Page 176 of Jagged Souls

I just let the head of my cock rest between her lips.

She howls. Her hands swat at mine. She tries to tug me off her. Then tries to yank me down on top of her. She kicks her feet as I kneel between her legs and just watch her as she falls apart.

She always hated being edged.

It was always my favorite part.

My hands shaking, I hold myself away from her for a full minute.

Then I sink in with a groan.

She howls. I growl.

And we both come apart at the seams.

My cock swells inside her.

Her pussy locks around it, holding me deep.

And as my cum fills her, I bury my head in the crook of her shoulder and hold her tight in my arms.

We stay like that for a long moment, the silence lying thick around us. Until I hear her nose twitching. The giant inhales as she finally catches scent of the V I have hidden in my kitchen cupboards.

My heart breaking, I push myself off her, then roll to the floor and shift. She sits up, her head swinging back and forth as she tries to pinpoint where it’s coming from. I’ve hidden it under piles of dried fish, but her nose has always been sharp.

“You don’t need it,” I say as I face her.

She doesn’t even look at me as she surges to her feet. I shove her back down, and she almost swings for me, but then she clocks that I’m in my human form, and there issomepart inside her that doesn’t actually want to see me dead despite the bite she gave me. She growls as she flips over the back of the sofa, deciding to go around me instead of through. I dart around it and stand in the doorway to the kitchen.

“Siome,please! Just stop. You could be pregnant with our pups.”

She growls again, telling me to piss off. She needs the V. For whatever fucking reason, she wants to check out of this reality. I’m not enough to keep her in it.

“Then live for them! Don’t give a fuck about me, but you live for them!” I press my hand to her belly, where our pups might already be growing, and I will her to be the fierce protector she once was. The one who defied the gods and ignored me if she thought listening would mean those she loved got hurt.

My stubborn little helfire.

Growling, she slaps my hand away, then drops to the floor to shift. She screams out her agony, and I barely hold in mine. Gasping through the pain, she staggers to her feet as soon as she’s able. I want to tell her to sit down and rest, but she wipes a hand between her thighs, scooping up my cum, and slaps it on my chest.

“You want me to think about the future with you?Now!” She shrieks as she shoves me back, and I stumble through the cracked splinters of the door. “You don’t get that right! You don’t get that fucking right anymore! Youleftme! You passed me off to Jack, and youleftme!”

“You know I couldn’t –” I clench my teeth as I struggle to keep my voice level. She came from a broken home. She hates it when I yell. “The curse –”

“There is no curse!” she shouts.

My eyes widen as I stare at her. My mouth drops open in disbelief. “How can you say that? I lost my entire family.”

“Over ninety years!” She throws up her hands. “At war! You are atwar!” She jabs me in the chest. “Name one single wolf in this fucking pack who hasn’t lost anyone!”

I open my mouth, then snap my teeth shut again.

Her eyes fill with so much pain, pain I know I caused. Not the drug. Not the V that’s been giving her an escape.Me.She took it to run from the pain of me.

Fuck, little helfire, I never wanted to hurt you.I stare at her, my throat too swollen to speak.

“You were supposed to ride after me.” The words fall out of her mouth like a crumbling cliff into the sea. She starts to tremble as she stares at me, at all the hope she once put at my feet. “You were supposed tocome for me!”

I flinch at the agony in her eyes. In her voice.