Mated To The Alpha: A Standalone Wolf Shifter Romance, стр. 48

making one orgasm roll swiftly into two.

She claimed him as hers then, marking him as she had been marked. Now she not only belonged to him, but he belonged to her as well.

He wrapped his arms around her waist and hips as she rode him, cumming for him, claiming him as hers. He thrust himself up into her as she rocked down on him, but it wasn't enough.

Her bite excited something in him, and as she started to turn to putty above him, he needed more.

He rolled her over so she was underneath him again, and he turned her onto her stomach.

She felt his need and responded by getting her knees and elbows underneath her, arching her back and offering herself to him behind her.

His animal urges had taken over, and she loved that she could bring out the animal in him.

She threw her head back, trying to watch him behind her as he gripped her hips with his hands and drove himself quickly, fully home in one smooth stroke.

He filled her, pulling out quickly just to fill her again.

She pressed her ass back against him, meeting him stroke for stroke, loving the sound of his hips smacking against her ass as he grunted and reached for his own climax. Her fists gripped the blankets as she rocked backward against him, and he slid an arm around her waist holding her still as he filled her again and again.

His strokes got faster and shallower, staying deep instead of pulling out before thrusting again. With a primal groan his grip tightened and she knew he was almost there.

She reached a hand down between her legs, feeling where they joined together and then stroking and softly tugging his balls just in time to hear an animalistic roar rip through him as he came, pouring his seed so deeply inside her, making her fall forward on the bed and pressing her belly flat against the sheets as their legs finally gave out and his orgasm filled her.

They lay like that, him on her back, pressed against the warm bed until their wits started to return.

She sighed and then giggled as his mouth teased the heated, sensitive flesh of her neck as he nuzzled her there.

"Please, Em, don't ever scare me like that again, ok? When you were in trouble, and then to see you fall at my feet in pain. Going through that again would tear my heart out."

She laughed as well as she could, pinned beneath him, and said, "I'll try not to. It's not like I planned it, you know."

"Hmm. Did you plan to bite me or did that just happen, too?"

She felt herself turn quite a few shades of red as she remembered what she had done in the heat of passion. She wiggled underneath him until he let her up and she could roll onto her back and look up at him.

She assessed the damage.

She'd left a bite mark, for sure. She must have shifted at least a little, because two canine teeth holes were deeper than all the rest. She had drawn blood. It was already beginning to heal, but it would leave a mark on him forever, just like the one she wore.

"How does it look? Do we have matching claimings?"

"You are definitely marked." She said it with a shy grin. "Do you mind? I know it's usually just the female who bears the mark."

"Do I mind that my mate wants to tell the whole world that I belong to her and her alone? That I am loved? That if anyone wants to try anything they'd have a jealous she-wolf to explain things to? No, love. Of course I don't mind. I like knowing I can drive you to a passion strong enough to mark me. I will wear your mark proudly."

"As I wear mine, Elam. I wear mine proudly as well."

With a smile Elam pulled Emma into the cradle of his arms and dragged the blankets back up from wherever their rolling around had tossed them, tucking them in.

"I love you, Mate." Elam whispered the words into her ear in the moments before sleep took them both.

"And I love you back, you beast."

26

Later on that night, Galen and Kate came by to check on Emma.

Emma was feeling fine, her romp with Elam and the nap that followed doing much to help her heal and restore herself. Her body was still pretty sore, but she felt way better than she ever would have imagined she'd feel after getting shot, twice, and killing an esteemed, if crazy, member of the pack she had only recently joined.

The foursome found themselves speaking easily and freely without anyone else from the pack being around.

Kate started it off by thanking Emma for jumping in front of her and taking the bullets aimed at her. She wanted to continue, to say more, but emotional tears kept tripping her up.

When she took a moment to wipe her eyes and take a breath, Galen stepped in for her. He started to thank Emma as well, but his speech started out as more of an apology than a thank you.

"I'm so sorry, Emma. If I had known just exactly how far gone my mother was I never would have let her out of my sight. I certainly never would have let her and Kate spend as much time together as they did. I appreciated that Kate was trying to get to know her, because it left me free to be with Thomas quite a bit in his final days. I'll always be grateful for that time. But, I never would have traded it at the expense of Kate's safety."

Emma was a bit uncomfortable with all the thanks and attention aimed at her, and tried to wave it off by offering to pour everyone a glass of wine and aim the conversation to more interesting, to her at least, topics. Like the new knowledge that instead of just being adopted brothers, Elam