Page 43 of Savage Mates (Ruthless Instinct #2)

Zeus

Needs.

Wants.

Cravings.

I couldn’t distinguish between them or the sense of urgency the approaching typhoon had provided.

We were nothing but caged animals, preparing for the worst, still licking our wounds while we waited for another attack.

I was angry. Enraged.

My body hot to the touch.

Yet with every rabid thought of hunting down the remaining men who’d become our tormentors, another filtered into the forefront of my mind.

Her.

The little human.

The woman with the dazzling smile and luminous eyes. I was going mad with hunger.

I needed to fuck her and the longer I tried to shove aside my desires, the more my muscles ached. Soon, I wouldn’t be able to walk without pain.

Shaking my head, I purposely turned my attention to the blackness outside the rattling window.

The howling wind was fucking annoying. Trees were already bending to the onslaught of rain as the storm fast approached.

“Fucking storm,” I hissed.

“The worst is yet to come. According to Alexander, we won’t be able to fly off the island.” Thor flanked my side, peering out into the darkness as I was doing.

“Because of him or the plane?”

“The plane could easily break apart in the strong wind. We need to wait it out.”

“Fuck,” I hissed. “Not that we have anywhere to go. But I refuse to stay here.”

“We trust our mate. She has an idea.” His deep voice was as full of the angst and longing as I felt. The three of us were intoxicated, so drunk we couldn’t think clearly. What a fucking mess.

“You still believe she belongs to us?”

He turned toward me, nodding across the room.

“Look at her. Are you really going to keep insisting she doesn’t?

She fucking healed me, for God’s sake. With her blood.

Her touch. Besides, you feel exactly what I feel, what Titus does.

Hell, the energy in the room in almost oppressive.

Right now, all I can think about is touching her.

Who am I kidding? I crave fucking her until she can’t stand up straight. ”

“How noble of you.”

“Deny it all you want. Your body is humming with need.”

He was right about oppressive. The crackle of current that constantly flowed through my muscles when near the little human was almost painful. So much so, I was doing everything I could to try to ignore the sensations.

It wasn’t working very well.

I took a good hard look. She was standing in a shimmer of light over her computer, ignoring the constant disturbances in power.

That allowed me to see every inch of her from where I was standing.

While I had nothing to compare it to, I knew innately that she had the kind of body that could draw a man’s attention from across the room.

Perfectly voluptuous, curves to die for. She was fit as evidenced by her hiking and fighting skills, but soft in all the right places.

My hands ached from desire to dig my fingers into her rounded hips as I fucked her. I allowed my gaze to fall down the length of her body, taking my time in doing so. She had a gorgeous long neck, her copper strands of hair framing her face and shoulders.

My eyes dragged lower, admiring the fullness of her breasts and the way they moved when she took deep breaths. Even her cargo pants couldn’t hide the roundness of her hips or her slender waist.

Staring at the computer screen, her soft lips were parted just enough the savage that I was longed to push them further apart with the tip of my cock.

She chose that moment to dart a look in our direction, a slight, almost cagey smile crossing her face. With the way she was breathing I gathered a sense she was having as much difficulty with the draw as I was.

That we all were.

Titus was across the room, lounging in one of the hardback chairs, playing sentry. Yet his eyes weren’t far removed from her.

While I wasn’t a romantic, I knew raw, pure beauty when I saw it. She wasn’t just lovely on the outside, she was equally so on the inside.

Maybe that’s another reason I craved her. She was fighting for the lioness’ life, furious with everything that had occurred while being dead set on freeing the mutant lions.

All without any regard to her own safety.

“I can tell what you’re thinking,” Thor reminded me.

“Maybe you should stay out of my head.”

He laughed. “I’d love to, but we are as one. For whatever fucking reason.”

Explosive heat stirred deep within and suddenly, I found my hands clammy from the intensity of my need. The look of her was driving me crazy enough, but her scent was putting me over the edge.

There was a raging storm outside and my cock was at full attention. She’d insisted we’d put on clothes she’d found, determined to ignore the same longing that was stripping us of rational thoughts.

Now, my dick was pressing hard against the too tight material.

“Shit,” I muttered, forcing myself to look away. Yearning for her wasn’t the best idea. At least not right now. “What if we do get off this island? What then?”

Thor took a deep breath. “Then we learn how to survive in a new home.”

I half laughed, which drew her attention again. Her glances were fleeting, but reading her mind was only fueling the fire.

She was so far into heat that she was confused why this time was any different than she’d experienced before. Every time I looked at her, she was studying the two of us following by stretching and shifting, and my balls tightened a little more.

“Do you honestly think she’ll want to leave the life she knows for three brutal lions?”

He laughed softly, but the sound echoed in the room. Thankfully, the scientist had left us alone and she’d encouraged Carrie and Peter to try to get some sleep.

Being alone with her wasn’t the best idea.

“I think she’ll go where her mates are.” His answer made me chuckle.

“You underestimate her.”

When he nodded toward her again, I was forced to tip my head. I’d be damned if she wasn’t dragging her tongue along her bottom lip. It was the one move that drove me to the point of losing control.

A low growl rumbled in my chest and there was nothing I could do to stop it. The sound permeated the room, drawing Titus’ attention. He placed a weapon he’d grabbed from one of the fallen soldiers onto the floor and stood, casually walking toward her.

Her scent increased exponentially, her breath hitching.

Now how good she tasted was all I could think about. Well, that and how incredible it felt when having my cock driven deep inside.

“Fuck me. I can’t hold back. Not around her.” I fisted my hands, doing what I could to keep from tearing her clothes off, but I was losing the battle. Closing my eyes, I exhaled and tried to keep myself grounded. This wasn’t the time.

Thor was having as much difficulty as I was. Now the heat in the room was oppressive.

With one last look at the way she brushed the tips of her fingers down the side of her neck, I lost it.

She was fully aroused, her scent stronger than ever before.

There was no turning back. I paid no attention to the others as I stormed across the room, yanking her by the arm and away from the computer.

“What are you doing?” she had the audacity to ask, even pressing her hand against my chest. Instead of trying to push me away, she wrapped her long fingers around the material, jerking me closer.

I was no longer beast nor man, just something in between. “Taking what I want and giving you what you need.” Fisting the back of her hair, I dragged her onto her toes, immediately claiming her mouth. Her scent threaded through every molecule, seeping deep within every vein and muscle.

Every sound she made fueled the raging fire. I swept my tongue inside, my body immediately shaking from the taste of her. My pulse hammered, the sense of knowing that she truly belonged to us hitting me harder than it should.

Maybe I was finally acknowledging the truth. We couldn’t be without her. No, we wouldn’t be.

Thor moved behind her, ripping at her shirt while Titus crouched below, tugging off her boots. I wasn’t ready to let her go, cupping her jaw and neck with my other hand, more possessive than I’d ever been with any creature.

She moaned into the kiss, yanking at my shirt until she was able to slide her hand underneath. Every nerve was on fire, every inch of skin so hot I could barely breathe.

When her hand touched me, I shifted into a frenzied state. My muscles tensed as the hunger grew exponentially.

I swept my tongue around her mouth even as my body continued to shake.

As always, she was taken from me, Titus cupping both sides of her face. He was already undressed, refusing to allow clothes to hinder his desire.

Ripping off my shirt, I tossed it aside before grabbing her around the waist and pulling her back. Just enough I could reach around her and unfasten her pants.

The crazed moment continued and soon, she was standing in a thong and nothing else. My mouth watered, her musky fragrance already staining my skin. I allowed the scent to linger in my nostrils. There was no fighting the way my body reacted to her, the pull as tenuous as anything else in this world.

Or in the one I’d lived in before.

“She’s ours,” Thor said as if feeling the need to confirm what we already knew. He gripped her arm with one hand, raking the tips of his fingers down her spine with the other.

When he reached the crack of her ass, he didn’t waste any time sliding his fingers under the string nestled between her butt cheeks. There was something soulful about the moment he snapped his hand, ripping away the thin material.

Every action she’d taken in the last two days, every word out of her mouth had kept me on edge. But now, it was as if the entire world had come crashing down. I couldn’t imagine not being able to taste her when I wanted, to fuck her when I needed.

When Thor finally took her into his arms, his kiss even more savage than mine, the extreme heat in my gut flared.

A part of me didn’t want her touched by anyone else. The raging need was so intense that I almost shredded my clothes before managing to get them off. I satisfied the sweltering, out of control need by gripping her hips, digging my nails into her skin and crushing my cock against her bottom.

Her moan was filtered by the kiss, but I heard every inflection, every breath she took.

Twisting her long hair, I yanked it away from her shoulders, every sound a slow, ragged rumble as I slowly wrapped one hand around the back of her neck.

My cock twitched in pain, the pressure intense.

All I could think about was driving my dick deep into her wetness.

Filling her with my seed.

Mastering every inch of her luscious body.

Fuck.

The throb was raw and painful.

I was going to lose it before I had a chance to fill her tight pussy.

Titus was growing antsy, rubbing his hand down her side, his entire face pinched from him losing control.

We both were.

Want and need were one.

The deep craving was about more than just fucking; it was about mating.

For life.

Her body began to shiver when I thrust my hand between her legs while using my knees to push them further apart. She was wet, so much so my fingers were immediately soaked. She arched her back, teasing me, inviting me to touch her. As if I would stop.

Primal instinct and need tore through me. I wasn’t just crazed. I was truly a beast.

I swirled my finger around her clit, realizing the soft tissue was already swollen. She’d been in need for as long as we’d been, pretending that she wasn’t interested.

Acting as if she didn’t already belong to us.

Fucking her couldn’t come soon enough.

With three fingers, I thrust past her swollen folds, still amazed after the brutal fucking she’d experienced how tight she remained.

My heart hammered, electricity thrumming through every muscle.

She managed to drive both hands against Thor’s chest, breaking the connection.

“Oh, my sweet Jesus. I am…”

“Hot and wet, little human?” I taunted.

She nodded slowly, her head movement exaggerated. “Yes. God, yes.”

I snagged her head, yanking it back brutally and crushing my lips over hers once again. One taste was never enough.

She kissed me back, harder than before. This time, she was the one driving her tongue inside.

When she uttered a soft whine, a moan much darker than before, completely animalistic much like every sound I’d ever made, I lost it.

Fully and completely.

I became the savage I was born to be.