Page 23 of Briggs (Paranormal Council Enforcers #16)

Todd

M y cheetah was pushing me to claim Briggs as ours, but when he’d told me no biting, immediately, my cheetah wanted to roll over and purr.

How did the wolf shifter so easily command my cheetah?

I really didn’t care too much. I mean, I did, but not at the moment.

Right now, I wanted to push back onto him and slide his cock into me fully.

Only I couldn’t because Briggs was holding on to my hips so tightly that I could barely move.

Wouldn’t things just be better if we got to the fun part and claimed each other? I didn’t know, but I thought so? Things were supposed to be amazing for mated couples. At least that’s what I’d heard and seen.

It took a lot to push up from where I was lying on top of Briggs.

He didn’t stop me, and as I sat upright, I finally got what I’d wanted.

Briggs’s cock slowly entered me the more I sat upright.

I somehow managed to sit completely up, and although I’d had sex before, it was never in this position and with someone that I was attracted to.

I placed my hands on Briggs’s stomach and held as still as I could for several minutes.

It had been some time, and despite my slick and the fact that he’d cared enough to stretch me, I still felt immensely full.

I panted a bit before I looked down at Briggs.

He didn’t appear to be doing too much better.

In fact, he looked as if he were in pain.

“What’s wrong? Am I doing it wrong?”

“No,” he said through gritted teeth. I could see his own canines now, and for some reason, I wanted to bend down and lick them. Would he let me? Where had that thought come from?

“You’re in pain? I’m bad at this. I’ll move.”

Briggs’s grip on my hips was painfully tight, and I would have run off and cried if not for the fact that he was holding me in place and I simply couldn’t move.

“No,” Briggs panted out. “Don’t move.” More panting. “Gonna come if you do.”

I widened my eyes at his confession. What could I do to make him come if I couldn’t move? I tried to wiggle a bit, and I think it was unexpected because Briggs moaned and pushed his head back into the pillow beneath his head. I felt a sudden flood of heat inside me and then a whole lot of pressure.

My mouth dropped open at the realization that I had just made him come from wiggling my hips just the tiniest bit. That had somehow been enough movement to push him over, and the added pressure was his knot.

“Did you…you just…” That was so hot.

Briggs’s grip on my hips lessened, and I was able to move enough to cause him to moan over and over. It was absolutely gorgeous and sexy, and I couldn’t believe I’d done that to the stunning alpha.

“Come here,” he said, pulling me back down on top of him. “This isn’t how I wanted things for us.”

I smiled, my lips just above his. “But it’s sexy and you finally found your own pleasure.” I closed the distance and kissed him. Whatever he was about to say was cut off with our kiss. It was a bit more difficult this time around because we both had larger-than-normal teeth in our mouths.

Briggs broke the kiss after just a moment but trailed kisses toward my ear. “I’ll make it up to you, I swear.”

I didn’t know what he meant until I suddenly felt a sharp pain where my neck met my shoulder.

A wave of pure pleasure flowed through my body from my neck down that settled in my balls.

They tingled before I felt another intense zap to them.

When I did, my body shuddered as I came between us.

If I’d thought my orgasm earlier had been intense, I’d been so very wrong.

This one by far outdid the earlier one. I moaned and gasped as it went on and on until finally my body started to come down just a bit once my orgasm subsided.

I felt myself starting to relax, and I sighed as I laid my head down on Briggs’s shoulder.

“Not yet, sweetheart,” Briggs said. “Bite,” he instructed as he moved my head closer to his own neck.

I managed to pick my head up just enough to turn it to where I wasn’t biting where I shouldn’t, and my cheetah seemed to take over.

I bit Briggs on the shoulder and heard him groan loudly into the room before there was an increase in pressure where Briggs was buried in me.

I managed to pull my teeth out of his shoulder and lick the bite before my body shuddered and everything went dark.

I became aware of my surroundings and realized I was lying on top of a warm and hard surface. There was something tickling up and down my back, and at first, I thought I had fallen asleep while out running and I’d shifted back to my human form. But then I scented something else. Briggs. I smiled.

“Welcome back.”

I somehow managed to push up enough to look up at the sexy wolf. It didn’t take too long for me to remember where we were, why, and what all had happened. “Oh. How long have I been out?”

Briggs smiled back at me. “Not long. Just a few minutes.”

“Oh. I guess that’s good?” I fell back onto him. “Why do I feel like my body is made of lead?”

Briggs chuckled, and when he did, it caused tugging in certain parts of my body. I hissed, which in turn caused my mate to freeze. “Sorry,” Briggs said urgently. “We’re knotted together.”

I smiled. Knotted. Mated. I had a mate now! Briggs chuckled again but seemed to catch himself before he wiggled us too much. “Yes, you have a mate now.”

I lifted again and looked at him. “I didn’t say that.”

“Yes you did.” Briggs rolled his eyes. “Okay, technically, you didn’t say it.

You thought it, and your thoughts are completely open to me.

” My eyes widened. What else was completely open to him?

“I haven’t looked,” Briggs said. “I’m not going to go snooping through your memories.

You can share what you want me to see and know when you’re ready.

” Briggs took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

“I do owe you a better round of lovemaking though. I’ll gladly do that as soon as you’re ready. ”

I stared up at my new mate. “What was wrong with this one? We’re mated, aren’t we?”

Briggs winced. “Yes, but it was rushed, and for that, I’m sorry. I wanted to take my time with you and show you how amazing intimacy could be between two people.”

I placed my hands on top of one another on Briggs’s chest before I rested my chin on it and stared at him. “Was it bad?” I asked. “I came, you came, that’s good. Is it not?”

Briggs sighed. “We did. It’s just…I wanted more for you. Not that I want to bring it up now while we’re still knotted together, but I wanted you to have a memorable first time with me.”

I guess I wasn’t following. Not really. “Well, I came. That’s never happened before, so how is it not memorable? You’re the first that has ever made me come, the first that has ever cared about how I felt during sex. So tell me how was it not amazing?”

Briggs looked horrified. “You have been so mistreated,” he said as he reached up and ran his fingers through my hair. “I want to give you everything you’ve ever wanted. I want to show you how amazing things can be not only between two people but with life in general.”

I smiled and shook my head. “You already have. You don’t know it yet, but just being willing to even consider being mine is everything.

” I turned my head and laid it down on my hands.

I couldn’t look at him and get out what I wanted to say next.

“I’m not going to be easy to live with. What they did to me.

” I took a deep breath. “What they made me do. I’m not worthy of having someone as amazing as you or anyone, really. ”

“No,” Briggs said harshly. “Look at me now.” I did as told, but my eyes were already filling with tears.

Briggs saw them, and the thundercloud that was his face softened.

“No,” he said quietly. He reached out again, this time cupping my face.

He swiped under my eye, wiping away my tears as they fell.

“You are worthy. You are amazing and have so much to give. Don’t think that about yourself.

Don’t ever think or say those words again.

You are. You didn’t choose to be sold. Your uncle is to blame for that.

You survived. You did what you had to in order to come out of that place. You are so, so strong.”

“You don’t really know me,” I said in response.

I wanted to believe him. He wasn’t saying anything that I’d not been told by others.

But they were doctors and council members, and they had to?

Maybe? I wasn’t too sure. Everyone I’d met with the council had all said the same things, and deep down, I knew they were right.

That it wasn’t my fault. But that didn’t change what had happened to me and the others.

“I know you more than you realize,” Briggs told me. He looked as if he was going to say something else, but his knot chose that exact moment to release. I gasped when the pressure was suddenly gone, but I quickly realized there was a new problem and it was the mess. It came gushing out.

“Oh no,” I said as I tried to clench things and scramble off my mate. Briggs wasn’t having it though. He wrapped his arms tightly around me and then sat up. The new position put me on my knees over his lap, and that was worse.

“It’s all right. We’ll be sure to put a couple of towels down next time, but I have plenty of bedding, and we can easily change it later.

How about a shower? Then maybe we can go for that run?

I know you said you don’t run on the mountain after dark, but I’ll be with you. And the mountain is completely secure.”

“I’d like that,” I told him.

“Good.” Briggs kissed me really quick, and then somehow, he scooted to the end of the bed and slipped off, all without letting me go. I quickly grabbed on to his shoulders to keep from slipping. Not that he would let me fall. At least, I didn’t think so.

“Where are we going? And how did you do that?”