Before my brain caught up with reality, his expression turned serious. “I promise to only put them on areas that are covered by your clothes.”
Oh.
“I hadn’t even thought about that.” I should have. “Um, thank you.”
He kissed my nose as I blinked and tried to get my brain back in full working order. “Young mates who haven’t had the time to work on their self-control have a tendency to mark each other in crazy places. Manners dictate we ignore it completely, but I am old enough that self-control is not an issue.”
“You made me come in the forest, Braun.” There, I’d found my frown. “I’m not sure that counts as self-control.”
His shrug said he didn’t agree with me. “I didn’t take your clothes off and I didn’t try to talk you into actually running from me. I think I was amazing.”
Running from him?
“That wasn’t just…I mean…is that really…” Okay, maybe I hadn’t found all my brain cells yet. “You know what I mean.”
Nodding, he ran his hand over my head and snuggled me closer against him so I was resting my cheek on his shoulder. “Humans call it primal play. It’s not part of the mating bondor anything like that with us, but I’ve always fantasized about chasing my mate.”
Primal play.
Good grief.
I’d mated a wolf who wanted to chase me down.
“That’s the plot of a romance novel.” He kept saying we weren’t living in one and then he’d do something to prove it wrong. “Probably a lot of them.”
He chuckled because he was ridiculous. “What has my dirty mate been reading? I’m shocked.”
Brat.
“I’m really your mate? Like bonded together with magic kind of thing or is that just another word for marriage?” Had he explained that? “I’m sticky and I have questions. When did you know? Are you going to want to do this every time we go on a walk?”
I was going to need to start packing tissues at the very least.
“Stand up, Wölfchen.” One day I was going to stop obeying him first and thinking second but it didn’t look like today was the day. “That’s my good mate.”
He was going to have to stop praising me if I was going to get a handle on that obey first nonsense.
“Stop that. I don’t know why I did that.” I should’ve just sat back down instead of straddling his legs, but when he reached for my pants, my brain turned off again. “I always ask questions first.”
What was he doing?
Why was he unbuttoning my pants?
“I think your brain works overtime constantly and sometimes it needs to be able to turn off.” It wasn’t until he tugged down the front of my pants and briefs that I realized he was getting me at least slightly naked.
He was definitely succeeding at theturn my brain offthing.
“Your mind knows you’re safe with me, so it’s letting me take charge.” Lapping at the head of my cock, he had my eyes nearly rolling back in my head as he cleaned off my cum. “You’re always in control and watching out for everyone else. This is when you get to let go and let me take over.”
“I’m…I’m supposed to submit.” That was what he was talking around. “I’ve…I…I don’t do that.”
And I was going to tell him that very clearly once he stopped cleaning my dick so I could think.
Chapter 18
Braun
If he didn’t stop moaning, I was going to forget what a gentleman I was being.
