“Oops,” she says as she runs over to make it. “I forgot that I left here in a hurry last night.”
Her arousal is all over the room, perfuming it and making my cock ache.
“You were touching yourself. Weren’t you?”
Her cheeks go as red as the throw pillow on her chair.
“I was… thinking of you,” she says in a shy voice. “I couldn’t stop thinking of you.”
“Come here.” I reach out my arms and she comes into them. “I was thinking of you too. I haven’t been able to stop thinking about you since the second you walked into the woods.”
She grins shyly as she looks up at me, her cheeks still an adorable pink. “What are you thinking about now?”
“Come with me and I’ll show you.” I slide my hand down to hers and take it. She follows me to the bed and I lie down on it, pulling her on top of me.
Her shiny blue eyes are locked on me as I get her undressed, revealing her soft milky skin. Fuck, this girl… She’s so damn beautiful.
I pull her panties off and suck in a breath when I see the wetness on her pink lips.
“Put that pussy on my mouth,” I command her. “I need to taste you.”
She’s shy, but she does as I say, straddling my face and lowering her cunt onto my lips. I lap up her sweet nectar and groan as her body trembles.
I can’t get enough of her hot juices as they seep down onto my greedy tongue. She whimpers as I grab her ass and hold her in place while I devour her delicious cunt.
She starts shaking as I slide my tongue up her pink folds and crying out as I suck on her big clit.
“Are you going to think of another guy again?” I growl on her pussy.
“No,” she gasps.
“Are you going to look at another guy again?”
“No,” she moans as she grinds her little kitty on my mouth. “Only you. I only fucking want you.”
“Good.” I dive back in and let her ride my mouth until she’s throwing her head back and screaming in ecstasy.
Her hot juice coats the lower half of my face and I swear that I’ve died and gone to heaven.
She falls to the bed and closes her eyes as the orgasm overtakes her luscious body. I watch in awe as she trembles with every heavy breath.
I know in this moment that I’m never going back to the forest. I’ll do whatever it takes to stay by her side.
And although my bear is strong, I know that I can be even stronger if it means being by my mate’s side.
Chapter Eight
Courtney
The bed moves sometime in the night and I jerk awake to find Adrian sitting up. His back is tense and he’s gripping a fistful of his hair like he’s about to rip it out.
“What’s wrong?”
He doesn’t hear me at first. He looks like he’s battling demons somewhere deep where I can’t see it. Someplace where I can’t help him.
I run my hand along the taut muscles of his back and it’s slick with sweat. He jerks his head toward me with a growl.
I gasp and snap my head back in shock when I see his eyes shining a bright golden color. Something is wrong with his lips. At first, I think they’re swollen, but then I realize that it’s his teeth. They’ve grown and are pressing his upper lip out.
His quickly returns to normal when he realizes it’s me. His teeth retract and his eyes dull to their normal brown. He’s breathing so heavily. My heart breaks for him.
“Is there something I can do to help?” I whisper as I rub his back again.
“You’ve already helped so much,” he says. I barely recognize his voice after hearing it all day. It’s deep and throaty like he’s trying to imitate a monster.
“Is it your bear?” I ask after a long moment.
He drops his head and lets out a sigh. “Yeah.”
I give him a moment to catch his breath. My heart goes out to him as I watch and I have to fight back tears. This isn’t easy for him. I can’t imagine what he’s been through.
“He wants out.”
“Here?” I ask, looking around my small room. This is not going to end well if he phases into his giant grizzly in my tiny apartment. My neighbor would call the police. She once called the cops because a delivery man rang the doorbell three times.
“Not here,” he grunts. “Not ever.”
“You’re going to have to let him out sometime,” I tell him. I read that on the website when I did my research on the first night. Shifters have to let their bears out or they start to go crazy. Although, I guess that ship has sailed. I don’t know if he can get any crazier than he already is.
Adrian swallows hard as he looks down at my sheets. “I’m afraid.”
My eyes roam over his huge body. He’s showing every large muscle he has, wearing nothing but a pair of boxer briefs. I can’t imagine he would be afraid of anything. He’s the most powerful man I’ve ever seen.
“What are you afraid of?”
He looks at me with tormented eyes as he rubs the stubble on his chin. “That he won’t let me back out. That I’ll be his prisoner again. That I won’t be able to see you anymore. That we won’t be able to be like this again.”
I wrap my arms around his big arm and rest my cheek on his shoulder. Now, I’m afraid of that too. I’m terrified this perfect night could be our only one.
“I could live like that before,” he says as he puts his hand over mine. “But that was before I knew you existed. Before I knew that this existed.” He sighs as he rests his cheek on the top of my head. “I can’t live like that anymore. Not when I know you’re out here. That would be too much for even me to handle.”
I run my fingertip up and down his thick forearm, watching as the tiny hairs on his arms rise. “He let you out before,” I whisper. “Maybe he will again. Maybe things are different now.”
“I can’t take that chance.”
“What if you…” That wasn’t the only thing I read on the website. I also learned that shifters sometimes leave their mark on their mate’s neck. It helps curb some of the possessiveness and territorial nature of the bears. It also lets any other males nearby know that their girl is off-limits. I was very curious when I read it. So much so that a spot under my ear began to tingle. It’s tingling even more now.
“What if you put your mark on me? Would that help?”
He swallows hard as he looks at me. He looks even more tormented now.
“I don’t want to hurt you.”
“I’ll be okay. I want to be yours in every way, Adrian. And if it helps you avoid all this, then I’m happy to do it.”
He looks at me for a long moment. “You’re incredible, Courtney. Absolutely stellar.”
“Let’s try it,” I say as I lay down on the bed.
He doesn’t move from where he’s sitting. He just faces the wall as he takes slow deep breaths. “I don’t know.”
“I do. Come.”
He’s trying to resist me. Well, he won’t be able to resist this.
I pull off my long sleeping shirt and lie back down, completely naked. He lasts about two seconds before he turns and looks me up and down with dark hungry eyes.