I heard her approach, and it ramped everything up. There was so much roaring going on in my head that I wasn’t even aware of what I said to her. The only thing that finally penetrated was when the alpha power infused her words, and it broke through the fog.
“There is only one way to have me. Take the pills.”
My eyes dropped to the box she’d shoved beneath the door. I kicked at it with my foot, and it skidded across the floorboards.
Frustration pulled my lips back from my teeth as my beast surged in me. It didn’t want the bloody pills. It wanted Anna.
The human in me bent to pick them up.
Minutes later, I was in my room, popping three and swallowing them dry. We might break drugs down fast, but it also meant they took effect damned quick.
My beast screamed as the pills took me down, my thoughts swirling apart and descending into darkness.
I was in a forest, with the moons rising above the treetops.
Her scent permeated the darkness. Rich, powerful, the citrus overwhelmed with another, much more compelling, and I was immediately lost in its thrall. I raced toward her on four swift paws, my claws tearing divots in the ground.
Yes, my beast growled. Now that we were here, in a dream, it cared not for reality. Only for culmination.
It wanted to mate.
I couldn’t have controlled it if I’d tried, and at the moment, I was completely in sync with it. We raced along the path until it opened onto the plateau.
Anna stood there, clothed only in moonlight. One of her eyes glowed blue in the darkness—the other a pale gold. I’d never seen them do that before. She was breathtakingly gorgeous. Her scent swirled around me and drew me like a moth to a flame.
My beast growled. It bounded straight for her, but I gritted my teeth and dug in. Strewth. I would not bloody let it rut her like an animal. Which was what it fully intended to do. To throw her to the ground, flip her on her knees, bury its teeth in her shoulder and take her from behind.
And from what I sensed coming from her, she’d let me do it, too.
But the human in me refused to yield. I was hers in every possible way. And she deserved more than to be mated like a beast.
So I dug my claws in and forced myself to a halt. Wrestled with my beast for control. It wasn’t going down easy. I’d never had to fight it like this before.
Then warm hands ran along my jaw, and I opened my eyes to sapphire and honey.
“Shift for me, Matt,” she commanded.
And my beast did for her what it wouldn’t for me. It let my human form emerge. But it didn’t yield. It continued to hammer at me, the lust so overwhelming that my breath came in hoarse pants.
As I rose on two legs, there was no hiding my state from her. Her gaze dropped, and her lips parted. The tip of her pink tongue emerged to lick them.
So damned sexy—it sent a laser beam straight to my groin. I reached for her, but she held me back with a hand on my chest. Then she dropped to her knees.
And wrapped those luscious lips around me.
I groaned as I was engulfed by her warm wetness. A deep, visceral sound. Her tongue stroked along the underside of my shaft, and my ballocks drew up tight against my body. Then she danced it around the head, and sucked—
I almost lost it, right then and there. “Strewth, Angel. Stop, or I’m going to go off like a bloody rocket.” I scarcely recognized my own voice as I pulled her off me and then onto her feet.
She smiled at me. “Is this real enough for you?” Her fingers stroked. It elicited a growl from me, and I quivered beneath her touch. “Do you really want me to stop?”
“You are playing with fire,” I warned, my beast clawing at me to be set free.
Her luminous eyes slid halfway shut. “Who said I didn’t want to burn?”
My beast surged within me, and as I fought for control, she giggled and darted away. The twin globes of her nakedness beckoned to me as she ran.
All semblance of control fled. I was after her in an instant. But my Anna was a runner. Even my long strides couldn’t catch her. And it wasn’t exactly comfortable running in this state—I was busy fending off bushes and poky sticks.
