Scent of a Mate (15 page)

“She’s safe. We have her protected.” Aric knew that’s what Caleb really wanted to know.

He gave a grim nod, sliding his fingers through his mussed up hair. “And your mate?”

“Jordan woke today. She’s the reason we know about Eddie. She recognized him from the day you came to my house.”

“I’m sorry I brought him near her.”

Aric knew how Caleb felt. The wolf was angry and guilt-ridden for not realizing sooner that his supposed friend was a snitch.

“Don’t worry about it. Focus on what you need to do next.”

Caleb growled. “I have to catch Rocco off-guard. And now that I see Eddie had been on his side, he’s probably aware of my whole plan. I’ll need to think of something else.”

His friend looked haggard and tired. Aric knew he wasn’t the only one who saw it.

“I think you need some extra hands to help you get on with ridding the Rahound pack of Rocco.” Jake studied Caleb with concern.

Caleb smiled but it didn’t reach his eyes. “I’m a little short on enforcers.”

“It’s all good. I think I can sacrifice some of my time away from the ladies to give you a hand.” Jake sighed.

Caleb lifted a brow. “You’re kidding, right?”

“I think that’s a great idea.” Nathan busted into the conversation. “I’ve got some time on my hands too. You need back-up man.”

Aric watched Caleb for a long moment. “This isn’t about taking your right to fight away, but about ensuring you get the chance to do it.”

He ground his teeth as if ready to argue the point. “I’ll take your help, but I’m taking Rocco down. One way or another, he’s a dead man.”

Jordan sighed as Aric’s truck pulled into her driveway. After so many days at the clinic, she was home.

“Don’t move.” Aric ordered, rushing out of the truck and heading for Jordan’s door.

“Come on, Aric. I can walk. You really need to stop treating me like an invalid.” But she sat there, waiting for him to open her door. Once he did, she curled her arms around his neck and let him carry her into the house. No man and ever treated her with kid gloves before. It was new and interesting, and made her feel special in more ways than one. She’d come to realize in her time at the hospital that Aric and his family were protectors. She couldn’t speak for all shifters, but the Wolfes needed to ensure their loved ones were taken care of. Lucky for her she happened to be one of them.

“I prefer it if you did as little as possible while you’re still healing.” He trudged through the house, shut the door with his foot, and continued to the living room.

Jordan grinned, running her hands over the shaggy hair at the back of his neck. “As little as possible?”

He stopped. His eyes brightened with desire. That look he gave her, hungry and wild, made her body sizzle. “I can think of a few things you can do without overexerting yourself.”

He sat on her favorite chair and placed her over his lap. His rock hard cock poked her ass and flared her lust to life.

Her wiggle had him groaning. “Jordan…”

She ignored his soft warning and kissed him instead, rocking her hips over his dick. They were deep into their kiss. Her hands strayed over his shoulders, gripping and squeezing his muscled arms. And then he was tearing his lips from her, jumping to his feet with her in his arms.

He growled. “What the fuck––?”

“What is it?” She squealed in his hold.

“The chair moved.”

Mind still cloudy with need, she didn’t understand what he was talking about. “What?”

He put her on her feet and placed his hand over the seat cushion of the black leather chair. “It started moving under me.”

She blinked. And laughed. And laughed some more. She continued laughing until her stomach hurt from the look on his face.

He frowned. “What’s so funny?”

“I’m sorry. It’s just...” She burst into laughter again. “It’s a massage chair.”

“Well, your massage chair was groping me.” His attempt at indignant failed with his smile.

She grinned and rubbed her body boldly over his. “The chair isn’t the only one.”

“Then I suggest we go somewhere the furniture won’t try to take part in whatever we’re doing.”

She giggled and let him lead her toward the bedroom. They’d taken two steps through the door when he turned on her, locking their lips together and once again carrying her to the bed. She yanked on his T-shirt, tugging the material over his broad shoulders and head before moving to his jeans.

“Jesus, Jordan. Give me a second.”

She licked his nipple and heard his sharp inhale. “How long was I in the hospital?”

He groaned, sliding his fingers into her hair, pulling her head back off his chest. “A little over two weeks.”

The zipper hissed on its way down. She met his gaze. Wild passion filled his eyes.

“I missed you. I was scared I wouldn’t see you again with every punch that guy threw at me. I don’t ever want us to be separated again.” She took a deep breath and blurted out her feelings. “I love you.”

Her words had an incredible effect. He tore the rest of his and her clothes off so fast all she heard was material ripping. Then he was on her, kissing her hard, branding her with the sexy mouth she loved. He pushed her back on the bed, caressing every inch of her body with his rough calloused hands. Every touch was bliss. Every kiss pushed her temperature higher, soaring into new heights. He cupped her face and allowed her to see the same things she felt mirrored in his eyes.

“I love you too.”

To hear him say the words made her heart flip. Emotion clogged her throat. She threw her arms around him and kissed his neck. She inhaled the scent of her man and the passion burning between them.

“Bite me, Aric,” she whispered.

He kissed her. “You’re sure about this? Your body won’t be the same. Even if it doesn’t accept the change for you to be one of my kind, you won’t be the same.”

She smiled and slid a finger over his lips. “I’ll never be the same anyway. I’m yours now and always will be.”

He growled and dropped to seal their lips together. She widened her thighs to allow him easy entrance into her body. She’d never considered herself easy, but for Aric, she’d probably strip in the middle of the street if it got her some growling during sex.

Her enthusiasm was short lived. He didn’t enter her, which only turned the heat up in her blood. Instead he kissed her neck. Then he slowly licked his way down her chest, circling first one nipple, nipping the little bud with his teeth and sucking so hard her pussy quivered. Then he moved on to the other and did the same, until she was writhing under him and whimpering for more.

“Aric.” She gripped his hair in her fists, squeezing and loosening her hold depending on how his lips moved over her.

He growled into her belly, licking his way around the indentation of her belly button. Her sex grasped at nothing. She needed him inside or she’d lose her mind.

He chuckled, and she realized she’d said it out loud.

“Hurry up already. I’m dying here.”

He glanced up from between her legs. Her breath reeled. Sandpaper clung to the inside of her throat. He inhaled and licked his lips, and she almost came.

“Jordan?”

“Hmm?” She knew she couldn’t speak past the knot in her throat. His look was so hot and possessive she felt melted on to the bed.

“I love how you smell.” He licked a cool, wet, trail from clit to slit. “But I can’t get enough of how you taste.”

Her body wound into a ball of tension with the feel of his tongue swiping at her entrance. She moaned, she screamed, and she ordered him to make her come.

He slid two fingers on either side of her clit, massaging her with the digits. Her pussy throbbed, her nipples ached, and her need to feel him inside her grew some more. The two fingers speared her sex and curved to massage her upper walls and G-spot. It felt like thirty seconds passed before her knees were shaking. Tighter and tighter, her body wound. She sucked air into her deprived lungs and moaned. He flicked his tongue into a quick motion that made her see stars. One gasp, two gasps, and her whole world exploded.

She half-lifted off the bed and slammed back down. Shudders racked her body. Wave after wave of pleasure filled each of her brain cells. She stopped jerking long moments later. Orgasms were never that powerful for her, but with Aric she found herself shaking and turned into a mass of nerves.

A lone thought filled her mind: Pleasing him. She lifted to her knees and grasped his cock.

“That should wait.” He groaned.

She moved into a position where her shoulder brushed his thigh and lowered her head to lick the beads of moisture dripping from his slit. She sucked his cock into her mouth, twirling her tongue a full circle over the head.

After a few slow sucks, she pumped his shaft in her hand. The combination of saliva and precum allowed for easy gliding between her fingers.

“That…feels…amazing.”

She grinned and sucked him into her mouth fully, relaxing the back of her throat to allow him a deeper slide.

“Fuck!”

She whimpered with his cock in her mouth. His hand slid down between her ass cheeks, trailing down to her entrance.

“Yes. You’re so wet.” His voice had gotten that rough timbre, the same one that made her nipples go tight. She increased the pressure on her grip and hollowed her cheeks to massage him with her tongue and cheeks.

Fire lanced her pussy. He fucked her with his fingers and turned her arousal into desperation. Her bobbing increased in speed. Faster and faster until his cock was hot steel in her mouth.

He circled a finger on her asshole, slowly dipping inside. She relaxed into his touch all the while jerking him with her hand and sucking his cock deep into her mouth.

“That’s it, baby. Suck my finger into your ass.”

Her body throbbed. She needed to come. He pumped his finger in and out of her ass before adding another. Then another. He fucked her with three digits, stretching her hole. She groaned and slid his cock out of her mouth.

“Fuck me, please. In my ass, in my pussy, I don’t care, just do me!”

“Oh, I will be fucking your tight little ass, but first, let’s make you my mate.” His voice was so deep and rough she shivered. “Get on your knees and lean forward on the bed.”

She didn’t know she had it in her to move so fast. Then again, promises of orgasm would get him anything. She flipped over to her stomach, lifted her ass high in the air and waited. Within seconds, the broad head of his dick was slipping past her entrance and filling her. Nerve endings stretched so taut she swore something inside her was going to snap at any moment. He propelled back and slammed back in with a groan. She whimpered and gripped the sheets in her fists.

“God, yes!”

Heat spread through her pussy, travelled up her body and licked at her veins. The continuous skin slapping drove up the bar on her pleasure.

He dropped on all fours, caging her with his body. Passions thickened between them like a warm blanket of need. With each powerful thrust her body slipped closer to the edge of the cliff she knew so well, the one that would bring her limitless pleasure.

His breaths puffed by her ear. Each one a soft growl that made her bones melt and her pussy flutter around his cock. Her nipples grazed the bedding with each fast glide of his body into hers.

“Jordan,” he growled by her neck, “you’re mine.” He twisted his hips and his cock slammed into different pleasure cells. “Do you understand me?”

“
Yesss.
”

“Only mine.”

She moaned at his possessive tone. Her orgasm took her by surprise. The knot inside her snapped. A tidal wave of pleasure coursed through her body at the speed of a derailed train. He struck then, biting deep into her shoulder. The sharp pain only intensified her pleasure. She screamed. Later on, she’d swear his cock grew inside her pussy before he tensed at her back. Another wave of bliss shot down her veins. A breath later he was jerking into her, filling her with his cum.

Her lungs constricted. Hell, her entire body shook as mini after shocks took hold. He sucked, kissed, and licked her shoulder. Each swipe of his tongue felt like a silken caress.

“Oh, my God.”

He dropped beside her on the bed, only to pull her into his sweaty embrace.

“Are you okay?”

“Am I okay?” She glanced up into his worried gaze. “Why didn’t anyone tell me that mating meant I’d get the most amazing sex of my life?”

He lifted his brows. “Would it have made a difference for you?”

“Hell yes! I would’ve let you do this to me years ago if that was the case.” She snuggled into his muscled body and ran her hand up and down his chest.

He chuckled. “So you mean you only want me for my body?”

“Oh no! I want you for your body
and
sex.” She grinned.

She slid up his body, brought her face close to his and gave him a kiss. Then she dropped her head into the curve of his shoulder. A strange happiness curled into her heart and bloomed with every breath. She had a mate now. She wasn’t alone anymore. She was now truly part of a family that cared for her. Tears gathered in her eyes. She needed to think positive and allow this feeling of belonging to settle. She’d felt so unwanted for so long. So alone. Accepting this new reality of a loving man and family would take time. But she could honestly admit she was looking forward to it.