The Fall (The Lycans 7)

When I shook my head, his scowl had me rolling my eyes and taking what he offered.

“Bossy,” I murmured, but I couldn’t stop the smile that he was adamant on taking care of me.

I had to admit the bird-creature tasted like chicken. Wasn’t that always the case?

He kept forcing food and water at me. Finally I had to scowl at him and shake my head while holding my hand out to stop him.

My stomach was fuller than it had been in a very long time, and because of that a lethargy settled in me, urging me to just lie down and sleep.

He huffed out in acceptance that he couldn’t force the issue, and I watched as he got the rest of the meat off the bird and ate it.

I didn’t know how he was surviving on so little food, but then as if reminding me, my neck tingled.

Before I realized what I was doing, I lifted my hand and touched the side of my neck. I felt two wounds, one from the first moment he woke up and attacked me, and the second fresh from what we’d done hours before.

The former twin puncture marks were all but healed and slightly scabbed over.

But the new ones… they felt hot in the very best of ways.

Sebastian noticed the action, his focus trained on the side of my throat. His jaw clenched and I noticed the pulse at the base of his throat beating wildly.

He averted his gaze, and I felt this discomfort settle in my belly because I wondered if he was hungry. Although he’d bitten me when he claimed me, I knew he hadn’t taken enough to sustain a body as big as his.

He’d been holding back, and I hadn’t even taken into account how thirsty he had to have been. It had been days since he drank deeply from me.

Before I knew what I was doing, I was rising from the boulder I sat on. I walked the small distance around the fire to get to him and stopped when I stood before my mate.

He was grinding his back molars as he stared up at me, doing everything in his power to stay in control.

I could tell he was trying not to look at my throat, but he was failing, his gaze dropping to where I felt my pulse beating.

“Are you hungry?”

He rumbled deeply.

“I can get you another protein bar since we’re out of—”

“I’m not hungry for that.” He reached out faster than I anticipated and curled his oversized hand around my waist, jerking me forward so I almost lost my balance and had to hold on to his shoulders for stability.

“So what are you hungry for?” My voice was a whisper as I teased him.

He leaned in and nuzzled the side of my neck before darting his tongue out and lapping at me. “You know.”

I closed my eyes and leaned into him, feeling wave after wave of pleasure just by being close to him. I was already so wet that when I clenched my thighs, I felt the slickness of my need for Sebastian.

Controlling myself around him was impossible, especially now that the seal was broken, so to speak, and he’d claimed me. As if thinking that was an accelerant in my body to light me up, the mating mark he’d given me started to throb.

It was like he knew it, because he dragged his tongue over the puncture wounds, back and forth, lightly sucking on me as he intermittently groaned.

“You’re mine.”

I didn’t respond because I knew he wasn’t looking for an answer. He was stating a fact.

“And anyone who touches what’s mine is dead.”

I shivered, feeling myself become even wetter, wanting nothing more than to have him fuck me right here and now in the open.

I forced myself to step back but he just jerked me forward again, growling like a primal beast who’d had his meal taken away.

“Kind of have to be naked, big guy.” My head tipped back, and I moaned when he sucked on the hollow of my throat and grabbed my ass. His hands were just so big they encompassed all of me.

But then he let me go, making quick work of undoing my pants and pushing them down. I stepped out of one pant leg just as he was freeing his already hard cock.

The length jutted out, and he gripped it, even the size of his palm not dwarfing the sheer circumference of his dick.

I was transfixed at the sight of pre-cum already beaded at the tip.

“Come here,” he ordered, and I was sitting on his lap a second later, rising up slightly so he could notch himself at my entrance. “So fucking juicy for this cock.”

I didn’t waste a second as I sank down, engulfing all of him in one fluid motion.

“This pussy belongs to me.” He had his teeth bared and gripped my waist with one hand and cupped one of my ass cheeks with the other. “Say it.”