“I do want to mate you, Nora. It’s actually all that I want. When I thought Sage was keeping you prisoner, I almost went insane with the need to find you and mate you right there. I’m sorry I didn’t know sooner that you’re my true mate. There’s something in this town …”
“Hush,” she kissed him, silencing what was sure to be a heartfelt apology on his part for not seeing her sooner. Nora would have none of it. She meant what she had said before. She had some learning to do before she was ready for the kind of love theirs was going to be.
Now, Nora was sure of herself. She was a shy bookworm, but one man had the key to all that.
Jack Hayes.
He didn’t care if she was shy or an avid reader because he preferred quiet solitude too. And, of course, he was an author. A writer who wrote some of her favorite books in the whole world, which was really saying something.
“I’m going to mate you,” she murmured, grabbing his cock again.
He chuckled, thrusting his hips into her. “That’s my line.”
She shrugged. “Maybe, but it’s mine too. We’re in this together.”
“Agreed,” he whispered, his own hand finding her heated center.
His fingers slid with ease through her moistened folds. He found her clit and rolled his finger over it, making her shiver. She arched into his touch, throwing her head back with pleasure. She moaned his name and rocked her hips again.
She rode his fingers until her orgasm crested, then needed to grip his big, strong shoulders as he continued to move his thumb around the bundle of nerves through her release. Nora knew her man well enough to catch on to his game. He was going to try and give her a few orgasms before he eased inside of her, but that wasn’t what she wanted.
“Any other day, any other time, I would let you take as long as you needed, Jack, but right now, it’s all about what I need.”
“And what do you need, Nora?”
“You. I need you. Inside me. Deep and hard.”
He grinned. “You’re such a dirty little thing, aren’t you?”
She giggled, still riding the high of her orgasm. “I am. You bring it out in me, or maybe we bring it out together.”
“I like the second one way more. We bring it out together.” He kissed her fiercely as she hoisted herself up in order to position his cock at her entrance.
Slowly, inch by inch, she eased down on his erection. She closed her eyes, relishing the tight fit of his cock in her sheath. When she was fully seated, she moved her hips in tiny circles. She kept her movements languid while Jack’s hands held fast to her hips.
If he wanted to, he could take over. He could take control and ram into her with that hold on her curves, but he was letting her drive him.
“I love watching you like this,” he said, confirming her suspicions. “Free. Wild. Uninhibited. I’m the only one who will ever get to see you like that, and I fuckin love it.”
Their mouths fused in a series of heated kisses as Nora continued to move above him. As her orgasm built, Jack began to meet her thrust for thrust. She couldn’t tell where he started, where she began, where either one of them ended.
Deep inside, her pleasure was tight and ready to explode. She cried out higher and higher, the passion nearly overwhelming.
Jack kissed a path along her neck until he settled on the crook of her shoulder, and just when she reached her peak, he did too, thrusting hard and deep inside her. His teeth broke through her tender skin, mating her. Marking her.
They came together, crying each other’s names.
Jack and Nora remained intertwined for a long time, letting their hearts and breaths return to their steadier rhythms. He drew his fingers across the orgasmic blush on her chest and up to the mark that proclaimed she was a lion’s mate.
“Together,” he said.
She smiled at him, her body still coming down from the high of her orgasm. “Together,” she repeated, twinning their fingers together.
“I love you, Nora Ledger.”
“And I loveyou, Jack Hayes.”
“You know what this means, though, right?” He chuckled when her eyes went wide.