Her lips brush mine. “I should never have taken so long to tell you I love you. For that, I’m deeply sorry, but I do love you. Very much.”
“I’ve been lost, confused, and too damn busy blaming myself to give in to this pull I’ve felt for a long time. Falling for you was easy. Telling you… that was the hard part, because I wasn’t sure what my future held. I’ve finally realized that no matter where I am, what I do, or where I go, none of that matters, as long as you’re there with me. You’re my future, Garrett. That’s the part I failed to understand. Nothing else matters, as long as I have you.”
“Fuck, Angel, I’ve loved you since… Hell, I don’t remember the first day. I feel like I’ve known you forever, and yet every day I learn more about the woman who has captured my heart and realize just how incredible she is.”
I caress the side of her face as I stare at her. “You’ve opened my eyes to what love is. Without you, I’d still be that husk of a shifter who existed, but had forgotten how to live. You’re as much a part of me as my wolf… more, even. I cannot fathom a life without you.”
Those dainty, perfect brows of hers furrow. “All this time, you’ve feared that I’d just walk away, leave you behind…”
“Yes.”
“Garrett… you are why I’ve survived. You rescued me, and I don’t mean from the WSSO. You saved me from thinking I had no place in this universe, no purpose. Losing my pack was fucking hard, but somewhere, even before then, I lost myself. You found me.”
“I didn’t do anything, Angel.”
“You did so much, Garrett. Always being there for me, supporting me,believingin me, especially when I stopped believing in myself. Youfoundme, the shifter inside who’d let her alpha, her pack, repress who she is. You gave me the chance… to be me. You are the definition of love, my sweet Garrett.”
Heart racing, I lean forward and capture her lips. She sees me. Not the shifter or the wolf within me, but me, Garrett Black, a male who forgot how to live.
I lift her into my arms and head to my cabin, kick the door open, and carry her inside.
“The fire’s dying, shifter.”
“I will keep you plenty warm and then some.” I toss her onto the bed and methodically peel away every layer of clothing between us.
“Now, I’m really cold.” Her grin is an invitation I cannot refuse.
I take a blanket from the bed and drape it over her chest and arms, pulling the ends tight as I tuck them under the heavy mattress, effectively locking her in place.
“Really? You’re tying me up?”
“Keeping you warm.”
“There are other ways.”
“True, but this has you where I want you.” I spread her legs, pinning them down with my arms as I take one long lick along her pussy.
“That’s good,” she says with a dreamy quality to her voice that adds to my eagerness to claim her.
“So good that you don’t want any more,” I tease, because I can’t help myself.
“Don’t you dare stop, shifter, or I’ll have your hide.”
“That’s tempting.”
She flails beneath the blanket holding her down. Quickly, I lay my tongue flat against her pussy again taking my sweet time dragging it along delicious skin. This settles her and makes my wolf howl with a note of conquest.
When I flick that little nub, she releases a throaty moan. I’m fucking hooked. Can’t stop myself from sucking every inch of her. My tongue and lips move all over her, with a hunger that will only be sated one way. Finally, my tongue dives into her entrance so damn deep my face is buried in her pussy. No place I’d rather be…
Her hips buck, pushing against my face, as if she wants me deeper. My balls tighten, my cock so damn hard I might explode soon whether I’m in her or not.
I can’t screw this up. She’s too important to me. Never taking my eyes from her, I line my body against hers, but that damn blanket keeps me from feeling the heat of her skin. I rip it off with one motion, just as I thrust into her. My teeth press against where her neck and shoulder meet, and I’m so tempted to claim her formally, as if this were a mating run. But it isn’t. We haven’t blood-bonded.
Her legs lock around me, those lovely mounds and rock-hard nipples pressing against me a lovely distraction against my chest, as I thrust into her over and over.
As her moans fill the room again, they pitch higher. She’s climbing and yet resisting. I see it in her eyes. She’s waiting for me. If she only understood I’ve waited for her my entire life.
My lips brush over hers. And she bites me. My vixenbitesme. That claim throws me overboard, making all of me surrender to her. My cock explodes within her. A second later her walls seizeme… a final sign of capture. I can’t thrust, can’t move… don’t want to. I surrender, enjoying the ride as I float with my female, locked to her in an exquisite fashion.
