Chapter 12

Cole

Ihold Mora close, her heart beating along with mine, and as her tears stop, I reach down, and kiss them from her cheeks. These tears I won’t ever argue. They’re the sweetest ones I could ever find, and I’ll gladly take them every day from here forward.

This was honestly the last thing I anticipated happening when I brought her up here. Stars know it’s what I wanted, but I never expected her to make the first move. Even last night she was hesitant when we were at my place, her kisses shy, but tonight…there’s none of that between us and I’ll never complain that it’s gone.

My wolf lets out a grumble, wanting more, wanting our mark on her neck, claiming her as we come deep inside her again, but the way we want it is something we might not get. The last thing I want is to remind her in any way of what happened to her when she was sixteen, what those bastards did to her. Dominating a mate is something that should be sacred between them, an understanding that it’s not about making the woman feel weak but showing her that her partner is strong enough to please them both, and that she can be vulnerable with him. Those two used it to brutalize my mate, humiliate her, and that makes me want to kill them all over again—especially now that I’ve gone to the stars with my mate and want to take her to them in the deepest connection possible.

I turn her in my arms, holding her back against my chest and lower my face to her neck, inhaling her scent to calm my wolf. My mouth kisses and nibbles against her neck, my hands roaming down her body and her ass presses back against my hard cock, pulling a grunt from us. “Easy now, mate, I don’t want to hurt you taking you again so soon.”

“You won’t, Cole. Take me, claim me, please,” she pleads, and it has my wolf wanting it all, right this second.

I lift her leg, sliding into her tight little pussy, and hold her back against me, savoring the feel of her wet sheath gripping me like a vise. My mouth slides back to her neck, suckling on the spot where my teeth will mark her as mine, and my wolf lets out a huff, wanting more, needing more.

I move us a bit more, until her hips are pressing into the mattress, her upper half still partly turned, and gather her even closer. “Is this okay, baby?” I ask her, when she lets out a little whimper.

“Yes, please, Cole, do it,” she cries, and I pull her up onto her knees, my body caging hers in, blanketing her back, bringing another whimper to her lips.

“Tell me if it’s too much, if I’m too rough, because you feel too good to stop now,” I warn her, my hips moving, filling her over and over, my hands holding here where I need, bringing the orgasm on fast. Her walls are fluttering around my length, begging for it, and without a pause, I sink my teeth into her neck, releasing inside her as she clamps down hard on my dick.

My tongue swipes over her mark, my wolf shouting in pleasure, but it’s her soft cry of more that hits hardest. It’s not from her lips, but inside me, and I can’t begin to stop as her emotions flood me, the claim binding her to me entirely.

“That’s my good little mate,” I tease her, as she comes for me again, her body quaking with it. “You won’t ever deny me what’s mine will you, baby? You’ll gladly let me bend you over, take you, pleasing me and my wolf who both love you more than our own life.”

“Cole!” she cries coming once more, and I join her this time, holding her close as tears slip from her eyes again. I kiss each one away, letting her know how much I love her as she comes back to me.

She turns in my arms, a smile on her lips, her face falling into my neck, and I know I’ll never sleep without her like this now. Without her in my arms, fully mine, her heart and mind both with me.

“I love you too,” she says, her tone soft, and I lower my face to hers, pressing kisses wherever I can reach.

“You’d better be prepared to say that to me at least daily from now on, baby. It feels like I’ve waited a lifetime to hear those words, to feel them, let alone be able to say them to someone,” I add, meeting her gaze, and the smile on her lips floods me with even more love for her. Her body slides against mine, her smile deepening, and it wakes my cock all over again as her emotions turn my desire up even higher.

“Is this normal?” she asks sinking onto my cock, as I turn onto my back, pulling her over my lap.

“What do you mean by this?” I tease her, my hands running down her body, amazed that she can take me with as tiny as she is. The Mother truly knew what she was doing when she made Mora mine.

“Mmm,” she sighs, shivering atop me, and my lips tease her tight little nipple, pulling a deeper moan from her.

“You didn’t tell me what you mean by this, baby, so how can I answer?”

This…feeling you inside me, not that part of you, she adds silently, a smile crossing her face when I swirl my cock inside her. Hearing you in my head, feeling you, what you’re feeling…

‘For mates, bonded mates, yes. It helps to protect them, if someone would attack, the other can warn them no matter the distance. If you need your mate, for anything, you can call for them, and they’ll hear it, feel them and come,’ I respond silently to her, my mouth trailing between her breasts before pulling her mouth to mine, taking her up and up until she shattered around me, letting me fill her once more as she collapsed atop me.

This most certainly has turned into the perfect night. My mate in my arms, her naked body against mine, my claim on her neck, and who knows, perhaps our child taking root inside her belly right now, while the sky danced with lights above us.

“Child?” Mora says quietly, pulling my gaze down to her, seeing the soft look of hope in her eyes.

“If I’m lucky, we already claimed your womb too. If it doesn’t happen tonight, it soon will. I won’t be able to stay away from you to keep it from happening now, baby.”

“Good,” she sighs, her eyes shutting, her face falling into my neck as she slips into the sweetest sleep ever.

I follow her into it, waking when the sun begins to brighten the area, and I can’t take my eyes off her as she starts to stir. The kiss she gives me makes all of me stir as well, and the sun is well up before we stray out of bed. She’s beside me or in my arms the rest of the day and the following one, and Monday morning I wish we could just stay here and ignore everything happening back at the packhouse, but I can’t. The pack’s accepted Bryant as their new beta, but that doesn’t mean they won’t question his authority this soon.

I pack up all of our things while Mora gets dressed, then ensure she’s fully bundled up on the ride back down the mountain. The wind is whipping around the grounds hard when we get there and I scoop Mora up into my arms, carrying her from the garage back to the packhouse, not wanting her stumbling about in the brisk gusts.

“Smells like it’s going to snow hard sometime today,” I muse before lowering my nose to her neck, inhaling her delicious aroma mixed with mine with a smile. “You smell better than it though, especially with my scent all over you.”

“Everyone’s going to know exactly what we were doing this weekend if they see me like this,” she says, a flush in her cheeks that’s adorable.

“Then they’ll know not to touch what’s mine for certain,” I tease, which only makes the flush in her cheeks deepen, and I move us up to our suite, heading into the bathroom with her. “But since I don’t want your dad coming after me for claiming his little girl without telling him I was going to, how about a shower and then we’ll go visit your parents before I have to check in at the office?”

“Please,” she sighs, clinging to my neck, and I bring more out of her as the warm water slides over our naked bodies, my mouth discovering each inch of her as I wash her, claiming her as mine once again, before letting her rinse off one last time, an unmatched smile on my lips.

I bundle her into a towel, soaking up all the excess water from her hair, then brush it out until it’s dry, placing a kiss over my claim on her neck when I finish, loving the soft expression in her eyes. The contentment inside her being that spreads to me. This is how I want my mate always, happy, loved, safe…I’ll take down anything that threatens to destroy it.

“Mmm, you should have packed me more clothes,” Mora says her eyes sliding over the rumpled, damp mess of the ones she was wearing earlier.

“No need,” I state, guiding her over to the closet, watching her jaw drop a bit seeing all of the things I ordered for her. There was no way her southern Georgia wardrobe was going to work up here and I needed to know she had plenty without listening to her argue, especially with the distance she kept trying to put between us.

“What is all this?” she asks, her eyes meeting mine and I just smile, brushing a kiss to her lips. “You’ve been adding things to my closet in the other suite haven’t you?”

“I may have given some sweaters to your brother to sneak into it before your parents got here. Your mom also ordered a bunch of things for you as well, wanting to make sure you were comfortable here even if you kept insisting that you weren’t going to be my mate,” I tease her, and I don’t complain at all when she slips into my arms, holding tight to me. Her thoughts are full of gratitude that I didn’t give up, didn’t push her away, and I drop a kiss onto her lips. “Thank you for not running away, for letting me show you that I’m not the monster you thought I was. I may be a brute and cold to others, but not you, never you baby.”

“I love you, I do, Cole,” she says, her head resting on my chest, and I hold her until I know I have to get our day started or I’ll simply keep her in bed the entire time.

“I love you too, baby,” I tell her once she’s dressed, pulling on my own clothes before we head over to her parent’s suite. “If you need help getting your things together let me know. I’ll send up Danielle to help while I’m in the office.”

“So this mean I sleep with you now, does it?” she asks, her eyes twinkling my way and I lift her up against my body as I continue to climb the steps.

“Always with me, even if you’re too tired for anything more than just sleeping. My mate lives with me.”

“Good, because I love having your scent surrounding me all night,” she states before we give the door a quick knock and head inside.

“Mora,” her mom says, smiling widely when she sees my claim on her neck.

“I thought you weren’t going to claim her yet,” her dad states, looking between us as Mora sinks back into my hold after hugging both her parents.

“I didn’t intend to, but she was ready, and I couldn’t wait another minute to show the world she was mine,” I tell him, kissing Mora’s forehead unable to stop now that she’s truly mine.

“I made the first move,” Mora adds, surprising her parents nearly as much as it surprised me this weekend. “I was ready, more than anything to be his completely, and it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me by far.”

“As long as you’re happy that’s all that matters, sweetie,” her mom assures her, and we spend an hour with her parents before Bryant and I have to head to the office to settle some matters.

“If you head back to our suite, let me know, okay baby?” I tell her, waiting until she gives me a nod to let her out of my sight. It won’t be for long thankfully. The days of torture are over and now, it’s all going to be bliss from here on out. I’ll make damn sure of that.