We'd fallen onto her bed. Sage was addictive and so fucking sexy, whipping me and my wolf to a near frenzy.

Moving my mouth along her jaw, down over her neck, my tongue licked at her marked skin, which in this short amount of time was healed.

How the fuck did I get so lucky?

My fangs elongated ever so slightly, scratching the skin's surface, her pulse beating a seductive beat against my lips, her breaths shallow and fast. The smell of her, woodsy mixed with arousal was teasing and before another thought could add its weight, I let my canines superficially reopen the wound.

Sage arched her back but didn't pull away, her small hands gripping my shoulders tightly.

I lifted my head and our eyes met. Unbridled lust clouded her striking blue eyes. Pushing myself up her eyes tracked me before she pouted.

"I'm not done with you, nowhere near, yeah." Cocking my brow, smirking. "Take your top off..."

I reached for the hem of her tight-fitting yoga pants, hooking my fingers inside. Reading my intentions, her hips lifted and I pulled them from her leaving her lying in her lacy underwear.

Nice... and my eyes greedily ate up the sight.

All her creamy skin was worthy of worship and I was more than ready for the job.

Moving closer, my attention lifted to her pretty lace knickers. "Keep or not?" I ask out of politeness. But being honest, I'd rather rip them off...with my teeth.

She didn't answer but suggestively lifted an eyebrow, dragging her teeth across her swollen red lips. My nails lengthened, and I sliced through the flimsy material. Lifting and discarding on the floor. "Oops!"

I reached behind the back of my head and dragged off my tee shirt. Standing I started flipping the buttons of my jeans and pushed them and my boxers freeing my dick.

"Lose the bra, Sage."

With a seductive smile, she sat up and removed her bra with the expertise of a stripper, dropping it by her side.

'Hunter, did you just compare me to a stripper?' she asked through our link, arching an eyebrow and cocking her head to the side.

My eyes shot to hers. Way to go. Prick!

My wolf growled. I know, I know. Not my finest comparison.

My top lip curled. "Would I baby?" I winked before climbing onto the bed and Sage lay back and I dipped to suck her puckered nipple in my mouth, flicking my tongue as she moaned, melting beneath me.

Crisis averted!

'Ah, ah, ah. Not so fast, Mr Stone, I suggest you encourage me to forget that remark,' she countered, albeit playfully.

'Let me make it up to you, baby... With my hands...' I squeezed her breast. 'or maybe my tongue,' I flicked it over her nipples... 'Or do you want my big cock?'

She moaned as I positioned myself above her and the sight of her bright blues staring up at me almost had me coming right there.

"Hunter, I need you."

Three words any man wants to hear.

But I remembered the rough fucking out in the woods. "Are you sore?"

My question came out as a rasp.

Sage nodded. "But I like the sting."

My dick thumped against her flesh.

And then she fucking surprised me with her next words. "I want to watch as you slide inside of me," she breathed.

I closed my eyes. She was learning how to drive me straight into madness. Easily.

With few words. She made them count.

"Baby..."

She lifted her hips and wiggled her thighs.

Like the adoring mate, I was, I would give this woman whatever-the-fuck-she-wanted. "I'm yours to command."

Her legs moved and wrapped around my waist. My dick was throbbing against her soft pubic hair.

"I like it when you rub it against me," she said with a wicked gleam dancing in her blues.

Oh, I liked dirty, Sage.

I took her wrists and moved them above her head with my hips teasing in circles.

Sage whimpered and moaned. "Fuck me, Hunter," she ordered, her tone suddenly bossy as hell.

I liked that too.

And with a grin, I said, "Maybe you shouldn't say words like that. Your mouth is too pretty to let dirty things like that come out of it."

Even though I'd asked her to say it earlier, and just hearing her say it now was sexy as hell.

She licked her pink lips and upped the ante. "You could always put something in it to shut me up."

She could beat me at my own game - any day and her words had me going mental.

I started rutting against her, rubbing the outside of her pussy raw with my rock-hard dick, which made her beg for more.

Fucking hell.

"I want your big cock inside of me. I like the way you stretch me and fill me with you. It feels good. It feels like I'm whole. Fuck me. Fuck me. Fuuuuuck—"

She didn't get to finish her words because I slammed into her so hard that she screamed at the top of her lungs. Her hands struggled beneath my grip but I hold her still as I fuck her like she wanted.

Nothing soft or gentle about this.

I was a fucking animal.

Sage's eyes were feral as she stared me down while I owned her with my cock.

I still wasn't used to her tight little body because the need to come was overwhelming. I released one of her hands so I could grip her jaw.

"Make yourself come, Sage," I growled. "I'm about to come inside your tight pussy but I want you to get off too. I can't fucking wait any longer."

She nodded and forced her hand between us. I groaned as she worked herself up while I fucked her into the mattress. Her breathes turned to pants and she started babbling in French.

With my fingers digging into her jaw, I leaned forward and kissed her like a savage. As though I was trying to eat her mouth. I bit her. I made her cry out. I tasted blood.

And when she came with a jolt and bit my bottom lip, I exploded. I should be pulling out but I honestly don't give a fuck if she gets caught. I want babies. I want ten babies with this woman - my woman. My mate.

Mine. Fucking Mine.

The trembling of her orgasm seemed to vibrate through my dick. My heat surged deep inside her.

And when I spent the rest of my release, I collapsed on top of her small body.

Our hearts hammered together as one.

She's mine. Forever.

More than family.

Everything.

"I love you," she purred, into my ear before nipping it.

I loved her more than words can fucking express. I didn't think I was capable of this kind of love. It was a raw, feral need. It's man and wolf finding something that we both needed.

I would never need anyone else.

My wolf howled reminding me that I promised he could fuck her soon. He'd shift right now if I gave him the okay.

Soon, pal. Soon.

>>>

We lay silently, her wrapped in my arms. If this was what being content was—then we were never leaving this bed.

"Hunter."

"Hmm," I replied sleepily. I could sleep for a week.

She tensed; her worry triggered my unease.

I shifted my head, burying my nose in her hair, inhaling her scent. "What is it, Sage?"

She hesitated. "You realise twice now we haven't been careful."

"Careful?" Unsure for a second, then it dawned on me.

ah, yeah, protection.

"Oh, yeah, fuck. Sorry Sage, but I'm clean and that's the first time without protection for me.

"It's not that, it's the other."

Pregnant!

I inhaled her sweet scent, liking that she smelled like me. "If it happens it happens."

"Honestly?" she asked sitting up, turning to face me.

She continued to look at me, a little unsure. Did she not feel the same? "How would you feel about it?" Doubt niggled inside my head.

"Same as you. The timing wouldn't be great, but I wouldn't be unhappy. A family is what I hoped to have one day, just that day may be sooner than I'd planned."

She relaxed beside me. "Did you think marking—mating would be like that?"

"I honestly didn't know what to expect. I didn't grow up around other wolves outside the family. Yeah, my Dad insisted we spend time with John's family, and his pack up near Scotland. But because they always planned it that me and Zander would take over Wolfe, I stupidly never really paid attention."

"Do you think you've missed out?"

Did I?

Wolves were pack animals, so from my wolf's point of view, I guess it would be a yes. But distance was necessary, and I needed to mix in the human world to ensure wolves had a future, a place.

"I guess a part of me, my wolf would have liked to belong to a pack, but I can't change the way things are—do you?"

"Not sure, but I want any..." she paused. "Our children—pups to have a place in both worlds, so they can choose for themselves."

"Whatever you want Sage, we can make it happen." I hoped it would be easy, but as sure as the sun would rise tomorrow, her grandfather would organise a coup against me and my brother.

"I think we need to show our faces," she said a little sheepishly.

She was right. Everyone inside the house would have no doubt heard us. Fuck it, I wasn't ashamed. "We had better get you cleaned up, although I like you smelling like me."

She giggled. "Deviant!"

"Yeah, but you love it, now let's get that amazing arse of yours showered."