The Price They Paid: Imprinted Mates Series

ran out of the room. Maddox informed me that Alice would take me to where I needed to go. He entered into Seuss’ room with his food, and I set out to find this emergency.
“What do you need me to do?” I looked at the little girl that was severely hurt and laying on the table in the pack’s medic room. She’d been playing in the woods near an old mill where she’d stumbled over an ax. She had cuts all over her legs.
“She needs to shift. If we can get her to do that then her own DNA will do the rest. Using other methods are too risky for her age.” Alice’s concern was apparent.
I looked at her mother who was sitting in the chair sniffing as the tears slid down her reddened cheeks. “Why isn’t her mother …”
“Justice … it has to be you.” Alice cut me off and gave me a look. There was something that I was missing. Maybe she’d forgotten that I’d never shifted on my own and had no idea how it all worked.
“What’s her name?” I asked.
“Eliza.” Her name was powerful, and I liked it. She was too young to have the cuts marking her skin.
She cried and was curled into a tight ball, but she wouldn’t shift into wolf form and back. She wouldn’t listen to anyone for that matter. I reached for her leg to see if I could get her to unroll, and the little pup growled at me. Without thought I responded by roaring back at her, and she shifted into wolf form. I raised my head standing taller, and Eliza shifted and lowered her head.
I noticed the difference in her injuries immediately. I lifted her head a little and she smiled. She was only eight years old, but I could see that she was going to be a handful. I saw a similar spirit and wondered if she was an Alpha female. That would explain why her parents couldn’t get her to shift. They weren’t dominant at all.
I stayed with her for a bit before we headed back to the house in time to see the pack shift for their run. I sat watching them, but I couldn’t help but wonder how Seuss was feeling about missing this. Alice mentioned that no wolf should be alone during a full moon, and that included my Alpha. I wanted to make tonight special for him, too.
I grabbed something to drink before I headed upstairs. I went into the master bedroom and freshened up in the bathroom before heading into Seuss’ room. I almost thought that he was asleep, but he was gazing out the window at the moon turned away from me. I locked all the outside doors and climbed into bed with him and removed my robe.
Seuss didn’t say a word as I straddled his hips. He trailed his fingers down my body and pulled my mouth to his as he joined our bodies together for the first time. I cried out at the pain from him breaching my barrier. I clung to him hoping that it’d subside. I was speechless at how he’d invaded me all at once. His thickness consumed me, pulsing against the walls of my canal, it was too much, yet just right all at the same time.
“Fuck, you’re tight,” he barked.
I shivered trying not to move away. I stayed still waiting for anything to happen.
“You waited for me … now I’ll wait for you.” Seuss kissed me briefly and caressed my back calming me slowly. I shivered in response.
“It’s okay, vixen.” Seuss kissed over my breasts and neck. “I’ll make it all better.”
His hips began to move beneath me, and I gasped in awe. I’d never felt anything like this. Pleasure greater than I’d ever imagine rose inside. I accepted the way he owned my mouth with his. He held my hips as he took from me what he needed, and in return he gave me bliss beyond comprehension. I held on to his shoulders for mercy, but he showed none.
“Mine!” He growled against my lips.
I was powerless to debate it. I whimpered my acclamation. “Yours!”
I could feel the flow of affection through the bond. Lust felt more like love. Care deepened into tranquility. Seuss was taking control of my body and laying my heart open for no other to claim but him. I yowled when I felt him retreating from me, but it was short lived.
Seuss lifted me and then positioned me on all fours. He was buried deep inside me again quickly, arching over my body, pulling me into his. The protective position turned me on even more. His impassioned body warmed mine even further. I loved the feel of his heated chest along my cool back. I was drowning in this pool of us, and I didn’t want to be saved.
“Oh, please!” I prayed.
“Justice …” he grunted into my ear.
I gasped for air, but nothing came out. Why was this so good?
He licked at the space between my neck and collar, and I shivered in response. He tweaked my nipples as he whispered into my ear. Flutters started in my belly and spread downward to my groin where it ached marvelously.
“Sweet Justice. My little vixen.” The claim felt just as good as his body.
“Yeeeeees,” I moaned out in response.
“So damn good. So soft. Aaah!” He sighed against my skin making me tingle there.
Seuss wrapped his hand around my neck holding me in place as he moved deeper inside me. My breath hitched as his thrusts brought his hips against mine harder and faster. I was blinded by the orgasm that was spiraling out of control. I’d never felt so alive, so, wanted and needed. He held me in limbo as the earth shattered into a trillion pieces.

Seuss
The way that Justice gripped me as she crumbled was almost enough to do me in. But not quite. I kissed along her back, and she whined as she