NICOLE

Victor’s face was changing a deeper shade of purple and she felt her back quivering as even her body fought her to end her suffering. Who was she kidding? She would never be able to kill, or maim him.

She’d already told him more than she ever wanted him to know. Admitting that she’d waited like she had, it was humiliating. He’d gone on to live his life all the while he’d left her to be on her own without a care as to finding her.

I need to get away from him.

“No, we need the heir. Lay with him,” her tigress argued.

Just as Nicole was about to release him, he stretched his thick muscular leg out and kicked off the wall behind her. The force was strong enough that she couldn’t remain standing and fell on top of him. Immediately she tried to roll away from him.

Victor rolled with her trapping her with his body.

“What the hell did you shoot me with? I should be able to crush your puny little skull.”

“It subdues your tigress to keep her from shifting,” he rasped his voice still compromised from being choked. The sound made her feel sorry for him, and that made her angry. She shouldn’t feel sorry for him.

He doesn’t really love me. He loves himself. Lust, that’s all it is.

“Open your legs to him and let him give us the heir,” Nicole’s tigress insisted not hiding at all her own lust. Nicole wanted to cuss out her tigress as another gush of heat blossomed between her legs.

“You lost control of your tiger spirit?” Victor asked her. His green eyes wide and round. He was looking at her like he was full of pity for her. Probably thinking how pathetic it was that she’d actually given in to her tiger spirit. How weak she truly was.

Nicole didn’t like feeling this vulnerable, especially with Victor. “No. It was close but no. Of course not. Now get off me before I slice your belly open,” Nicole said, the sharpened rock in her hands once more.

“You said you didn’t exist any longer,” Victor pushed.

“I exaggerated,” Nicole said as she brought the blunt end of the rock up to knock him out again but he caught her hand and pulled the rock from her grip.

The rock hit the wall over his shoulder as he tossed it away. “You don’t exaggerate. Not like that.”

Her breasts were swelling and her nipples pressed into his chest. It was excruciating to be this close and yet so many worlds apart. “Rafi and his pack will tear you apart for abducting me.”

Instantly Victor’s wide-open expression closed up. His teeth shined in the dark like the moon. He was baring them at her.

“You won’t stand a chance against his pack. It’s not just a single type of shifter pack-”

“I know enough about Rafi and his pack of misfits,” Victor growled gripping her small waist with one of his large hands as he stood up. He didn’t let go of her for even a moment. His hand slid up her back. Since his touch was heading away from her ass, she thought she would get a small measure of relief.

She didn’t.

His hands on her body was like turning on the oven and leaving it on, then each following touch a nudge on the dial, turning up the heat.

“Rafi will kill you, do you hear me?” Nicole pushed. “Don’t you want to live? Being the coward that you are I would’ve thought that staying alive would be your top priority.”

His growl echoed through the cave, a sound of predatory power. Of course, her tigress found it very sexually appealing. It took nearly all her energy to keep the damn tigress from purring.

“It wasn’t me who was too afraid to tell my family no when called forward to accept another to fuck for the sole purpose of impregnation.”

Victor wrapped his fingers around her bicep and began pulling her out of the cave. He wasn’t being rough but he wasn’t giving her an inch to go a different way either. Nicole tested his grasp and balance. Unfortunately, he wasn’t the clumsy sort. He never had been though. She wasn’t surprised when she found herself held closer and more securely.

“Excuse me for loving my family more than myself,” she snarled at him.

“It worked out great for your family that you weren’t brave enough to tell them no, didn’t it?”

The old Victor never would have said those words aloud to her, even if he thought them. This wasn’t the softhearted boy she grew up with. His words hurt and he’d known they would when he spoke them.

“Giving them an heir that will survive is my duty. You couldn’t possibly understand that. You are just barely able to comprehend anything outside yourself, aren’t you? The world doesn’t revolve around you, Victor. In fact, I’m sure it never noticed your arrival, your death will be no different.”

“Yep, still the bitch you always were when you’re mad. Rafi must love following you around like a sick, gutless, puppy.”

Nicole let the tigress purr so she could concentrate instead on how she would escape Victor. “Just hearing Rafi’s name gets my tigress hot. You’ll have to excuse her.”

Victor smiled at Nicole as he pulled her out into the light of day. “If your pussy needs pleasing, I’m happy to stand in, though I won’t be whimpering at your feet like the guy your using at the moment.”

No way in hell am I telling him that Rafi and I don’t actually have sex. He can go ahead and think it.

“You’re not hung like, Rafi,” Nicole said hoping to piss him off bad enough he would mess up and give her a chance to escape.

Victor laughed. “Is that why you couldn’t stop staring at my dick and groping my balls?”

Nicole felt her face burning with the heat of her blush.

Why do I care if he saw me? I don’t give a shit what he thinks.

The tigress was too busy purring to argue with her. Good. At least she could think without being interrupted. Resisting him was keeping him on guard. Nicole allowed him to lead her voluntarily. Watching his body language, listening to the pacing of his heart and breathing. He wasn’t relaxing.

Damn him for knowing me so well.

Even after an hour of walking he was not relaxing in the least. Victor wouldn’t relax until they arrived to whatever destination they were going to and she didn’t know where that would be. Nicole didn’t want to know where it would be. In her weakest moments, she might miss him enough to try and seek him out. Knowing where he was would make it too easy.

“I keep thinking about Rafi, and the damn tiger won’t shut up. Maybe I should take you up on your offer and let you use your little pecker on me,” Nicole said when he gave her another smug look at her continued purring.

Her comment managed to wipe the smug look right off his face and that made her very happy.

“Rafi has such a big thick tongue too,” she said listening to his heart beat speeding up. At least it was a change. He didn’t care at all for Rafi, that was easy to see. Why he didn’t care for him wasn’t her business.

The heated look he gave her when she said she might take him up on his offer, warmed his hand on her arm, almost to the point of sweatiness. A slippery hold would give her just enough time to yank free and climb the trees. Leaping from tree to tree she’d be able to lose him.

“I like these images you are thinking. You are going to seduce him. Good, we will get a baby.” Her tigress purred louder.

Seduce? Yes. Fuck? No.

The tigress’ purring turned to a growl.

“What’s wrong? Wishing you had someone to lick your spoiled feet with a fat tongue?”

Nicole pushed the mesh top down her arms to the point where his hold on her arm impeded the descent. Her right breast was exposed and to her delight, Victor was looking at her. He licked his lips with his tongue. His hand did not budge.

“I’m hot. I want to take off my shirt,” Nicole said waiting for him to comply and release her arm.

“Too bad,” he said a drop of sweat rolled down the side of his face.

Nicole smiled because she could tell she was getting to him. She ran her free hand over her breast. Her nipple was already standing taut, aching for Victor’s attention. Running her thumb over the tip triggered genuine whimpers that were filled with desire.

Victor’s pace slowed considerably. His cock was hard in his torn-up shorts, she thought it was probably the reason he Victor had to slow down. It wouldn’t be for her comfort, he’d already made that clear.

“It’s probably best you don’t touch me. Rafi would smell it and he’d peel away your wolf fur coat.”

Victor clenched his jaw his green eyes concentrating on the peak of her breast. “Do not speak his name to me again, Nicole. You may be the kind who can go and sleep with just anyone who comes along but I am not that way. I am still loyal to you. There is no one else I pour my come into and whenever I do cum, it’s always to you.”

The warmth in her chest was stupid, at least that’s what she told herself. How could she melt to his words? If he was longing for her so desperately why hadn’t he come to get her?

Liar.

“Fine. I won’t talk about him. Obviously, he intimidates you.”

Victor turned toward her, his head dipped. His hot breath ran over Nicole’s breast making it swell and ache worse than it ever had before. She whimpered at the sharp pinch of need.

“Submit to him. Let him pour his seed into our womb.”

Nicole couldn’t think of a response. She couldn’t think of a cocky, bitchy remark for Victor. There was nothing except his mouth an inch from her aching breast. She watched his tongue run over his lips.

“Son of a bitch,” he growled and straightened up and away from her. Hooking his finger under her collar he pulled her shirt up over her breasts.

Damn you to hell, Victor.

She searched her mind for something cruel to say to him so that he would back away from her. Any kind of distance would be a good thing. Trying to seduce him only to have Victor reject her hurt much more than it should have. His backing away from her stirring up all her feelings of rejection and abandonment.

Nicole thought she might lose the ability to breathe altogether while she’d waiting for his wet lips to kiss her breast. It was humiliating knowing that she wanted him more than she wanted oxygen and he didn’t want her. Not really.

Nicole turned her face away from him. She didn’t want him to see her embarrassment and humiliation. Nicole searched her mind again trying to seek out anything to say that would hurt him back.

His hand released her and it took her a moment to realize it, by the time she did, he had a new hold on her. Victor had dropped down to a squatting position when she’d looked away. His large hand wrapped around her left ankle. His other hand reached up and yanked her mesh pants to her knees.

Still her words were out of reach. All Nicole managed to do was shake her head but he wasn’t looking at her face. His green eyes were on her pussy. Her heartbeat was pulsing at her core. She was getting wetter with him watching her and at any moment he was going to pull her pants up and make her feel rejected all over again.

Nicole reached for her pants to pull them back up. Victor pushed her hand away meeting her gaze as he leaned forward opening his mouth. His tongue swept over the lips of her pussy in a long, luxurious stroke.

Fuck!

Her legs trembled with the intense wave of arousal. His tongue felt so good, hot, wet, soft, and demanding. Nicole instinctively opened her legs but the pants at her knees kept them only slightly open.

Victor groaned, his free hand went to his crotch. He pressed against the straining tent in his shorts as he licked her again. His face nuzzled in deeper between her folds. Victor growled a sound of need. His tongue sweeping over her wetness, drinking her like she was the last drink he would ever get.

Nicole gasped and clenched her teeth together trying to swallow the whimper and moans that were swelling up her throat. His tongue lapped over her clit pulling a cry from her that she never meant to give him.

His moan of pleasure against her sensitive skin, was like the first wave of an orgasm, the vibrations felt so good.

No. He can’t have me. He left me.

She leapt up into the air brining her knees up like an upper cut to his jaw. His hand fell away from her ankle as he fell backward. He hit the forest floor hard with a grunt.

Nicole pulled up her pants and took off running. She leaped reaching for a hold on the thick tree, only her tiger claws wouldn’t come out. She couldn’t tell if it was the stuff she’d been shot with or her tiger refusing to help her escape.

Either way she was sliding down the face of the tree getting splinters and scrapes over her skin. She grunted in pain hugging the tree tighter trying to stop herself from falling further.

Victor’s hand wrapped around her ankle and he yanked her off the tree and into his arms. “You’re covered in cuts and splinters now,” He growled spanking her ass. “Stop fighting me. You are coming with me.”

Nicole was breathing hard and shocked at his authority. Her ass still stung from his swat and the fact that she liked it, scared her. She thrashed in his arms, kicking and clawing wherever her hands and feet landed.

Victor hoisted her upward tossing her upper body over his shoulder. His arm wrapped around her waist firmly, his other hand spanked her ass again.

Nicole gasped and indignant sound even though the same sense of burning heat and arousal spread over her skin. Victor swatted her ass again and then ran his hand over her round cheeks.

“Dammit Victor, let me go.”

“No.”

Nicole landed a kick to his stomach and then received a spank to her ass. She wanted to keep fighting him but when he spanked her on her ass his hand was also brushing over pussy and the last thing she needed was to come for him. “I am going to make you pay for this, Victor. You’re going to regret taking me wherever the hell we’re going. I swear it.”

“Stop baiting me, Nicole. I know how much you hate me. I’ll finger and tongue your wet pussy all the way there and make you come for me over and over again. Each time you’ll be angrier with yourself than the last time.”

“Cocky asshole,” Nicole growled but didn’t dare kick him again. She was on the precipice of an orgasm just from listing to his dirty threat that she wanted more than she would ever admit to herself.

Her tigress started purring again.

You stupid bitch. Nicole yelled at her Tigress. The tiger spirit didn’t listen. She just kept purring.

Victor’s laugh made her face burn red.

“My tigress may be in favor of your wolf but I am not in favor of either of you.”

He laughed again his hand raising up to stroke her ass and the line of her ass all the way up her pussy and back. “You have such a beautiful ass, Nicole. I could stroke you, and suck on your pussy all day long without getting tired. Don’t make me prove you wrong, it’ll just embarrass you even more.”

“Why are you doing this? Why can’t you just let me go and leave me alone?” She asked trying to sit up.

His hand smacked the soft mound between her legs this time earning a gasp from her that she wished she could take back. “I’m helping you. Besides, you belong with me.”

“I don’t belong to you, with you, or-”

Victor slid his hand over her pussy and squeezed her before beginning to rub her through her pants. “You’re mine, Nicole.” Her breathing quickened. She gripped his back trying to fight the flood of heat and the coiling in her core as he stroked her. “You’ve always been mine, and you always will be.”

“Fuck you, Victor.”

He laughed a dark sound. “I hope so, Nicole. You’re not ready for that yet so let’s start with you.”