She sighed. “No wonder you looked so freaked out when I attacked you. Seeing my eyes change must have made you relive the trauma that happened all those years ago.”
“A little,” he admitted.
“Is that what you’re worried is going to happen to me?” she asked. “That I’ll go crazy and attack someone like that omega did?”
Jayden wrapped his arms around her, pulling her close. “I’ll never let that happen to you. That omega was a complete loner who totally separated himself from all human contact. You’ll never have to know what it’s like to be alone, because I’ll always be there for you. If you get worried and think we need to get away from people, say the word, and I’ll drop everything and run off to the middle of Siberia with you, okay?”
Selena closed her eyes and snuggled against him, smiling despite how horrible that story had been. “Thanks for offering to run off to Siberia with me. It really means a lot. But if it’s all the same, I’d rather stay here. I hate the cold weather.”
He chuckled, his arms tightening around her. “Deal.”
They stayed like that for a long time until something occurred to her. She pushed away to look at him. “What happened to the girl you saved? Did she make it?”
“Yeah.” He grinned. “She made a total recovery and went on to play for the U.S. volleyball team at the Rio Summer Olympics in 2016. She even got a therapy dog to help her with the bad memories. Named him Brooks.”
Selena laughed. “I love it.”
Jayden pulled her in for another kiss, this one as tender as the ones that had come before it. She moaned and ran her hands down the T-shirt he wore, exploring the muscles hidden underneath. She’d been wrong earlier. She didn’t want to make out like this all night.
She dragged her mouth from his with a groan. “What do you think about moving this into the bedroom?”
He didn’t answer, but instead, he picked her up and carried her over to his bed, where he gently set her down before slowly taking off her clothes. Then he gazed down at her naked body, his eyes molten gold.
“If we’re going to make love, we’re going to do it my way,” he said huskily. “Slow, gentle, and without any biting, clawing, or growling. You think you can deal with that?”
Selena nodded, unable to do more than that as he yanked his T-shirt over his head, then shoved down his jeans and underwear. The sight of him made her body tingle all over—her fingertips especially.
“I’m not sure I can keep my claws from coming out,” she said breathlessly. “They’re close already.”
“That’s not a problem.” Nudging her a little farther back into the middle of the bed, he climbed between her spread legs. “Just keep your hands down by your sides, and I’ll make sure they behave themselves.”
Selena didn’t have a clue what he meant by that until he settled between her thighs, then slowly and teasingly ran his tongue up and down her pussy. She gasped, her claws extending. Not wanting him to stop but terrified she’d hurt him, she opened her mouth to tell him, but before she could get the words out, Jayden wrapped his long fingers around her wrists, pinning them to the bed and keeping her from shredding anything.
That turned out to be an excellent plan, as his teasing tongue quickly began to drive her wild. The worst part was that he refused to lock his mouth on her clit. If he had, she would have exploded in seconds. Instead, he seemed more interested in getting her hot—and wet.
When her orgasm was so close, she began to growl with need, he moved up her body with that sexy gold smolder in his eyes. Taking a condom out of the bedside table, he rolled it on without ever breaking eye contact, then grabbed her wrists again, pinning them to the mattress over her head this time.
She growled when he lodged the thick head of his cock in her opening and pushed the first few inches inside. He kept his eyes on hers, making soft shushing sounds.
“Relax,” he murmured. “We’re going to do this slow and gentle, okay? It’s all about control, not rushing to the finish line.”
Selena wanted to ask him whose control they were talking about, because it seemed like he was doing a good job of keeping all the control for himself. But she wasn’t going to complain. What he was doing felt too damn good.
Jayden moved slowly the whole time, occasionally dipping his head down to kiss her neck. He kept her wrists trapped gently against the bed, careful to stay out of reach of her fangs too. Good idea, she guessed, since they were definitely out at the moment.
She begged him to go faster and thrust harder, but he maintained that same slow, perfect pace, his groin pressing against her clit and making her wild with need every time he went deep.
The orgasm she ended up having was like nothing she’d ever experienced. It was like a slow-motion tidal wave that didn’t crash over her but instead washed along her body until she thought she was drowning in it.
Her climax seemed to last forever. She screamed and moaned softly. She squealed a bit and growled a lot too. But she never broke eye contact with him the entire time. Not even when she felt him come, too, and thought she might just pass out from the pleasure of the moment.
The experience was completely unique, but oh so worth it, especially when he rested his forehead on hers and smiled at her after they’d both come back down to earth.
“There are those beautiful blue eyes I was looking for,” he said softly as he continued pumping gently into her and rocking her to sleep.
Chapter 18
“Trust me, it won’t be like this for long,” Carter said as the gentle evening breeze swirled in through one of the immense tent’s open door flaps, sending a hundred overwhelming scents Selena’s way. “After a while, you’ll be able to ignore the scents you aren’t interested in and focus on the one or two you care about.”
