Total pages in book: 81
Estimated words: 74538 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 373(@200wpm)___ 298(@250wpm)___ 248(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 74538 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 373(@200wpm)___ 298(@250wpm)___ 248(@300wpm)
The ecstasy had me so high I wasn’t confident that I’d ever get back to reality. I shifted slightly under him, involuntary muscle spasms having my body tense and relax as my orgasm went even higher. He growled, tightening his arms around me and adjusting his bite on my neck as if he thought I was trying to get away, as if he thought his prey was trying to escape.
Didn’t he know I never wanted to be away from him?
And then I felt his cock thicken farther inside me, the stretch and burn setting off even more pleasure. His big body gave one last thrust into me as he came once more.
I could feel the thick, hot jets of his release fill me, and what do you know… I came again. He barked out a rough sound, the noise muffled as he refused to let go of my neck.
“Ohhh,” I gasped as another tremor moved through me.
Then I was floating back down, and Caelan was collapsing on top of me. We breathed hard, and I wrapped my arms around him, holding him close as we both tried to catch our breath.
He broke the hold he had on my throat, dragging his tongue along the wound, causing a shiver to move through me at the sensitivity and intimacy of the act.
The air was slowly being sucked for my lungs by his sheer size, but before it fully left me or I moved out from under him, Caelan rolled off to the spot beside me. He pulled me into the hardness of his body immediately, my head resting on his chest, his skin hot and damp from what we’d just done, his heart racing fast beneath my ear.
I felt his fingers skating over my back, and I closed my eyes, feeling something settle deep inside me.
“That was—”
“Incredible. Perfect. An experience I could never have envisioned in my wildest dreams.”
I tipped my head back and looked into his face. He wore this sincere expression, his brows pulled low, his face slightly flushed and sweaty from what we’d just done. “And believe me.” He continued to smooth his hand up and down my back. “I’ve thought about claiming my mate—in the most obscene ways—countless times over the years.”
I felt myself blush at the sexual tone laced within his words, at the way his eyes became hooded, and at the fact that he looked down at my lips. And especially with the feel of his cock—wet from being inside me—growing hard as granite against my belly once more.
Caelan kissed the center of my forehead before pulling me close to his chest and wrapping me fully in his arms, as if he were afraid to let me go.
“Ye are… my everything,” he whispered against the crown of my head, and I closed my eyes, feeling powerful and strange things… revelations moving through me that I didn’t know if I fully understand.
How could I feel so strongly for someone I’d just met?
How could I fall for someone who wasn’t even a man at all, but a male who wasn’t wholly human?
But the answer to how or why or what was going on inside me didn’t matter. Because the truth was the same no matter what.
I wanted to be with Caelan.
32
Darragh
I was speechless. Literally.
As I sat across from Alasdair, the record keeper for the Lycan clan Banner had called in, I couldn’t stare at anything but the papers upon papers that littered the massive table between us. There was so much… information at my fingertips.
Banner was beside Alasdair, Luna having left to help the staff cook lunch for everyone, and Tavish and Lennox stood off to the side with their big arms crossed over their chests.
I blinked several times and let my gaze move across the papers that looked older than anything I’d ever seen. Scrolls and parchments that were aged and discolored, ones that were covered with lines and rows of calligraphy script on them. It was the names, birth and death dates, and all important information pertaining to every single Lycan who’d been born on Scottish soil since the beginning of their creation.
It was… a lot to take in.
The feel of Caelan’s hand rubbing reassuring motions up and down my back couldn’t even calm me down right now.
“So…” I swallowed and licked my lips, finally tearing my gaze from the paperwork and looking up at Alasdair, and then Banner, then back to the record keeper. He didn’t look much older than Banner, was even nearly as massive and muscular, but he had streaks of silver weaved through his black hair. He also sported a trimmed, thick dark beard on his jaw and cheeks. He resembled Gerard Butler, which before mating Caelan, I might have taken more of an appreciative notice to that.
“I know it’s a lot to take in,” Alasdair said.