Chapter Eight
Bram opened the door to the house and let Thea inside. His wolf was howling in his head to take her back to the bedroom and mate her properly. The makeout session in the truck had done nothing to cool his libido. It seemed to inflame it.
She was gorgeous and sweet, and he couldn’t get enough of her.
It felt like he’d known her for far longer than just one night.
After the lake, they’d headed out of town to a nearby department store so she could get clothes and other things she needed. They were only a few hours from her home in Indiana, but she didn’t want to go there before things were settled with her parents and nest, and he understood that.
She told him that it was one thing for her to find her truemate, but to fully move away from the nest before she’d settled things was a step too far.
He grabbed the bags from the porch and carried them inside.
She’d gotten a coat, several outfits, boots, and shoes, plus undergarments and toiletries.
His phone buzzed as she began to unload the contents of the bags on the couch.
“Hey, Dad,” he said as he answered.
“Hi, how’s it going? Your mom and I wanted to check in with you.”
“Hi, honey,” his mom called.
“Hi, Mom. It’s going well. We just got back to my place after picking up some clothes and things for Thea.”
“Any word from her parents?” his dad asked.
“No. It’s still early, though.”
“We’ll keep a good thought for you,” his mom said. “Would you like to come over for dinner tonight? We’d like to get to know her.”
He didn’t really want to leave the house tonight. Things were still new between them, and he’d be lying if he said he didn’t want to see where things would go.
“How about tomorrow?”
His dad chuckled. “That works. Steaks, okay?”
“Do you like steak, Thea?”
She glanced at him curiously. “Yes?”
He laughed. “For dinner with my parents. Tomorrow night, if that’s okay.”
She straightened and smiled. “Oh yes, that would be really nice.”
“Sounds good to us,” Bram said. “Is it okay if I take a few more days off?”
Bram rarely took time off from work and had a lot of vacation time banked.
“Sure. Do you want the week?” Jason asked.
“Yeah.”
“If you head to Indiana to pack up her things, you need to take some people with you,” he said. “Just to be safe.”
“I will. She wants to wait until she talks to her parents before we do anything like that, though, which is why I took her shopping.”
“Sounds good,” Jason said. “We’ll see you tomorrow.”
“Around six. Love you, honey.”
“Love you too.”
He ended the call and put his phone in his pocket. He realized Thea wasn’t in the family room anymore. He headed toward the bedroom, picking up her sweet scent.
He found her in the bedroom, stretched out on the bed wearing only a bra and panties.
His brain misfired and he simply stared, slack-jawed, at her.
“Bram,” she said, her voice low and sultry. “I want to finish what we started in the truck.”
He tilted his head, not moving from the doorway and inhaled, picking up the extra-sweet scent of her arousal. Resting his hand on the doorjamb, he leaned against it and smiled.
“I’m not going to lie, Thea. I haven’t thought about much else except being with you since I found you in the woods. But if we do this, I’m going to want to bite you and that will make us mates in truth. It means where you go, I go, and vice versa. Your issues with your nest and family will be mine.”
Her eyes darkened slightly, and she crooked her finger. “I want you to bite me. I want to be your mate in truth.” Her voice hitched with emotion. “I want to share everything with you, Bram.”
He grabbed the hem of his shirt and lifted it over his head as he walked to the bed. After dropping the shirt to the floor, he reached for her and hooked his hands behind her knees, pulling her swiftly to him.
She let out a breathy giggle which turned into a moan as he leaned forward and kissed her. She wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him closer. He planted one fist on the bed and slipped his fingers between her legs, touching the soft, smooth skin of her thighs. He ran his fingers up one side and down the other, skipping the apex, until she let out a snarl and nipped his bottom lip.
He grinned down at her as the kiss ended, loving the way her eyes were bright with passion and her lips swollen from their kiss.
He kissed down her neck and across her shoulder, pulling her bra strap down. Slipping a hand behind her, he found the clasp of the bra and twisted it, mentally growling when it didn’t come undone.
She cupped his face and lifted her upper body, giving him better access to the tricky piece of clothing. On the third try, the clasp came undone finally, and she could wiggle free.
Settling back on the bed, she smiled at him as he chucked the bra to the side. He kissed her and cupped her breast, feeling her nipple tighten under his palm. He grazed the tip with his thumb and deepened the kiss. She moaned softly and wrapped her arms around him, tunneling her fingers into his hair.
Easing from the drugging kiss, he lowered his head and kissed first one nipple and then the other. He alternated kissing and licking the tight tips, sucking gently until she writhed under him and twisted her fingers in his hair.
He kissed his way down her stomach and licked a slow circle around her navel as he hooked his fingers in her panties and pushed them down her legs. Sitting up, he worked the panties off, then climbed up the bed.
“Hold on,” she said, putting her foot on his chest.
He let out a low growl, and grasped her ankle, sliding his fingers up her calf. “Yes, sweetheart?”
“You’re still dressed.”
“I’m planning to fix that after I send you into orbit.” He wiggled his brows and kissed the arch of her foot. She gasped and her toes curled.
“I want to see you,” she said, rising onto her elbows and licking her lips.
Kissing her sensitive arch again, he nodded and returned to his feet, undoing the button and zipper of his jeans. She held his gaze until he pushed the jeans down his hips, and then her gaze dropped to follow his hands as he freed his cock. Stepping from the jeans, he put one knee on the bed.
“Ready to fly, Thea?” he asked, his cock bobbing as excitement coursed through him.
She dropped to her back and spread her legs farther apart. “Hell yes.”
He kissed his way up her legs until he reached the apex of her thighs. She smelled amazing, her arousal like sweet summer rain and sunshine. His fangs throbbed in his gums, his wolf ready to mate and mark her.
He gently ran a finger through her folds, her arousal coating the tip as he circled her clit and headed back toward her center. She flexed her hips, seeking more contact, but he kept things light, delving into her center and then circling her clit.
She bit her bottom lip and exhaled as he slid his whole finger into her, curling the digit to rub against her inner walls.
Lowering his head, he licked and sucked her clit, flicking it rapidly with the tip of his tongue. He added a second finger, sliding them in and out of her heat, rubbing her slick walls in time to the flicks of his tongue, until she was chanting his name and digging her nails into his shoulders.
“Fuck, Bram,” she whispered, thrashing under him as he closed his lips around her clit and fingered her faster. Her back bowed as she came, heat flooding his fingers. When she cried out his name, his wolf let out a happy howl in his head.
He hooked his arm under her knee as he prowled forward, spreading her legs a little farther apart. He slid home slowly, her pussy a hot heaven he never wanted to leave. Clutching the bedding next to her head, he didn’t stop until they were wed tightly together, their bodies joined in the most intimate of ways.
She curled her other leg over his hip and cupped his face as she panted for breath, her heart still racing from her orgasm.
He flexed his hips and slid from her, then pressed forward, watching as her head kicked back with each thrust and a soft exhale left her lips. Her fingers curled into his neck as she lifted her head to kiss him, until their movements became too fast for them to kiss. He pressed his lips to her neck, sucking and gently biting.
His orgasm thundered down on him, his body locking up in a spiral of pleasure that was better than anything he’d ever experienced.
He came with a howl and roar combined, stroking into her a few more times before he shuddered with a happy growl.
As he caught his breath, he kissed her, then pulled from her body and gently rolled her to her side. He stretched out behind her and smoothed her hair from the back of her neck, and then he slid his hand down her stomach and rubbed her clit.
She arched back with a soft cry and pressed her hand against his.
“Come for me again,” he said, wanting her to be lost to pleasure when he marked her.
She moved her leg, curling it over his and opening her body up more to him. He stroked his fingers into her pussy and then played with her clit, rubbing it until she inhaled sharply, and he knew he’d found just the right spot.
He rubbed the side of her clit and sucked on her neck, his fangs tingling in his gums. The moment she let out a keening cry as she came, his fangs punched from his gums and he bit down on the back of her neck, his sharp teeth on either side of her spine.
He slowed his fingers, slipping them into her pussy and stroking her softly to gentle her down from the heavens. Pulling his fangs out as gently as he could, he cut his tongue with one fang until he tasted blood, and then licked the blood across the marks to ensure they’d heal quickly but scar over, so no matter how often she shifted, she would never lose the marks.
He rested his hand against her pussy, his fingers still buried in her heat for a moment before he pulled them free and she groaned softly. She tilted her head back to kiss him.
“I’m yours now?” she whispered against his lips.
“Officially, but you were mine the moment I found you in the woods, Thea. Mine to love and protect.”
She rolled to face him and curled her leg over his hip, giving him a tug. His cock sprang to life as they kissed and touched, hands roaming and exploring.
As they made love again, less frantic this time, he marveled at how connected he felt to her. The moment he’d marked her with his fangs, he knew she was his forever, and he was hers.
When they came together a second time, her panting cries of pleasure in his ears, he knew he was falling hard for her. She wasn’t just his truemate, she was his everything, and he’d do anything to keep her safe and happy for the rest of their lives.
He curled around her with a yawn and kissed the healing mating mark on her neck. She was already asleep, her skin warm and her breathing deep and even.
He drifted off to sleep, contentment filling him.
Before Thea, he’d only cared about his family and the pack. But now Thea was his marked mate and that shifted his priorities. As the future alpha, he would always care about the pack, but Thea was his family now too, and she was his priority. He would keep her safe and make her the happiest female on the planet.
He was just the male for the job.