“Riggs!”
All I earned was a grunt of frustration. He took my wrists and pinned them to the table beside me, then bent to kiss my neck.
I breathed out a surprised moan. His lips were on fire, and the kiss made my stomach explode with heat all of its own. It was still him in there. This was part of him, I reasoned. There was Riggs, and there was his wolf. But they were both the same person, in some strange, werewolf sort of way.
He yanked my pants down, then ripped my panties free with a tearing sound. He hardly made an effort not to rip my shirt as he got it off and then proceeded to pull my bra away.
I had to admit his intensity was doing all sorts of dirty things to my body. I liked feeling so wanted. So desirable that I’d made him lose control.
And then he bent, pulling my ass right to the edge of the table so he could kneel and put his head between my legs. I’d never had a guy down there, and I had about half a second to think about it before the impossible heat of his mouth was on me.
I gripped the sides of the table, squeezing my eyes shut and involuntary arching my back. The world turned to a swirl of white light and red flames. Those flames licked at me, teasing out my pleasure with passionate impatience. My body quivered and my thighs pressed in around his head.
“Riggs,” I whispered, suddenly wanting to know it really was him—that his wolf wasn’t some separate being stealing me from him. “Tell me you’re in there.”
He didn’t stop immediately, but when I took two handfuls of his hair and yanked him up to meet my eyes, that seemed to finally wake something up in him.
The yellow in his eyes flickered like a cloud passing in front of the sun. Then it was dulled, just a pale yellow behind his normal brown. He was still breathing hard and my arousal was on his lips, making them look puffy and red--wet with desire.
“Fuck,” he breathed, pushing off the table as he stood. “I’m sorry, I-”
“Hey,” I said, sitting up and pulling him to me. It had the unintended effect of pressing his abs right into my pussy, which made me shiver with accidental pleasure. “What was that?”
Riggs reluctantly met my eyes, then looked away, shaking his head. “Taking the role of Alpha changes the dynamic with my wolf. He’s more alive, now. More powerful. He has to be to keep the others in line, but it has been a while since he’d tried so hard to grasp control.”
I felt suddenly cold. “So it’s not you when you’re like that?”
“It is. We want the same thing. But he isn’t as subtle about taking it. That’s all. I’m still in there. It’s like being drunk, sort of. Or in a trance. It’s all desire with no reservations. Power drunk,” he said finally, seeming to settle on that as the most accurate description.
I thought about all of that, then worked my lips to the side and titled my head at him. “So when you have all the power in the world with no consequences or reservations, you carry me off and try to fuck me?” I had to admit even saying fuck me aloud took me beyond my painfully innocent comfort zone. But it made me feel hot and bothered all the same.
Riggs grinned. “It has taken inhuman amounts of self-control not to fuck you at every possible opportunity. All my wolf needs is a slight handhold and I’d probably come charging at you.”
“That’s charming, in a scary sort of way.”
Riggs’ eyes flickered yellow, and he shook his head, like he was trying to hold it back.
I reached up, touching his lips and marveling at how soft and warm they were. “No,” I said. “It’s okay. I don’t want you to stop. Either of you,” I added, not quite sure how to navigate his shared psyche delicately.
Riggs tensed, muscles flexing as he seemed to struggle with something. He shivered, and then when he opened his eyes one was blazing yellow and the other was perfectly brown. He looked momentarily surprised. The hand on the side of his body with the yellow eye reached out suddenly, gripping me with intense strength and pulling me closer. His other hand was more gentle on my hip. I noticed one was warmer, too.
Oh, wow, I thought. Was he literally splitting his body in half with his wolf and his own mind?
I didn’t have time to contemplate because his wolf arm—as I started thinking of it, even though it looked perfectly normal, took me by the hair and moved me from the table to my knees, which brought me face to face with his erection. He pulled me into it, forcing my mouth around him as he started fucking my face without apology.