Page 106 of Loving Jake

“More,” he snarled, clawed hands scraping down my back, making me arch into him. Every slow grind of his hips pulled me closer to an edge I wasn’t ready to fall over. Not yet. Not before I was inside him. His scent filled my lungs, so thick with arousal it made my head spin. Each breath in urged me to let my wolf free, to allow my half-shift to take over, but not yet. Not before I’d got him ready, because as desperate as I was to be inside him, I wasn’t so lost to my instincts that I’d ever hurt him.

“Wait.” I sat up on my knees, breathing hard as I reached for the bottle of lube beside us.

Jake looked up at me, fangs on display as his gaze lingered on my throat. His claws teased the inside of my thighs. “Just on you,” he whispered, tightening his grip and making me hiss at the sting. “I want to feel it.”

I fumbled the lube, almost dropping it as his words struck low in my belly. The ache in my jaw was almost too much to resist, but with gritted teeth I managed to open the bottle and slick my cock.

Instead of lying on top of him again, I settled back against the headboard. “Like this.”

Jake licked over his teeth again as he crawled into my lap, staying on his knees as I positioned my cock at his hole.

Gripping his hips as he sank down, I finally let go of my control, head tipping back on a roar as my fangs eased down. The sting of pain twined with the heat of Jake’s body and my eyes rolled back on a groan.

It was almost too much.

Having this after wanting it for so long was nearly my undoing, but Jake gripped my shoulders, the scrape of his claws enough to pull me back.

“Not yet,” he breathed, as he started up a slow roll of his hips. His cock rubbed against my belly as he moved, and I watched, fascinated by the smear of precome he left behind on my skin. I wanted to taste him. Wanted to get my mouth on every inch of his body. The thought alone sent a lick of heat up my spine and I gripped him tight, urging him to go faster, harder.

Sweat slicked our skin, and I pulled him close enough to run my tongue over his collarbone. His taste called to me, called to my wolf, and I felt a tug in my belly. With every moan, every sharp inhale as Jake writhed on my cock, the feeling grew, snaking up my spine until I felt it everywhere.

“Close,” Jake hissed, tilting his head back to expose his throat.

Instinct took over.

My claws sank into Jake’s thighs as I lurched forward and bit down hard at the juncture of his neck and shoulder. He cried out, his whole body going rigid as he came, cock pulsing again and again as he painted my stomach.

It took everything I had not to come too, but I clung to that last thread of resolve and carefully extracted my teeth, licking over the bite mark that would forever stay on his skin.

My mark.

Possessiveness swept through me, but Jake’s growl snapped my attention up to his face. “Now you.”

I flipped us over, gripped by a sudden urgency I couldn’t hope to contain, but I hesitated long enough to ask, “You sure you’re okay?”

In answer, Jake bared his teeth and scraped his claws down my back.

Guess that was a yes.

On edge already, I fucked him hard and fast, the need to have his teeth in me spurring me on until that familiar heat threatened to overwhelm me. “Jake, I—”

Grabbing my hair, he yanked my head to the side and bit down. Pain, sharp and oh so sweet, swept me up and tossed me headlong into an orgasm that stole my breath and left me trembling in Jake’s arms.

Heat filled my chest, expanding outwards until my fingers and toes tingled with sensation. It faded like a retreating tide, leaving a warmth behind my ribs that hadn’t been there before. There was something else too, a steady throb, a connection. I couldn’t find the right words to explain it, but I didn’t need to because I knew exactly what it was.

Pushing myself up, I smiled down at Jake. He looked wrecked, but as happy as I’d ever seen him, glowing from within with a joy I felt deep in my bones. “I love you,” I whispered. I’d said the same words a hundred times before, but now they meant so much more.

He grinned up at me. “I love you, too.”

My gaze dipped to the mark I’d given him, a sense of both pride and possessiveness filling me.

Jake laughed, eyes flashing with matching emotions as he reached up to stroke where he’d bitten me. “You’re mine,” he said, voice soft and full of awe.

“I am.” I ducked my head, needing to breathe the evidence of it for myself. Closing my eyes, I sucked in air that smelt like both our scents combined into something new and amazing, and I couldn’t help but burrow closer. All that was missing was our pack scent and that would come soon enough. “And you’re mine,” I whispered, pulling back to see his face. “Forever.”

“Forever.”

It seemed a lifetime since we’d shared our first kiss on the forest floor, wondering if we were about to make a huge mistake. The path to get to this point had been harder than I ever imagined, but looking back, I didn’t think I’d change any of it, because it had brought us here.

And right here, right now, I had everything I’d ever wanted.

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