Chapter Ten – Cal

Teagan was perfect in every way. Her skin was soft, her body warm and inviting, the sighs escaping her mouth arousing. Cal wanted to touch her, hear her, taste her, and watch her as he made love to her. He wanted to drown in her.

He also wanted her first time to be amazing.

Kissing her breasts, he moved down her body, inch by inch, kissing her stomach and along her outer thigh, before opening her thighs with his hands, encouraging her to let him in. His hand slid along her inner thigh, touching her intimately, his lips trailing after them, slowly, leisurely. He teased her, drawing close to her clit, his breath caressing her before moving across to kiss her other thigh. She wriggled and writhed beneath him, her arousal matching his own.

He wanted to take her, he wanted to bury himself inside her, deep inside her and fill her with his seed. But he wanted this to be special too.

Teagan drew her knees up, dropping them down toward the bed, exposing herself to him as she arched her back up, small mewling cries filling the bedroom. The time for teasing was over. He inched his body forward, his mouth covering her clit, and she tensed, whimpering when he flicked his tongue out to torture her there.

Two fingers stroked her sex, not penetrating her, not yet. He wanted to make sure she was ready. Hell, what was he waiting for? He knew she was ready. Very ready.

The tension in his own body was next to unbearable. He wanted her so much. Too much.

What if he ruined it for her?

Stop overthinking it, his bear told him sharply.

Cal pushed his bear out of his head and did the same with his fears. They were meant to be together. They would always be together. If this time wasn’t perfect, then there was always the next time, or the time after that.

He slipped his fingers inside her sex, feeling her tight around his fingers. Gently, he moved them in and out, stroking her inner walls, his mouth pleasuring her in its own way. Her voice rose in pitch, and her hand plunged into his hair, as he licked and nipped her clit. The sound of her orgasm reaching out to take hold of her was incredibly arousing. His cock was painfully hard, and he longed to be buried up to the hilt inside her. Soon. Soon.

In and out he moved his fingers, bringing her to the edge of her climax and using his mouth to send her crashing over into a sea of pleasure. He rode the waves with her, listening to her body, giving her what she needed as she cried out. When her orgasm passed, he removed his fingers, kissing her skin as she regained her composure, her breathing coming in short, sharp gasps as she lay with her arm over her eyes.

“I hope those are good tears.” He slipped up the bed to lie next to her.

“They are,” she assured him. “Very good tears. It was intense.” She turned to look at him, her hand stroking his hair. “I want you to … You know, enjoy yourself too.”

He grinned. “I already am.” He kissed her jaw, small, featherlight kisses.

“Make love to me, Cal,” Teagan said softly. “I loved what you did, but I want to feel you inside me. I want to know what it’s like to lie with my mate.”

“I was going to do a bit more than lie with you,” he joked, and she smiled softly, her eyes misted.

Teagan turned her body to face his, her hand stroking his jaw. “I want you to teach me. I want to be your partner in this as much as everything else in our lives. I want us to be equals in and out of the bedroom.”

Cal pushed her backward, holding her hands above her head as he positioned himself between her thighs, his body hovering over hers. “I like the sound of that. I want us to be equals too.”

“That also means the chores.” She smiled mischievously, and he leaned down and nipped her earlobe, before whispering in her ear.

“Whatever you say.” His words buzzed in her ear and she shivered deliciously beneath him.

Cal let go of her hands and eased his weight to one side, folding his cock and guiding it toward her sex. He rubbed himself along the length of her sex, lubricating the head of his cock, wanting to ensure he wasn’t going to hurt her.

Easing forward, he breached her outer walls, sliding into her slowly, before easing back out of her. Pressing forward, he entered her, her sex tight around him. Skin against skin, their bodies moved, the friction incredible. He had waited for this moment, and now that it was here, he was struggling to keep himself together. His cock was ready to erupt, and fill her with his seed. But he held on, thinking of anything other than how good it felt to be inside her.

Closing his eyes, he listened to the tell-tale sounds she made. The way she gasped when he thrust harder, the small whimpers she made when he rocked deep inside her. Slowly, he took her to the edge of her second orgasm, and this time when she went over, he followed, both of them together in a sea of bliss.

Teagan clung to him as if he were a rock, solid and unyielding, when all around her the world shifted. Cal placed his hand under the small of her back and then moved it lower, to cup her to him, to plunge deeper into her, to ride out this climax with her until she was utterly spent.

And when they were, they lay together, in each other’s arms, content when the world crowded in on them again. Their bond was made stronger, their bodies connected in the same way as their souls. This was what forever felt like.

***

Cal woke and took a moment to get his bearings. What room was this? How could he forget, it was her room. At least, her temporary room. His next quest was going to be to persuade Teagan to come live with him when Carter came home. Would she take a lot of persuading?

Maybe that would depend on whether she’d enjoyed their night together.

“Morning,” Cal said, kissing her lips as her eyes fluttered open. He could get used to waking up with Teagan in his arms every morning.

“Good morning,” his mate answered. She reached out and stroked his cheek, running his fingers across his stubble. Cal took her hand and kissed her fingers; he would gladly turn her onto her back and kiss every square inch of her skin. But her stomach rumbled, making her giggle. “I have worked up an appetite.”

“Breakfast?” he asked. “I can go make us something, while you shower.”

“No, I don’t expect you to make me breakfast.” She sat up, holding the sheet to her body. “I’ll shower quickly and we can make something together.”

He lay back on the pillow, his hand behind his head. Teagan looked at the bathroom door, and at the sheet, as he watched. “You don’t need the sheet. I think I licked every part of your body, you don’t need to hide.”

She ducked her head around to glance at him. “That was last night. This morning…”

“Is awkward?”

“A little.” She drew her knees up and rested her chin on the apex. “I’ve never woken up with anyone in my bed.”

“Get used to it.” Cal stroked her back, and then propped himself up on his elbow, and kissed her spine, working his way up to her neck, his hand wrapping around her, cupping her breast in his palm. Her nipple hardened and he rubbed his thumb over the taut bud.

She groaned, and then said, “I have work to do.”

“Can’t it wait?” he asked.

“I have to help clean the brewery. I want it ready for when Carter comes home. Then I have a couple of articles to write for the paper.” She gasped as he tweaked her nipple. “You are making it extremely hard to keep my priorities straight.”

“Well, you see…” His hand slipped down over her soft flesh to the place where her legs met and her desire pooled. Then he moved lower, and slid a finger inside her. “Once you have a mate, they are supposed to be your priority over everything else.”

“Really?” she gasped as he worked another finger inside her.

“Really. Which is why there was a thing invented called the quickie.”

She burst out laughing, until he brushed his thumb across her clit, while his fingers worked deep inside her, stretching her, grazing her inner walls, until she was wet, and ready for him. “I hope it’s not too quick.”

Taking her words as a yes, he pulled her to him, so that she lay her right side, facing him. Lifting her left knee, he hooked her leg over his thigh, and guided himself into her. He thrust hard and deep, and she groaned against his mouth as he captured it with his lips. She kissed him back, her tongue probing his mouth, and he let her in, sucking her tongue, his hand covering her breast.

Cal used every part of his body to bring her to a climax. His hips moved back and forth, hard thrusts filling her, with a slow withdrawal, his cock gliding against her inner walls. Breaking their kiss, he lowered his head and sucked her nipple into his mouth, hard. Around and around, his tongue circled the taut bud, and she clung to him, kissing his neck, nipping the flesh with her teeth, her hand flat against his nipple.

When she pinched his hard nipple, he jerked forward into her, impaling her completely. Teagan wrapped her leg tighter around him, urging him deeper and harder. He obliged: she was, after all his mate, and what she desired was his duty to give.

Their climax came quick and hard. Two bodies joined as one. He filled her with his seed, jerking into her as he cried out her name. He’d had sexual partners before, but nothing he had experienced came close to what he shared with Teagan in that moment.

“I like quickies,” she whispered in his ear, kissing his neck, her hands stroking his skin.

“I am a new convert,” Cal agreed, his hand on her bottom, sliding up her back, loving the feel of her skin beneath his fingertips.

“I really have to get up.” She breathed deeply in contentment.

Cal moved away from her. “One of us has to be strong, and since I don’t want you to blame me for being late, I am going to let you go.”

“A gentleman.” Teagan slipped out of bed and headed to the bathroom, naked, her earlier shyness gone.

Damn, he loved this woman.

Kicking off the sheets once he heard the shower running, he got out of bed, retrieved his scattered clothes and dressed quickly. He was going to make her breakfast.

First he checked the fridge and found orange juice, and some eggs. Quickly heating some oil, he grabbed whatever else he could find and made omelets, and toast, setting the table so that when she entered the kitchen, it was all ready.

“Thank you.” She kissed his cheek.

“I thought it would make up for the time we spent making love.” Cal sat down with her.

“You are so thoughtful.”

“My sisters might not agree.”

“I love your family,” Teagan admitted. “I love that you are how I always imagined a proper family to be.”

“In what way?”

“You know, this is us, warts and all.”

“We have a lot of warts.”

“You also have a lot of all. You love each other, and it shows.”

“We’ll have that, one day, when we have kids. You might not look on it in quite the same way.”

Teagan’s face sobered. She placed her fork on her plate. “We never used protection.”

Cal looked up at her. “I’m sorry. I never thought… Not so thoughtful after all.”

“I just don’t want to be tied to the house and a baby. That sounds terrible.”

“No, it doesn’t. You are young, and you want a career.” He squeezed her hand. “Whatever happens, I promise you we will work it out. I also promise I will go and buy some condoms today.” And he would, even if it meant he would miss the intense sensations of his naked cock inside her.