Before she could cover herself, Drakkal lifted his hands and caught her wrists. He pressed her arms against the wall and slid his palms up to lace his fingers with hers. The position forced her shoulders back, shoving her breasts out even further.
“Didn’t think you could taste any sweeter,” he rumbled, “but here you are.”
Drakkal dipped his head and latched onto her breast, sucking her nipple back into his mouth. They groaned in unison. Shay’s eyes fluttered shut against a flood of desire that heated her core as he took draw after draw from her breast. He released her nipple to move to her other breast, nuzzling it before he sucked the hardened tip into his mouth and drank from her again.
This was different from when her daughter nursed. The relief he was providing was immense, but he was also providing her overwhelming pleasure. This was…erotic. An experience unlike anything she’d ever imagined.
Shay ground her pelvis against his thigh. The soaked material of her pants pulling taut over her sex provided some stimulation, but it wasn’t enough. It was nowhere near enough.
“Drakkal,” she rasped, “I need you.”
A hot, heavy breath flowed from between his bared teeth just before he released her arms. For a few seconds, he became a force of nature—a hurricane or a tornado, fast and powerful and relentless—as he tugged down her pants, underwear and all, and ripped off his own clothes. His cock sprang from the confines of his pants, thick and throbbing, just as hungry as the male it was attached to.
He hooked his hands behind her thighs and lifted her. Shay looped her arms around his neck. She felt the press of his blunt tip against her slick entrance as he angled her over him. Their eyes met, and Drakkal pulled her down, plunging into her eager sex.
Shay gasped as his cock filled her. It didn’t matter that she’d just had a baby; he felt as big and thick as always. Her pussy clenched around him as a pulsing shudder ran down her spine. That shudder seemed to flow into him. He bared his teeth and clutched her ass with both hands, digging the tips of his natural claws into her flesh. His pulsing knot expanded against her folds as he ground against her, threatening to push into her fully.
“Kraasz ka’val,kiraia,” he said reverently. “I’ve missed this.”
“I did too.” Shay slid her hands along the backs of his shoulders and into the thick, soft fur of his mane. “Fuck me. Unleash yourself on me, Drakkal. I need tofeelyou.”
As he stared at her, his already dilated pupils expanded further, almost obliterating his green irises. But that darkness wasn’t empty—it was filled with desire, with lust, with the beast she’d just asked him to release.
That moment of eye contact was all he allowed before he obeyed her command.
Drakkal pulled his hips back, and Shay shuddered at the slide of his hot, hard shaft inside her. He slammed his mouth over hers, swallowing her cry as a powerful thrust of his hips forced his cock back into her. Before she could recover from the burst of pleasure it caused, he pounded into her, again and again, each thrust a little harder and deeper than the last.
Shay gripped his mane, her panting gasps mixing with his grunts as he rutted her.
He tore his mouth from hers with a snarl. An instant later, his teeth latched onto her flesh where her shoulder met her neck. The sharp pricks of pain only heightened the thrill building within Shay, and her body wound tighter and tighter with pleasure.
He squeezed her ass and quickened his pace. The frenzy ofmotion, sensation, and pleasure was so strong it bordered on pain. All Shay could do was hold on as the gathering storm clouds within her neared their breaking point. She felt Drakkal’s breath, felt his teeth, his claws, his fur, all on her skin—she felt every bit of him, both inside and out. He was wild, untamed, raw.
He was her mate.
He washers.
Drakkal snarled. The sound’s vibrations pulsed into her body and sent her over the edge. That pressure inside her, that gathering storm, exploded with a bolt of lightning that pierced to her core and shattered her being into a thousand pieces.
Body tensing and spasming with blasts of utter rapture, Shay cried out. Her pussy greedily clamped down on Drakkal’s cock, throbbing as liquid heat flooded her.
He released a growl that became a muffled roar against her neck and, with one more merciless thrust, buried himself inside her, forcing his knot past her entrance. A choked gasp escaped her, breaking up her moans, but that flash of pain was worth the pleasure that followed as his knot expanded. Seed burst from Drakkal’s cock. He shuddered but didn’t ease his hold with either hands or teeth; somehow, he pressed only deeper.
He slapped his left hand against the wall beside her head, pinned her in place with his hips, and curled his fingers. Their tips scraped the wall, but the sound was overpowered by a ragged growl as he came again. The force of his seed flowing inside her pushed Shay’s climax to new heights. Powerful tremors tore through her.
She and Drakkal clung to one another as the strength of their passion ebbed, panting heavily, bodies quivering in the aftermath. When he released his bite, a rush of sensation flooded the spot he’d marked. She knew without looking thathe’d broken the skin, but she didn’t care. Shewantedto bear his mark.
With a tenderness belied by his size, strength, and the savagery of a few moments ago, Drakkal licked the spot he’d bitten, soothing away the pain.
Shay loosened her hold on his mane and opened her eyes to meet his gaze. An instant later, he bared his teeth, features contorting as his cock pulsed, and he released inside her once more. He ground his pelvis against her, and Shay moaned.
She brushed her hand down the side of his face. “Isomissed this.”
“Me too,kiraia,” he purred and nuzzled her cheek.
She wrapped her arms around him, holding him close and brushing her face against him in turn. As much as she missed her daughter, Shay and Drakkal had needed this time. Though they were now parents, they were still mates, and their bond with one another was just as important as it had been before Leah—perhaps even more so. It would take time to figure out what life was going to look like going forward, but these moments with Drakkal wouldalwaysbe part of it.
TWENTY-TWO