I basked in the sound of her giggles as she let my wolf rub all over her body. Then I settled next to her on the couch while she petted my wolf’s fur and scratched behind my ears.
My wolf wanted to soak up her acceptance of our dual nature, but my human side knew there were things we needed to discuss, and we couldn’t do that until I shifted back. I forced the wolf to take a back seat, changing from my wolf form to human in the blink of an eye.
“Oh, my,” Allegra breathed, my naked body sprawled between her legs.
I pressed one hand against the back of the couch and the other against the arm beside her. Leveling myself over her, I brushed my lips against hers. “Do you believe me now?”
Her hands clutched my bare shoulders as she kept her eyes locked on mine. “Yeah, it’s hard to wrap my brain around everything, but it’s not like I can accuse you of making it up when you just changed into a wolf right in front of me.”
“I’ll never lie to you, Allegra,” I swore, staring into her eyes so she could see the sincerity in mine. “I get that it’s hard for you to process that shifters are real, but I want to make sure you know you can trust me. Even though we just met, I’ve been waiting for you my entire life, and I won’t do anything to mess this up.”
“My instincts were telling me to trust you from the moment you pulled me out of that car,” she admitted softly. “But I do have some questions for you.”
“Ask me anything,” I offered.
“Um.” Her gaze started to drift lower, but she jerked her head up again and asked, “Could you pull on some pants first? It’s kind of distracting with your…um…junk hanging out.”
“My junk, huh?” Damn, she was so fucking adorable, it hurt. I flashed her a wink, rolled off her body, and snagged my jeans off the floor. After I pulled them on, I lifted Allegra off the couch before sitting down and settling her on my lap. “Is that better?”
“I wouldn’t say better, exactly,” she teased with a little grin. “But it’s easier to talk this way.”
She wiggled in my lap, making me groan as my dick pressed against my zipper. I’d been waiting forever to sink deep inside my mate, and my willpower was only so strong now that I’d found Allegra. “Go ahead and ask me whatever you want, baby.”
She rested her head against my shoulder, getting comfortable in my embrace. “Well, you said you’d waited your whole life for me. How long is that?”
“I’m thirty,” I answered, rubbing my chin across the top of her head. Just like the animal side of my nature, I felt the urge to leave my scent all over my gorgeous mate. “How about you?”
“I turned nineteen a couple of months ago,” she admitted softly.
It was a good thing she wasn’t young for a freshman, or else I would’ve been stuck waiting until she was legal before I’d be able to claim her. “I’ll have to do something extra special to celebrate your twentieth since I missed your last birthday.”
Her plump lips curved up in a pleased smile. “I guess that means you think we’ll still be together next year, huh?”
“Abso-fucking-lutely, baby. Mates are forever, and I knew you were mine the second I smelled you. Your strawberries and cream scent called to me from blocks away,” I explained.
“So if one of my friends had gotten a strawberry shake at the diner and then waited around for the check instead of me, you’d be acting like this with them instead?”
Her dark eyes spat fire at me, and she crossed her arms over her chest, blocking my view of her perfect tits. I loved how pissed off the possibility seemed to make her because I wanted my mate to be as territorial over me as I was her. But I didn’t want her to feel pain over something that never would have happened, so I hurried to reassure her. “Your friends could drink a million strawberry milkshakes, and I’d never want them.” I pressed her against my hard length as I tilted my hips up. “You’re the only woman who can do this to me. The only one I’ll ever want.”
6
Allegra
I’d never seen a penis in real life before, and I’d really wanted to stare at Zeke’s when he’d been naked. It had taken everything in me to force my gaze away from it, and now he was telling me that I was the only woman who could make him hard like that. But I wasn’t sure if I was taking it the wrong way. “When you say you’ve waited thirty years for me and I’m the only one you’ll ever want, you don’t mean like…ever, right? As in you’ve never, um…you—”