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  She could do this. Toss out all reason and take what she wanted. One time didn’t make her a bad person. Right?

  “You’re thinking too loudly, baby.”

  Aidan pushed forward, and she opened farther for him. He palmed her ass and lifted. She wrapped her legs around his thick waist. Goddess, they fit so well together. Her body molded around him like puzzle pieces interlocking.

  The length of his cock pressed her wet folds. Her insides quivered from the zap of electricity their connection created. With a single swish of her hips she could have what she craved.

  Aidan. Deep inside her, making her wildest fantasies come true.

  Instead, he held her against him, one hand keeping her hips still while the other supported her back.

  Her powers pulsed with each heartbeat, seeking out every place their skin touched, meshing their energy. Holy Hades. She squeezed her eyes closed to help still the room from spinning with all the desire her body exuded.

  As an apprentice, her mother and the Elders had warned her how a witch’s magic was her weakness as much as it was her strength. Is this what they had meant? Because if she didn’t know any better, it felt as if she was the one under an unbreakable spell.

  Aidan tightened his grip, peppering kisses along her collarbone, up her neck then retraced his path. She leaned back in his arms, thrusting her breasts up for the beast to taste. The movement ground her dripping wet pussy against his hard shaft.

  A growl rumbled deep in his chest. In warning or appreciation? Warm lips surrounded first one nipple, then the next. He laved at her skin and devoured her as though she was exactly as he’d said—an erotic piece of fruit and he couldn’t get enough of. His light beard tickled her skin and sent a flush of fevered anticipation from head to toe.

  She rocked her core along the ridge of his shaft and she could feel her juices slipping out to wet them both. His fingers flexed into the flesh of her hip. Desperate to finally have him, Sadie let out a frustrated groan when he held her in place.

  His chest rumbled with a chuckle. “Something wrong, my little witch?”

  Little witch?

  Sadie raked her nails down his shoulders and around his back letting her powers simmer to the surface. He arched, thrusting closer to her nirvana. So close.

  “Fuck, Sadie! That was good!”

  The delicious husky words she received from him rocketed her closer to the edge of insanity. She didn’t know how much longer she could last without having him in her.

  She sank her teeth into the tender area of his neck and bit down with her blunt teeth. Little by little she nibbled her way up his neck only to latch onto his soft earlobe. Using his strong hands, he rocked her pussy against his bare cock making her girl-cum drip all over them.

  “Damn, that feels beyond good, baby.” He locked her legs around him firmly then palmed the back of her head and pulled her closer into his embrace. “Sadie, we do this and there’s no going back.” He fisted a hand in her hair, the ache as delicious as his kisses. She understood his hesitation and inability to stop.

  She reclined in his arms and met his gaze, her breath coming hard and fast. His gaze turned wary. “We’re not talking pure sex here, are we, Aidan?”

  “Not by a longshot, sweetheart. What I want with you is a permanent thing.”

  Aidan turned them around and strode over to the sofa a few feet from her dining table. The perks of having a small apartment.

  He settled them onto the soft leather with her straddling him. A small silence hung over the room before he continued. “By pack law, I have to mate by the end of this moon cycle or I open myself up to being challenged from neighboring pack alphas.” A haunted look fell over his expression. She could see how past events weighed heavy on him, and she wished she could help ease his pain. “Sadie, you know I can’t put my family through that kind of risk.” He let out a deep sigh, and she could see the frustration eating at him. Her heart swelled and reached out to the man that obviously cared for those depending on him to make the right choice.

  Blinded by her own needs, she’d failed to notice the heavy burden that weighed on his shoulders. Her head had been so clouded with saving her own ass with the love potion and all the lusty dreams he stirred up. What kind of friend did that make her?

  “And I’m so close to taking you, claiming you and making you my mate, Sadie. My wolf is hungry for you and I don’t know if I’m strong enough to hold back.”

  She studied him. “So, it’s not something you want? I’m just convenient?” She worked to keep the hurt from her tone.

  His features showed an acute awareness of the trap her words built before him. Smart man.

  Sadie moved to climb off his lap, but he stilled her with a hand to her arm. “I didn’t say that, woman.”

  “Then what do you mean? Tell me. I’m a big girl. I can take it.”

  “I’ve waited too long. If I claim you now, it won’t be gentle and sweet. It will be pure instinct driving me, and I don’t want that for you. And I sure the hell don’t want to do anything you might not want.”

  “Like what? Being mated by the alpha, and who said anything about sweet? Maybe I like it a little rough and wild.”

  His irises intensified with the otherworldly powers of his beast, but she saw past his wolf and into the heart of the man. “I know you won’t hurt me. And if I didn’t want this, I wouldn’t be here. With you. Right now,” she murmured softly, brushing the back of her knuckles along his jaw.

  But she couldn’t deny the spark of fear that skated down her spine. She’d come this far—there was no reason to hold back her true feelings now. Besides, if she didn’t lay her feelings out for him to see, she may never have another chance. “I’ve pined over you for a long time. Three years to be exact.” She shimmied her hips causing the fat head of his cock to nudge against her clit.

  She drew in a long breath and let it out on a soft sigh. “Since the first time you walked into my bar and asked for a case of my Moon Brew with the sexiest grin and the sweetest words of welcome, in fact.”

  His eyebrows turned up and a small smile touched his lips. “I remember. You had on a hot number that had me hard for a month, but it was also a difficult time for my pack.” A look of pain shot across his features before he tucked it away. He took her face between his palms. “Tell me, Sadie, have I waited too long to claim my witch?” His eyes burned with a fear she’d never seen in him before. Did her answer hold so much power? The thought had her mind racing with what it meant.

  “We’re breaking the rules, Aidan. You know the potion I created could land me in trouble with the Elders. And what you’re saying, I have to ask, is it really what you want? To mate a witch?”

  Chapter Five

  He trailed a warm caress over her shoulders and settled his strong hands on her thighs. “Baby, your spell was a dud, if that counts for anything with your Silver Circle. I burned through it halfway up the stairs.” His lips quirked up in a playful smile. “Werewolf metabolism is a bitch, but I will say your potion got my ass moving and up here. Once I turned the lock on the door and saw your pretty worried eyes, my wolf couldn’t back down, but I couldn’t resist playing with my witch a little.”

  That took the air out of her argument.

  She worked her mouth a couple of times, but she had nothing.

  He massaged his large hands up her legs and worked his hands up her sides to her trim waist, and with little effort, pulled her back over him. He was good. Really good, the sneaky bastard, but she couldn’t argue with how right it all felt.

  She settled her legs on either side of his thighs, reached between them and guided the tip of his engorged cock to her opening. “One movement either direction and our futures are either intertwined or—”

  “There is no or about this. If someone has a problem with us, they’ll know where to find me. I’m only sorry it took us this long.”

  Sadie gasped. She struggled to keep her eyes open and locked on him. His warmth enveloped her, sooth
ing her body, soul, and heart.

  Even in the dim lighting of her apartment, she could read how the beautiful contours of his face defined what felt so natural between them. A friendship that kindled a soul-deep passion and raged on through long nights of sharing beers and long talks about anything and everything.

  She rested her palms over his chest, his heart a steady, strong beat beneath her touch much like the man she had fallen for long before she even realized.

  He wrapped his hands on either side of her face and angled her to look at him. “Watch me take you, Sadie.”

  His command anchored her gaze on him. She tightened her grip on his shoulders, his fingers now massaging into her hips. Aidan clamped his hands around her hips and drove into her wet channel in one swift fusion of their bodies.

  He lifted her off his thick cock only to drive back into her, the tip hitting the bundled knot of nerves buried within her core.

  Rocketing past pure pleasure and straight into pussy-clenching delight, she could do nothing but hold onto him.

  She leaned forward to allow deeper penetration. Warm lips captured one nipple, then the other. He swirled his tongue around the sensitive peaks, working the tight points tighter than she ever imagined possible.

  He flexed his hips, pistoning deeper still. Her eyes rolled shut and her power reached out to him, fusing a connection of their energies.

  Goddess, she loved how her body yearned for more of him. She had waited for so long, wanting this exact moment with him, not even her fantasies lived up to the actual way he made her body sing to his touch.

  “I’ve wanted to taste your delicious skin from the first day I saw you. Now that I have you in my mouth, I only want you. Again and again. I don’t think I’ll ever get my fill.”

  Her heart swelled with the words he lavished on her. As though he could see into her mind and read her thoughts. Was that possible? Part of the bonding? She had so many questions.

  “I want you turned around and bent over in front of me.” His voice rumbled with his command and her body responded with a rush of fervent heat.

  With a solid grip on her hips, he flipped her over onto her stomach. Pure shock and a surge of pleasure brought her ass up and into his waiting hands.

  He worked her into position, gliding his dick into her sticky, wet pussy once more. With a firm hold, he pulled her into the dip of his pelvis. She clutched a handful of a throw blanket that fell from the back of her sofa, trying for leverage. A cry slipped past her lips, and she thrust back as he drove forward to create a delicious friction that catapulted her into another realm, past where her magic or any battery-operated boyfriend could take her.

  He pressed his weight into as he leaned forward to stroke the pleasure bud between her slick folds. Electric shocks pulsated through her. So close.

  So, sooo, close to teetering over the edge.

  He drove into her with a slow, powerful thrust only to pull back out again and repeat his delicious torture.

  “Come here.” Aidan withdrew from her body and turned her around. He lifted her to straddle him and he walked her over to the window. He nestled her close and she had no fear of him letting her slip. Shafts of moonlight broke through the closed window to reflect in his eyes. She loved watching the silver light cascade over his broad shoulders. He was born to the night and it suited him perfectly. “I want to take you in the moonlight, then claim you as mine.”

  Please, yes. Her heart tripped along, and her breath caught in her chest.

  “Does that frighten you, baby?” His shoulders stiffened beneath her grip.

  She worried her lower lip and scanned his face for any other signs of what he might be feeling, but it seemed only he had that kind of insight or perhaps was only good at hiding his feelings. She would bet money on the latter.

  He leaned her against the wall and positioned the head of his shaft at the entrance of her wet slit. With her heels pressed against his firm buttocks, she sank onto his length and worked him into her. There was no room for fear between them, and if it took all night for her to prove it to him, she could handle the task.

  Her nails dug into his shoulders, pulling him closer. Her back arched, pushing her shoulders into the wall, driving him deeper.

  “No fear. No hesitation, Aidan. But you already know that. Now take me.”

  She dipped her mouth to claim his. His jaw opened, and she took the invitation to claim his mouth with a deep kiss. Her tongue danced over his, and it was all she could do to hold back from shouting from the rush of pleasure.

  She wanted this. Wanted him. She pulled back and broke their kiss. “Is that why you were here? Closing the bar with me night after night? Because you knew I was your mate?”

  She dipped and rolled her hips, driving him deeper still. Aidan nodded. In a rough voice he added, “I didn’t know how to tell you my wolf had picked you. Hell, I wasn’t really sure until a couple of nights ago when I kissed you.”

  He brushed the tips of his fingers along her sides and back down to grip the flesh of her hips again. She nearly came from the exquisite feeling of him holding her so close.

  “The kiss. That’s why you left? After all the time we’ve spent together you didn’t know until you kissed me?” She held her breath, waiting for his answer, but some small part of her already knew. It all made sense now.

  He shook his head. In a gravelly voice that punctuated his response, he answered, “I must have thought of a million different ways to tell you, claim you, but nothing measures up to the actual sweet feel of your body wrapped around me.”

  A pulsing pleasure throbbed along the nerves of her clit. She clenched the muscle of her channel around his shaft and swirled her hips. “I like how you move over me. Our bodies are a perfect fit.”

  He parted her ass cheeks and drove into her in a slow, torturous rhythm.

  Gradually, he picked up momentum, slamming into her, hitting her clit with each plunge. Raw desire overwhelmed her, and her power answered, vibrating just beneath the surface, begging for the same connection she craved. “Harder.” The single command tore from her lips. She wanted all of him in her. Not just his cock, but his heart too. “Take me, Aidan. All of me.”

  “Careful what you wish for, my little witch. I have a ferocious appetite.”

  Aidan growled and his grip tightened. “Hold on.”

  As if she had a choice.

  He rocked into her, and the feel of his muscles as they rippled beneath her touch made her ache to have him closer.

  “Tell me how you want it, baby.”

  “Harder. Faster. And for goddess’s sake, fucking kiss me.”

  “Your wish, my command.”

  She locked her ankles and fell into a wave of mesmerizing sensations that took over her as he delivered on his promise. Deep within her, his shaft pulsated, shooting her own orgasm higher.

  Her powers breached the surface and created a visible rush of midnight blue energy to dance along their entwined bodies, seeking out the bond. Tingles of her magic glided along her skin and fused with his to create an energy she had never felt before. How could two people hold so much power? Savage heat melded them as one. Their combined magic now flooding both their systems.

  A deep ethereal snarl tore from his lips and he arched back, driving deeper into her channel one final time. Just as quickly, he pushed forward, crashing his lips into hers in a fevered kiss as white-hot spurts of his come shot into her greedy pussy.

  Bursts of fear, joy, sorrow, and happiness jumbled and meshed together so tightly she no longer knew if it were her own or his. Burdens of a violent past settled over her mind, the weight not of her memories, but of his. Flashes of blood and dirt, humans turned wolves flickering in and out of her mind’s eye.

  Her eyes sprang open and connected with his. A wild, raw mixture of doubts and pleasure inundated her mind until the wave of emotions settled over hers to meld into harmony. She took a long, steady breath, reeling from what had just happened.

  Fascinated, sh
e couldn’t take her eyes off his. Ruby shards receded. Swirls of steel gray replaced a raging tempest only to settle into an eclectic combination of blues.

  Taken aback, she stroked the back of her fingers down the side of his face. “Your eyes—they’re beautiful.” He leaned into her touch and she placed a tender kiss to his lips. “And brighter,” she whispered in awe, not wanting to break the spell.

  “You’re one to speak, gorgeous.” A grin worked the corners of his mouth up and she couldn’t help but claim one more taste. His tongue delved between her lips, and her pussy quivered for more of his attention.

  He tore away and threw his head back with a roar. The sound was so starkly different from the growl before. It said: She’s mine.

  Emotions channeled through their newly forged connection, spiking her heart rate threefold, and she felt it down to the very bottom of her soul.

  Moonshine bathed his black hair in beams of pure light. The call of his wolf reached for her and her powers answered.

  Aidan lowered his gaze and pinned her against the wall with his chest while he cradled her on his hips. “Want to see my wolf’s mark?”

  He stepped back and let her body glide down the chiseled planes of his torso and abs. Hardened muscle covered with a light dusting of hair met the soft skin of her palms. Goddess, could he be any more perfect for snuggling? And fucking. Definitely fucking.

  A low heat started in her center and spread like wildfire to tinge her cheeks. Holy Hades, he’d take one look at her and think she only wanted his body.

  “I don’t need to see you, baby, to know you need me. But I admit, you flush a pretty shade of pink when I’m near you.”

  She ducked her head. Did he just read her mind or had she said that aloud? Aidan growled a delicious rumble that worked into her and stroked her libido. Despite still being wet from their last rendezvous, hot liquid pooled between her thighs. Less than five minutes and she was ready for more.

  With a hand to her shoulder, he turned her around to face the mirror hanging to the side of them. “Look.”