“So, what do we do now?”
Dane kissed my temple again. “That’s really up to you.”
“Is it?” I asked skeptically. “Why?”
Dane sighed. “For all the reasons I gave a minute ago, I guess? I don’t ever want to take advantage of you.”
I considered that for a minute, forcing myself to separate my hurt feelings from what I knew about Dane. No. I one hundred percent knew Dane would never want to take advantage of me.
Wiggling, I managed to turn so I was straddling Dane’s lap and brought my second hand up to his chest. “And if I do this?”
Dane groaned and leaned forward, resting his forehead against mine. “Are you sure about this?” he asked quietly. “It won’t be casual. Not for me, not between us, Shelly. I’ve loved you too long for that.”
My breath hitched at his declaration and I nodded, rubbing our brows together. “If I’d known how you felt, we would have been together long before now,” I murmured, pressing a chaste kiss to his lips. “Every time my heat ended, it was all I could do to leave your bed.”
“You never needed to.”
Our faces were so close that his words mingled our breath.
“I didn’t know,” I said with a sad smile. “I thought it was a sacrifice for you.”
“It was never that.” Dane stood then, lifting me despite his bad leg. “Let me show you?”
I nodded, slanting my mouth over his as he strode to his bedroom, moaning as our tongues met in a long, slow glide.
Dane slowly lowered me to the floor, our bodies sliding against each other, the friction of my clothes catching on his naked chest. I melted against his strong body for a moment before remembering that I wanted him naked.
“Take these off!” I tugged at Dane’s jeans and he promptly complied, shoving them to his ankles and stepping out of them and his briefs together, leaving his strong, hairy body naked under my hands. “Oh, gods, yes!”
“You, too,” Dane rasped in my ear, slipping his hands under the hem of my t shirt. “Yes?”
“Fuck, yes,” I agreed, blindly trying to strip out of my jeans but forgetting how to make that happen. “Fucking pants!”
Dane chuckled lightly and lowered carefully to his knees, stripping me from the waist down in the same movement and once I was naked, dragging me back against his hot body. “Damn you feel good.”
My heart was thudding as I plastered myself against him, suddenly at a complete loss for what to do next. “Alpha, please. I..I…need..”
“Don’t worry, baby,” Dane’s voice was deep and comforting as his big, strong hands ran down my back to cup my ass. “Your Alpha knows exactly what you need.”
ChapterTwenty-Four
Dane
It was so far from being the first time that Shelly and I were intimate that it should have been comical for my nerves to be wound as tight as they were, but it was the first time that my Omega and I were coming together not driven by our biology and it was, well, terrifying.
I was used to Shelly’s skin being unnaturally hot when I held him against me, so it was a new experience to feel all of that soft, lightly-haired skin drawing heat from my warmer body as I held him close. Dropping my face to the curve of his neck, I rooted against his skin, scenting him, licking over the small glands where his scent was the strongest.
“So fucking sexy,” I growled against his skin, making him shiver and press closer. “Never wanted anyone the way I do you, all the damn time.” I scraped my fangs lightly over his neck and felt his erection twitch where it was pinned between our bodies.
Shelly’s eyes were glazed over, staring at the ceiling to bare his neck to me, ragged breaths shaking his body. I cupped his butt in my hand, sliding one pinky between his plump cheeks to tease his pucker and groaning when I found it already slick and soft. “Mmm. Someone’s ready for me.”
Shelly nodded wildly, his head bobbling. “Yes! So ready.”
I wanted to take it slow, to make it as special as our first time should have been but Shelly wasn’t on board. Instead, he was trying to back toward the bed and drag me with him.
“Okay,” I murmured into his ear. “Take it easy, baby. I don’t want you to get hurt, okay?”
Shelly huffed in annoyance but stopped tugging on me. “Then would you please put your dick in me?”
