An orgasm tore me to pieces, making me scream out my pleasure. He yanked out of me a moment later, his breathing labored, his grunt of release meaning he hadn’t come inside of me. The pleasure was so intense I wilted down to the dirt as I continued to spasm with aftershocks.
Rough hands grabbed me and pulled me back, crushing my back to his front. His lips brushed my ear, his voice deep and firm.
“Run. Leave this place. It’s not safe for you here. Get out now, tonight. Don’t look back. Find your way to another village and disappear. This is the only warning you’ll get.”
And then he was gone, peeling his body from mine and drifting out into the night like a phantom, leaving me breathless, bare and disoriented.
Chapter 3
Weston
Fuck!
Fuck. Fuck.Fuck!
What the fuck did I just do?
“You know what you just did,”my wolf said, pushed up near the surface.
I shook my head to block out the words as I hurried away from the path. When I was far enough, I stepped behind a tree, my back scratched by the rough bark. My body still shook with that sweet release. Everything about what just happened was incredibly intoxicating; her smell lingered on my flesh, her touch.
Fuck!
Why now? Why here? Whyher?
She was the enemy. A monster, making products that tore families apart, whether because of addiction or death or poverty. She was trash. Worse than trash, she was a creature to eradicate. That’s exactly why I was here. To take her back to the dragon royalty to face her punishment, which would almost certainly be death. No one could wreak the sort of havoc she had and live to tell the tale. Not from the dragons.
I closed my eyes, breathing deeply.
I’d completely lost my head. My control had fled the very moment I’d caught her scent. My will had frayed the second I saw her beautiful face, looking sightlessly up at me. Long black hair framed her oval visage with high arching brows and exquisite hazel eyes, like a burst of sunshine between dense black lashes. Her lithe little body strained for me, her entire person eager to please. The feel of her skin, of her plump, heart-shaped lips as they wrapped around the head of my cock, weakened my knees.
But why?
“You know why,”my wolf sang within me.
“Shut up,” I said out loud, pushing off the trunk and walking fast.
I’d put my team in jeopardy. That was inexcusable. I’d walked onto that trail and fucked the enemy in clear view. If I’d been seen, this territory would’ve known they’d been breached. Their defenses would’ve gone active and my people would’ve been scrambling. We were the best at what we did, but being caught unawares would’ve thrown even us off kilter. I’d been reckless. Stupid. I was a bad excuse for an alpha.
“You acted exactly how an alpha would have,”my wolf argued. “Except you should’ve knotted her and pumped our seed deep inside of her.”
My legs turned to jelly and I staggered, bending to rest my hands on my knees and dropping my head. I was painfully hard again just thinking about doing that. I’d barely stopped myself earlier, preventing myself from pushing deep into her tight little pussy and locking her to me. I’d wanted to. Oh, heavens how I’d wanted to. It had taken all my will to resist.
I’d lost control. That couldn’t be argued. I’d lost control and it could not happen again, regardless of the situation. I had a job to do. A duty I would follow to the end. I owed my allegiance tothe dragons. They’d given me a home, a title, a great life, riches, and power. I led a huge faction of that kingdom, and I would not jeopardize their trust in me. Iwould not.
I had to push past this. I had to ignore her effect on me. It couldn’t change my feelings about what I was doing. It couldn’t make me veer off course.
Gods help me, though, she’d felt so good. Unbelievably good, unlike anyone I’d ever touched. Like a piece of me I hadn’t known I’d been missing. An important part of the whole.
“You know why she felt that way,”my animal pushed. “Like air to a suffocating man.”
Yes I fucking did. In this forgotten, out of the way village I’d found something so incredibly rare, so absolutely precious, it was almost a myth. Very few people ever found theirs. Most people only dreamed of it. I’d known it when I’d seen her outside of that work shed; I’d felt her calling to me even from the distance. I’d been sure of it as I beheld her on the path, unable to keep from stepping out to meet her.
That woman was my true mate.
And she was my enemy. My target.
Fuck!
