He pulled back just enough to truly look at her.His mate.Their mate.Her hair fanned across the cushions, her body stretched open and waiting, glistening with arousal.His cock pulsed with the force of his desire, but he needed her to hear the truth.“Sweet, I’ve waited too long for this.Too many lifetimes.You feel like salvation to me.Like fire and silk and sin all wrapped up in one.And I’m going to show you exactly what you do to me.”
Her lips parted, a whimper spilling free and Jacob’s control snapped.
He slid down her body, kissing a hot trail over her breasts, sucking one nipple into his mouth until she cried out.His hand toyed with the other, pinching and rolling it as his tongue flicked and soothed, worshipping her with reverence and hunger both.She arched beneath him, gasping, clutching at his hair.
“God, Jacob,” she moaned, her thighs parting instinctively.
“That’s it,” he growled, his voice thick and rough.“Open up for me, sweet.Let me taste what’s mine.”
His mouth claimed her next, burying his face between her thighs.He licked and sucked with fierce precision, rougher than Liam had been, dirtier.He groaned into her as he devoured her, tongue circling her clit in relentless patterns, fingers stroking inside her until she was thrashing, sobbing his name.
“Jacob—oh, fuck!Please, please!”
He pulled back just enough to rasp against her soaked flesh, “You taste like heaven and sin.Like you were made to be on my tongue.I could eat you for hours, sweet and never get enough.”Then he sucked her clit hard, tongue flicking fast, until she screamed, her orgasm tearing through her in violent waves.
Her body trembled, but he wasn’t done.He kissed up her stomach, her chest, her throat, until his mouth found hers again, his cock grinding against her slick entrance.He groaned, barely holding himself back.“I need you.Now.”
“Then take me,” she whispered, voice ragged with need.
He thrust into her in one deep stroke, burying himself to the hilt.The sensation wrenched a guttural sound from his chest.She was so tight, so hot, clenching around him like she was made for him.Which she was.“Fuck, sweet...you feel like you were carved to fit me.Every inch of you, mine.”
Her head fell back, a cry bursting from her throat as he set a punishing rhythm, hips slamming into hers with raw desperation.“Yes, Jacob, yes!”
“That’s it, scream for me,” he snarled, sweat dripping down his temples as he drove into her harder, faster.“Let me hear you.Let me feel every fucking bit of you.”
He bent to her ear, his voice rough and dirty.“You’re squeezing me so damn tight, sweet.Every time I push in, it’s like your body is begging me to never let go.And I won’t.I’ll fuck you until you can’t remember your own name, until all you can think is mine.”
Her nails raked his back, dragging down hard enough to sting and his wolf howled in approval.She met his thrusts, wild and reckless, her cries echoing into the night.He kissed her fiercely, biting at her lip, groaning against her mouth.
When she shattered again, clenching around him in hot, desperate pulses, Jacob lost it.He roared her name, slamming into her one last time as he spilled inside her, his entire body convulsing with the force of it.He kept moving, grinding deep, wringing every ounce of release from both of them until they collapsed together, panting and trembling.
Jacob pressed his forehead to hers, cupping her face as he whispered raggedly, “Mine.Forever.You fucking own me, Willow.”
Her answering smile was radiant, her whispered, “Yours,” the sweetest benediction he’d ever heard.
Liam’s low, satisfied laugh rumbled from nearby.Jacob turned his head just enough to see his brother sprawled against the cushions, his cock still hard, his eyes dark and heated as he watched them.Pride and hunger shimmered in his gaze and Jacob knew this was just the beginning.
Their mate had given herself to them—and together, they would never let her go again.
Time passed in a haze of pleasure and intimacy.Willow, gloriously flushed and grinning, took her turn lavishing them with her mouth, drawing shudders and curses from both brothers until they were undone all over again.Afterward, she fed them pieces of food from the spread she’d prepared, laughing softly when their fingers lingered over hers, when their mouths brushed her wrist in teasing thanks.Wine loosened the last threads of tension, filling the rooftop garden with warmth and a strange sense of peace.
Later, tucked beneath blankets on the massive pallet, the three of them lay tangled together.The city stretched below, its noise dimmed by Ursula’s wards and above them the stars shone faint but steady.Willow traced idle shapes on Jacob’s chest as she finally spoke of the curse, of what Ursula had told her—that the key would come at dusk, with the setting sun in the west, when their bond could be made unbreakable and Matthew rendered mortal.
Jacob and Liam exchanged a long look over her head, the weight of her words sinking in.“Then we’ll break it,” Liam vowed, his hand covering Willow’s.“We will not let this cycle continue.”
Jacob pressed a kiss to her temple, his voice rough with conviction.“Sweet, you are ours.This fate is ours.And no prophecy, no curse, no fucking warlock will ever take you from us again.”
Her eyes glistened, but her smile was steady.“Then we fight together.Until it ends.”
They tightened their arms around her, three hearts beating in rhythm, vowing silently and aloud that this time, fate would not be denied.
Silence lingered, heavy but comforting, until Willow sighed.“Tomorrow, I have to face him again.At the police station.”Her voice was steady, but Jacob felt the tremor beneath it.“He won’t stop coming for me.”
Liam shifted closer, his chest pressing protectively to her back, his arm curling tight around her waist.“Then we’ll be there, one way or another.He won’t touch you again.”
Jacob cupped her chin, tilting her face toward his.“Sweet, you’re not alone anymore.You face Marcus, you face Matthew, you face the whole fucking council if you must—but you face them with us at your side.”
Her breath hitched, but she nodded, resolve flickering in her eyes.“Then let’s end this.Together.”
