Page 150 of Ensnared by the Pack: The Complete Series (Destined Realms #3)

BISHOP

Need for Audrey tore through me, all consuming and wild. My cock went instantly hard and my wolf took over.

Mine. Audrey was mine.

I could feel it in my soul, in the incomplete mating bond wrapped around my heart. Somehow, even though it had only been a dream and neither of us had said the vows, Audrey had claimed me as hers. And completing the bond was the only thing I could think about.

I’d deal with what had happened, where the hell I was, and why it felt like I had cracked ribs later. Right now, I needed Audrey, needed to bury myself deep inside her and sink my teeth into her and complete the bond. And then, after she was fully mine, I needed to punch whoever had broken her nose.

“Wouldn’t you rather someplace more comfortable?” Whil asked, placing a hand on my shoulder, but I jerked away and snarled at her.

No one was taking me away from my mate.

“Come on, Whil,” Deacon said, urging her away from me. “His wolf is in charge right now, and from Audrey’s scent, she’s practically in heat.”

My mate’s face turned red, adorably embarrassed that Deacon was talking about her body signaling me that she wanted to mate.

Except my human half knew I should take care of her and not claim her on the stone floor of… where was I? A cavern? The healing pool?

Mine. Now, my wolf snarled.

He’d wanted to claim her from the beginning and had patiently waited while I courted her. But no more. She’d almost died when that man— no, that thing had attacked her. It hadn’t smelled like a shifter, a human, or any other race I was familiar with. My wolf wasn’t going to wait a minute longer.

And while my wolf wasn’t nearly as wild as Knox’s, he was still a primal, ferocious predator.

I can’t stay, Knox said in my head, his telepathic connection drawing my attention to our twin bond and his emotions.

He was relieved that I was safe, but also barely hanging on from going feral, the fear of being inside a vise around his chest.

I turned to him. His expression was tight, and I grabbed the back of his head and pressed our foreheads together.

She’s safe with me, I assured him.

I know, he replied. I just want ? —

What we had in the dream, I finished for him.

But your claiming should be just you two, he added, knowing my thoughts.

With a snarl, he jerked away from me. “Don’t you dare leave her unsatisfied.”

He stormed over to Audrey, still clutched tight in Cyrus’s arms, and kissed her with a claiming ferocity that made the scent of her arousal spike and flood the air.

Then he jerked back, making her whimper, her lips chasing his, desperate for more.

“Next time,” she breathed, watching him shift and race out of the cavern. Then her gaze jumped to me and her pupils dilated with lust.

“Mine,” she growled, the sound low and dangerous, making my already hard cock harder.

Sisters! She was the sexiest woman I’d ever seen, and I liked this confident side of her, even if it was only her need riding her hard.

The tip of her tongue flicked out, wetting her lips, and she pulled out of Cyrus’s embrace and crawled toward me.

A rumbling purr rattled in Cyrus’s chest, there one second then gone so fast I might not have believed I’d heard it if his hungry gaze wasn’t locked on her pussy. Her position put her on full display to him, but from her intent gaze on me, she had no idea what she was doing to him.

Sucking in a sharp breath, he shoved to his feet, as if he hadn’t just reacted to her, and pretended the massive tent in his soaked pants wasn’t giving him away.

He wanted our mate.

How long was he going to use the excuse of pack responsibilities to ignore what was obvious — or at least obvious to me?

I could see him being a complete idiot and trying to ignore it for the rest of his life… although maybe not.

When I’d regained consciousness, he’d been holding her as if they belonged together. There hadn’t been any hint of him holding himself back and overthinking the situation like he usually did with women he was attracted to. He’d been acting on instinct, which told me his wolf had already decided. Audrey was his mate.

Hopefully, it was just a matter of time before his human half accepted the truth.

“We’ll be outside,” he said, his voice gruff as he pulled out a shirt and pants from a travel pack and set them beside a pile of smaller clothing haphazardly thrown on the ground near the cavern wall. “Come on.”

He stormed in the same direction Knox had fled with Deacon and Whil close at his heels, leaving me and Audrey alone.

“Come here,” I commanded, giving my wolf full control. Audrey and I had had our sweet bonding in our shared dream and now it was my wolf’s turn.

A snap of my power broke free of my hold and compelled her to obey. But instead of being upset that I’d used my power on her, the hunger in her expression deepened. In fact, it didn’t seem as if my power had affected her?—

No, that wasn’t right. It had affected her, but it hadn’t commanded her. Instead, it awakened a power within her, something that I’d thought had just been a part of our shared dream, and not something that could happen in reality.

It was radiant and strong, stronger than it had been in our dream, and it rolled over me, a hot wave challenging my power and bringing it to the surface as if I wasn’t the one in control of it, shocking me.

My wolf rumbled with pleasure, sucking in deep breaths of her arousal, waiting for her to come to him. Then, when she was mere inches away, he pounced, ignoring the pain in our chest. He grabbed her and rolled until she was pinned against the slope in the pool with our body.

“Mine,” we snarled and she tipped her head back, exposing her neck.

“Claim me, alpha,” she moaned, her hips already rocking up, rubbing her heated core against my cock.

I took her lips in a ferocious kiss fueled by my wolf’s need to mate her and she kissed back, just as needy. Our tongues battled and our teeth clicked. Her fingers dug into my shoulders, and she ground herself against me as if she’d been aching with need for too long and was desperate for a release.

It was beautiful torture, her body begging for me, the whisper of her lust teasing through the bond making my wolf crazy.

I roughly palmed her breast, kneading her soft flesh and drawing a moan of pleasure. Her nipple tightened and I dipped into the water to suck on it.

Her lust coming through our bond swelled, swirling with mine. My heart raced and my soul strained toward her desperate to complete what we’d started in our dream.

I needed her more than I needed to breathe. My soul was incomplete without her. It always had been, and I’d always known I was waiting for someone amazing, someone who saw my twin for who he really was, who’d accept both of us.

I thrust forward, grinding down and hitting her clit. Her hips twitched, the jerky movement rubbing just where she needed, making her shiver and moan but not taking her over the edge.

I could feel the tension building in her through our bond as well as her frustration.

“Bishop, please,” she begged. “I need you in me. I need to seal our bond.”

My wolf released a snap of power, and her body shook. A throaty moan escaped her lips and her breaths turned ragged. She teetered on the edge, aching with a need that sent tingles racing up my spine. Every fiber of her being strained for more, for me, for our bond to be completed.

With a snarl, my wolf drew back our hips, drawing a whimper of displeasure from our mate, then plunged inside her with one powerful stroke.

Her walls fluttered around our cock with a whisper of the orgasm I was going to give her, and she released a cry of pleasure.

“Yes,” she moaned, her head tipping back and turning to the side to expose her neck. “Make me yours.”

“You’ve always been mine,” my wolf snarled. “Always been fated for me.”

My canines extended as I pounded into her with wild, ferocious strokes. I overwhelmed her with pleasure, making her moan and gasp, and the feeling of her desire roared through me.

Mine. Always mine.

She clung to me and bucked her hips, meeting me stroke for stroke, our bodies crashing together in a primal dance, our souls entwining tighter and tighter. Her channel quivered, its grip straining my hold on my release. But she needed to come first, always first — and multiple times once our bond was sealed.

She moaned my name, repeating it over and over again like a prayer, and strained her neck, tilting it as far as it could go.

Then her muscles clamped down hard on me and she screamed her release. That threw me over the edge. With a final thrust, my cum erupted from me, filling her up, satisfying my wolf’s need to mate, and I sank my teeth into her neck just above Knox’s mating marks.

Sensation roared through our bond, bliss, satisfaction, joy, and love, so much love. It flooded my soul and radiated warmth across my chest. It sank deep into every fiber of my being and locked into place. We were finally connected the way we were supposed to be, the way it had always been meant to be.

“I love you,” she murmured. Her words were slurred, and I could feel her exhaustion rushing in.

“I love you, too,” I whispered back as she passed out. “Always.”