Fuck. Well, I was definitely going to look into the guy and memorize his face, so I’d recognize him if he ever showed up in Cooper Valley. She’d only said I couldn’t kill the fucker. That didn’t mean I wouldn’t keep him the hell away from her.
The town sheriff, Levi, was also a shifter wolf. His job dealt in human law, but he also followed pack and shifter justice. If I couldn’t kill her ex, then I could enlist his help.
But, I was being a dick. Caring for my mate now trumped any need for revenge. Barely. I held up my hands but waited for her tentative gaze to meet mine. “Okay. You make the rules, baby. I follow them. You’re safe with me. I’ll keep saying it until you believe it.”
To release my pent-up aggression, I picked up the bed and tore the three remaining legs off it, so it would be level for the night. It rested six inches lower now, but we weren’t going to roll onto the floor.
Summer stared at me with wide eyes. I’d done that with an ease as if I’d removed twigs.
Well, fuck. That probably didn’t help her feel any safer with me.
I looked from the bed to her. “Wanna go up to my place?” I offered, a little sheepish. “Up on the mountain?”
She gave a tiny shake of her head.
I gestured toward the bed. “Sorry, did that freak you out, too?”
She rubbed her lips together. “Um…a little. Yeah. You’re strong.”
“Damn.” I rubbed my forehead. “I’m so bad at this.” How the hell did I get her back in that bed with my arms around her? “Permission to pick you up and carry you back to that bed, so I can lick your pussy again?”
A small smile tugged at the corners of her mouth, and the tension in her shoulders relaxed. “You really like to do that, huh?”
“Fuck yes, and I’m happy to prove it.” I grinned, and she couldn’t miss how my dick got harder.
“Okay.” Her voice was soft, but her cheeks were flushed. Yeah, she’d liked what we’d done and wanted more.
I’d spend the rest of my night with my head between her thighs if it made her happy.
In an instant, I was on her, picking her up to straddle my waist. Her honey scent curled in my nostrils, soothing my riled wolf. I felt our combined fluids that coated her pussy and thighs smear across my abs.
Mark her, my wolf insisted.
Not tonight. I held him back as I carried her back to the now-lowered bed and carefully laid her in the center.
I rolled her to her side and arranged my larger body around hers, protectively. “You’re safe, Summer,” I murmured in her ear then nipped the shell of it.
Her scent made me dizzy with desire, but I kept my wolf leashed.
Laying kisses along the column of her neck, I said, “I’m gonna want to kill anyone who hurts you, but you will always be safe with me. And I will always respect your no. Okay?”
I thought I caught the scent of her tears, and it slashed a hole right through the middle of my chest.
“Okay,” she whispered.
I closed my eyes and willed my wolf to quiet. My mate was in my arms. She wasn’t ready for me to mark her, but she wanted her pussy licked. She was so easy to lift up and set over my head, her knees by my ears.
“Boone?”
She looked down at me a little confused.
I grinned, breathed in her honey scent right from the source. “You said okay to me licking your pussy. You’re gonna sit on my face and let me do it.”
Her eyes widened, and she squirmed, then nodded.
“That’s my good girl.”
I hooked her thighs and pulled her down onto my mouth. Got to work. This was my job now, satisfying my woman. The sound of her pleasured screams echoed in my ears as I made her come again and again, until she wasn’t the least bit scared of me. That she knew all I’d ever give her was pleasure.
