Chapter 40

“I’m okay,” I worked to say the words even though my throat stung like a bitch. I pushed to my elbow, and his fingers slid to my wrist, pinning it to the ground.

“You’re not healing.” His attention remained fastened to my throat. By the feel of the wet shirt against my skin, blood leaked freely. Another pulse of heat constricted in my belly.

I wouldn’t die. The one that could kill me lay next to me. Dead. I just needed to feed for the worst of it to heal.

“Fuck,” I croaked. The ache would turn unbearable soon.

Tanner bent his head to get closer to my face.

“Maya.” Worry coated his voice. I lifted my head and pressed my mouth to his.

“I need to feed,” I panted against his mouth. “But I need to finish ripping him apart.” I didn’t want to; I craved Tanner enveloping me in his arms.

His lips twitched under mine, and I sank my teeth into his pouty lower lip. He sucked in a hard breath.

“Fuck, Maya. I’ll feed you all you want.”

Yessss . Tanner scooped me in his arms, and even with the quick motion, he didn’t jostle me much. My stinging wounds had nothing on the ravenous lust trying to overtake me. I fought against it, gripping Tanner’s shirt in a death grip.

“Wait, I have to?—”

“They can handle it.”

A naked, blood splattered Enzo scowled from over his shoulder. “Why not you?” Enzo snapped.

“Teamwork makes the dream work.” Tanner’s lips twitched.

Fire blazed in my stomach, and I gritted my teeth to keep myself in check. If Tanner didn’t get me somewhere private soon, I would fuck him right in the middle of the hall.

“Tanner,” I muttered and yanked at the front of his shirt. “Hurry.”

His pace quickened and the walls blurred, then we were through the front doors. Noise bashed against my ears as we exited into the chaos. Unnaturals were scattered throughout the campus and milled in various emotional states.

Sobbing, shouting . . . name it, it was there. The aftereffects would be a shit to pick up. I didn’t want to think of it, and it wasn’t like I could dwell on it too much since each breath I took elevated my ache. Tanner’s shirt tore under my fingertips. Such smooth, sexy skin . . . Fuck, I needed a distraction.

“Is Claudia okay?” I verged on panting, how lovely. How embarrassing.

“The bleeding is slowing,” he said, ignoring my question as he studied my throat. That was probably why I felt like I was about to lose it and latch myself onto his cock like some cum leech. Dammit, what was it with these thoughts? I’d become delirious. I rubbed my fingertips against his chest, groping the hard muscles. My stomach cramped and I clenched my thighs so tight they started shaking.

Tanner slammed his shoulder into the dorm building door and into the thick smell of smoke. He zipped through the lobby and up the stairs. Every jostle sent a tremble down my spine. I cinched my eyes tight, rubbing my cheek against his chest. At the keypad to my room, he hovered close for me to input my pin. My hand shook, but I managed to tap the buttons. It beeped, and he shoved through. Nothing had changed in the dorm.

My nose burned and a peppery scent tickled my nose. With each blink of my eyes, a graininess rubbed against them. What if I hurt Tanner?

The thought leaked away.

It was over with . . .

Mine .

Red bled into the surface of my skin and desire took over.

My fae.

I curled my arms around his neck and swung my legs around his waist, clinging to his standing form. Spearing my blood covered fingers through his hair, I arched my hips, so my pussy rubbed against the front of his pants. The friction caused a spike through my stomach, and I hummed. I clung to his shoulders, balancing with one leg hooked on his waist as I slipped a finger into the waistband of my leggings to yank a jagged line through the material, then I pressed my talon into the hook of his slacks. With a twist of my wrist, they were gone. His hard cock bobbed free. Climbing higher, I pressed my knees into his sides and secured my grip around his neck.

“Be careful with your throat—” His words cut off with a grunt as I slammed myself onto his dick. I tipped my head back and moaned. A pulse through his cock had me grinding down on him. I twisted my hips in small circles, reveling in the thickness filling my channel.

His palm pressed into my hip, and he stilled me. “One second, love.”

I whimpered.

“Fuck.” He strode forward, each step rubbing him inside me. My ass pressed into the edge of the mattress, and my talons sank into his arms. I arched my hips again to feel him.

Each grab at him seethed with desperation. I wouldn’t have been able to stop if everything I cared for was threatened.

“Fuck. Maya.” Tanner moaned and slammed my hands onto the bed. His hips jackknifed and pinned me down. The walls of my pussy constricted, and Tanner’s expression rippled, his nose flaring as his eyes closed.

Want him. Mine.

His hips pumped and a furrow formed between his eyebrows. Cum warmed my channel, and the jerk of his cock rubbed on my clit, coaxing an orgasm free. My pussy squeezed his shaft. Again, and again.

Moaning, I shuddered and arched my head back. Tanner’s warm cum sent spikes of electricity through my system.

“Irresistible Maya,” he said, huskily. “The vampire’s nickname for you is apt, you are a little monster.”

A small smile curled up my lips.

His attention dropped to my neck.

I bit my lip and lazily turned my hips in a circle, embracing the silky feel of his cock rubbing against my insides.

A vibrating grunt rolled through his chest, and he straightened his arms, lifting so he stood at the end of the bed while his cock remained deep inside me. I stared down at him.

His hands moved to my thighs, and he propped me higher on him. My lower half formed a curve with his hands bracing me. Looking directly into my eyes, he pulled out and then slammed into me so hard I could feel the tip of his cock at my cervix.

I sucked in a quivering breath.

“Watch,” he panted. His wet shaft glistened from the light in the room, then he slipped back inside me with a harsh thrust. Each violent, rocking motion shuddered my soul.

“More. More ,” I breathed, wiggling my hips.

His cock twitched, and he grunted. “I’ll give more to you, love,” he murmured as his thrusts turned frantic.

My lashes fluttered. “Tanner.” Another deep inhale inflated my chest.

It didn’t take long for my body to draw tight, on the verge of release. My ankles pressed into his thighs, and I matched his rough thrusts. The slaps of our skin meeting shot me over the edge.

Tanner gasped. His cock throbbed in my pussy, and his rutting turned disjointed.

I pulled my monstrous form back, and tan skin slowly replaced red flesh. The graininess from my eyes subsided.

His blond eyelashes lowered, blocking his brown eyes. Strands of messy hair fluttered at his forehead. I could look at his chiseled features forever.

“I love you,” I said, the words spilling from my soul.

He stilled abruptly, and his expression morphed into a pained one. Another jerk of his cock and his entire body shuddered with his release. He grunted and bowed over me; his head fell forward and hovered over my chest.

Immediate relief slackened my jaw. The violent hunger abated a notch but was nowhere near gone.

His cock continued jerking in my pussy, and cum dripped from where we were joined. His thick, long shaft rubbed against my clit at this angle, wrenching a moan from the deep recesses of my soul.

“I might pass out.” He slurred and face planted into the bed beside my head. I grunted from his weight. Panic wrapped around my throat.

Did I hurt him?

He rolled to the side with a groan and slipped out of me with a wet pop. I relaxed at the sound and scowled, hating the feeling of him not inside me. Climbing to my knees, I settled on his thickness, gliding down on him inch by inch. His fingertips pressed into my waist, chest shuddering as he patted the comforter until he lifted his phone to his ear. He was calling someone? I tilted my head, waiting.

He pressed his pouty lips together.

“Hello?” The voice on the other end, my wolf’s voice. I tilted my head, watching the myriad of expressions flutter over his features. I ground down until I couldn’t get any more of him in me and hummed. I could feel the tip of his cock pressed against my stomach.

“Get here now,” Tanner breathed and slapped the phone onto the bed. I twisted my hips in a circle, embracing the feel of his wet cock. Cum dripped onto the neat golden tuff at his pubic bone. I shivered. “You’re a menace.”

My talons rested on his chest, and I sank them into his skin. “Mine.” I rolled my hips again and his eyes closed.

“I will make you pay for this, Maya,” he gritted his teeth.

I enjoyed his hyper-sensitivity. Each time I moved; his body twitched like the sensations were too much.

I grinned.

Tanner squeezed his eyes so tight that the golden lashes grazed the top of his cheekbones, and the corners of his eyes wrinkled. I used my legs to brace as I glided up to the top of his dick. Each inch I unveiled of his huge cock glistened with moisture.

Veins bulged from the sides of the shaft. I hovered at the tip, and Tanner inhaled between his teeth. As if it was a trigger, I slammed down hard.

He jackknifed up, mouth slightly parted. “Fuck.”

Each jut of his cum caused my pussy to flutter around him. Still, I needed more.