Page 30 of The Pack Next Door (The Wolfverse #4)

Mads

Ever feel like you spent your whole life preparing for one moment? Well, this was mine.

My mate’s scent, her taste, the feel of her body quivering against mine had my head spinning.

Then there was the velvety feel of her cunt around my fingers, my tongue.

It was like Briar was hungry, sucking me in deeper, and while I licked my lips clean, I knew I wanted more.

This was what needed to happen. Her dress was pulled up and over her head, and I treasured the look of surprise in her eyes, right as I spun her around and then set her butt on the sink.

“We—” she started to say.

“Need to ease you.”

That was growled out, coming from a fundamental place deep inside me.

Following Briar back to her mother’s place wasn’t supposed to end this way, and right now I had a little more sympathy for Jace.

None of this was intentional, but the moment you caught her scent, you knew.

Help your mate, that beat hard in my chest as I tore my tank top off, then pulled down my shorts.

The way her eyes went wide when I pulled my cock out was just a bonus.

“Well, look at you.” I couldn’t keep the grin off my face. “You look like you’re not sure this will fit.” I gave my shaft a light stroke, smothering the shudders I felt at the sensation. So damn close to the edge. “But you want it to.”

“Right now.”

With a growl, her legs locked around my waist, pulling me closer, but I planted my feet. My cock might be aching with a kind of intensity I didn’t know was possible, but even I wasn’t that big of a fuck up to knot my mate before she was ready to accept the bond.

“Can’t do that, pretty girl,” I ground out, and then as if to make a lie of my words, I pressed the head against her clit. A little tap and she was damn near jumping off the sink and into my arms. “You’re not ready.”

“Pretty sure I am.”

Her nails raked across my shoulders, and I welcomed the sting. It was like a lighthouse in a rocking sea, telling me which way to go.

“Yeah?” I leaned forward until her breath was fanning across my face. The wolf looked out through her eyes and I knew she was on board. It was the human side of Briar I needed to convince. “So I’ll work my cock up inside you, feel you fighting me the entire way.”

“Yes—”

She had more to say, but I cut her off.

“And then as I’m rocking inside you, driving both of us nuts, you’ll flex around me, letting my knot in.”

“Yes, that, Maddox?—”

Hearing my real name was a shock, a pleasant one, but I continued.

“And with every stroke you’ll feel more pleasure than you’d ever thought possible.” This was all theoretical knowledge before now, yet somehow I knew the truth of it. “You’ll come over and over, forcing me to burst inside you as you milk my knot.”

No more talking for my mate. Her hand went to my head, dragging it down to claim my mouth.

“Figured we might need a bit more time to get to know each other, but if you’re ready to become my mate, I will mark your neck, making clear to the entire world who you belong to.”

And there it was.

Her wolf might be down with that, but the woman? She went perfectly still. Prey does that sometimes, as if staying in the same spot they become invisible. Her every reaction was broadcasted loud and clear, and that forced her pre-frontal cortex to come back online.

“Mads…” So we were back to that then. “I can’t?—”

“I know.” It stung, but the pain was as sweet as it was sour. “I know, omega. That’s why I’m going to keep my cock out of you, because if I do every single thing I described, I won’t be able to hold back. You know that, right?”

A tiny little nod, her eyes were almost black, half gone to fear, the other to desire. I’d work on amplifying the latter, kicking the former to the curb.

“Just like this…” Gods, this was gonna be so much harder than I anticipated. I shifted back and forth, rubbing the head of my cock against her clit. That tiny little sensation had claws snicking out at my fingertips. “It’ll be enough. It’s gotta be.”

My restraint was rewarded by her body melting into mine.

Her grip around my neck softened, and I dropped my head down.

A glance into her eyes, making sure this wasn’t too much, because I needed her mouth.

The connection, that’s what hit me as soon as our lips touched.

Getting an omega through her heat could be all fangs and claws tearing into each other, but we were human too and that’s what I needed to acknowledge right now.

“Fuck, you feel so damn good.” My movements were tiny compared to what I wanted, just little rubbing motions that made her gasp and squirm.

Her slick was coating my cock, making it so much more sensitive.

“Too good.” A kiss and then another before I stared into her eyes. “Not sure I can beat Jace’s record.”

She stared right back, her panting mouth curving into a desperate little smile.

“Three’s good.”

“Four,” I corrected, “and now I’m wondering how the fuck he did it. Gods…!”

“Four is… perfect.”

We were moving in tandem now, finding a rhythm.

Faster and faster, it was like when our wolves ran through the forest together.

I could almost see her cute little grey wolf’s form in my mind, as I stared into her human eyes.

Her pants matched mine, her heart beating at the same rapid clip, I was sure of it, and there was a comfort to it.

I might be strangling my dick, trying to hold back the inevitable, but she was right there with me.

Nails prickling across my skin let me know what was happening, then she threw her head back.

A triumphant shout, I ignored it completely, eyes fixated on the creamy expanse of her neck.

Mark her, the wolf demanded. Bite down and make clear to every other male who she belonged to.

Knot her! Claim her! Instead, I lowered my head down in a series of shudders as my cum splattered over her, pressing the gentlest of kisses to her pulse point. Soon, I promised the wolf, soon.

“Bloody hell…” Briar blinked, then looked down, seeming to notice her state for the first time. “That… helped a lot. Thanks.”

We both snorted at that lame ending, but of course, this was when the real work began.

“So Jace told you that cum inside you helps keep the heat at bay for longer?” I said. She nodded. “But that has some risks. He talked to you about birth control?”

“It’s not an issue.”

I couldn’t help but grin at that as I went to work.

“I mean, it is.” I scooped up my cum and then rubbed it into her folds, the skin there an alarmingly dark red. Her eyelids lowered, making clear that everything was A-OK. “If I breed this hot little cunt, I want it to be when I’m balls deep in you.”

Mum always said I had a foul mouth, and when Briar stiffened, I kicked my own arse mentally for killing the mood.

When my fingers delved deeper, pushing the cum inside my mate, whatever offence I had caused seemed to be forgotten quickly.

She gripped the sink tightly, pushing up into my fingers, forcing them deeper and deeper.

Yet her scent had changed.

Not to mark the temporary break of her heat, or that burnt scent which marked her anger or frustration, but somehow sour. Like roses that had been tossed once they’d withered and died. Before I could ask why, she stiffened, the pulses of her cunt weaker now as she rode out her last orgasm.

I picked her up and set her on her feet, promising mentally to step away, and yet her arms went around me.

“I’m not going to say thank you again.”

Her voice was muffled by my chest as I let my arms cradle her close.

“Good, because honestly, all of that was more for me than you, so hey, thanks for trusting me to help.”

Her head tilted backwards, and there was mischief in her eyes as she gazed up at me.

“So we were just giving each other a helping hand?”

“Sending out emails, fixing lawnmowers.” I shrugged. “I think you’ll find I’m a pretty handy guy.” Daring another kiss, I bent down and brushed one against her lips. “If you keep me around, you might find me useful.”

And that was the wrong thing to say.

She stepped free, smoothing her hands down her sides.

“Just until my heat breaks.” There was a note of doubt in her voice, but was that her or her wolf? “I wish I could do this another?—”

My finger went to her lips, because all I was hearing was self-conscious overthinking.

“Whatever you need.” I looked at her meaningfully.

“I mean it. If it’s in my power to help, I want to.

So… emails?” Briar shook her head with a laugh, pulling a robe hanging from the back of the door on, when a loud thumping at the front door had us both looking down the stairs.

“Or dealing with whoever the fuck that is. Does your mother owe money to the Mafia or something, because whoever this is…?”

Gideon.

I jerked open the front door, ready to tell a very persistent door-to-door salesman to piss off, only to find my brother standing there looking way too pale.

His eyes burned bright gold the way they did whenever he was pissed.

So around me, all the time. They took in my naked state and Briar’s robe, then narrowed.

“What’re you doing?” He snapped that at me. “This was not what we discussed.”

“You discuss me…?” If I ever wanted validation, I got it then from my mate’s taut tone.

“Not sure why. We’ve barely spoken two words to each other.

” At that, she turned and faced me. “Thank you for helping out with the emails and…” Her finger ran down my neck.

“Everything else. I’m feeling human again. ”

“It’ll last for a while.” I held her hand in mine. “But if things start getting intense again, you just let me know. Me, Jace, me and Jace, we’d be happy to do whatever it takes to get you through this heat.”

That smile, a look of promise, that’s what I told myself was going on. “In the meantime, I’ll finish off those emails for you at home.”

“You don’t?—”

I pressed my mouth to hers, just a soft kiss, but enough to make clear my thoughts on the matter.

“Yes, I do. Call me.”

One last kiss pressed to her forehead and then I took fur, running upstairs to grab the shorts my phone was in, then throwing Gideon a single look before trotting outside.

We’d left home today, determined to win the trial for Briar, but it was only when we achieved that I realised we had it all wrong.

The wolf looked back at the house when we heard the door slam shut and Gideon was left on the doorstep.

The plan Mum and the dads kept twittering on about.

That was the one they came up with, somehow assuming our omega was going to slot into it neatly, but they had it wrong.

Alphas might think they were in control, but everything that happened today was in service to Briar’s needs.

She was what we had to focus on, not the bloody trials.

I jumped in through the window and then padded upstairs, coming back to skin before pulling on some new clothes. My phone was retrieved from my shorts and I unlocked it to send yet another email.