“Wha!What’s happening?”
“It’s my knot, remember? It will keep us together while my seed seeps into you.”
Pure, ball-obliterating pleasure whirled through me as her walls quivered around my cock, gripping me so tight, and I hadn’t stopped coming yet.
Her eyes rolled into her head, and her fingers clenched the fur on my shoulders, holding on for dear life. “So much cum.”
“All the better to breed you with, my dear.”
She blinked at me, her brows gnashing at the reworkedLittle Red Riding Hoodreference. “Wow. Original. Get that from your latest read, did you?”
I smiled down at her and settled on top of her in a way that wouldn’t crush her. We’d be locked like this for at least a little bit before the swelling would go down. “Oh, yes. The barbed wire face tattoo really howls Mother Goose.”
She laughed, then sucked in a breath when my knot shifted inside her. “Fuck. H–how long do we have to stay like this?”
“Are you in pain?”
“No, it’s just—” She released a shaky exhale. “Intense.”
“Good. Just stay still for a little longer.”I set to licking the dirt and sweat from her face, all the while emitting a low purr to keep her calm in my arms. Even the slightest shift would tug on her, and from the rutting I gave her, soreness had likely already set in.
I watched in utter fascination as she licked her lips, peering up at me through her dark lashes. “You’re still hard.”
“Of course I am. Look at you, naked and flushed. Your used pussy wrapped so tightly around me. If we were somewhere safe, I could keep using you for hours.”
At the mention of safety, her belly tightened beneath me. “What if they find us?”
“We were quiet enough, and now you smell of me. We should be fine.”
Guilt wound tight around my chest, making it difficult to breathe. I shouldn’t have mated her out here. The human side, the far more logical part of my being, didn’t like that we were still out here. We needed to get moving as soon as possible.
“What do you want to do when we escape?”
She stared at me for a quiet beat, probably chewing on the “we” part. I tensed, preparing for her to argue. She’d forgiven me on some level, but that didn’t mean she’d gotten comfy with the idea that we’d be leaving these woods together.
I could only hope she’d want us to be together as much as I did.
Pure relief washed through me when she smiled, a thoughtful look in her eyes. “Get a job that I actually get paid for. Preferably one that doesn’t involve farming carrots. And go to concerts! Oh, go on a road trip! Or on a plane! Or–or?—”
The endless possibilities had her lighting up, practically bobbing with excitement until she realized how we were connected and fell still again.
It was likely that Ruth hadn’t traveled more than a few miles away from her burrow her entire life. The burrows were communes run like prisons when you compared how little freedom they were allowed. Our local one was especially restrictive. It was technically a democratic system they ran on where your vote mattered, but only so long as you were an Elder.
It occurred to me that our pack ran similarly. I hadn’t done any of the things she was excitedly listing off, either. We were both victims, in a way. Born into cult life, with laws already in place meant to manipulate and exploit.
With our rutting, her heat state had ended, but fuck, she still smelled so damn good. She carried my scent now, my cum, my mark, the bruises from my grip and scratches from my claws covering her tender flesh in an obscene tapestry.
While I was inside her, the world melted away. Who we were and where we came from ceased to matter.
So, I didn’t notice anything had approached us. Not until a familiar voice, wrapped in steel, called out to me from the trees. “Well, well. Look what we have here. Carver found himself a sacrifice.”
My hackles bristled as a blond wolf stepped out from behind a tree. Lars rose up on his haunches, his flexing muscles making his fur ripple. “Looks like you’ve decided to have a little fun with your kill before avenging your twin. When do I get a turn?”
Fuck.
I’d been so stupid. So selfish.
These woods were big, but there had always been a chance they’d find us, and I’d fucked her out in the open anyway. That’s what she did. She robbed me of all sense.
