Birdie?
Oh gods, he just had to give me a nickname, didn't he?
But I shake my head. "You won't just be helping me, Colton. You'll end up mating me and if you... if we..." Another scream catches in my throat the second I realize I can feel his cock hot and heavy against my hip. "You don't want me."
"No?" Colton groans as he barely rolls his hips against mine. "What does that feel like to you?"
"A distraction!" I snap. "A torturous distraction that is purely your body reacting to mine.”
"Tell me you don't want me. Tell me you don't want me, don't love me, and you don't want to mate me, and I’ll drop it.”
My eyes dart to his, narrow then water as I whimper in pain. "I can't."
"I can't either, Birdie. My body may be reacting to your heat but it wasn't when I saw you in that flimsy tank top at Zan's and I got so hard I could cut glass.” Colton leans down and rubs his nose along my throat. "It wasn't when I was cooking breakfast, watching you focus on my research and I got so turned on by the way your mind was working I wanted to lay you out on the table and eat you instead.” His lips graze the shell of my ear and goddamnit everything hurtsso good. "And I sure as fuck wasn't reacting to your heat last night when I jerked off in the shower while I thought about how your sweet little cunt was barely covered by those sleep shorts yesterday."
"That... that means nothing..." I pant. "We share... we share a mate bond... it’s—“
"Perfectly natural to be so goddamn horny for your mate you can't even be in the same room together without tearing each other's clothes off and rutting like wild beasts. I know, but that comes from a place of profound love, Birdie, the most soul searing kind of love. Just like the love I have for you.” Colton nips my earlobe then brushes his lips along my jaw and holds them a mere breath away from my own. "I may be reacting to your heat right now, my body responding to the way your pussy is begging for my cock, but your heat has nothing to do with how much I love you and that, just so you know, is a fuckton."
"Colton..." Tears of pain, tears of joy, they're all mixing now and I can barely focus on his words, especially with his dick so close to where I need it to be. "I don't want you to do this unless you're sure... I couldn't live with myself if..."
I scream again and Colton basically flattens his body on top of mine, the feel of where every inch of skin touches bringing a mild form of relief. "I am sure, Birdie. I've never been more sure of anything. You are my mate, my fated one, and I love you so goddamn much, but I won't do anything you don't want me to do. If you don't want this, don't wantme,then I'll get up, shift, and leave you to deal with this on your own. But mark my words, I will still prove to you how I feel and get you to mate me anyway. If you'd rather that, fine, but that's your only other option."
As much as it would put me at ease knowing Colton made his decision with a clear mind, and wasn't fueled by a physiological or a biological response, I can't bring myself to really give a shit about it right now.
I hurt so bad, want him more, and love him with everything I have. I'm willing to deal with whatever happens next, to take a risk on the unknown one more time in order to be with my mate.
"Ok,” I whisper and try to bite back another scream.
Colton lifts his head and looks down at me. "Ok?"
I nod. "Ok. Prove it to me right here, right now."
"I need to hear you say the words, Birdie. Tell me what I need to hear."
My fingers dig into his sides, dig deep enough to draw blood as another shock of painful arousal shoots through my body and I whimper through my tears. "Mate me, Colton. Ease my need, claim me as yours.”
And with a deep, almost sensual growl, he does.
Colton reaches and wraps my legs around his waist before his hips pull back and then snap forward in one fluid move, and oh my fucking gods, the relief is instant.
We both groan as he fills me, his alpha cock stretching my walls, his knot demanding I take him to the hilt. A command my pussy eagerly follows.
I am so goddamn full, stretched to the max, but it doesn't hurt at all. Not even when he moves, when Colton slowly slides almost all the way out only to slam forward again, his knot slipping further past my entrance as it stretches me wider. There’s hardly any pain, none outside of the remnants of my heat as my mate eases it. This just feels right. It feels amazing, Colton feels like home.
His thrusts immediately sync with the rapid waves of my heat, driving deep as they crescendo, pulling back as they ease, and because we both know this won't last long but isn't quite enough to sate the heat, Colton lifts my hips and angles them so he can go impossibly deeper, his knot almost all the way inside me. My mate’s magnificent cock strokes my g-spot perfectly, the blunt head practically busting my cervix with each pump of his hips even without being completely seated, and it is the most heavenly euphoria I have ever experienced.
"I love you, Birdie,” he growls in my ear, his face buried in my neck. "Gods, how I fucking love you."
I gasp as he changes positions again but only slightly, keeping my hips tilted so Colt can rest my ass on his thighs. My back scrapes against the dirt and leaves, the grass and pieces of bark causing a delicious pain while my mate gives me so much pleasure. But then he wraps his arm around me to shield me from the ground, a sweet gesture that has my heart swelling while my pussy clamps down around him like a vise.
"Fuck,” Colton grunts. "Fuck, you feel so damn good.” He drops his free hand between us and circles my clit, something that makes my pussy contract and relax at the same time. "And you are so fuckingmine,Lark.”
My body sings as my climax races through me, my orgasm building at my toes and shooting up through every nerve, and just when I don't think I'll ever come down from such an incredible high, Colton sinks his teeth into my shoulder as he thrusts hard enough to slip his knot into my core, claiming me in the way only my mate can.
I scream his name as I lift my legs higher, my nails tearing down his back as Colton slides out before pounding back in and I keep coming as he rubs my clit in time with the movement of his hips, his jaw locked on the sensitive skin of my shoulder, our wolves howling in unison.
Which is when I feel it, feel our bond start to change, feel our souls, our minds, our hearts become one. The strands of each weaving together in an intricate rope, one pulled so tight it can never be unraveled, never be broken or cut, and will never be separate again.
