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Hana

I have never felt so strong.

Or so powerful.

Crouching over the monster, I feel like I could actually take him, and the cautious way he’s looking back at me from under the water suggests he might think so too.

I’m holding him down with my hands, but these hands no longer look like mine. They are bigger, with longer fingers tipped with razor-sharp claws. Claws that dig into Vuk’s chest deep enough to make little blooms of red blood float to the surface.

I’m distracted by the sight of the fine coat of black fur tipped with silver running up my arms when a burst of bubbles drifts up from Vuk’s lips before he surges upright. Catching me off guard, he pushes me back with enough force that my back slams against the opposite side of the pool.

My chest pumps with each breath, my body is on fire. Muscles I didn’t know I had quiver. Teeth that feel all wrong in my mouth even as they ache to bite, to sink into flesh. His flesh.

A contented purr rumbles from deep inside my chest as I lick my lips, running my eyes up and down his muscular body.

I want to taste his coppery blood. To lick it.

Drink it down so it becomes part of me. Heat flares low in my belly and between my legs as I watch the water lap at his narrow waist. I want this male.

The monster’s eyes flash gold and his lips curl up at the corners. “Tell me, what does my mate want?”

Shifting my weight from one foot to the other, I growl at him in response. “I want to devour. To bite and lick and suck. To fight and win. And then…” My eyes drop back to where his cock is now bobbing above the water. “I want to fuck.”

Across the pool, Vuk shudders then crouches down. His gold eyes are locked with mine as the reddish fur across his back bristles.

“Then come at me,” he says.

When I bare my teeth, I feel a strange tickle down my back as my own fur bristles. It’s the only warning Vuk gets before I lunge. Powerful legs catapult me forward with more speed than I expect, but he’s ready for me.

Before I have a chance to grab him, Vuk catches me around my waist, flipping me off my feet. He’s so fast I don’t have a chance to defend myself. I land on my back at the edge of the pool, hard enough to momentarily knock the breath from me.

“Mmm, nice try,” he chuckles as he leaps out of the water to crouch over me. Snapping his teeth less than an inch from my face.

Baring my teeth right back, I let out a higher pitched, but no less menacing growl, and his lips curl up into a grin.

“Good girl. Show me your fangs and claws. Make me earn the right to be your mate.”

Curling my sharpened black claws, I lash out at him with a sharp hiss. I expect him to jump away, but when he doesn’t, I leave four bloody gashes across his chest .

He looks down at his shredded chest with a grin. “That’s it, mark me. Make me bleed so I can coat you in my blood when I fuck you. Then I’ll paint you with my cum.”

A shudder runs through me, going straight to my quivering pussy. I want that. Want to be soaked in his scent and fluids so bad I think I’ll come from the thought of it.

“Yes,” I moan. Arching up. “Please!”

Vuk lets out a chuff. “That’s right, beg me ,” he says, stretching out over top of me.

My hands slide up his sides and into the short pelt running down his back. Digging my claws into his skin until they pierce, making him hiss at the sting.

“Please, Vuk!” I beg, spreading my thighs so he’s cradled between them, his cock hard and throbbing against my core.

“Hmmm,” he purrs in my ear. His breath is hot against my cheek, and I turn my head to the side, offering him the place he’s already marked me.

He brushes his lips there then licks me, right over top of his bite.

Pleasure burns across my skin and I moan, but it’s cut off when his weight suddenly disappears.

I blink up at the moon in surprise. Lifting my head, I look down my prone body at where he’s now several feet away.

Crouched low to the ground. His cock jutting out from the fur between his legs.

It’s dark red and wet with his arousal. I imagine how it’ll taste against my lips.

Rich and salty. I doubt I could take more than his crown as a human, but now…

I wonder if I can take him all the way to the back of my throat.

I make a show of licking my lips, then moan when he jerks for me.

“ Run , Hana,” he orders. “Run for me. Show me how fast you are.”

My brows crease into a deep frown. I don’t want to run.

I want him to fuck me. Why is he stalling?

Leaning back, I spread my legs for him. Sliding a hand down my tight stomach to cup myself where I’m so wet for him.

Wet and aching. My other hand covers one of my heavy breasts, pinching the sensitive nipple into a beaded tip.

“No, need you,” I moan.

Pre-cum drips from his swollen tip as Vuk digs his claws into the soft moss letting out a furious snarl.

“Fucking RUN , little mate!” He bellows so loud I jump. “Run so I can catch you.”

Adrenaline floods my system as I push myself to my feet and scramble for traction.

“ Ruuunnnn !” he howls after me.

I’m gangly and uncoordinated as I half run, half slide down the steep hill outside the cave.

My heart is thundering against my ribs and my bare feet eat up the moon dappled forest floor.

My center of balance is all wrong. Everything is bigger than I should be.

My feet are wrong, too. I’m running on toes tipped with thick claws that dig into the soft ground, moving me over sharp rocks and needles without trouble.

The uneven terrain should slow me down, but I’m eating up the distance between the cave easily.

Because I’m fast. At least, I thought I was.

A loud howl echoes through the forest after me, sending all the silver fur across my body standing on end. I’ve barely made it down the hill before Vuk’s hot breath is on the back of my neck.

A strong arm snakes around my waist and I scream as Vuk lifts me off the ground. My feet kick and I scratch, but it does nothing to stop him. With me cradled against his chest, Vuk continues running without stopping until he reaches an ancient-looking oak.

Dropping me to my feet, he presses my chest against the wide trunk. With his heat at my back, my skin tingles the moment I touch rough bark, and I can’t hold back my moan at the way it scrapes across my sensitive nipples .

“Vuk,” I whine, turning to look at him from over my shoulder, noticing strange symbols glowing against the white bark of the birch trees behind him.

Before I can ask him if he sees them too, he slides his hand up under my hair and palms the back of my head, pressing my cheek against the rough bark.

“Spread,” he orders through clenched teeth.

I step out, but it’s not wide enough for him and he kicks my feet wider.

Leaning into me, he presses his mouth against my ear, the glowing symbols forgotten.

“Good girl.”

I melt at his praise then shudder when his cock prods at me from behind. That’s what I want. Teasing him with a sultry moan, I wiggle my naked ass for him.

“Please, Vuk.” I try to look back at him, but his grip has me pinned.

He runs his nose up the side of my cheek to my temple, where he places a soft kiss. “Please what, Hana?”

“Stop being such a fucking tease and fuck me!” I growl, rubbing my ass against his cock.

“Yes,” he growls. “Beg me to fuck you.”

My pussy quivers, making my breath hitch. “Please...”

He hums against my ear, sliding his hand down the crease of my ass to my pussy, where he shoves two of his declawed fingers deep. “Like this?”

I nod and a shuddery breath falls from my lips.

He pumps his fingers hard, but only for long enough to coat them in my slick before he pulls them away. Sliding them up my crease to tease at my asshole. My body tenses.

“No!” I gasp. I’ve never been fucked there and right now, with both of us in the throes of… this heat or whatever this is, frightens me.

“No?” He chuckles darkly, circling fingers wet with my arousal around the tight crinkle. He presses them against the tight ring of muscle, and I clench tight against him. “Hmm, maybe not now. But someday.”

My body sags with relief when his fingers disappear, and he lines up his cock with my pussy.

That’s all the warning I get before he slams deep.

Sheathing himself in a single thrust. It’s not as painful now, after stretching me around him multiple times.

But it’s no less intense, and I dig my fingers into the rough bark of the tree with a scream.

“This is what you want?” he pants, drawing back and shoving deep again. “This is how you need me?”

“Yes,” I gasp scratching long gouges in the bark. “Yes, yes yes … oh, God, Vuk. Don’t stop.”

He’s hitting me so deep. Punishing the spot deep inside that none of my other lovers ever bothered to even try to find, but his massive cock hits it perfectly with each punch.

His panting breaths are loud and erotic in my ear.

The hand not gripping the back of my head reaches around and cups my breast. Pinching my nipple between his claws until my pussy starts to flutter.

“Vuk, please!” I gasp. “I’m close. I’m so close?—”

Suddenly he pulls out of me, leaving me empty and cold.

“Wha—?” Before I have time to do more than gasp, he spins me around.

His hands grip the backs of my thighs and hikes me up so the rough bark digs into my back. My legs are spread wide around his hips, and I curl my fingers around the back of his neck.

Planting his feet wide, Vuk thrusts back inside of me.

“That’s my good little mate,” he groans as he fucks me roughly against the tree. “Come for me. I want to feel you strangle my cock with your needy cunt.”

My head kicks back as my denied orgasm crashes into me, stealing my breath and sight. If it wasn’t for Vuk holding me up, I have no doubt my legs would have collapsed, and I would have melted into a puddle at his feet.

His hips slam in and out of my pulsing core, pinning me as his knot begins to swell.

Pulling back, he slams deep again. Pressing and pressing, forcing the thick ring through my abused little pussy where it stretches me past discomfort locking us together.

I whimper as he fills me with lash after lash of scalding hot cum until we’re both panting and soaked with sweat.

His legs shake and he sinks to the ground, turning us so he’s leaning against the base of the tree, and I’m curled like a kitten in his lap.

Pressing his nose to my damp temple, a soft growl rumbles through his chest and into mine. The sound and vibration soothing us from the incredible high we just had.