She’d never experienced anything like it.
Deep within her abdomen, she felt a strong downward push, which she sensed was wolf in nature.
More, she sent telepathically.
He increased the speed of his thrusts until she was rocking hard on the bed. Ecstasy roared toward her. The inner push suddenly thinned out and an orgasm burst over her sex. The pleasure she felt exploded into a surge of heat so that she cried out in long, strained gasps.
At the same moment, Fergus released the hold on her neck, rose up, then slammed her from behind. He howled through clenched teeth. The sound of his wolf-cries brought another wave of orgasms flowing through her.
Ecstasy carried her into secret, hidden realms.
Her chest felt full and warm.
She joined his howls with a song of her own.
Knowing he was spending his seed inside her put a flush on her skin. She tingled all over and shivered as he began to slow down. She could also smell an unusual, heavy musk scent that rose off her skin. It smelled like animal but with a hint of mountain grasses.
Instinctively, she knew it was Fergus’s mark, something every other wolf would be able to detect. The experience also wasn’t the same as a true bonding, but for now it would help warn other wolves away from her.
She was breathing hard as she lowered herself onto the bed. He followed with her, remaining connected. She could feel that he was still hard inside her.
“You’re still erect?”
“I’ll be like this for a few minutes. It’s the way of the wolf.”
She moved her hips so that she could feel his girth deep inside. “I love it Fergus. All of it. Some of the blocks have weakened as well and I’m catching glimpses of how we were together, how many times we made love, the way we talked. It was beautiful.
“But there’s something more. I can feel the wolf developing in me. The howls, the intensity of every scent. In the middle of everything, I even wrinkled my nose like I’ve seen you do and bared my teeth. She touched her throat. And I’m sprouting fur, how is that possible?”
“I don’t know except like those before us, we seem to be sharing powers.”
He lifted up enough to kiss her cheek and to keep the full weight of his body from compressing her chest.
It took a long time before her breathing evened out.
She turned her head toward the window and saw that the late afternoon was finally making its shift to night.
“We’ll be heading out soon.”
“Yes. We will.”
~ ~ ~
Fergus felt like a man reborn. As much as he’d valued the dreamglide sex with Mary, real-time was so much better.
He drew out of her slowly and reached for the box of tissues on the nightstand. He pulled out several and tucked them between her legs.
“Thank you.”
He leaned down and kissed her back over and over. He eased off the bed, careful not to catch one of her limbs or her hand with his movements.
He was satisfied in the best way, because he’d succeeded in marking her. His seed combined with her orgasm had released his wolf-musk through her skin, something other wolves would be able to detect.
For a moment, he’d almost felt as though he could bond with her, but it hadn’t happened.
Nor should it have. Mary wasn’t a wolf, yet somewhere deep within his soul he’d been hoping to cross that magical line and make her his alpha-mate.
He?