Chapter 25

Dizzy with fucking lust, Chief barely registered Alise’s command.  When he did, the heat rose in him like blinding inferno.  Cock going iron hard, he sunk his teeth into Alise’s exposed throat, right over his original mate mark, with a feral grown of ownership.  Her breathing hitched to match his, and his heart thundered so damn loudly in his ears that he nearly missed her sexy little moan.  This is how it was supposed to be, painless, passionate, erotic, and expected.  At that moment, everything in the world ceased to exist but her.  He was lost, and there was no going back.  Regardless of what she thought, he was claiming her, and he was going to keep her one way or another.

One hand on her hip, holding her in place, the other massaging her breast, he pinched her nipple and Alise seized, her mouth shooting open on a soundless cry a second before she gasped, “Chief!”  The sweet, addictive taste of her on his tongue was nothing compared to the way her pussy tightened around him.  She called forth his own orgasm, and he detonated, a roar leaving his throat even as he kept his teeth buried in her neck.

Alise arched violently, rounded ask finding his as she gasped, “Chief?”

Yeah, a wolf shifters cock swelled when they climaxed with their mate, and fuck it was good.  She was good.  Hips still rolling as he rode out their orgasm, he could feel the wet heat that seeped from between Grace’s legs, coating his thighs.  She smelled so damn sweet that he made a mental note to taste her next time, but for now, it was done.  Alise was marked, claimed, and mated.  She was his!

After long minutes, his hips stilled, and Alise went lax in his arms. 

Reluctant to pull from her body, he forced himself to do it.  Climbing from the bed, he padded barefoot to the ensuite and cleaned himself before coming back with a warm, damp cloth for Alise.

She reached for the cloth, but he pushed her hands away and gripped an ankle.  Pulling her legs apart, he cleaned her inner thighs and smirked at the blush that took her cheeks.  “No sense in hiding from me now, sweetheart.  Before this night is over, I plan on knowing every inch of your body.  You’ll know mine to.”

Standing, he was taking the cloth back to the bathroom when Alise’s question halted him.  “Then what?”

There was something about the way she said it though that had him turning to look back at her.  Just as he did, she angled her face away from him, but not before he saw the shimmer in her eyes.

Christ!  Tossing the cloth onto the bathroom floor, he turned and went back to the bed.  Standing over it, he couldn’t help the arousal that coursed through him as he stared at Alise in her post-sex state.  She was glorious.  Hair tousled, pink nipples still erect, lips swollen—both sets—she looked like a goddess.  It had him getting hard again, but he ignored it.  For now.

“What do you mean?”

Alise pulled the sheets over her, earning herself a snarl as she covered herself up to her breasts, tucking the material beneath her arms.  “Just because we had sex doesn’t change how I feel or what I need.”

His eyes narrowed on her as trepidation stole through him.  “Meaning?”

“I told you, I’m not gonna beg you to love me, Chief.”

“You don’t have to beg.”  He answered immediately, climbing onto the bed and settling his big body over hers.  “I already do.”

Whatever Alise been expecting Chief to say, it wasn’t the words he offered.

“You don’t have to beg me, Alessandra,” he explained.  “You just have to let me?”

Brows spearing down, she shook her head in confusion.  “What?”

“It means I already love you.  I’m not gonna lie to you and say it was instantaneous, but it was damn near.  I’ve loved you from that second day.  When you told me you weren’t soft that you weren’t a hummingbird.  When you tried to convince me that you weren’t feminine enough for a man like me.”

“You couldn’t have loved me then.  You’ve done nothing but push me away since that day.”

“I was wrong,” he breathed against her throat.  “So fucking wrong.”  He nibbled her skin and sent a wave of goosebumps raising all along her skin.  “You’re no hummingbird.  You are that fucking phoenix you told me about.”  One hand settled right between her shoulder blades and pulled her closer to him as he dipped his head, lips kissing and teeth nipping a trail down over her collar bone where he stopped at the sheets that were covering her.  With a snarl, he gripped the material and ripped it down.  A groan left him as her bare skin was exposed.  Between her les, she felt the hard bar of his erection jerk as he lowered his head and took a peaked nipple into his mouth.  It had honey weeping from her slit as her body prepared itself to be taken by him again.

Swirling his tongue around the bud, he suckled a moment before pulling back and breathing against her skin, “My goddess, my phoenix!”  Staring at her he vowed, “I’m keeping you, Alessandra Crane, I’m making you mine, and you’re gonna mark me and make me yours.  And, if you’re ever ready, if you want it, I’ll help you make the change.  But only if you want it!”  Cupping her cheek, his eyes misted over with an emotion he’d only ever share with her as he told her solemnly, “I love you.”

Biting her bottom lip, Alise nodded, unable to speak at first before she was able to choke out, “I-I’d like that.”

Expression going hard, Chief studied her before asking in disbelief, “You would?”

Lifting a hand, she smoothed it down his jaw.  “I want all of you, but more importantly, I want you to know that I’m not going anywhere.  If becoming like you proves it, then that’s what I’ll do.”

“I don’t want you proving anything to me, Alessandra.  You don’t have to!”

She flashed a watery smile as a tear slipped free.  “I want to.  I wanna be yours in every way I can.  Human, wolf, it doesn’t matter.”

“It matters to me.”  Wrapping a hand around the back of her neck, he pulled her to him so that they were nose to nose.  “I want human you.  I need you to give me time to prove myself, okay?”

She chuffed a laugh and nodded, “Okay.”

“This ain’t about you giving yourself to me fully, sweetheart.  For now, let me give myself to you.”

“I’d love that,” she breathed against his lips.  They stayed that way a long time before Alise finally asked, “You know what else I’d love?”

“Hmm?”

“Food!”

With a chuckle, Chief kissed her lips before pulling back, “You got it, sweetheart.”  He waggled his brows as he got up.  “You’re gonna need your strength for tonight.”  Shoving his legs into his jeans, he buttoned them and turned for the door before stopping and looking back at her, his expression gone serious.  “I mean it, Alise.  Anything you want, from here on out.  Anything you want.”