And there were a lot of other sensations, vibrations coming at me from him, too that I didn’t know how to decipher.
***
I take her back to bed and set her down.
Her eyes rove over me and I see confusion. Her cheeks are pink as those eyes sweep over my body.
Emotion squeezes my chest like a massive fist. I need her again.
My beautiful little mate, trying to defend me against a massive wolf with nothing but a little stick in her dainty hands. I pounce, pulling my shirt off her body by hauling it over her head, slamming my hips forward, my cock seeking her. She’s still wet and swollen from our last fucking, but behind a barrier. She’s put panties on. I hook the crotch aside with my finger and push my way inside her.
“Mine. You’re mine,” I tell her, cradling her jaw in my hand. “No one will take you from me. I protect you; I keep my Ivy safe. You understand?” My thumb strokes her lips. “Don’t put yourself in danger like that again. You should’ve waited in my bed where I left you. I’d never let anyone hurt you.”
I would do anything to keep her safe from them. Anything. That pack that steals women. That hurts them. That lies. Telling me that I’m their alpha so they can lure me there and take her from me, kill me, hurt her. Devour her beautiful body. No. Fuck no. Seven alphas? This means there are six threats to me. Riley Savage and five more. I want to kill them all. I won’t let them near her.
I fuck her hard, I bury myself in her beautiful body, feasting on her lips, sucking her tongue, digging my fingers into her sweet ass and feeling my body fill with rage at the idea that someone might even try to touch her. I see them in my head, laughing around a fire, palming spent cocks. Pulling beautiful golden and lavender hair from their teeth.
No!
I let out a roar as my cock expands near the base and she cries out an orgasm as my knot pulses against that ethereal inside place that makes her quiver and whimper. I spill with force into her, staring into her eyes, feeling my eyes heat with a glow. I barely manage to beat back the red haze, stopping it from coming through because she’s safe, she’s here, under me, filled with me.
She looks frightened and I feel immediate remorse.
“No. I won’t ever, ever harm you. You need never fear me, beautiful Ivy Savage. I’ve never felt this way about anybody before you, Ivy. My only.”
“Only what?” she whispers.
“Only one. You’re the only one for me. We’re meant to be together.”
Her eyes soften as I growl into her mouth and feel yet another stream of essence leave me.
I bury my face in her hair and go limp on top of her, inside of her. Spent with emotion. I roll and take her to lying on me, so I don’t crush her under my body.
I scrub my eyes with my palms.
She’s trembling on top of me.
I look at her and her eyes are soft, but she shivers. I can see she’s overcome with emotion, too, but hers is threaded with confusion where my emotions are sure.
I wrap my arms around her, and my body temperature rises to get her warm. I’ll make her sure.
“Talk to me?” she pleads in a soft voice. “We have a lot to talk about. But… I… Fuzz… I don’t even know where to start. What happened out there? You’re so angry.”
I let out a sigh and pull her tighter to me. She feels good. She feels right. She feels like the thing I was missing that I didn’t know I was missing until I caught her scent.
She looks up at me with those lavender eyes, her bottom lip in a pout as if she’s about to cry.
She wants to talk. She wants my words. I’m not good with words.
I caress my mark on her with my thumb and briefly touch my lips to her little nose. “I’ve never spoken to another like me except for my uncle, who died.”
“You’ve been alone a long time?” she asks.
I nod. “He, that Riley, he’s Riley Savage, of my blood and he said words that felt like a fist thrust into my gut. I had no time to decide what to do about that. I didn’t want him near you. I feared he would hurt you or try to attack me so he could take you.” I push my anger back at the notion of that. “I don’t care what happens to me, but nothing can ever happen to you, Ivy. Nothing. My purpose in life is to shelter and provide for my family. You are my family.”
She sinks her teeth into her bottom lip and her eyes rove my face.