Surrounded by Woods (13 page)

She was. She’d come too far to turn back now.

Mikaela pulled his cock out of her mouth, dropped his balls, and backed away.

“W-what are you doing?” he asked breathlessly, propping himself on his elbows.

She got off the bed and stepped back. “I’m making a run for it.”

His breath caught. “No, Mikaela, I-I’ll chase you.” He shook his head, shut his eyes, and wrapped his hand around his cock. She guessed he was just going to finish himself off to protect her. She couldn’t let that happened. She’d just have to provoke him.

“Let go of
my
cock, Josh. You don’t touch yourself unless I give you permission.”

His eyes flashed to hers, and she saw them glaze over again. He dropped his cock, a low growl escaping him.

“That’s right. You do what you’re told because I’m the only alpha in this room.”

His growl grew more pronounced. Any other time, she’d realize it was crazy to provoke a man struggling with domination, but she knew that was exactly what she needed to do. She backed away, taunting him, making him come after her. Josh flipped, landing on his hands and knees, crawling across the bed and jumping off. She turned as if to run to the door, and he caught her by the waist and threw her up against the door, her legs instinctively wrapping around his hips.

“Damn it, Mikaela! Do you know what you’re asking? If not, you’re really underestimating my control.”

Oh, she knew what she was asking. She wanted to be his. She was never surer of anything else. “Take me, Josh.”

His face immediately transformed to that of a powerful, determined being. He hadn’t turned into a mountain lion, but he didn’t look very human, either. He growled, putting her on the floor and maneuvering her on her hands and knees. He hovered over her, his chest pressed against the length of her back, roughly licking and kissing her shoulder. “I’m going to bite you right here after I fuck you.” He sat up, grabbed her shoulders, and shoved her to the floor, leaving only her ass hiked up in the air, in a position of total submission. Without warning, he took her with one deep thrust.

“Josh!”

He pulled out slowly and slammed into her again. And again. And again. Keeping her teetering on the border of pleasure and pain, he started out slowly, but his feral side wanted to take his mate quickly, so he did. He fucked her hard and fast, her cries of passion fueling his own. She came suddenly, and he howled when her pussy fisted around his cock. But that didn’t slow him down. He plowed into her again and again until she screamed his name over and over with one climax after another. When she was sobbing for breath, her will completely gone, his dominance proven, he pulled out smoothly, turned her around, and sat her astride him. He guided her gently back onto his cock, and she rode him slowly while he kissed and caressed her, touching her tenderly, lovingly.

“I love you, Mikaela,” he murmured.

“I love you too.”

They both panted and clung to each other, the dynamic of their coupling totally altered. When her next climax hit, he went with her. Throwing his head back with roar of completion as he pumped his seed inside her, his fangs slid out, but this time, he didn’t hide them from her.

She reached up and stroked his teeth, his lips curling with a snarl at her intimate touch. Josh may have been sated, but his beast obviously wasn’t.

“Take me,” she whispered.

He yanked her hand off his teeth and bit into her shoulder just above her collarbone without warning.

She cried out as she dug her fingers into his soft hair. The pain quickly turned into euphoria as her body hummed and pussy fisted on his softening cock. When he pulled his teeth out, he laved the bite while a rumble built in his chest—a purr. She stroked his hair, and he purred louder.

They held each other like that, unmoving, for what seemed like an eternity, neither one wanting to let the other go.

“So what happens now?” Mikaela asked.

Josh kissed his mark of possession and traced his lips up the side of her neck to her mouth. He kissed her on her lips before responding.

“I’m not really sure,” he mumbled against her lips. “The last time any of us tried this was when Eric took a mate.”

She gasped. “Your deceased brother?”

“Yeah, he forced a mating with his friend’s ex-wife. He didn’t know they were divorced until after she came here to visit him. It didn’t end well. But
I
didn’t force this mating.” He chuckled. “You submitted willingly.”

“Mmmmm… Yes, I did.”

“So I imagine we’ll compare our experience with that of what we know of Eric’s and try to help my brothers.” He slowly pulled his cock out of her, and they both groaned with the drag of flesh against flesh. “In the meantime, you need to shift, kitten.” He stood and opened the door.

“Oh, right!” She smiled and was going to ask how, but she realized she knew. Within seconds, she was a beautiful mountain lion standing next to Josh who’d also shifted.

Her mate.

She was no longer untaken.

I’ll always belong to Josh,
she thought.

I like the sound of that, kitten.

She purred at hearing his voice in her mind, feeling his love wash over her.

She never would’ve guessed she’d fall in love so quickly, but it was impossible to avoid when she was surrounded by woods—Josh Woods.

And now she’d get to spend the rest of her life with the one she loved.

Cabo had nothing on this.

The End