Chapter 16

 

Seven jerked awake when the bed beneath her dipped and she felt Lux’s warmth leave her. “Hey?” she whispered in the dark. “Are you okay? Where are you going?” It took her eyes a second to adjust, and when they did, they saw Lux looking back at her with guilt on his face.

“Sorry, beautiful, thought you were out cold. I was just going to head downstairs. Leave you alone so you can get some rest. I didn’t mean to wake you. I’m sorry.”

Confusion filled her. “But…you don’t want to stay with me?”

Sighing out a harsh breath, Lux settled on the side of the bed. “Hell yes, I wanna stay with you, but my lion’s having a little trouble.”

She eyed him worriedly. “What kind of trouble. Did I do something?” She looked down. “Was I hogging the blankets or taking up too much of your side?”

“No, Seven.” He chuckled but it sounded forced. “Nothing like that. I’m…” He looked away and when he looked back at her she swore he was blushing. “You were sleeping, but your wolf is wide awake. She’s been rubbing up against me all night, and I can’t…” He quieted, then tried again. “The scent of you, the feel of you is driving me insane. I gotta get away from you before I do something you’re not ready for.”

Her eyes dipped to his lap and she saw the way his boxers were tented with his erection. He wanted her. “Why…why do you think I’m not ready? Shouldn’t you ask me, instead of just assuming?”

At her words, his brows shot up and his mouth fell open. He recovered quickly though. “Seven,” he started shaking his head. “We can’t…”

Without hesitation, she pulled his shirt over her head and let it fall to the floor. “I choose, Lux. It’s my say. And I choose you.”

“Fuck, woman!” He buried a hand in his hair, tearing his eyes from her body. “Please don’t say shit like that right now. I’m holding on by a fucking thread here.”

She was bolstered by his reaction, proud that she could make this powerful lion shifter so weak. Climbing to her knees, she inched across the bed, placing a hand on the smooth muscle of this back. He shivered hard and she grinned before pressing her body against his. Her breasts mashed against his back as she curled her arms around his neck and kissed his jaw. “You said there was no going back. You said I was your one.”

His body was taut as a bowstring and he nodded tightly as a growl slipped past his lips.

Her whisper was just a breath against his throat as she challenged, “Prove it.”

And that was it. He turned so fast he blurred, and then she was in his arms. His chest was rumbling against hers as he kissed her hard, his tongue delving into her mouth when she opened for him. Her wolf was excited, rolling and yipping in anticipation. When Lux leaned her back and covered her body with his, she sighed into their kiss. This was what she wanted. She was choosing her mate, not having a male force anything on her.

As if reading her thoughts, Lux broke their kiss, his breathing hard as he said, “We can stop anytime. Tell me if we’re going too fast.”

She leaned forward and claimed his mouth again, the scent of her pheromones mixing with the heady aroma of his arousal. Lux growled into her mouth again, then his hands fisted in the boxers at her hips and she heard the material rend. Now, the only thing separating her wet slit from the hard length of him was the thin material of the boxers he wore.

“Ffffffuck.” she tilted her head back and let him kiss and nip at her throat. Her body arched and she begged. “More. Need more, Lux. Need you.” She smiled when his eyes rolled closed.

***

It was official, Seven was trying to kill him. Lux knew the noble thing would be to get out of the bed right now and give Seven more time. She’d had a nightmare earlier, and probably wasn’t thinking straight, but with her naked body all mashed up against him, and making demands like she was, well fuck. Just FUCK!

Lux pulled back briefly to tear off his own boxers, and when he covered Seven again, they were all skin-on-skin, nothing between them now. The scent of her was filling his head and making his balls swell. He needed to be inside her like he needed to breathe, and if she didn’t stop right this damn second…

Seven lifted her knees, parting her thighs wider, and his cock brushed against her slick entrance. Too much! Too late! Gripping her hips, he slid into her. He knew she was ready for him, the scent of her wet heat threatening to drown him. Seven arched and gasped. and just when he was going to ask if she was okay, she ground her hips against his and demanded, “More!”

Goddamn, needy little mate. He couldn’t deny her. He pulled back and thrust into her again as she groaned out a, “Yes”. Then he started working his length into her, trailing kisses to her neck where he sucked hard, needing to put a mark on her. She groaned, raking his back with her sharp little nails. His lion loved it. He wanted her mark, no matter how small. Frantic now, his hips worked faster. He bucked into her as she mewled and made sexy little sounds that mingled with the wet sounds of their lovemaking. This was bliss! Pulling back, his stomach flexed as he put space between their bodies to watch where they were joined. He nearly came from the sight alone, but he couldn’t. Not before he satisfied his mate. This was his claiming, and he was going to do it right. Hooking one of her knees, he lifted until he bumped her clit with each drive of his hips as he stroked into her.

“Lux!” She moaned his name, and it sounded like heaven.

When she started chanting it over and over, he knew she was close and he thrust faster and deeper. When she exploded around him, her channel seizing on the length of him, he threw back his head with a roar and detonated inside her. Muscles tense, dick pulsing as he emptied himself, he tried to calm his breathing as his mate smoothed her hands over his chest, up over his shoulders, and around his neck, pulling him in for a sensual kiss. “Mine,” she breathed against his lips and he affirmed with his own, “Mine.”

It was official. Seven was his, and now nothing on earth would stop him from keeping her. Nothing!