Page 80 of The Hidden Guardian
He nods, his eyes darkening as his gaze lowers down my naked, glistening body. I love it when he looks at me like that. I step closer, sliding a leg around his waist and climbing into his lap. “I think we can make a little time,” I whisper before kissing him and guiding his erection to the wetness pooling again. He groans, wrapping his arms around me. “I can’t deny my mate.” He moans as he fills me, and I grind against him.
“Good boy,” I whisper back to him as I ride him.
His eyes glitter with amusement. His jaw tightens and twitches, holding himself back. He watches as I ride him, allowing me to take control. His warm hands glide up my body, fire ignites in their wake. I groan into him as my knees quake. The hard stone tub is digging into my knees and calves until I have to shift for better leverage. Swinging my aching legs around, I brace one in the tub on the other on the cave floor. I groan in relief.
He uses my new position and temporary lapse of control to regain his power, thrusting upward and taking control.
Pleasure erupts through me, but I pause. “Tsk, tsk, you’re not obeying the rules.” I push him back down against the tub.
He smirks as he grabs me by the hips and lifts me up, pinning me against the far wall. Grinding into me, my arms braced to my sides in full control.
“You really don’t like to be dominated, do you?” I tease.
He pulls my nipple into his mouth, sucking on it and glancing up at me, powerless against his strength.
But he’s going to learn, I am not powerless.
ChapterForty-Two
RENALL
Autumn pauses her moaning for a second when I feel it. Her nipple pops out of my mouth and I meet her eyes, they are alight with challenge. Vines whip down from the ceiling, wrap around my wrists, and drag them above my head. Autumn twists me around, pinning my clasped arms to the wall now. A whoosh of air and my knees are knocked out from under me. My backside falls onto a soft dirt bench that extended out from the bathroom wall and my mate falls with me still inside her. She’s gotten her control back over me. I hang there, helpless. Her naked body writhing on top of me, skin still slightly kissed by the moon. My mate, my glorious, powerful mate. Chose me. Fought beside me. Saved me. The fates knew I met my match, my equal. Watching my gaze on her, she smiles. Powerful smirk. She leans in, kissing my neck. My fists clench against the vines holding me. Begging to be touched by her. “Let me touch you, please.”
“Hmm,” she murmurs against my neck. Then she grazes her teeth down that same sensitive part of my neck. I groan in pleasure and frustration. “That’s it,” she coos in my ear, grinding me harder. “Come for me.” I feel her muscles clenching harder around me. She’s close too. She drags her teeth along my neck again and I shiver realizing just how much that drives her crazy. I wrap my hands around the vines and rip them down. Vines fall limp around us as I grab her by the hips. Dirt is cascading down on us, and I don’t even care we’re going to need another bath.
My pleasure bursts out of me. My nails digging into her as I roar her name, and she finds her release shortly after, head falling limp into my shoulder. We pant trying to catch our breath. Dirt and vines scattered all over us.
After a few seconds, she giggles. “We made a mess.”
“That was, that was …” I attempt to speak but words escape me.
“Amazing,” she finishes.
I pull her head into my hands. “You are magnificent.”
She smiles. Lifting her arms and pulling the dirt back up into the ceiling and the vines retract back into the ground. I pull her up and place her onto the lip of the tub. Reaching around her, I pull the lever to fill it. She slides the dirt bench back into the wall with a flick of her wrist. She has gotten so powerful so quick. My mate. She turns to me. Dirt smeared across her cheek, I reach out and wipe it with my thumb. She leans into my touch.
“You absolutely annihilate me. I would shatter the world for you. I would disobey five-hundred Alpha orders to get you. You are everything I’ve ever dreamed of and more.”
She wraps her hand around mine. “I feel the same and I get it now …” She sighs against me. “The Guardian killing herself. I can’t even imagine my life without–”
Quieting her with my mouth, I tell her with lips touching, “It’s a good thing you won’t ever have to then.”
ChapterForty-Three
AUTUMN
Two more trysts later, Renall finally shows me what he brought for me. He pulls a shimmering gold fabric dress with green accents out of the box and holds it out for me. Its V-cut is deeper than even the green dress was, and the thick long sleeves flare at the tips. There is a slit up one leg. “It’s gorgeous … where did you–”
“It’s no matter. You are one of us now, my love.”
One of us. A part of the pack with Renall as my mate. I knew the repercussions of my actions, but hearing him say it—it warms my heart. A family. Ibelongsomewhere now.
The tears threaten to come as I dress in the gold Guardian dress and pin my hair up with gold pins. My eyes still glow golden and bright as I peer into the mirror before me. A far cry from the person I was the last time I looked into this mirror. I know this is me staring back. I know she was in there deep inside all this time. I’m proud of who she is becoming and what Renall and I will become together.
I exit the bathroom to find Renall peeking out the cave door.
“Everything okay?” I ask.
