“I can understand everything else, but are you sure you want to have my babies? I mean, knowing what might happen?”
“You mean we might have a son who also has a beast instead of a wolf?” I asked.
Mutely, he nodded.
“Yes,” I said firmly. “Because your beast isn’t as bad as that stupid pack of yours made him out to be. He’s actually a really good guy and any girl would be lucky to have him. To have you,” I emphasized. “So no, I wouldn’t be upset if we had a son that also had a beast instead of a wolf. I would be completely fine with that.”
One corner of Nick’s mouth went up in a wry grin.
“You amaze me, darlin’—you know that?”
“Why? Because I like your beast?” I asked. “Do you know that while you were in that form, I could feel you thinking and feeling inside my head? It was like a whole new level of communication—I loved it!”
Nick’s eyes widened.
“You heard me in your head while I was in my Fur Form? God, darlin’—do you know what that means? It means we really are Fated Mates!”
“Color me completely unsurprised,” I said, grinning a little. “I’ve always known we belonged together—haven’t you?”
Nick nodded and pulled me in for a long hug. I could feel his heart pounding against mine as he pressed me to his broad chest and I breathed in his warm, spicy, masculine scent, that had always smelled like home to me. When he finally released me, there were tears in both our eyes.
“You really want to be with me?” he asked softly. “You want to be my mate—my wife? Forever?”
“Forever,” I told him firmly. “Let’s run away together like those two Royals Weres did in the story you told me. Let’s make a new life for ourselves, Nick. Forget what the pack or the Council or anyone else says—let’s just be happy together.”
“God, darlin’—I want that more than anything,” he murmured. “But you know, in order to bond you to me permanently, I’d have to breed you again while I was in my human form.”
I gave him a look from under my eyelashes.
“Well, what are we waiting for?” I murmured. “Go ahead and bond me to you.”
Nick frowned.
“I might get you pregnant, darlin’,” he pointed out. “Is that what you want?”
“Is it that you want?” I countered, arching an eyebrow at him.
Nick blew out a breath.
“God, yes,” he admitted, his eyes half-lidded as he looked at me. “It’s what every Were wants. We have a biological need to pass on our genes to the next generation—to make more Weres. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to plant a baby in that sweet little belly of yours, Kira darlin’.”
I felt a shiver run through me at his words. Could it be that I had the same need Nick had spoken of—the need to produce more Weres? I thought it was very likely, considering I was half Were myself. Also, I remembered wishing for a big family when I was a kid. I had hated being an only child and feeling so alone. After being an orphan for so long, I loved the idea of having lots of kids—as long as I have a loving partner to raise them with.
“I want that too,” I told him softly. “I…I want you to bond me to you, Nick—to make our connection permanent. And if you need to get me pregnant to do that, well, then I want that, too.”
“So you want me to breed you, darlin’?” he murmured, holding my eyes with his own? “If you do, I need to hear you say it.”
“Yes, Nick,” I said softly, meeting his gaze. “I want you to breed me and shoot your seed deep in my pussy and make me pregnant with your baby.”
“God, darlin’!” he growled. “Hearing you say that makes me so damn hard!” He shook his head. “But…it’s still hard for me to wrap my head around—hard to believe you want me and my cursed wolf, too.”
I looked at the bulge in his jeans and bit my lip. Even though he wasn’t in Fur Form at the moment, the ridge of his shaft looked extremely long and what one of my girlfriends in college would have called “girthy.”
“You want me to prove it?” I asked, lifting my chin. “Want me to prove I’m willing to let you breed me?”
Nick made a low, hungry growling sound deep in his chest.
“And how would you go about doing that, darlin’?”
“Like this,” I told him.
And I stood up and began to strip.
THIRTY-TWO
Nick watched with eyes lazy with lust as I performed my little strip tease for him. I was wearing a nice dress that emphasized the creamy tones of my light brown skin. The bra and panties I had on under it were a lacy, delicate white that would almost have looked virginal if they weren’t so see through.