 19

Chapter

Nineteen

S he didn't realize he'd stopped until she felt the warmth of his hand lightly pressing her painful and welted backside. Then it snaked around her body and upward to cup her breasts and strum her nipples. He nuzzled her neck and rained kisses along the tops of her shoulders.

"Mine," he growled possessively as his hard cock nestled in the cleft of her ass. "You're mine, Kat. Give over to me."

He rubbed his cock against her, allowing her to feel its strength and size through the denim of his jeans. One of his hands continued to fondle and caress her breasts while the other slid down her body to slip between her legs, groaning and growling as he found more evidence of her arousal. Her pussy wasn't just wet, it was soaked. Jed used his fingers to circle her clit, making her body shudder with need every time he brushed it. She pulled at the restraints, wanting to be released, but he ignored her. He penetrated her trembling soft heat with a single finger and used the palm and heel of his hand to press her ass closer against his cock.

She couldn't lie to him, or herself, anymore. She wanted him like she'd never wanted another. She should be furious or maybe even terrified, but she was neither. All she could feel was arousal and it made every nerve ending in her body come alive. Kat knew there would never be another for her. She should fight him with every fiber of her being, but she couldn't do it. All she wanted was all that he wanted—everything.

He removed his hand from her sex and she snarled. Nipping her ear, he chuckled and the sound skittered all along her skin, making her feel safe and warm. He continued to rub his monstrous cock along her backside. Jed's hand slid back down her body, cupping her sex again and pulling her away from the wall.

Kicking her legs apart, he kept her thighs parted with his knee and she felt his hand unbutton his jeans, releasing his cock. Jed rubbed its head between the cheeks of her ass before grasping her hips and with a sharp, powerful thrust, part her labia, and surge into her up to his hilt. The sheer power of the orgasm that spread throughout her system was overwhelming and mesmerizing. She had never come just from a man's possession, but as Jed had pointed out repeatedly, he was no ordinary man, he was her fated mate. Kat could scarcely breathe as her body shivered and her sheath contracted all along his length, making him groan.

Jed dragged his cock out until it was barely inside her and slammed back into her again, his hips colliding painfully into her well-punished ass. Kat couldn't think, all she could do was feel as Jed began plundering her pussy, claiming what he knew to be his. She grasped the belt that still bound her to the iron ring. His fingers dug into her skin, holding her still while again and again he pounded into her.

He thrust into her hard and fast, raw and rough. He was primal, feral. Over and over he stroked with a powerful, frenzied rhythm. Her second climax came far too quickly and was devastating in both its strength and the speed with which it claimed her. She had no time to recover; Jed gave her no respite, continuing to thrust into her. He forced her body to yield to his primal call. Releasing her hips, he wrapped one arm around her middle and the other came back up to tease, pinch and tug her nipples, making her cry out in need. He rumbled in her ear, the sound provoking an answering call and leaving her almost panting with want.

His cock retreated entirely, and she howled in frustration and unmet need—which made no sense as she'd already come twice for him. Shouldn't she be done? Shouldn't she be satisfied? She wasn't. She wanted to feel him sink deep into her and release his seed.

Jed reached up and freed her wrists from the iron ring before spinning her around to face him. His mouth came down on hers and his tongue traced the seam of her lip, demanding she allow him entry. Her lips parted as her arms settled around his neck. Sliding his hand between her and the wall, he cupped her ass to hold her in place while he lifted one of her legs and secured it above his hip by crooking his arm behind her knee, spreading her wide.

Once again she was exposed and vulnerable and more aroused than she'd ever been in her life. Nothing compared to the ecstasy she was finding in Jed's embrace. His mouth left hers as he trailed kisses down her neck, steadying her before driving his cock deep into her. Her body convulsed with the enormity of the climax he forced from her. Harder and faster he pummeled her pussy, driving her into a frenzy of need and desire.

Jed fisted her thick, black tresses, tugging on them and forcing her head back, baring her throat. His intent was obvious and imminent.

"Jed, no…"

"Kat, yes. You are my fated mate. Even your father and Marco acknowledged that. There is no one who will oppose me, and I mean to have my way."

Holding her head steady, he nipped the place he meant to inflict his alpha's claiming mark. There would never be another day when she wasn't marked as belonging to her mate. Kat struggled to free herself, but Jed was far too strong and determined. He continued to ravage her cunt with his cock, ramming himself into her repeatedly until her body caught the rhythm and began to ascend to the peaks of ecstasy she had only known with him. As she began to topple over into the abyss, Jed sank his teeth into her flesh in a savage bite.

Still pounding into her, Jed held her flesh in his teeth as his cock began to swell and throb with the anticipation of his own release. He gave up his cum in a glorious rush, triggering a final orgasm from her more intense than all the rest. Her pussy tightened and he ground himself against her, pumping her full of his cum and groaning as he did so. He held her close as his cock twitched and emptied the last remnants of his essence into her.

Jed remained deep inside her as he lifted her other leg, supporting her weight with his arms beneath her backside. With her still impaled on his cock, he walked them to the bed and he sprawled her beneath him before kissing her and finally withdrawing. He stood briefly to remove his jeans and boots, then crawled into bed with her. He pulled her close and spooned her sore and spent body.

"What have you done?" she whispered.

"What I was always meant to do. You are mine now, Kat, as you were destined to be. No one will deny my claim. Later, you will take your vows in front of my father and uncle."

"No," she wailed, softly.

"Yes, sweetheart. I know there are many things unsettled between us, but I will have this finished before another sun sinks below the horizon."

"My father will kill you for this."

"No, he won't. He saw you respond to me that day at Piccolo. I suspect the idea of you being marked has caused him to drink a bit more good DeMedici vintage, but he is wolf and knows what he saw and what I've been compelled to do."

"You marked me without my consent."

He shrugged. "As my father marked my mother."

"Your mother was dying, and he did it to save her."

He chuckled. "No. The omega to our pack's last act on this earth was to open a vein in his arm to pump his blood into my mother's wound. It saved her life and started the transition. Later, when she had recovered my father marked and claimed her with little thought to her feelings on the matter. Don't get me wrong, he knew she was his fated mate, but she will tell you quite plainly that she never consented. Your father and those around her feared that she would succumb to her wounds, but he didn't open up his arm to turn her. Instead, he inflicted a claiming bite in order to save her. It was simply the most expedient way to ensure she lived."

"You don't even know me. Before that day in the vineyard, we hadn't seen each other in years."

Jed nuzzled her neck. "That, my sweet mate, is what seclusion is for."

She struggled to get away from him, but he held her close. "I am not going into seclusion with you."

"Katarina Steele, I don't know how to tell you this, but you already are. My father and uncle will come up here when I send for them and hear you recite your vows. Then they will ensure we aren't bothered again until we are ready to greet the world as one."

"Let go," she said, trying to break free.

Jed reached between them, gently caressing her welted ass. "I would suggest, sweetheart, that unless the idea of being knotted and tied to me for the first time with an even more painful backside is appealing to you, you try soothing my ire rather than enraging it further."

"Bastard," she snarled, and immediately found herself rolled onto her belly and pressed into the mattress as Jed smacked her already aching backside five times.

"I warned you Kat, and I'm not a man given to idle threats. Watch your language."

He pulled her back onto her side, spooning her closely with his arm draped over her waist at an angle that allowed him to cup her mons. She sighed deeply and tried to quell the tears that threatened to fall.

Jed kissed her shoulder. "It'll be all right, Kat. I know you're scared and unsure of the future, but we'll be together and will figure out what's right for us."

"What if what's right for me doesn't include you?" she said softly.

"We both know that it does."

"It's still out there."

He rolled to his back, pulling her until she rested against him, her head on his shoulder.

"Are you frightened that it will try and claim you again, or that it will harm another innocent?" he asked gently.

"Both," she whispered.