Chapter 38: Griffin

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GRIFFIN

P ulling Kali closer, he nuzzles into her neck and kisses a path from her exposed clavicle, across pale skin, to her jaw. The beast replaces her attacker's scent with ours, erasing any trace of another man's touch from her body.

Reluctantly, I must admit, there's something freeing about the simplistic way he views things. Don't want any confusion as to whether your woman is spoken for or not? Cover her in your scent to tell everyone to stay away.

Kali laughs indulgently at his over-the-top behaviour as he rubs against her, pressing her back against the smooth rock.

With careful fingers, he examines every inch of her body for injuries, kissing every tiny scratch, and soothing deeper cuts with his tongue to speed up the healing process. This is a little less drastic than his other home remedy, and as I get to enjoy her little moans and whimpers as well, I'm on board with this one.

He worships her, showing his devotion through care and touch. It's a softer side he rarely shows, and it's reserved only for her.

Once he's satisfied that she's largely unhurt by the race through the trees, and that her older injuries are still healing nicely, his thoughts turn less concerned and more appreciative. His hands, previously tentative, caress and massage her body with interest, a deep rumble reverberating in his chest, when his hands cup her pert breasts.

Kali sighs, relaxed and happy, as he dips his head to suck one pebbled nipple into his mouth.

"Mine," he repeats, softer this time, but still ignoring her previous argument like the obstinate bastard he is.

She doesn't fight with him. We all understand the point she's trying to make, but to him, nothing changes the fact that she belongs to him, and him only.

The fates have gifted us to each other and brought him to Sutton to find her. He's already hers, and she will be his. He's determined to make it happen.

"You're so stubborn." She complains, even as she melts at our touch. "Griffin, if you can hear me, can you explain to him what I mean?"

The beast snarls, spinning her around so she's forced to throw out her hands, bracing herself against the cool, flat rock. Leaning closely behind her, letting her feel his breath on the back of her neck, he clamps his teeth down on her shoulder, not hard or aggressive, just letting his displeasure be known.

She is his. Denying his claim and going over his head to me only fuels his frustration.

He brings my hand across her stomach before dropping lower between her trembling thighs. Two fingers swipe across her pussy to collect the copious juices dripping from her, already scenting in the air. Groaning at the feel of Kali's warmth, he can't resist dipping my fingers just inside her, teasing her, when all she wants is to be filled.

When Kali moans and looks over her shoulder, pleading with her eyes for him to give her more, he drags my fingers out and presses them to her lips. As she sucks them clean, he pushes them into her mouth, loving how her tongue swirls around them.

"Taste yourself, Kali. Isn't that fucking heaven? I'm going to want that every day for the rest of my life."

Her eyes widen as he drops to the ground, hands skirting down her hips, before yanking her legs further away from the wall, and spreading her thighs with my big hands. Suddenly, he buries my face in her heavenly pussy from behind, and her scent surrounds me.

Kali's knees wobble, her legs almost buckling, as my tongue plunges into her tight channel. Kali shakes, but my hold on her keeps her upright.

"MINE."

The vibrations from my snarled word elicit a loud gasp from Kali as she turns to face forward again, head hanging down between her arms, while I devour her. She trembles in my grip as I taste every inch of her, frantic, desperate to reconnect after fearing I would lose her again.

Plunging two fingers deep inside her, I stretch her wide, knowing I need to prepare her for me, because I don't think I can be gentle, even though I should be.

"Griffin!" Kali cries out, her fingernails scraping on the rock wall as she squirms, half-heartedly trying to get away from the sensations pulsing through her.

My hold is too strong. I have her exactly where I want her, and I'm not letting go. As she races toward her release, coming hard and fast, I add a third finger, Kali crying out when I curl them and stroke that little spot she loves so much.

"Please, please."

While she babbles incoherently, I take my cock in my hand and stroke it, spreading the pre-cum leaking from the tip down my length, and loving how our scents mingle. She's about to detonate. Her walls flutter around my fingers, and her breathing comes in short, sharp pants.

Pulling my fingers out of her, ignoring her whine of disappointment, I press my chest to her back, letting her feel my thick length, smearing her ass with the precum leaking from the tip.

"More, I need it, please Griffin," she whispers, her quiet plea almost my undoing as she rocks back, trying to tempt me with her round ass.

The beast has more willpower, determined to hold out for what he wants before giving in to her.

"Say it. Fucking say it, Kali." I snarl, rocking my hips, letting my cock slide up and down between her soft cheeks.

She arches, trying to get the head of my cock to notch at her entrance, leaving me unable to resist plunging deep inside her. But not yet.

With a hard slap to her backside, loving how the flesh pinks immediately under my palm and the startled gasp that falls from her lips, I bring her attention back to me, and not the throbbing need between her legs.

"Say you're mine." Feeling particularly diabolic, I add, "Tell me I can mark you. Right here, right now."

She's never denied that she's my mate, but she hasn't pushed the marking thing. Knowing it will brand her as mine, I need it now more than I need air. My teeth are already down, filling my mouth, pulsing with the desire to sink deep into her perfect shoulder. Her creamy skin is just inches away from my lips and smells good enough to eat. Kissing her neck softly, grazing her skin with the points of my teeth, I remind her that I could do it now, without her permission, if I really wanted to.

She stills, thinking, processing. Maybe she needs more encouragement.

Grabbing her hips, I tilt them forward, exaggerating the curve of her back, and press the swollen head of my cock to her needy pussy. Easing forward, I let her have an inch, and the pleasure of being inside her body is so exquisite, I have to squeeze my eyes shut and ball my hands into fists to stop the urge to come immediately.

"Griffin, give it to me," she mumbles, reaching back with one hand to stroke me, to hold me in place. She attempts to push back and impale herself on my hard length, but I pull back further out of reach. "Take me, I need you."

My resolve is cracking. Everything in me wants to give in to my mate and make her feel good.

"Give me what I want, and I'll give you what you need." I demand. "You owe me. You promised me I could take you any way I wanted. This is what I want. Fucking you hard while I sink my teeth into your neck."

The fresh flood of wetness between her thighs and the intensifying scent of her lust in the air gives away how much she likes the sound of that.

"I know you want it, Kali," I whisper against the back of her neck, letting my warm breath tickle her skin before gently nipping her earlobe.

Kali's head falls to the side, giving me better access, and I smile, feeling victorious as each defence she's built up crumbles.

When I place my hand on top of hers, lacing our fingers together against the damp cave wall, she rests her cheek on my arm and whimpers again, needing me to take care of the ache deep inside her.

With one hard thrust, I push inside her, filling her completely.

Kali cries out, her voice loud in the deafening silence here, high above the forest canopy. The need to claim her before anyone can take her from me is overwhelming. Pounding into her with unrestrained fervour, I wrap my arm around her hips to get her close to me.

"Griffin! Fuck!" she screams as I snap my hips, my balls slapping against her with each drive into her warm, wet pussy.

My cock swells, harder than it's ever been before as I watch, fascinated as my skin darkens and my claws lengthen slightly. Staring between our bodies, I'm shocked to see my length expanding, growing thicker, now a dusky grey, like my skin in animal form.

I don't really understand what's going on, but the beast is here and humming happily at the sight, both at his expanding cock and claiming her as his, in every sense of the word. There's a bulge, growing at the base of my cock, and he's obsessed with keeping it inside her as I thrust, not wanting it to slip out.

"What, what is that? Fuck Griffin, I'm so full. I can't…" she babbles, head turning from side to side, her body wriggling, trying to grow accustomed to the extra girth.

"You can. Yes, you fucking can." Lights dance in front of my eyes as I suck her neck, the beast zeroing in on the perfect spot to mark her, to brand her as ours. "Tell me you're mine forever."

Kali remains silent apart from the breathless pants and plaintive cries she can't keep in as I punish her pussy with rough thrusts.

This body is mine. This pussy is mine. There's no going back now.

"Fuck Kali, this is torture. You're perfect. So perfect for me. Why won't you let me have you? I'm yours already. You have my heart, forever."

This is killing me. I need to come. I want to fill her with my seed and keep her close for the rest of our lives.

"If I promise to let Griffin out, to find a way to live together, will you let me?"

It's only then that I realise he already has. It's the two of us, working together to drive our mate crazy.

She tosses her head back, her beautiful blonde hair fanning across my shoulder, and I'm not sure she even heard me until she nods, quick and sure, her eyes locking onto mine for just a moment, before they roll shut again.

Kali tightens around me, her perfect cunt gripping me like a vice.

Staring toward the entrance, I lick the back of Kali's neck and scatter small bites and nips along her spine, my claws scoring her skin and leaving painless signs of my ownership all over her glorious body.

Her heart skips a beat, and the following silence tells me all I need to know.

Without pausing, I surge forward, driving my cock hard into her, bottoming out against her cervix, and my razor-sharp teeth plunging into her shoulder with force, throwing her into orgasm after orgasm that has her crying out and clawing at the rock in front of her.

"MINE." I snarl, releasing her shoulder only to sink my teeth back into her flesh again, slamming deep and keeping our hips pressed tightly together as the base of my cock swells impossibly big, and I grunt, loving the way she's wrapped around my every inch.

Stroking up and down Kali's side, I pulse my hips once, twice, loving how little aftershocks wrack her body with each tiny movement, and the sight of the stretched skin over the thick ring around my cock.

"Oh my gosh. That was… that was amazing…" she mumbles dreamily, stroking my thigh with her warm palm and sighing in contentment as I withdraw my canines, licking my lips to savour the last hint of her blood in my mouth.

"We're not finished yet," I whisper.

She stills beneath me. Understanding dawns on her as she rocks forward and finds she can't move.

My knot, the beast tells me. We're locked together.