Page 132 of Crossed Fates

She hesitated, but I felt her laughter in my mind. She was fucking with me.

“Makayla,” I growled, sending another shiver through her and causing her heartbeat to speed up.

“I’m yours,” she whispered.

Hearing it from her lips snapped my patience, and I could no longer push back the rising tide of hunger and need to be inside her. She rose up and brushed her lips along my jaw and across my lips, to settle over my mouth. Then she nipped at my lip, encouraging me.

My hips moved back, and in the next instant, I’d filled her completely with one thrust. Makayla inhaled sharply and her back arched, rubbing the tips of her breasts against the damp skin of my chest. It added another layer to the ecstasy of feeling my mate wrapped tightly around my cock.

“You make me feel so full,” Makayla moaned. I held still, letting her body stretch to accommodate me. The feeling of being whole lingered between us, then grew to cocoon us in our own little world.

Her body clenched, and I groaned as my hands anchored onto the roundness of her hips. I started with a slow, steady rhythm. Now that she’d accepted her place as my mate, I wanted one more thing.

Her submission. It was incredibly hard for a female alpha wolf to submit, and when they did, it indicated a level of trust that was absolute. I didn’t question our bond, but I wanted the act anyway. I wanted her to acknowledge that I’d earned it.

Besides, I’d promised to make her crawl.

But I could be magnanimous enough to accept her begging instead.

I continued to torture her with my slow, steady rhythm.

Yeah, that doesn’t work for me,she snapped, her growl of annoyance an aphrodisiac for my wolf.

She grasped my shoulders and tugged me down so she could bite my earlobe as she clenched her inner muscles again.A secret smile stole over her face when I lost a bit of my control and grunted, speeding up. Raking her claws down my back, she hummed in approval and nipped my throat where she’d left her own mark.

My body froze for a single heartbeat before I dropped my head into the crook of her neck and muttered, “Shit.”

I gave her exactly what she wanted, my movements becoming wild. I thrust in and out with a force that had her nearly crying out for release, but at the last second, she swallowed while thinking,I don’t beg.

We’ll see about that, won’t we?

My hands were everywhere all at once, and she touched as much of me as she could reach. Blood pounded in my ears, and I breathed in deep, soul-wrenching drafts. A buzz floated over my skin, and the world began to spin before my eyes. She was pushing me higher, closer and closer, almost there. No. Not yet.

Abruptly, I ceased all movement.

What the fuck?Makayla shouted.

“Beg me,” I demanded quietly.

“Excuse me?”

“I didn’t make you crawl like I swore I would. So you’re going to beg. I want your submission, Makayla.”

Hovering right on the precipice of climax, I almost gave in. My wolf snarled at me when I remained silent.

I began to move again, but I returned to the agonizing pace with which I’d begun.

“Oh G—”

“No, sweetheart,” I interjected. “Begme.”

My hands searched out the bundle of nerves between her folds. I teased and tantalized until she was ready to kill me. With her teeth clenched tight, she gritted out. “Alaric, if you value your life, you will stop torturing me and give me my fucking orgasm!”

I shook my head. “Beg me, sweetheart. That’s all you have to do, and I’ll give you everything you want.”

My wolf shoved at me, growling, impatient to take our mate to completion. She continued to hesitate, but I could see her fighting for the will to do it. She wanted to; it simply wasn’t in her nature.

On instinct, I suddenly said, “Outside of the bedroom, you are my partner in all things, Makayla. But when it comes to fucking…” A devilish smile curved my lips. “I’m in charge.” Somehow, I knew she needed those words to submit.