Chapter 35

"My house is this way," she twists around, trying to point past my hip in the direction of the cottage Blake gave her to stay in. He moved them here rather than have them living in the pack house where visiting alphas could pick up her scent.

With a dark chuckle, I stroke my hand over her ass and down her leg, dipping dangerously close to where I really want to touch, between her thighs.

"I know exactly where you live." Blurring to her doorstep, I'm already hard and aching when I drop her to her feet. The pent-up frustration of the last few days threatens to consume me, and I struggle to breathe through the desire to drag her to the floor right here.

Mandy fiddles with the door, stopping and turning to me with it still closed.

"How did you know…? Actually, no, I don't want to know."

She gazes up at me, smoothing a hand over my chest and sighs. It's all very sweet, but we can do the lovey-dovey stuff later on.

"Woman, if you don't open that fucking door and get inside, I'm going to fuck you against it, right here, for your neighbours to see."

Mandy almost chokes as the raw need burning inside me comes out in my words. She opens the front door and hurries inside, moving halfway down the hallway, then turning to face me. I don't blame her for being anxious, I'm nervous about what I'm going to do next.

But she likes it, that dangerous edge to me that keeps her on her toes. Not that I'm a danger to her. She has me wrapped around her little finger.

When the scent of her arousal hits me, I growl, every muscle in my body going taut as I observe her closely. She's already breathing heavily, her wolf is right at the surface, looking right back at me. Her pulse is quick, her pupils dilated, her nipples hard and poking through her thin shirt.

Stepping across the threshold, I kick the door closed behind me and growl, barely more than a quiet rumble, but I watch as Mandy's cheeks pink deliciously and her pulse quickens. With self-control I didn't know I had, I wait. I've marked her. She's mine. I'm going to make sure she knows it.

"Come here," she whispers, and, pretending to be a good boy, I do what I'm told. Agonisingly slowly, I cross to her, the scent of her belongings, her space, crowding my senses and making me desperate to touch her.

But I don't. Once again, I wait.

Reaching out a hand, she trails her index fingers from my clavicle down the centre of my chest to the waistband of the borrowed shorts I have on. Dipping just inside, she pulls them an inch out, then let"s go, letting the material snap back against my stomach.

Looking up at me from under her eyelashes, all innocent and uncertain, she quickly averts her gaze from the fire she sees in mine. Mandy skims her fingers along the edge to my hip and tickles the skin there with feather light touches and caresses. She inches closer, the heat of her, the intensity of her scent, pushing my willpower to the edge of cracking. My hand snaps out, circling the base of her throat and forcing her to look up at me.

"Tell me what you want, Mandy."

Her voice is quiet, sultry; when she finally says the words I've been praying for, "I want you to take me, I want you to feed from me while you're still buried inside me."

Fuck, me. It's like she read my mind.

"That sounds like a great idea." When I release my grip, I suppress a smile when she backs up, nervous excitement lighting up her expression. Mandy's eyes grow comically large as I blur toward her in short spurts, just a few steps at a time. She turns and races away from me, quick on her feet but too slow to get away from me.

When I grab her and haul her back against me, spinning her to take her lips in a tender kiss, she laughs, exhilarated. But when my lips press against hers harder this time, swiping my tongue inside her mouth and stroking hers while I push forward until her back hits the wall, things aren't so funny anymore.

"I missed you," she murmurs. "While you were gone, I missed you." Fumbling at the door to our left, I push it open, manoeuvring Mandy inside what has to be her room. "My wolf needs to mark you. Not being able to mind link was torture."

Cupping her face in my hands, I kiss her, hard, pouring how desperate I felt to be apart into that kiss. "Never again," I vow. "You're never spending another night away from me."

We've spent too many years apart. I'm going to be stuck to her like glue. As I plaster our bodies together, letting her feel exactly how keen I am to be with her, I revel in the thought of us being fully mated with nobody trying to tear us apart.

Mandy gasps at the feel of me poking into her belly but squeezes her eyes shut, determined to get what she wants to say off her chest. Just like I am with her t-shirt.

"You didn't tell him where Noah was. You made sure he was protected, that I was protected." Her voice wobbles. "I'm sorry I said I hated you. I didn't mean it, I just…"

Stopping my attempts to strip her of her borrowed clothing, I stand in front of her and rest my hands on her shoulders, dipping my head so she's forced to look at me. "In the moment, you did hate me, and you were right to. You thought I'd given up Noah's location. I needed you to believe that I had, or Wilson might have guessed that I'd lied. In the end, it didn't matter, but if Blake hadn't made it on time…"

Shaking my head, I refocus on the topic at hand. "People have said much worse things to me." Mandy still looks stricken, so I take her hands and gently place them over my shoulders, easing in close. "You don't hate me now, that's all that matters to me."

Grazing her mark with my lips, I sigh happily when she shivers, her body so responsive. When I nip at her neck, my fangs touching her delicate skin, I love the way she extends her neck without even realising it. Her quiet moans as I lick and suck have my aching cock punching forward. The thin shorts I'm wearing do little to contain my enthusiasm for her. It's safe to say all is forgiven.

Mandy rocks her hips toward me, rubbing herself against my hard thigh and seeking the friction she needs as I walk her backward through the open doorway. In the dimly lit room, first light starts to filter in through the windows, she looks beautiful. Her skin glows and her eyes shine bright. Best of all, the mark on her shoulder suits her perfectly.

As I crowd her toward the bed, she stretches up to keep our lips pressed together, distracting me from my mission to get her to the mattress. Her warm palm slides inside in the material of my shorts and circles my hard length in a firm grip. When she gives me a stroke, her thumb gliding over the slit, I curse, my knees threatening to give way and my balls threatening to empty themselves already, like I'm some horny teenager seeing his first action.

I have to get it together, but the idea of her marking me… it's got me off-kilter. Once I took this form, I assumed nobody, even my mate, would want me.

But it appears I was wrong.

With a wicked gleam in her eyes, Mandy slowly drops to her knees, hooking her fingers into my shorts and tugging them down. Groaning, I step out of them and clasp my hands behind my head, not trusting myself as Mandy's tongue darts out to taste the bead of pre-cum already leaking from the tip.

"Mandy," I groan, ragged and desperate as she takes the head of my cock into her mouth, just a little at first, swirling her tongue around the head, teasing the underside as she laps at me. When she takes me deeper, sucking, the warmth of her mouth and the movements of her tongue make my eyes roll into the back of my head.

I grip my hair tight in my fists to stop myself grabbing her head and pressing my cock further into her throat.

When she grabs my thighs with her hands and moans around me, the vibrations travelling through my rock-hard cock to my already-tingling sack, I'm done. If I don't stop her now, this will all be over far too soon.

"No. No, nope."

Mandy eases back, smiling, my cock leaving her mouth with a pop. "Something wrong, Tyson?" When she licks her lips, eyes shining with hunger, I have to grip myself hard to stop myself coming right then and there.

She looks so fucking sexy, and I recognise the playful side of her shining through now. Lifting my mate back to her feet, I take her mouth in a brutal kiss, my fingers digging into her scalp. I can't get close enough to her, can't hold her tight enough to me. Grabbing her ass in two hands, I squeeze and massage it, loving that there's lots there to hold on to.

"I need to taste you." Dragging my lips across her jaw, towards her ear and down her neck, I groan. My tongue touches her skin, feeling her pulse jump beneath her delicate skin. "Can I taste you, Mandy? I'll make it so good."

She whimpers as I press my hand between her thighs, feeling how wet she is for me. Her arousal perfumes the air, and I relish in how easily my fingers slide across her entrance. Dragging her wetness up over her clit, I stroke her and swallow each one of her delicious little pants.

"Tyson," she cries out as I push a finger inside her, then two, curling to find that sensitive spot that makes her melt. "Take me. Drink my blood."

I don't need to be asked twice. With a guttural growl, I toss her backward onto the bed and dive between her thighs. Burying my tongue inside her pussy, I lap at her honey, groaning as her flavour bursts on my tongue. Stroking her clit with my thumb while I tease her with my tongue, I growl, loving how she squirms from the vibrations passing to her sensitive clit.

"Mine," I growl. "All fucking mine." Without warning her, I sink my fangs in her upper thigh, my head swimming with ecstasy when her taste hits my tongue. Keeping my movements against her clit steady, I thrust my fingers back inside her in time with each draw of blood, stretching her, making sure she's ready for what's to come.

"Tyson!" she squeals, taken by surprise, gasping and chanting my name, writhing underneath me from the pleasure my bite delivers, especially when it's so close to her core. "Fuck, it's too much. I can't!"

"Yes, you can," I moan, sucking hard and savouring every last drop of the sweet nectar she gifts me. Even as I pin her down to stop her wriggling while I still have my teeth buried in her flesh, she shivers, her body shaking with each pull and the movement of my hand between her legs. When I increase the pressure, she cries out and shatters in my arms, her pussy quivering around my fingers. Withdrawing my teeth quickly, I surge up over her and line my cock up at her entrance, thrusting deep inside her in one rough jerk of my hips.

"Mandy, fuck, fuck!" I grunt, losing control completely as I pound into her, her tight core still fluttering around me with the aftershocks of her orgasm. Her slender arms wrap around my neck and drag me down as I drive into her, over and over, my wolf desperate to claim her after fearing we'd never be together again.

While I try to quell the storm of emotions inside me, I feel the sharp prick of her teeth settling against my skin. My breathing stops as I wait, my body begging her to go ahead and claim me. Her tongue licks my neck gently, so softly, I barely feel it, but it makes my heart melt.

"May I?" She's asking permission. Nobody ever asks me for permission. They either take or they assume what I want.

"Fuck, Mandy, do it, it's killing me not to be yours."

The words are barely out of my mouth when she bites down hard and fireworks explode behind my eyes. Coming immediately, I press her hard against the mattress with one last thrust, staying buried deep inside her, and come with a loud, guttural groan.

Unable to stay up on my arms with the force of the sensation that flows through me, I fall forward to my elbows, stunned by the power of the sensations rolling through me.

I can feel it. I can feel how amazed she is, thrilled and proud. Breathless and panting, I dust kisses across her face and along her jaw, giving her one last lingering look as I slowly withdraw from her luscious body. With a contented sigh, I pull back and let my head rest against her tummy, well and truly spent, and admire the gorgeous woman still grinning down at me in satisfaction.

Her fingers skim the marks on my shoulder, and she grins.

"You're all mine now, Tyson."