Embracing the Wolf (9 page)

As if sensing her desire,
Amon drove forwards, thrusting deeper and faster. He pressed his
palms against hers, pinning her arms to the bed and locking fingers
with her, clutching her hands so hard that it hurt. It was as
though he didn’t want to let her go. Or did he fear that she would
bolt again?

She would never leave him
again.

Her fingers curled around,
locking tight with his. His eyes widened and then narrowed as a
flicker of pure hunger sparked in their fiery depths. There was
something else there too. Relief. Happiness.

She smiled, craned her
neck and kissed him.

He moaned into her
mouth.

His hips rocked against
hers and she shuddered with her release, wave after wave of
tingling pleasure crashing over her and making her tremble. Amon
reared up and howled out his own climax. He collapsed on top of
her, panting hard into her neck, their bodies still
entwined.

Closing her eyes, Kat
smiled as she stroked lazy circles on his sweat-dampened
back.

Hazy bliss suffused her,
making her light and warm. Her smile widened and she sighed as she
turned her face and buried it in Amon’s hair. She had never felt so
relaxed and happy.

Amon kissed her shoulder
and the world drifted away as she lay entangled in his
arms.

When Kat next opened her
eyes, she realised that both of them had fallen asleep. She was
cold, shivering without anything covering her besides Amon. He woke
when she moved beneath him and mumbled something before rolling off
her. She gave him a grateful smile when he dragged the covers over
them.

Amon lay on his back and
pulled her close to him. She settled against his side, one knee
hooked over his legs and one hand pressing into his chest. Her head
rested on his shoulder and she looked up at his profile. Was it
over? She felt different. Warmth filled her while she studied his
profile, drinking her fill of the sight of him. She’d missed him so
much. As pleasant as it was to lie in his arms, she didn’t want to
waste time sleeping.

“
Amon?” she
whispered.

“
Hmm?” he
breathed on a contented exhale.

“
Are you
okay?”

His eyes opened. They were
deep brown and warm as they looked at her. He stroked the hair from
her face and brushed his fingers across her lower lip, a soft
caress that made her breath hitch in her throat.

“
Better than
ever,” he said with a wide affectionate smile. He wrapped his arm
around her and pulled her flush against his side, crushing her
slightly. She smiled at this act of possession and the silent
message it sent to her heart. Now that he had her again, he wasn’t
going to let her out of arm’s reach. She rolled into him, almost
laying on her front, and draped herself across his body.

Resting her chin on his
chest, Kat carefully cleared all the strands of his long black hair
from his face. He stared at her, right into her eyes, right down
into her soul. His smile made her own tug at her lips. In the four
years they’d been apart, she’d never felt as happy as she did
now.

“
We’re safe?”
she said with raised brows, wanting to make sure that he wasn’t
about to turn dangerous and she wasn’t going to follow him into the
violent darkness.

He nodded and encircled
her with his arms. His hands skimmed up and down her back, stroking
her in a way that calmed her. She relaxed into him, contented to
the core and happy to just lie with him and stare at his face. His
smile widened.

“
I missed you,”
he whispered with a hint of a frown and swept his fingers down her
cheek. They came to a halt at her jaw, holding it lightly. She felt
every feeling behind those words, every ounce of emotion that she
could see in his eyes.

“
I missed you
too.” She closed her eyes briefly and leaned into his touch,
savouring it and wondering if she was dreaming.

“
We’ll need to
leave this city,” Amon said and held her tight. A sense of safety
the strength of which she had never experienced before filled Kat.
With Amon’s arms around her, nothing could hurt her.

“
Can we go
home?” she whispered, suddenly unsure of herself. They had both
left his pack’s home the moment she’d run away from him. It was
only fitting that now they were back together, they returned to the
place where they’d passed so many happy times.

“
Of course
we’ll go home,” he said in a low voice, soothing to her ears and
her heart. He smiled into her eyes. His were full of the love that
she could feel in him. “The pack will be waiting to meet their
alpha female.”

A blush touched her cheeks
when she thought about having to be the lead woman in a pack. She
hadn’t considered it when she had chosen to mate with Amon. It had
been all about him, about them. Nothing else had come into
it.

She had accepted her wolf
side so easily when it had been her only chance to save him. It
hadn’t been as frightening as she had expected or as difficult. The
moment she had realised that she had to embrace her darker side in
order to protect the man she loved, she had changed in a heartbeat.
It still wasn’t over though. Until she changed fully into her wolf
form, she would continue to hold a sliver of fear about what it
would be like to become the beast.

“
Will it hurt
my first time?” she said, looking into his eyes again and letting
him see her fear.

“
Everyone’s
first time hurts,” Amon said with a rakish smile. Kat slapped his
chest and gave him an unimpressed look. He knew she wasn’t talking
about that. His words reminded her that her first time had been
with him. He was all she had ever known when it came to love. His
look turned serious and thoughtful. “I will be there with you to
guide you through the change, Kat, as a mate should.”

She smiled at that word.
Mate. It was more than lovers, and husbands and wives. It was an
eternal declaration of their feelings for each other and a bond
that made them exclusive. It was a connection that would see them
reject the attention of the opposite sex out of a desire to have
the attention of their partner. It was forever.

Forever sounded
good.

She curled up against him
with her head resting on his chest. The sound of his steady
heartbeat soothed her and she sighed out her happiness. He pressed
a kiss to her hair and held her closer. She had faced her fears and
she felt as though she was alive again, had been given the chance
to undo her past mistakes with the man that she loved. A man who
loved her for what she was and could teach her to love herself too,
teach her to fully accept her true nature and to embrace the wolf.
Now they were safe from the darkness. Now Amon was hers
forever.

Forever with
Amon.

It sounded more than
good.

It sounded like
heaven.

The
End

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About the
author

Felicity Heaton
is a great believer in love at first sight and the romantic ideal.
Having grown up reading extensively, she developed a deep love of
classical literature, ranking Jane Eyre, North & South, and
Persuasion amongst her all time favourite reads. The most romantic
moment of her life was when her husband got down on bended knee on
the steps of Sacré Coeur, Paris, at night in front of several
hundred spectators and proposed. She was too drunk on love, and
subsequently champagne, to care about the audience. All she could
see was the man that she loved. A writer of emotion and life, she
always strives to touch a chord of familiarity in her readers and
give them characters they can love and a read to
remember.

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