Page 198 of Alpha Mates

Max, arrogant and bold, lifts his head and his hand to trace his fingers over my mark.

“Well, I do love you,” he declares while sparks flare from where he touches, running through my body, all the way to the soles of my feet.

“Love?” I muse while I struggle not to beg for more. “Funny how quickly hate changed to love, huh? The Moon Goddess really fucked us over.”

A familiar smile stretches across his lips as he laughs. “They think she did this to them, but it was to punish us, wasn’t it?”

“That’s what we get for spending generations destroying everything just to get at each other’s throats,” I muse, and he laughs again.

Time is different in Goddess’s Resplendent Plains, so it’s hard to say how long Max and I had spent there, waiting to be paired with our other half in this world, but I spent the duration of it hating him.

When I realised he was Aiden’s wolf, I nearly lost it.

Finding out that the Moon Goddess finally put me with a human, only to be in the same vicinity as Maximus, was like being sentenced to an eternity in hell.

“I’ve fantasised about your death for most of my life, about how I might scar you,” I admit as I step forward, invading his space, “but now …”

“Now you can’t get enough of me,” he whispers, pulling my body against his wonderfully firm one.

“Is that so?” I muse into the crook of his ear. He hums, letting his hands slide down my back, slipping beneath the fabric to touch skin. “And what would you do if that were true?”

“I’d take you right here. Right now,” he breathes huskily.

I smirk and wait until his hands smooth over my ass before I turn us swiftly, slamming his back into the fridge. Max’s throat strains against my forearm as he gasps, but I keep him firmly in his place. Not fighting, he blinks wide eyes at me, ones sparkling with noted excitement.

“Let’s get something clear, Max,” I purr as I let my free hand slide down his body. “Julian and I are not ‘bottoms’.” I stop at his hip and press him into the fridge door before sliding my leg between his. “In the situation our lives haveforcedus into, we have adapted and accepted it, because your cock in our ass doesfeel good. But do not forget … weletyou take us.”

Max’s dark eyes are no longer so wide. They’re hooded now, heavy with lust as he stares at me. His body is a tight, tense thing, but he doesn’t dare fight me. Pleased, I gift him a smile as I lean in close, and he purrs.

“For Julian’s sake, I will not fuck you until you’re shooting blanks and screaming my name until you’ve gone hoarse,” I whisper against his lips. “I’ll leave that special night for him and Aiden. So … remember your place,my dear mate.”

I slip my arm from his neck, letting him breathe properly, only to cut his next breath short as I trail my fingers over his soft lips. Even freed, Max stays plastered against the fridge as his tongue eases out. He licks between my fingers slowly, sending shivers down my back as his eyes claim mine.

“It turns me on to see you like this,” he whispers as he reaches up to grab my wrist. His lips wrap around my fingers, sucking them into his mouth and my erection strains in my pants as I watch him. Max chuckles as he rubs his leg against my cock. “Excited already?”

“Yes,” I admit, horny and unashamed to admit it. “You caused this, so take responsibility,” I demand, making his eyes glow momentarily. I frown. “What’s up with the eyes?”

“You know I can’t tell you that,” he purrs while he draws my arm out and dips low to worship me with kisses.

“I thought you loved me,” I say as I drive my fingers into his hair and crane my head for more. Eyes half shut, I stifle a moan as his hands climb up my shirt, teasing over my back.

“You know that I do,” he whispers against my neck. “But I’d never betray Aiden like that.”

Making his way up, Max drags his lips over every inch of my skin he can until his tongue traces over the shell of my ear. I shiver and melt completely into his arms, driving him into the fridge.

“Secrets, secrets,” I tsk while I grind against him.

“Secrets, secrets,” he echoes with a lustful groan, his hands travelling into my pants to grab my ass. “So dangerous …” he growls as he hoists me against him, stealing the air from my lungs. “And yet so much fun.”

Maximus clamps sharp teeth down on my jaw, making me moan as I rock my hips, rubbing myself wantonly against him, officially done with talking. I drag his head up, crushing those beautiful lips with mine, and moan in satisfaction as those promised electrifying shocks dance between us.

I slant my head to deepen the kiss, and Max yields, letting my tongue explore his mouth as he devours mine in return. Our skin is on fire as we claw at one another, growing more vicious as we fight for dominance.

I sink my teeth into his bottom lip before tracing my tongue over it, and he moans beautifully for me before I let my hands wander up his shirt. I barely brush his nipples before he lifts me suddenly, placing me on the edge of the island before he continues our hungry kiss.

Wrapping my legs around his waist, I pull Max closer, and he smiles against my lips as his hands rake all over my body. I tug on his shirt’s hem, spurring him to take it off as I do the same with mine.

We share a grunt as his chest presses against mine, skin to skin, and it feels so terribly good. My skin’s already aflame, my breath short, but when he makes his way down to my mark and traces the area slowly with his tongue, I lose it.