Pushing relentlessly, his shaft was a third of the way in, but it already felt like too much. “You’re too big,” I wailed, gnashing my teeth together as the delicate tissue gave way to the demands of his greater strength.
“Shhh,” he soothed. “You’re my mate. Your body was made for mine. You can take it,” he insisted, before mercilessly forcing himself the rest of the way inside.
I gasped at the final stretch, keening through the burning, stretching, humiliating pain. Though it hurt, he also felt amazing seated so deep inside of me, inside my most forbidden place.
Reaching around to my clit, Ace began to stroke the overused bundle of nerves. Like I hadn’t just come a handful of times already, my libido began to instantly climb once more.
Taking hold of my hip roughly, Ace began to slowly pump his hips. With each successive stroke, I began to soar higher and higher. That’s when he began to absolutely jackhammer hismassive cock in and out of me. His hips slapped against my hot, red ass, and the sound caused my jealous core to leak more viscous fluid down my already soaked thighs.
My desperate cries of despair and longing caused my mate’s knot to thicken and bulge. Though it remained outside my dark hole, I could feel it growing and abutting my delicate entrance with the insistence of an invading army.
“Are you ready for my knot, Cat?” Ace demanded, his tone strained alongside his neck muscles.
Looking over my shoulder, I saw that my mate’s face was a grim mask of heaven and hell. He needed to cum so bad, but was holding out, waiting for me to invite him in.
Even though I was frightened and unsure of what it would be like, I trusted my mate and said, “Yes, Ace. I’m ready. Give me your beautiful knot in my ass.”
Throwing back his head, Ace howled and drove his knot all the inside my dark channel. The instant his massive knot locked into place and his hot cum jetted into me, I erupted into a full body orgasm that was downright tantric. Every nerve in my body came online simultaneously and lit up so brightly I must have glowed in the dark.
We hovered within the realm of purgatory and orgasmic bliss for what seemed like hours, and mere seconds, all at once. When his knot finally deflated and he was able to pull free of my slickened hole, Ace gathered me into his arms and kissed my lips.
“Welcome home, Cat,” he whispered into the shell of my ear. Carrying me over to the side of the bed, he tucked me under the covers and climbed in beside me. “Even though I have loved you for only days, I have waited my entire life to find you and makeyou mine. You shall have everything and anything you desire, my sweet omega. I live only to make you happy.”
Kissing his beefy shoulder, I smiled and settled my forehead against his warm chest. “I’ll hold you to that, mate,” I saucily returned.
Before I fell into a deep, contented sleep, encircled by his loving embrace, I heard Ace chuckle and say, “I hope you do, my love. I hope you do.”
CHAPTER 37
Cat
“I can’t do it,” I repeated for the tenth time that day. “It’s not fair. It’s not my call to make, Ace. I know what it’s like to not have a say in your own life. If you recall, I resented you for it. What kind of hypocrite would I be if I did the same thing to my best friend?”
Ace, Kierston, and Mad Dog were standing quietly beside me, all looking rather serious. We were standing outside the room where Anna was currently recuperating, and I was apparently about to hurt my friend again, after everything she’d been through with Los Lobos.
“Cat, we talked about this. The only thing you’re taking away from your friend is the nightmare of these last few days,” Ace gently reminded me. “That’s a gift, my love, not a curse.”
He was right. But why, then, did my actions feel so wrong? Maybe because the universe was teaching me a very valuable lesson about irony right now. I’d judged Ace when he hadn’t told me the truth about my being a ware, for taking the choiceof knowing, and being one, away from me. Now I was doing the same thing to Anna. Well, mostly.Sort of.
I was about to tell Kierston to take Anna’s memories away. The bad ones. The ones where Kane and his brothers had horribly abused her. The ones in which the supernatural world existed and could greatly affect her future safety. I should have felt great about that, but I didn’t. My heart was too heavy and my stomach uneasy. I still wasn’t sure if I was doing the right thing, even though I realized it might be the only safe choice we had.
“Who’s going to tell Domino?” Mad Dog asked then, looking pointedly at the door. “They’ve gotten pretty close over the last few days. Now you’re just going to wipe the kid’s memory of him and all the time they’ve spent together. I’m not sure he’s going to take it too well, Brother.”
“I’ll deal with Domino,” Ace grimly stated. “He’ll listen to reason. He won’t be selfish. Not about this. He’ll want what’s best for Anna, just like we do. She can’t just go around knowing about the supernatural world without consequences. She’ll be in immense danger if she does.”
“Iget that,” Mad Dog said, “but I’m not sure thathewill.”
I looked over at Kierston, whose green eyes were round with concern. “How do you feel about this?” I queried. After all, she was the one who was going to have to perform the spell work that would strip my friend of these last few terrible days.
Kierston blew out a pent-up breath. “While I hate the idea of taking someone’s memories away without their consent, I think we have to. For her safety, and for ours,” she answered pragmatically. “I don’t see any other way around it.”
Of course, Kierston was right. I was drawing out the inevitable and we all knew it. “She won’t lose anything else? Just what happened with Los Lobos?” I checked weakly.
“That’s it. We have the rest already worked out. My friend at the hospital will arrange any consults she needs to help care for her after her ‘car accident’,” Kierston elaborated. “She’ll be the happy, carefree girl you knew and loved before this shitty thing ever happened to her.”
Once Anna awoke, she was going to want to know why she was so bruised up. A story about a car accident was going to cover our asses there. Yet another deception I didn’t feel great about.
“Alright,” I spoke a little more firmly then. “I think I’m ready. I don’t want Los Lobos to come after Anna and try to finish what they started. It leaves her too vulnerable. Let’s do this.”
