“Not without a bond, I’m not. I might not know as much about shifters as someone raised with them, but I know that.”
“You have always been my mate, and you always will be. Whether you ever let us bond or not, I’m yours.”
Adri looked away, unable to maintain the intensity brought by the eye contact between them. “You need to rest.”
If Rafe was disappointed by the change of subject, he didn’t show it. “Okay, kitten. Take me to bed.”
Adri paused awkwardly when they entered the bedroom; his need to care for Rafe only taking him so far. The doc turned to face him, reaching up to undo first one cufflink, then the other. Adri was enthralled. Why was that so sexy? Placing the cufflinks aside, Rafe started on his buttons, the movements a slow tease as he revealed the dusting of black-and-silver hair across his toned chest and stomach.
“Are you just going to stand there and watch, kitten?”
Adri swallowed hard, tearing his gaze away from Rafe to eye his escape route. The soft jingle of a buckle snapped his attention back to the doc as he undid his belt.
“I’m not going to let you bite me,” Adri said. He’d meant to growl, but it was more of a whisper.
“Didn’t ask you to, sweetheart. Not yet.”
Unable to resist the temptation a second longer, Adri slunk closer to his obsession, kneeling to undo the laces of Rafe’s shoes and slip them from his feet.
“You going to let me touch you this time?” Adri asked, staring up Rafe’s body to find the doc’s eyes flashing gold with his wolf above him. He kept his eyes trained on Rafe’s face as he tugged the rest of his clothes off.
Rafe traced a soft touch down the curve of his ear, sparking a shiver that left him purring. Again. How did Rafe draw that noise from him so easily?
“If you stay the night with me.”
Adri narrowed his eyes at the older man. He always had to push that little bit further. Not that Adri could bring himself to leave at this point.
“Lie down on the bed.”
Rafe tilted his head, considering the request, before sitting down on the mattress and shuffling back until he was reclined on his elbows in the middle. Letting one knee fall sideways, Rafe wrapped a hand around his cock, stroking it as his eyes stayed focussed on Adri.
“Strip,” Rafe growled.
“You’re not in charge tonight, Doc.”
Adri didn’t know why he was fighting him on the order. One little shove of fabric and he’d be naked.
“Whatever you need, kitten. But right now, I need that ridged cock of yours that’s leaking into my sweatpants over here.”
Growling, Adri let his fingertips shift to claws and tore the clothing from his body. His mind cleared of anything but need as he put one knee up on the bed to crawl up Rafe’s body until they were pressed close and his lips were hovering over the enticingdip of his collarbone. When Rafe reached out to touch them, Adri knocked his hand away.
“Mine,” he said, wrapping his fist around both their shafts and groaning as Rafe’s hips thrust up at the pressure, making the head of his cock drag along each of the ridges swelling on Adri’s length.
The image they made pressed together as he stroked was obscene. Adri couldn’t drag his eyes away as even his large fist struggled to stretch around their combined girth. Every time he let his thumb brush over their tips, Rafe let out a gasp that he was already addicted to.
“So good, kitten,” Rafe groaned, touching a knuckle to his chin to tip his head up and taking his lips in a brutal kiss, their tongues battling for dominance.
The world spun as Rafe flipped them over, pinning Adri to the bed as his hard thrusts into Adri’s grip grew desperate. Adri’s other hand dropped to grip his ass tight, fingers digging in hard enough to bruise.Fuck.By the soft-blooming scent of blood, it had been hard enough to break the skin when he partially shifted and lost control. He couldn’t help but knead Rafe’s muscled ass cheek with his claws, sparking a choked howl of pleasure from the wolf shifter.
“Fuck, yes. Just like that. Come for me, kitten. Now.”
Adri’s eyes rolled back in his head as his orgasm sent him soaring. Rafe hadn’t even used his magic to prompt it. All he’d had to do was use that sexy, commanding tone, and Adri had been a goner. He would’ve felt self-conscious if Rafe wasn’t coming just as hard.
As Adri lay panting on the bed after, he felt his claws withdrawing from Rafe’s skin as they shifted back, sparking a low hiss from the man.
“Sorry.”
“Don’t ever be sorry for losing control like that, kitten. It was so fucking hot. It’s not like it will take longer than a few seconds to heal.”
