The Price They Paid: Imprinted Mates Series

rested on the bed. I should be just as tired as she was but being with her tonight, on this full moon, was more empowering than I’d ever felt. And her scent perfumed the air making it harder to relax. She smelled fresh and ripe like fruit, but spicy and raw. Primed. Just the way a vixen should smell.
I withdrew from her body but kissed down her spine until my lips found her sweet nectar. I lapped at her honey until she begged me for more. I couldn’t get enough of her against my tongue. She was damned good, and every lick only drew me in for another. She coated my face with her sweetness, and I licked my lips for more. Fuck if I could stay away longer than a few seconds to breathe.
I rolled her on to her back and spread her legs wide giving me better access to feast. I kept her legs in place with my shoulders and inserted my tongue deep inside her. She bucked against my mouth, but I didn’t relent. I flicked it inside of her creating the most soulful sounds.
“Seuuuuuuuss …” she begged.
I’d smelled her ripening fruit for weeks as she teased me with her essence, and I couldn’t do anything about it. I needed more of her on my tongue besides that sweet kiss that she’d stolen, and tonight I was going to indulge.
“Seuss, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!”
I spread her pretty wings before licking her sensitive clit. I sucked the ripe button igniting cries of raw lust from her.
“Mmm … Justice.” I hummed.
“Yes!” she whispered.
“Say my name.” I chuckled knowing she probably didn’t know it.
“Seuss.” She breathed the name more than she said it. I could feel the enjoyment that she was getting from the dirty talk.
“Nooo … my real name.” I kissed her thigh and then sucked it lightly.
Justice froze, and I smacked her ass. “Stay with me, vixen.”
“I don’t … I don’t know.”
“When you’re with me, you’ll only scream out one name, baby.”
“Yes?”
“Odysseus.”
Justice moaned louder. “Yes!”
“Now say it.”
“Odysseus.” She grunted, impatient girl.
“Louder!” I growled before sucking her clit again.
“Odysseus!”
I couldn’t hold back any longer. Holding her legs, I inched my shaft inside her watching her eyes widen in shock. I could only imagine how it felt from this angle. She was glorious, and her body accepted all of me. Sweat creased my brow as I fought not to claim her right here and right now. She was already mine, she just didn’t know it. I’d relaxed into her and I could feel the energy around us. It was magnetic and strong. Dare I say the love that I felt for her she felt for me?
“Again!”
“Ooooooooooooooooooooooodysseus!”
I gripped her head pulling her mouth to mine instinctively. The ancient dance of men and women proceeded as I took solace in the depths of her body. My wolf rushed forward as I came deep inside her. I was so shaken that it was difficult to hold back. The need to claim her made my teeth ache. I wanted to feel them sink into her flesh as I bit into her marking her perfect skin in the claiming.
“Fuck, vixen!” I roared before I came harder than I ever had.
I felt it happening too late to withdraw. My shaft thickened and Justice spasmed around me.
“Fuck!” I held her hips to mine as I came again in waves. She gripped the sheets as her body responded to mine, accepting everything I gave. The howling outside the window of my pack brushed away the walls and confines of the house as I imagined being in the midnight glow with my mate. She was perfect in every way, and her strength only added to mine. She turned her neck to me, offering her submission. I kissed her bare neck and licked the spot that I so desperately wanted to mark.
The tie that once kept me swollen inside her, finally loosened and I slowly slid out of her beautiful body. I held her tightly and kissed her shoulder. If only she could be mine in every sense of the word.
My mind wandered back to that day in the hospital when I was forced to mate her or give her the last of my life force. Alice warned me that I was playing Russian roulette every time that I healed Justice without mating her.
“Seuss, it’s time.” Alice encouraged.
I was growing weaker each time, and I knew today would be the last day. I couldn’t lose Justice, I’d just gotten her. I’d give her my all though.
I walked into the room and held onto Justice for as long as I could before I had to make a move. I’d already made my decision.
I spoke the words that would bind our hearts together forever. “Mate of mine, the choice is yours, but I give to ye the whole of my heart and the depths of my soul. Accept me as yours and I shall be, wolf and all.”
Justice looked at me through heavy lids and gave her response. “No, you can’t be.”
“Why?” I asked.
“I’m destined to be alone. I have no mate.”
The words ached as they processed. Was she not the one?
“You are mine,” I pushed.
“No …” Her eyes closed for a minute and then she stared at me in confusion.
I concealed the pain of her rejection with a smile. I put the decision into the hands of my faith. The gods could decide my fate. I fed her the last of my life force while the bond was open. I smelled Alice and Alec shortly after, but I continued giving to Justice until Alec broke the connection and transported me here. I welcomed death if it meant that my mate would continue to live.
Justice was wrapped all around me come morning. My head was buried in the curls on top of her head and my hands cupped her ass. This is the way that every morning should be spent. We’d coupled several times during the night, but nothing came close to that