The wolf isn’t scratching to get free. Because of what we shared, because I know I can run with her, be held by her, even when I’m a beast.
“All of you,” I growl, moving my lips closer. “Belongs to me. Your life. Your future. Your perfect body. Your happiness. Your safety. That most of all. It’smineto take care of. Always. I need to have children with you, Ruby. I need to be with you. Forever.”
I can scent her happiness in the air and hear her heartbeat's instinctual rise. Without the wolf hammering me, I can hear that, smell it, and bask in it.
Then she smiles, her lips taking shape against mine.
“I want that too,” she says. “There’s something here, something...magical. Heck, that sounds crazy. But then, all ofthisis crazy. I’m not sure that word even means anything anymore. We have a connection, Ramsey. I’ve never been with anybody before, but I refuse to believe it’s like this. It can’t be.”
“It’s not.” Our lips are almost touching now, her words making me ache. “It’s ours, Ruby. Just ours.”
We finally kiss, our lips afire with the contact.
I snarl in pure pleasure as she wraps her arms around me, pulling herself closer, inhaling like she never wants it to end.
I slide my hand down her back, eager to squeeze onto her ass, as my other hand slides up to touch her breasts.
She gasps, leaning back. “Ramsey. I’m sorry.”
I let my hand drop, and shake my head, shuddering with the effort. But not with thewolf.
It’s as though I can still feel the aftereffects of the change, the sharpness lingering even now, everything seeming easier.
In terms of the wolf.
Nothing’s easy about resisting my woman, my cock rock-hard.
Ruby looks down, her mouth falling open. “Jeez.”
I follow her gaze. I’m naked, and my cock is solid, the tip glistening with precome, bulging, and massive as it demands to be inside Ruby.
“I’m not sure I can have my first time here,” she whispers.
I shake my head. “I don’t expect you to. You just make me so wild.”
She reaches over, digging her nails into my chest. “You’re sostrong, Ramsey. Every part of you is so hard.”
“I have to be. For you. For us. For our family.”
She makes the sexiest whimpering noise. “I mean what I said about my virginity. I want to give it to you so badly. But I think if we tried here, I’d freeze up. Big time. Plus, there’s Mom and Liam....”
“I know.”
Tilting my head, I scent the air, through the trees, the grass – and a hint of rain, possibly coming soon – and finally, I reach Liam.
He’s moving away from me, toward the direction of the safe house. It’s difficult because the wind is sporadic, mostly behind me, but I manage when I get a lucky gust.
“I’ll let them know we’re safe,” I say, standing, not at all ashamed to be naked in front of Ruby.
The fields are quiet all around. It’s just us.
“You can do that?”
“Yeah,” I say, laughing softly. “But it’s pretty gross. It involves me being stinky on purpose.”
She laughs softly. “Stinky?Explain it to me.”
“We can communicate via scent. A little, anyway. Nothing complicated. I can’t send him words. But I can let him know we’re okay. No danger. He’ll know to go ahead and wait for us at the safe house.”