Jesse rolled onto her, levering his weight on his forearms. She felt him hard against her belly and shivered under his intense stare. “You hurt him, Kate.”
She didn’t like feeling this way. Lonely was bad enough, but that she’d made Logan hurt pained herguer. To her astonishment, she again felt the tentative reach of his animal energy and tried to pull him to her. But he shied away and left her grasping nothing. Jesse, as usual, remained closed to her.
“Go get him,” she said. “Please. I didn’t understand. I thought you both wanted Vicki. And I was—I was jealous.” She swallowed hard.
“Logan needs time to cool off. He gets overemotional. Besides, all that feeling bullshit gives me a rash.” Jesse’s eyes narrowed, and cruel amusement lingered around his mouth. “So you’ve been treating us like trash because of Vicki.”
“Not exactly.” Hell, out loud like that, she sounded petty and immature. “There was a lot more to it.” Her insecurities, her envy of her sister, but that just made her sound self-involved.
“She’s our queen, Kate. Not our mate, our ‘love,’ or the future mother of our young.” He leaned close to suck a taut nipple into his mouth. The pleasure nearly made her come.
“I’d never do this to Vicki.” Jesse sucked her other nipple before teething it with a slight sting. “She’s not my responsibility.”
“Y-you slept with her.”
“Technically, no, I didn’t. I helped initiate her into the pack.”
“Using sex,” Kate spat, totally losing her perspective at thoughts of her mate with another woman. The thought of Jesse or Logan with any other female made her want to kill.
“Kate, we’re Ravager. Nearly everything we do involves fucking.” Jesse shook his head. “Hell, you want the details? I came down her throat, once. Happy now?”
She wasn’t, but the fact he hadn’t planted his seed inside the woman somewhat soothed the animal inside her.
“Myguergrabbed onto hers, the same way Logan’s did, and we held her for Eric. For ourprime,” he emphasized and gripped her wrists tight. “Have Logan or I given you a hard time about having sex with Diana’s mate? Have we punished you for giving a human what clearly belongs to us?” he growled.
She panted, scenting the violence and raw need riding Jesse hard. “Wh-what?”
He ground against her, his body hot and unforgiving. Like living steel caging her to the bed. She couldn’t move under him, and her inability to maneuver him made her wet and wild, wanting more.
Jesse grinned at her with wicked intent. “You’re a lot more like Vicki than you think, sweet,” he said, twisting the knife, and he knew it. “So human, wantinglove, wanting your mates to claimyou.” Even as he insulted her, he nuzzled her cheek, kissing and whispering words of praise. “So strong, so beautiful. So incredibly stupid.”
“What?”
“How hard would it have been to ask us what we wanted instead of assuming?” Jesse roughly kneed her thighs apart. “Wider.”
She obeyed without thinking.
“Why couldn’t you have told your mates what you needed? Why leave us floundering to find out on our own,afteryou ditched us?”
She writhed, caught in a voracious hunger. It didn’t help matters when Jesse’s nails scored her wrists, the scent of her blood and his skin a potent combination. “What’s wrong?” she taunted, unable to agree too easily. “Can’t handle the clan thinking you’re weak? That you can’t satisfy your mate?”
Kate knew how much Ravagers respected strength, how much they relished the challenge, because she felt the same. One thing she could say about her mates. They weren’t easy, not in any way, shape, or form. And even though some part of her wanted to submit to Jesse and Logan, the warrior inside her couldn’t. Her submission had to be taken, earned.
When Jesse bared fangs and his irises swallowed the slimming band of his pupil, hisguerstaring out at her through dark brown eyes, she knew she’d scored a direct hit.
He licked his lips. “You little bitch.”
Normally, Kate would have sliced off the balls of any man who talked to her like that, but on Jesse’s lips,bitchcame out as a compliment.
His eyes glittered with barely suppressed excitement. His thick cock was wet with arousal. “You want satisfaction? Let this satisfy you,” he growled and plunged inside her. He slid through her easily, but his girth made it a tight fit all the same.
He took her brutally, and shelovedit. Because with each push, he pressed deeper inside her. Working her, owning her. Jesse mastered her body and her responses, claiming her the way she’d dreamed of being claimed. Yet even through his rough taking, Kate saw the care in his fathomless gaze. She could almost feel the love he held inside, though she knew he’d be the first to deny himself capable of such soft emotion.
“No, not like this,” he rasped and withdrew, leaving her on the verge of begging for more.
She wanted to cry, being denied his ultimate possession. Until he flipped her onto her hands and knees. “Like this, mate. You’re mine, now.” Jesse buried himself balls-deep inside her. He withdrew and slammed inside her again, hitting that spot that made her see stars.
As his strokes pummeled her, he knocked her flat onto the bed and grabbed her by the hair, drilling her with pure animal intensity.
