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Playing For Keeps

By: TanithLow



She was a weird woman, at least that's what everyone said about her but the way she saw it, she was limited edition. Who else had silver hair that reached their waist, silver eyes, a curvy body that consisted of gravity defying breasts and an extremely cute bubble butt, oh and let's not forget the wings? No one, that was who. She was one of a kind. But that wasn't always a good thing now, was it?

Aurora sighed. She was a confident woman by nature but then she had those nights where everything was just shitty. Usually she would go to her friend's bar down the street from where she lived. Of course, to most humans, Aisling's Ale Heaven wasn't visible due to the glamour that was cast on it. But then again a human would most likely have a heart attack after one gulp of Aisling's stuff but it was perfect for Aurora. Being a demigoddess and all, her metabolism was a bitch so to speak. Human alcohol would only give her a mild buzz but Fey Ale would have her singing the national anthem at the top of her lungs and she didn't even know the national anthem.

Not one to break habits, even the bad ones, Aurora tapped on the tattoo underneath her ear that hid the tattoos covering her from head to toe and the wings. She checked herself in the mirror and sighed. She didn't want to hide herself but if she wanted to live in the human world, those were the sacrifices she had to make.

Whatever, she thought; I'll turn it off as soon I get into the pub.

The pub was full even if it was a Tuesday night. The supernatural community was made up of alcoholics, it would seem.

When Aurora entered the place, almost everyone was staring at her. Nothing new there. She waved and smiled at the people she knew and glared pointedly at those she didn't know. Staring was just rude.

Since there was no seat available, she went behind the bar, carefully tucking her wings in so that she wouldn't accidentally hit something with her thirteen feet wide feathered limbs.

"You look like shit."

"Thank you. Thank you for that boost of morale, bitch." she said to her best friend who also happened to be a werewolf.

Aisling was a tall woman built like a linebacker but then again compared to most werewolf females she was considered to be petite. She had raven black hair that was cut randomly and stuck up from all over her head.

"Honey, there's no point in lying, now is there? You own a mirror, don't you?"

"I tend not to look at myself these days." Aurora said distractedly as she looked at the liquor shelf for Dragon's Breath. A spicy drink that will have you forgetting your name after a few shots. 

"Go lie to someone who don't know you, sugar." Aisling drawled as she poured a drink for one of the patrons whose eyes zoomed in on Aurora.

Before she could turn around with her bottle of Dragon's Breath and go to the back where she could get wasted on her own and lament life's cruelties, the dude came to stand in front of her.

She wrinkled her nose as the sweet scent that emanated from all Incubi hit her. He was at least six five with eyes that were a glowing emerald, for reasons unbeknownst to her he was shirtless but then she looked at his washed board tanned abs and Aurora agreed it would be a shame to cover that up. Especially if you were in the business of seducing women.

"Your body calls to me." He said, leaning into the bar, nicely exposing his muscled biceps.

"Really? What does it say?"

"It says: ravish me!"

"Are you sure?" she asked, taking a gulp of the DB. It left a trail of fire on its way down. 

He frowned. 'I am a Master of Seduction, you doubt me?"

"Me? God, no!" she was extremely proud of the fact that she managed to say it with only a quirk of her lips.

"Good, he said reassured, we shall go to-"

"I'm afraid I can't. I'm already spoken for." She cut him off sweetly.

"Oh for fuck's sake, I don't want you to have my babies or anything, I just want to fuck. I don't care if you're spoken for." He said exasperated. His speech going from seventeenth century courtesan to twenty first century biker in an instant.

Aurora smiled. She always made the best come out in people. "So you can suck my soul out?" she giggled, the DB starting to work its magic.

"Not all Incubi do that, you know. Some of us are just looking for a good time without the soul sucking."

Aurora opened her mouth to make a smartass retort but she was cut off.

"That is good to hear, Raymond. I'm sure that will reassure the ladies however this one is spoken for. By me. If anyone touches her I'll cut his balls off and shove them up his ass." Said the source of her gloomy mood of late.

As the incubus all but ran away in his haste to get away from her she couldn't help but notice how good looking the intruder was. Oh he was beautiful. Tall, lean muscled, shaggy chestnut hair, a five o'clock stubble that made her want to rub her cheeks against his and glowing amber eyes that made her girl part all wet and tingly.

"Diego, what brings you here? Ale?" she asked way too loudly, flashing all thirty two of her teeth.

"You know exactly why I'm here so put down the bottle and let's get out of here." He ordered and boy did that spark her anger.

She put her hands on her hips and glared up at him, since he was almost six five and she was five foot nothing she had a long way to glare up.

"Listen up. I'm not one of your little pride pussies, you do not get to order me around."

"You're my mate." He said as if that explained everything. Fucking shifter males, always so bloody arrogant.

"We fucked like once." She said flatly.

"And I marked you." he said, pointedly looking at the bite mark that had already healed and left a crescent shaped scar on the junction of her collarbone and her shoulder.

"I don't give a shit, pussycat." Aurora sneered taking a gulp of the strong stuff.

Clearly he didn't like being called a "pussycat" because his nostrils flared and his eyes glowed with power. He wasn't Alpha for nothing. His power wrapped around her like a suffocating cocoon making her whimper. Diego was trying to make her submit. Her. A goddess' daughter. The bastard.

Aurora gnashed her teeth together and let her own power loose, glaring at him but he didn't shrink back like she expected he would. Instead he met her head on and they were caught up in glaring contest.

"Uh... Aur', could you guys maybe take this outside..."the tremor in Aisling's voice had Aurora's head snapping towards the she-wolf, noticing for the first time that the whole pub had gone quiet.

Aurora nodded slowly and headed for the door, Diego followed her out.

As they walked down the block, Aurora started thinking about what would happen now. She had known she was the tiger shifter's mate but she was half hoping he wouldn't come after her once she had left. She liked being independent and when one had a mate that was something close to impossible. She craved his touch. Yearned for his kisses and his cock buried deep inside her calming the heat like only he could. 

Dear goddess, she was hooked.

Thank God he had finally found her! He had been going crazy with worry for the past five days. Aurora had woken up at the ungodly hour of five in the morning and sneaked off to god knew where. Who did that? Really?

She was willful and he liked that about her but he was the one in charge and by the end of the night he would make sure she knew it.

Her hips swayed enticingly as she walked ahead of him, her long hair teased her round ass every step she took. He was going to beat that ass red tonight.

"Stop staring at my ass, you perv." She called not even bothering to turn around.

Diego growled and went to walk beside her. "My ass. You belong to me." He growled and emphasized with a resonating smack on her ass.

Aurora yelped and stopped walking and glared up at him. God, her silver eyes were gorgeous. "I don't know if that caveman act works with all the other chicks but I am a lady goddamnit!"

"There was nothing ladylike about the way I fucked you the other day."

"Yeah well that's what happens when you let an animal fuck you." she snapped.

Diego snarled and had to make a conscious effort to tamp down on the rising urge to flip her over his shoulder and take her to his house. Or in the alley, anywhere would do as long as he got to sink his cock into her cunt. 

Aurora took a cautious step back, looking at him warily. As if he would actually hurt his mate. It stung that she didn't trust him but then again they had only known each other for an hour before going back to his place and screwing like bunnies.

"I won't hurt you." he said softly

"So says the tiger."

"You're my mate." He said again wondering why she couldn't understand what that implied. Yes he wanted her to submit to him but in no way would he ever let any harm come to her, he was meant to protect her for god's sake.

"You keep saying that." She said exasperated. The frown that marred her face making her even more cute under the golden glow of the street lights.

"Because that's all that needs to be said."

Aurora tilted her head to the side and stared up at him as if she were studying him. "And what if I don't want to be?"

"We'll both die."

"I'm immortal." She sniffed.

"What are you?" he asked. 

Diego had heard many stories about the silver haired winged beauty but he didn't know which was true. Some had said she was a fallen angel, some said she was the result between two unknown species..

She smiled evilly. "Can't you scent what I am?"

Normally all he had to do was sniff and underneath the person's unique scent was the one they shared with their species, but it was different with Aurora. Her unique scent was a mix of ice and something cinnamony but the underlying scent was something he had never encountered before. 

He inhaled deeply, taking a step towards her and pulling her close he buried his face in the crook of her neck. He took in her scent. His cat purred to life in his mind wanting to roll in the sweet scent of their mate. He inhaled once more taking in her scent and gently nipped at her neck. She moaned and her small body arched against him, her hands trailing on his stomach. His hands traveled the length of her curvy body until they cupped her perfect ass. His cock hardened, pushing against his jeans. He ground it against her pelvis.

"You see what you do to me?"

"Well.. it's not like I'm gonna apologize for that, now am I?" she said huskily, rubbing that delicious body against him.

"Tease." He accused, nipping at her lower lip which earned him a small gasp.

She broke their kiss, her silver eyes glowing in the dark. "Catch me if you can, pussycat!" she said and ran in the opposite direction.

Diego growled. He loved chasing his prey.

By the time Aurora had reached her apartment she was breathing hard, exhilarated. Her heart was beating hard against her rib cage, her cheeks were flushed and let's not forget her wet pussy. Oh but he hot. The man was sex on legs! The tiny voice of reason reminded her of why she had run away from him in the first place but it was hard to remember those things when she still had the delicious taste of him on her lips, his spicy male scent all over her. 

Aurora groaned with need and confusion. There was no chance of backing out now, especially now that she had baited him. She hadn't flown because she had wanted him to track her scent. 

A small part, one that was getting smaller and smaller every minute, wished he wouldn't find her but a bigger part of her, the one that knew her mate would find her, wanted to get naked and for some inexplicable reason kneel at the door to wait for him. Aurora frowned; she wasn't a submissive in any aspects of her life. Perhaps it was because since childhood it was drilled into her that a woman who let herself become submissive was without power.

Before she could ponder her newfound submissive streak, her door burst open. Her heart sped up with equal amounts of arousal and anticipation. 

Aurora hadn't bothered to turn the lights on, she could see perfectly in the dark and damn, what she saw made her mouth water. 

Diego walked into her apartment like he owned the place. Despite his size, he was graceful as he closed the door behind him and glided slowly towards where she sat on her couch. His eyes glowed amber in the dark. He stood and stared down at her when he was only a foot from where she sat.

"Why are you still dressed?" he growled at her.

Her chin jutted out arrogantly and she glared up at him even though she was fairly certain that it wasn't a good idea to bash heads with a horny tiger. "Why are you still dressed?" she shot back.

He frowned. 'Because I had to run all the way here, did you expect me to do it naked?"

Aurora shrugged. "You shifters are nudists after all.'

"Yes, but, he whispered kneeling between her legs, nudging them apart so he could fit his body between her thighs, there were women on my way here, would you want them to see me naked as well?'

Aurora snarled, something wild growing within her. He was hers, she would gauge out the eyes of the bitch who dared to look at him let alone touch him. He was her mate. 

"You're mine." She snarled, her fangs sliding out. She dug her finger into his hair and yanked him to her lips.

Fireworks went off as they kissed. They both fought to dominate the other. Aurora bit and sucked at his lips, using her fingers tangled in his hair as leverage to gain the upper hand.

Diego's hands went around her waist and pulled her closer so that he ground his erection against her weeping cunt. He used his strength to push her back on the couch and therefore getting the upper

hand.

She cried out as he somehow managed to pull off her jeans and plunge two fingers into her pussy. He pumped them in and out of her furiously, making her pussy juice squelch and drip all over her thighs. Her hips gyrated as the tide of pleasure grew and grew within her. Oh goddess, she was close, so fucking close... right there, almost...

He withdrew his fingers and broke their kiss and stared down at her.

"Please" she whimpered as the ache in her cunt started getting unbearable but she found no mercy in his eyes.

"Rule number one, he growled his voice more animal than man, your orgasms belong to me. You ask permission to cum. I may or may not grant you permission, is that understood?"

She wanted to slap him or anything really and she would have too if it weren't for the jolt of arousal that hit her at the way he was treating her. 

They stared into each other's eyes for a long moment that seemed to stretch into eternity until the gnawing ache in her cunt proved to be too much to bear. 

"Please, she begged, let me cum." 

With that he drove his fingers into her cunt and pumped until she fell apart in his hands. She screamed and jerked but he didn't stop fucking her with her fingers, all the while telling he that she was his, that all of her holes belonged to him and that he would do what he pleased with them.

When she finally came down from the orgasm induced high, she was panting like she'd run a marathon. Her skin covered in a fine sheen of perspiration. 

Diego looked down at her with a smug smile as he sucked his finger and took it out with an audible pop. "You taste amazing, mate."

The words sent shivers of pleasure down Aurora's spine and she gave a small moan. "I can't believe you made me beg." She said accusingly.

He smiled and caressed her cheek. "I meant what I said, Aurora. You are not to cum without my permission or else..."

'Or else what?" she asked softly already knowing the answer. She got up and put her weight on her elbows, just now noticing that her wings had been crushed underneath her during their little dirty scene. Just because they were hidden from sight by the glamour didn't mean she couldn't feel them.

"Or I'll punish you."

"How?" she asked her breath coming faster. The idea of being punished by her mate making her cunt wet again.

Diego also seemed to know that because something sparked in his eyes before he answered. "I:ll tie you up and whip your body until you scream for mercy or I'll make you wear a chastity belt with a few surprises on it."

Then I guess, I shouldn't displease you, Sir."

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Diego looked down at his mate after several hours of coaxing and forcing she had finally submitted to him. After he finger fucked her in the living room he had taken her to the bedroom and ordered the little tease to get on all fours. So there she was, her bubble butt offered up to him, her back arched gracefully, her silver hair falling freely off her shoulders. God! She was making his cock throb so bad.

"Take the glamour off." He ordered and she obeyed. She tapped at the tattoo under her ear and her wings and tattoos were suddenly visible. The feathered limbs trembled slightly at the same pace as her breathing. The room was filled with the intoxicating scent of her arousal. He growled. The woman was driving him crazy!

He took off his jeans in record time and tore his muscle shirt from his body. He slowly walked to where his mate waited, trailing his fingers along her body, leaving goose bumps on the way. She trembled under his touch and made little mewling sounds.

"Put your cock inside me already!" she yelled.

He smacked her ass, hard almost making her fall on her face. She yelped but got back into position. He smacked her again and again until tears were falling freely on her cheeks onto the bedspread. Diego fisted her hair and used it to yank her back so that she was looking into her eyes. 

"You. Do. Not. Order. Me! He snarled tightening his grip and making her whimper in the process, Is that understood?"

"Yes, Sir."

"Good." He said and released her.

He would have liked to make her wait but the truth was that he couldn't wait a second more before sinking his cock into her. With that in mind he jumped behind her and positioned his cock at the entrance of her sweet juicy pussy. He pushed hard and drove all the way home and once his dick was snuggly seated inside her they both moaned in pleasure. She pushed back but he gave her ass a sharp smack to keep her in line and she whimpered. After making sure she knew who was in charge he started to pummel her cunt. Fuck she was tight! And so, so wet! Her cunt held his cock in an iron grip that drove him wild making him slam into her so hard that she collapsed under his assault and lay flat on the bed. But even then he didn't stop pumping in and out of her encouraged by her moans and the squelching sound of her pussy.

"May I cum?!" she shrieked.

"Not yet." He snarled, he wanted her to cum while he shot his load into her.

"Please, please, please,-"

Diego fisted Aurora's hair and brought his lips to her ear. "Don't you dare cum, you little slut, don't you dare cum! I'll whip your pussy red if you do!"

The sounds of their lovemaking, the heat burning between their bodies coupled with the intensity of their mating bond soon had them both going over the edge.

"Cum for me, Aurora! Cum for me!"

And she did. In waves and waves of pleasure that resonated in the deepest parts of his soul that was connected to her.

This was just the beginning, he thought contentedly, his cat purring in agreement as their mate's feathers teased his stomach.

"Uh... Diego, I don't mean to tell you you're fat or anything but you:re kinda crushing my wings to my back." She said from under him.

He chuckled and got up rolling to his side and pulling her along with him, she fit perfectly to his side.

"Did you like that?" he asked only now fearing that he might have been too rough with her.

"Like it? I've never cum like that! I wanna be fucked like that from now on... Sir." She said smiling up at him, her cheeks flushed.


Playing For Keeps



"Oh, you will be. That and much more."



Playing For Keeps



I woke up knowing something was wrong. My arms were over my head and secured to a headboard and some wiggling told me that my legs were secured as well. Looking down I saw a man sitting at the edge of the bed smiling up at me.

"Hello Sarah," his voice smooth and flowing, "I am going to have a lot of fun with you tonight." Instantly I started squirming trying to find a way loose, but stopped as I saw his appreciating gaze. Gently, he began stroking my left calf. There was nothing overtly threatening about his caress, but the ropes and the knowledge that I was fully in his control made Goosebumps run up my body. "I've watched you for a long time," he said his strokes making their way past my knee, and to my inner thigh. "I've watched you spend your nights alone with nothing to keep you company, or satisfy your needs." His fingers grazed the outline of my pussy leaving me with just the faintest impression of his touch, and leaving me anticipating his next move. Abruptly he stood up from the bed and walked out of my vision. I tried to see what he was doing, but before I could I found my sight obliterated by a black cloth. 

"Don't try to fight it," he whispered as I tugged my head around to try and pull off the cloth. "You will only make it worse on yourself." With the black cloth secured he went back to his gentle caresses, this time stroking my lower stomach, and then making his way to my breasts. His fingers traced each of my breasts before gently flicking my nipples. Despite, or possibly in reaction to my fear, my nipples hardened bringing a low chuckle from him. He continued to torment me with his slow caresses, which slowly began to work its magic. I felt a tingle between my legs, and I shifted, attempting to release some of the pent up feelings I was beginning to feel. Another soft chuckle from him stilled my motions, and I felt him stand up from the bed again. Without my vision, all my senses seemed amplified, and I heard him open a drawer. Moments later I felt him sit back on the bed and hover over my prostrate body. 

"Open your mouth," he purred. I instantly clenched my jaw. "Suit yourself" he breathed into my ear, and he began rubbing the lips of my pussy with an object. I immediately tried to pull away, but despite my wiggling, he continued to tease the opening of my pussy until I had coated the object in my juices.

"I think you are starting to enjoy this," he said sliding the slender object deeper into my pussy. I was beginning to feel the unmistakable itch, and said nothing. He left the object inside me, and a breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, some relief from the constant teasing, or so I thought. I began to relax when I began to feel light vibrations in my pussy. 'No!' I thought to myself. I squirmed trying to get rid of the building desire in my body, but to no avail. 

"Are you enjoying the sensations Sarah?" the man whispered stroking the sides of my breasts, leaving my nipples aching to me touched. "It is so sexy watching you squirm for me," he whispered into my ear. He blew warm arm over my ear, and began nibbling down my neck. His ministrations left me even more frustrated than before. "I like seeing you like this, Sarah." One of his fingers was absently rubbing my dripping pussy. "I'm going to keep you on edge until you beg me to take you." I gasped as the tip of his finger began stroking my asshole. I had always enjoyed having it played with, and the added stimulation made me writhe with pleasure. For the moment he seemed pleased with just watching me writhe as both the vibrator and his stimulation of my ass caused me to moan and buck in frustration. The vibrator felt so good, but wasn't enough to get me to orgasm. Finally, I couldn't take it anymore.

"Please fuck me!" I begged. His ministrations on my ass stopped. 

"What did you say?"

"I said please fuck me!" The vibrator clicked off causing me to involuntarily let out a small yelp of disappointment. He lowered his mouth to my ear and his warm breath stimulated me more than his teasing of my asshole had.

"I am going to untie your legs and take you on your stomach. If you kick or try to move away I will make you pay." I nodded quickly, and felt him slide to the end of the bed. I heard to soft clicks and I was able to move my legs. I waited for him to release my arms, but was sorely disappointed. He flipped me on my stomach, then slapped my ass. "Get on your knees and spread your legs so I can see that dripping pussy." Quickly I scrambled to my knees and allowed him to push my back down so my ass was in the air. He gently slapped the insides of my legs until they were spread to his liking and then slid his fingers against my clit. 

"Tell me how good this feels."

"So good," I sighed, his fingers reigniting the burning desire in my pussy. 

"I expect you to be more descriptive than that," he said, slowing his fingers and inserting just the tip of one into my dripping cunt.

"I love the way your fingers feel inside me." I was rewarded with his finger slipping deeper into my pussy and dragging against my g-spot. I moaned and bucked against his finger, trying to push it deeper into me, and was rewarded with a slap on my ass that made me squeal.

"No moving." I groaned and felt him tap his finger at my dripping opening again. "Keep going, say enough dirty thoughts and maybe I'll give your pussy what it's been craving. His finger was replaced with something thick and warm, his enormous cock. He slid the length of it against my pussy, and teased the opening with just the tip. My pussy spasmed, trying to pull it inside, but he refused to give in.

"I want to feel your hard cock inside me," I started again. He rewarded me with more friction against my pussy lips. "I love feeling it slide against my pussy's lips, and I want to feel it pushing deeper inside me. He began giving me short fast thrusts with the tip, never enough to fully push me over the edge, only enough to keep me between pleasure and torment. I tried pushing back to get more friction and felt him push his thumb against my asshole. I shied away from his finger, not ready for anything large to penetrate there. He kept the pressure of his thumb on my ass, and as a result I was forced to take the teasing strokes without any escape. 

"Please...I can't take this...anymore!" I panted, he didn't respond and began interspersing longer half strokes with the short fast thrusts from the tip of his cock. I cried out with every longer stroke. I could feel that he was holding back, and the knowledge that he could fill me up and end my torment was too much to bear.

"I love watching you like this." He said after another half long stroke. "I am getting ready to give you exactly what you need, but first I need your promise."

"Anything!" I screamed, his finger massaging my asshole again, and causing my pussy to clench again.

"You will call me master."

"Yes master," I panted

"And" he thrust all the way into me, "You don't cum until I say you can." I nearly cried but quickly agreed. He unhooked my hands, and while they were still bound at least they were free. He pulled me up against him and wrapped his muscular arms around my body. He pressed his lips against mine and I gladly opened my mouth to his. His tongue quested against mine and I relished every inch of his hard, long cock, until I felt his testicles against my ass. 

Again he teased me pulling his cock all the way out of my pussy, until just the tip remained inside, pulsing against me, then sliding all the way in. His hands caressed my breasts, and I relished the feeling as he nipped at my ears and neck. 

"Master...I can't hold back much longer..." I moaned. 

"You better not cum" he said grabbing my face as his strokes got faster and faster. 

"Please master, I can't hold back, I'm going to ..." He yanked his cock out of me so fast I couldn't even bring my hands up to stop my fall back to the bed he flipped me over and after a few strokes of his hand came all over my body. I screamed as my pussy convulsed; trying to reclaim the orgasm it had been denied. Before I could even push my hands down to my aching pussy, he had clamped my hands back over my head and though I thrashed my legs eventually they too were secured. 

"please...please..." I gasped my pussy aching and still burning with lust. "I'll do anything, ANYTHING!" He laughed and I felt him push the slender rod back into my pussy. A slow vibration pulsed on and off. He leaned closer to my ear and my pussy clenched as he whispered in my ear.

"You are mine." He turned off the lights and shut the door, leaving me to the slow pulsing vibrations that pushed me toward the edge, but never close enough for relief.



Playing For Keeps Ch. 02



Aurora woke with her stomach grumbling and the scent of bacon, eggs and butter that saturated the air did nothing to calm her hunger. She sat up in the king sized bed that she had bought because her wings would drag at the edges with smaller beds, not to mention that fact that she rolled around a lot in her. A smaller bed just wouldn't do. Aaaaand it had come in handy last night when her and her mate wrestled in the throes of passion.

She bit her lips. Diego had dominated her in a way no man had ever dared to before and what surprised her was that she had liked it. A lot. Now, she was no prude. She grew up with satyrs and nymphs for god's sake! The advantage of that was that she was never ashamed or narrow minded when it came to trying new things in bed, far from it actually. Aurora had made it one of her missions in life to try every sexual experiment possible. But no matter the thing, she always felt like she had to be in charge. What bothered her wasn't the way they had sex but the fact that she had given up all control to someone else. One would think that would make her feel helpless but no... Aurora felt something else. She felt complete. Like this was what she had been waiting for all her life. She was in constant control over every aspect of her life that it suddenly felt good to have a part of it controlled by someone else. Controlled by her mate. And if she was being honest, it scared to think that she had finally found the man she would change for. 

"What are you thinking about so loudly?" Diego's voice didn't startle her in the least because a part of was already so attuned to him that she sensed him when he came near.

"Can you actually hear my thoughts?" she asked, slightly disturbed by the fact that she wouldn't even mind if he listened in on her thoughts.

He gave her a crooked smile and boy was he a sight to behold wearing only black jeans and a bare chest that had her mouth watering, her nipples tightening and her cunt tingling. "No, I can't hear your thoughts but I get impressions of what you're feeling. Like how you were confused about something a few seconds ago and how you're horny right now."

"Hey! I have the right to get horny from looking at beautiful abs!" she said giggling.

"I never said you couldn't. Just as long as they're my abs, that is."

"What if it's someone else's abs I'm ogling?" Aurora taunted.

"I'll gut him and I'll stuff your ass with ginger and whip that ass." He said matter of factly.

She winced. "You're so... graphic."

"Just keeping my mate in line. Now come eat breakfast."

She didn't need to be told twice. She was so hungry she could eat an entire cow and that was no joke. Being a hybrid, her metabolism made it so that she ate three times as much as normal human woman would. Good thing she had vampire genes that kept her from getting fat. 

Aurora let her nose lead the way and almost ran into the kitchen. When she entered her kitchen which she rarely ever went to considering she was a horrible cook, she sighed at the sight of the mountain of pancakes dripping with maple syrup, the crisp bacon, the scrambled eggs with cheese and the steaming cups of coffee.

Aurora jumped into her chair and stretched her wings and arms out and dug in. She ate with a passion. Moaning with every bite and telling Diego he was an excellent cook in between mouthfuls of food. After finishing her third helping she leaned back in her chair and burped.

Diego stared at her with an odd expression she couldn't quite decipher; it was at that point that she thought of what a sight she would make. Nude except for the tattoos, hair mussed up and burping. She laughed hysterically at the image. I'm such a lady. Of course it wasn't just that image that made her so giddy; it was also having her mate so near to her.

When she finally stopped laughing and looked at him he was smiling at her.

"I'm sorry about that."

"About scaring me with the fact that you eat more than the Hulk or that you burped?"

"That I burped and I don't eat liked the Hulk." She said defensively. 

"Sure could have fooled me." He teased and leaned back into his chair.

"I know she-wolves who eat more."

"Is that what you are? A werewolf? No... you don't have that disgusting wet dog smell. You're something else. Tell me." He ordered looking right into her eyes. She held his gaze. She would let him dominate her in bed but not anywhere else.

"No." she said simply.

"I'm your mate, I have a right to know." He said, his frustration building up.

"You are my mate but I'm not ready to tell you yet." 

"You're a vampire hybrid; he went on as if she hadn't even spoken, I can tell that much."

Aurora shrugged neither agreeing nor disagreeing.

"You don't trust me." He said grudgingly.

"I don't know you."

"I'm your mate."

Again with that phrase. "A tigress might understand that but not me..." she finally said.

Diego sighed. "It means we're tied to each other. You are mine, just as much as I am yours. Betraying you, hurting you, would be like betraying, hurting myself."

She blinked. She hadn't thought of it that way and who could blame her? All that she could think about ever since they met was sex, sex and then more sex. Her body craved him; she couldn't seem to have enough of him. Yet somewhere in the recess of her soul, she knew that it was more than carnal pleasure that tied them together. It was something beyond that. Something permanent... Aurora stopped that train of thought because she had commitment issues. Ever since she was a child the idea of finding that one person scared the fuck out of her.

"Give me some time." She whispered more to herself than him.

"I'm willing to give you all the time you need." He said tenderly, leaning with his elbows on the table "All I ask is one thing."

Their eyes met and something intimate passed between them. Diego looked at her as if she was the only female on earth. It touched her. Despite her good looks and whatnot, no one had ever looked at her that way. Looked at her as if they were looking all the way into her soul. The amazing thing was that she felt like she could look into his soul and he would... welcome her.

"What?" Aurora asked reluctantly, praying that he wouldn't say something that would ruin this perfect moment.

"You take no other to your bed. Just me." He said. A hint of vulnerability showing in his amber eyes.

She smiled. "I think you're enough to satisfy me."

He raised an eyebrow. "Well then let me make sure that I'm the only man you need."

In a flash, he stood in front of her, lifting her body as if she didn't weigh a thing. She giggled all the way to the bedroom.

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Diego relished the girly squeaks and whimpers his mate made as he nipped and sucked at her. He found out that she had a sensitive spot right under her jaw that made her moan. He swallowed the sounds of her pleasure as he devoured. His cat was delighted by the fact that gave as good as she got. Even better, actually.

Aurora ripped his jeans away and straddled him, putting his throbbing cock right at the entrance of her sweet, hot pussy. She rocked back and forth, teasing him and bit her neck reprimanding his mate playfully. His hands roamed her back and found the junction where her wings grew out of her back. He caressed the spot, the softness of the tiny feathers enticing his fingers and delighting his tiger. Aurora let out a loud groan that went straight to his cock and arched her body against his chest. Her wings spread out to their full length and with the morning rays of the sun streaming through the windows haloing around her silver hair, she looked like an angel. His angel. 

"Looks like I found another sweet spot." He said his voice a growl as he sucked her nipple into his mouth. A trickle of her cunt juice trailed out her opened pussy lips and down his cock.

She squirmed and tried to lower her body onto his cock but he was having none of that. Diego dug his fingers, claws extended, into his mate's curvy hips. Holding her in place and at the same time marking her. 

"Please, she whimpered, I need you." her silver eyes glowed with sexual hunger and he almost gave in but both him and his tiger were determined to show their female that he was in charge when it came to sex. He would choose when and if he would give her pleasure.

Diego was about to tell her as much when he heard the door to her apartment opening, his shifter hearing picking up on the small sound of the handle creaking but he was not alarmed. His cat knew it was two of his pride brothers who had come after he'd called them as he made breakfast for his mate. He had also opened the lock for them.

Diego wasn't sure if Aurora had heard them seeing as how there were two rooms between her bedroom and the living room, since she was part vampire and part something else he didn't know, he wasn't sure if her hearing was acute as his. Judging from the way her body tensed and the way her head snapped in the direction of her living room, he knew she heard.

She turned to him and just as she was about to tell him something he cut her off. "Don't be alarmed. It's my pride brothers. I asked them to come when you were asleep." He said loudly enough for Camden and Xander to hear him so that they would know when it was okay to enter the bedroom for what he had planned. "I called them here because it is customary for an Alpha's Seconds to watch while he takes his mate for the first time. I know this isn't our first time, he continued before she could point that out, but it'll do. I'm not going to force you to do this if you aren't ready. It's your choice."

For a split second he thought she would cuss him out but his mate surprised him as a mischievous smile spread across her face and the lust returned into her eyes. "I thought you didn't want to share me."

His cat snarled at the very idea. "They will not touch you. They will only watch."

Her smile turned sultry once again making his throbbing cock ache for her. Another trickle of her pussy juice trailed down his shaft. "I see my mate likes having an audience."

His Seconds took that as their cue to open the door and walk into the bedroom. The moment they walked in their nostrils flared as the sweet scent of his mate's arousal had saturated the air. They both growled, their eyes zeroing in on the couple. Had it been anyone else but his Beta, Camden and his Enforcer Xander, Diego would have ripped their balls off for looking at his mate in such a manner. But there was an understanding between their cats. He needed to show the two men he trusted the most that this woman straddling him was his mate. His. Plus Aurora seemed to be getting off on it if the way she way whimpered and rocked back and forth on the head of his dick was anything to go by.

The two males took a seat, waiting for the mating to go on.

"Now?" his mate asked hopefully, trying to lower herself on his cock but prevented from doing so by his claws that were still dug into her hips. 

"Turn around." He growled his voice more animal than man.

Aurora did as she was ordered. He loosened his grip on her hips and tiny beads of blood trailing down her thighs as she turned and straddled him, Reverse Cowgirl style. For a moment he feared he had hurt but her short legs allowed him to remain upright, he managed to see her fangs extended and poking between her scarlet lips. His own teeth transformed into that of his feline counterpart's. Her eyes were glued on the two men, who sported huge bulges at the front of their jeans, as she slid her pussy down on his cock. Diego's hands immediately closed back on her hips and pushed her back up until just the head of his cock was inside her.

"Did I say you could take my cock in your pussy?" he asked explicitly so that the two tigers watching them didn't miss a thing.

Aurora whimpered and her body trembled as she tried to control herself as her cunt clenched and unclenched on the head of his cock. Diego could feel her need pulsing through their mating. Need for us, his cat delighted.

He grazed his sharp fangs down her perfectly arched back, tracing an intricate tattoo that started from the back of her neck and went all the way down to the crack of her round ass. Just like the tattoo he didn't touch that spot where her wings met her back, he teased her. "I asked you a question." He reminded.

"N-n-no..." she stuttered, her fangs biting into her lower lip and drawing blood. Unconsciously her tongue darted out and licked the scarlet liquid. Something about that was unbelievably sexy. Maybe it was the way her pussy clenched hard but he was a hair's breadth away from losing control and pummeling into her until she gushed out her sweet cunt juice all over him and he pumped her full of cum.

"No what?" he snarled, nicking a spot on her back that immediately healed. 

"No you didn't allow me to take your cock in my pussy, Sir." She whispered huskily, baring her neck to him in submission. Both man and cat loved the fact that this dominant female submitted to him. She didn't know it yet but she already trusted him.

Diego pulled his mate down hard on his cock and was pleased at how wet she was and how she took all of his cock to the hilt, the walls of her pussy tightening like a vise around his dick. They both groaned loudly.

Already at the end of his patience, Diego pumped in and out of Aurora, holding nothing back because judging by the way she met him thrust for thrust, he was sure she could take whatever he had. The sounds of skin slapping against skin and the squelching sounds her pussy made as he pistoned in and out of her coupled with the intoxicating scent of her arousal was making him delirious with lust. Her moans grew louder as she got nearer to her climax.

His slid over to the front and he slapped her pussy hard. "Don't you dare cum." He snarled against her ear as he slapped her pussy again and again. Aurora moaned, begging for permission to cum but he denied her release, slapping her mound every time. The pussy spanking was turning her on even more, Diego could feel her mounting pleasure through their bond so he felt the exact moment her control slipped and she gave in to orgasm. Taking him along with her. He sunk his fangs in her shoulder, marking her as his. Her cunt milked his cock for it was worth and he spurted jet after jet of hot cum into her. He didn't know how long it lasted, couldn't tell where he ended and she began. The connection they shared sent them into a spiral of ecstasy.

When they came down from their high, his mate was slumped forward and would have fallen if his arms weren't holding her tightly to his chest. Her wings were trembling slightly. He smiled, and lazily licked at the healing wound that would soon be another mark that she belonged to him. 

"Can I go to the bathroom?" 

Diego had completely forgotten their audience so much he had been lost in pleasuring his mate. He looked up to see Camden grinding his teeth and holding the armrest in a death grip. Xander who was usually stoic and indifferent had beads of sweat trailing down his temples and he humped the air none too subtly. The bulges in their pants looked painful so Diego took pity on them.

"Go on both of you." he said chuckling.

"And please don't cum on my bathroom floor, do it in the sink. It'll wash away easier. Oh and don't use any of my towels. Jizz messes up Egyptian cotton." Aurora warned, her head lay back against his shoulder, eyes closed.

The two males headed out of the bedroom with confused expression. Probably, like him, wondering what on earth Egyptian cotton was. 

Aurora rubbed his arms with his semi hard cock still inside her as he suckled on her neck and played with her nipples.

"Are you... purring?" she asked her tone curious.

"Felines tend to do that." He said with a chuckle.

"Hmmmm..."

He had never held a woman after sex, never wanted to either except with Aurora. Diego mused as he lifted his mate and laid her on the bed. He looked down at her body. She was perfect. Her tattoos covered her body as if they were made up of the softest lace. Her breasts were full with brown nipples that he was going to spend hours suckling on. Her silver eyes were locked onto his cock that was covered in a mix of their cum. "I think you should clean up the mess your cunt made."

She beamed up at him. "With pleasure, Sir." She was about to climb off the bed but he shook his head.

"Lie on your back and put your head at the edge of the bed." He ordered, loving the way she obeyed submissively.

Diego picked up his jeans from where it had been thrown on the floor and slid the leather belt out of the hoops. He knelt in front of his mate, positioning his cock on his mate's swollen lips.

"While you suck my cock, I'm going to punish your disobedient little cunt for cumming without permission earlier."

"But-"

He cut her off by smacking the belt on her pussy. "I've seen how fast you heal. The sting from the belt will only last a second. Now get to sucking that cock before I decide on a more painful punishment."

That was all the warning she needed. Aurora was an impeccable cocksucker. It took only a few minutes for him to cum but he made sure to whip her pussy hard and fast enough that the sting lasted more than a second. Even so her pussy was dripping.

"Is my little slut a masochist as well as an exhibitionist?" he asked with a grin as she knelt on the bed and gyrated her hips.

"Yes, Sir." She panted.

He chuckled. "But you're not allowed to cum and if you ever do so again without permission, I'll make sure to punish you in a very unpleasant way."

"But Siiiiiiir!" she pouted adorably.

Diego laughed. Later he would realize that this was the moment he started falling in love with her. The mating bond assured a connection but love was another thing all on its own. Aurora was his prize.

Now how to win her trust? And to tell her that he wanted her to move in with him like... now. That very day. In fact he had told Xander and Camden to bring a U-haul. She would let him dominate her in bed but in no other aspects of her life and he was fine with that, actually liked the two sides of her. Liked very much the fact that she only showed her submissive side to him...

"Nyx." She said, interrupting his thoughts.

"What?"

"You asked me what I was, she whispered her eyes never leaving his. My mother is the Goddess of Night. Nyx. My dad is the first vampire, Cassius."

To be continued...



Playing For Keeps Ch. 03



"Awkward silence." Aurora pointed out and then realized that pointing it out only made it even more awkward. The fact that she just knelt there clad in feathers didn't help much either. Of course the fact that he was naked as well did some to calm her nerves.

It pissed her off that she cared so much about what he thought of her. For goddess' sake she had only known the man for all of one week and he was already turning her world upside down and now... Well now, he probably thought she was crazy or a freak-

"Calm down, angel." He said softly and just like that the panic that was rising at an alarming rate, disappeared. He sat on the bed and pulled her into his lap. Aurora didn't fail to notice the hard cock that was pressing against her inner thigh.

Diego caressed her hair softly and within moments she melted in his arms. "You don't think I'm crazy?" she finally asked.

"Why would I think that?"

"You know... I just told you-"

"You're nothing like anything I've ever seen so it would make sense you're a demigoddess. Hell I wouldn't be surprised if you were a goddess period."

She smiled at him, warmth filling her. Could this man be any more perfect? She was about to ask him as much when the door opened and the two that had watched them fuck stood there. Hard-ons magically gone.

Aurora felt like she should have blushed or something but really, she was in no way ashamed of being fucked by her mate in front of these men. She felt like it was important to Diego so she had gone along with it. Not to mention the fact that it had turned her on immensely.

"Feeling better?" she teased the bigger one who had gripped her chair so hard that there were cracks on the mahogany armrest. 

He just grunted in a way of agreement. She decided not to push since he was about seven foot and looked a lot like the Hulk. Except this dude wasn't green and he was bald, like egg head bald. Pity, she would have loved to see a live model of the Hulk.

"This is Xander. My Pride's Enforcer." Diego introduced the sulking giant.

"Pleasure." She said with a 100Watt smile pasted on her face.

"Oh my God! That is her!" the other bellowed bursting into her bedroom.

Diego's arms tightened around her and a growl escaped him making the other giant stop in his tracks. It was probably too late though. The floor boards were done for.

"It's her what, Camden?" Diego bit out and she actually felt the tight leash he had on his control.

Her hand snaked around his shoulder and softly caressed that spot right under his ear. He was purring and leaning into her touch in two minutes flat.

Man she loved that about him. The way he reacted to her, the way he took pleasure from the simplest things she had to offer. Loved how it wasn't only her that was falling head over heels.

Camden was the surfer dude type. All lean muscle and dirty blond hair, mussed up as if he had just gotten out of bed. His amber eyes reminded her of Diego's but her mate's eyes glowed with power, these ones were cast down submissively as he looked at his Alpha.

"She was one of the two women who crashed the bar... but she didn't have wings then." He complained.

"Pfffft! Me? Crash a bar? I have done no such-" and then she remembered. A couple of weeks ago her BFF, Aisling and her had gotten majorly shitfaced and had decided to steal from a dragon. Of course stealth wasn't really something they had thought about as they had crashed into almost everything in the house. The dragon had caught up to them once they had- by some miracle- managed to run away. The only problem was that they had gone into a tiger shifter owned bar and her friend was a wolf shifter so... things got pretty outta hand...

"Angel...?" Aurora didn't miss the warning tone in her mate's voice.

She winced. "That really wasn't completely my fault..."

"You broke three windows and like a dozen chairs!" Camden protested.

"I don't see what you're complaining about. I left you my number on a napkin so I could pay for the damage." She huffed.

"1800-kiss my ass. That's what the napkin said."

Aurora scrunched up her nose. She didn't remember that. 

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His mate was after all, slightly unhinged. Not completely deranged but she was on her way there. Yet Diego found that he could barely keep himself from bursting with laughter as Aurora and his Beta went at it. Xander had gotten bored of the squabble and had gone to find something to eat.

"You're boring. This argument is boring. I want to take a shower. Preferably while my mate is fucking me. So out of my bedroom." She growled at Camden who had no choice but to obey and scurry out of the room, eyes downcast.

He had expected Aurora to be dominant but no to this point. It was weird to see that much power coming off such a tiny person. It was also sexy.

Diego couldn't stop staring at her gorgeous behind. Her hips swayed from side to side as she walked to the adjoining bathroom. Her wings trailing on the hardwood floor reminded him of how different and special she was. Of course of he was being honest there really was no need for a reminder, she was The one. That was not something you needed to be reminded of. Plus his dick had been constantly hard for her. That was hard to forget. 

"Do you not like showers?" she called from the bathroom.

He frowned. "Why would I not like showers?" he asked walking into the bathroom to find her bending over the bathtub reaching for the shower head. He completely forgot about showers. His attention fixed on her ass. 

Her asscheeks were slightly parted and an image of him pounding in and out of her tightest hole hit him hard.

"Have you ever been fucked in the ass?" he asked.

She flipped her hair and almost got up but he pushed her back into a bending position.

"Stay that way." He ordered. "Answer my question."

"No, I've never really had the guts to try it."

He gave her a swat on her ass that had her yelping.

"Sir! She shrieked. I've never been fucked in the ass, Sir!"

"Good girl." He crooned rubbing the spot where he had just spanked her.

Her back arched and she pushed her ass against him. The action eerily echoing that of a cats and damn if he didn't find that sexy.

Diego slipped a finger into his mate's cunt and found that she was wet for him. He let out an approving growl as he crooked his finger rubbed against her g-spot.

Aurora whimpered and rolled her hips to the same rhythm of his fingers. Soon her whimpers turned into moans. He felt her nearing climax and pulled out his fingers and gave her swollen clit a swat.

She growled, frustrated and the sound vibrated all the way into his cock.

"I'm going to get your clit pierced." He said thoughtfully.

"I heal too fast for a piercing, Sir." 

"Don't worry about it, angel."

She whimpered in agreement and once again he was touched by the level of trust she unknowingly showed him. 

"Now about that ass, would you like me to fuck your tight hole?" he asked, softly caressing between her asscheeks. She trembled under his touch every time he pressed softly against her rosebud.

He pressed more forcefully and she yelped. "Angel, I asked you a question."

"I --I don't know, Sir." She whimpered.

Diego once again plunged his fingers into her tight cunt. However this time he plunged three fingers into her. She moaned and arched her back further, welcoming the intrusion.

"I'll give you a choice, mate. Has this tight cunt ever been fisted?"

"Yes, Sir."

Now she had him curious. "When?" 

"A few months ago. I was seeing this witch..."

A very feline smile stretched across his lips. Oh he wanted to hear more about this but he couldn't make her tell him in the position she was. Her knees were trembling; she was shaking from staying bent for so long. She had let her wings fall to the side. Holding them up must be a strain.

He pulled his fingers out from her and sucked her sweet juices off his fingers. Oh but she tasted delicious. The perfect dessert, he thought seeing as how he was planning on having her as the first course.

"Get into the tub, angel. On your back and I want your legs wide open. Hands on your tits... yes, that's it baby, play with those nipples." He encouraged as his mate settled herself in the tub. Her legs opened wide as he had ordered. Her mound was shaven cleaned, not a trace of hair. Not that he would mind even if she kept it native down there, most shifter females preferred it that way so he had gotten used to. However the intricate design of the tattoos that framed her lower abdomen was exquisite. Couple with her naked pussy, it almost drove him to the edge.

His mate was very wet, her juices were flowing down between her asscheeks and for a moment he reconsidered giving her choice and just wanted to slam into her ass and cum inside her.

Diego bit his lips in an effort to control himself and knelt by the tub and ran his fingers all over his mate's body. God she was just perfect.

Aurora looked up at him with silver eyes that were molten with need, need for him. Her pouty lips were parted as she tweaked her tits and panted.

"Here are your choices, angel. Either you get on all fours and fuck your ass until we both cum or you stay right where you are and you tell me how your witch girlfriend fisted you while I pump my fist in and out of you." 

He was still surprised by the fact that she was bi. Well at least she used to be. He had meant it when he said he wouldn't share, neither with a male nor a female. If she wanted to be fisted, it was his fist that would stretch that slutty cunt of hers. That being said, it didn't mean that he didn't enjoy hearing her past experiences with women.

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Aurora's breath hitched as he gave her her choices. Emily, the witch who had fisted her had a smaller fist than Diego's; in fact Diego's fists were probably twice as big as Emily's. However, the idea of having her cunt stretched made her so fucking wet. She wanted to feel her mate's fist pump in and out of her. She wanted to feel the pain of being stretched so much mixed with the intense pleasure of feeling full. She pinched her nipple hard and humped the air as she imagined what it would be like to be fisted by her mate.

"You better choose fast, little slut, or I'll choose for you." Diego hissed.

She smiled. She loved she could him lose control like this.

"Emily and I would 69 each other until she would get me dripping wet." She paused for effect but her mate was having none of that as emphasized with a sharp spank on her mound. She didn't blame him, his cock was pulsing. "Once I came, she would get off of me and spread my legs wide. She would start by playing with my clit and then she would put two fingers inside my pussy." Her mate fisted his cock and started stroking it, his molten amber eyes never leaving hers. It spurred her on. "She would tell me what slut I was when I started to moan and beg for more. And I fucking loved it when she called me a slut. She would push a third finger inside me and pinch my clit all the while she would tell me that she was going to stretch my cunt, that she was going to make me squirt and I was going to beg for more because I had a greedy cunt. I have a greedy cunt, don't I, Sir? My pussy can't get enough can it? I want you to fist me, Sir; I want you to stretch the fuck out of my slut cunt!"

Her mate stood and with a yell, he came all over her. She panted like a bitch in heat and humped the air desperate for anything to fuck her greedy pussy that wouldn't stop clenching and releasing. Her cunt juice pooled under her ass.

Aurora looked up as jet after jet of hot cum shot out of her mate's cock and splattered on her face, her tits, her stomach and her pussy.

He was a glorious sight to behold. His muscles were taut under his glowing bronze skin. His features were bunched up in a grimace of pleasure and his head was thrown back. He was like the personification of sex. No offense to Venus.

Aurora wasn't conscious of her fingers scooping up her mate's cum and bringing to her mouth. He looked at her the moment she sucked the cum off her fingers, savoring the salty taste of it. He knelt beside the tub and plunged two fingers into her without ceremony.

"Continue." He growled, his fangs making an appearance. His tiger was very close to the surface.

"She would add a fourth finger and fuck me really hard because she knew I liked it when she made it hurt. She would call me a painslut when my cunt juice would start flowing out of me." Diego proceeded to doing exactly that. He added two more fingers into her and pumped hard. Aurora cried out as the onslaught of pain and pleasure burst into her body, via her pussy. She looked into his eyes but found no mercy. He would be doing what he wanted and when he wanted.

"May I cum?" she squealed in between his furious thrusts.

"No not yet."

She whimpered in frustration but didn't dare do anything else. She continued on. "She would force her thumb into me. She wouldn't stop even when I screamed and told her it hurt. She would push her fist in me telling me to take it like the good painslut I was. And I loved it, Sir."

"What did you love?" he asked and before she had a chance to answer, he made a cone with his fingers and pushed them hard into her cunt. They went halfway through. Her cunt was capable of accommodating his huge fist but that wasn't stopping him. He pushed as she screamed and screamed, both pleasure and pain tearing into her so fast that she couldn't tell which was which. But fuck did she love it!

"Answer me, you little slut! Answer me!" he bellowed.

"I loved it when she raped my cunt with her fist!" Aurora shrieked and his fist pushed all the way into her. 

Diego stopped moving as she lay there panting. She knew her mate was allowing her the time to get used to the feel of his fist inside her but she just couldn't wait. She needed to cum badly. So she pushed down on his fist and groaned as she felt the fullness of her cunt.

"Cum!" he ordered and she came undone in his hands, reaching heights she had never before reached during orgasm. Stars burst all around her. By the time she came down from her orgasm induced high, she could barely stay conscious.

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His mate gave a small whimper as he slowly pulled out his fist from her pussy. Her silver eyes were glazed over as she looked up at him. From what he sensed through their mating bond she was in a haze of pleasure and fuck if he wasn't proud to have put her there!

Diego scooped up her body against his chest, softly purring as her feathers caressed his biceps. She weighed close to nothing despite the way she ate. This was also another thing he liked about her. Salad girls just didn't do it for him. Nobody but her did it for him.

He slowly got into the tub and managed to get her on her feet although she leaned against him trembling slightly and mumbled something unintelligible. 

Once again he found himself doing something he had never before done with a woman. He took tender care of Aurora. He washed every inch of her body and relished the intimacy of the act. Even more delightful was the way she would lean on him for support and the small smiles she gave every time their eyes met. 

"I think we should get out of the shower." She said pressed against his chest at some point during the hour they had spent under the hot spray of water.

"Yeah, the water's gonna get cold soon." He said as he leaned over to the knobs.

She gave a small giggle. "The water went cold like twenty minutes ago."

"No... it's still warm..."

Aurora sighed and backed away from him, he let her go and watched wide eyed as flames encased her entire body. The orange and blue flames danced across her skin and she giggled as if they tickled.

"How..." was all he managed to say, fascinated by the beautiful creature that was his mate.

"I'll explain in the car." She said and walked out of the bathroom, shaking her wings as the flames disappeared.

He frowned following her out. "Where are we going?"

She bit her lips and turned around. He wasn't going to like this.

"Angel..." he warned.

Aurora sighed. "We're going to a Barbecue..." okay that didn't sound so bad. "At Aisling's parents house. The O'Callaghan Pack house. You know them?"

How could he not? The O'Callaghan wolf Pack and the Redwood Pride had been each other's foe since...well... as far as anyone can remember. And she wanted him to go to their house. 

He was so whipped.

To be continued...



Playing For Keeps Ch. 04



Diego just stared at his mate hoping that she would tell him she's joking. He waited. Nothing. Aurora just stared at him with those silver eyes, wide and unblinking. When neither said nothing, she shook her head and turned and handed him a towel from the drawer.

He felt her disappointment as if it was his own and just like that, all the arguments he had lined up disappeared and all he wanted to do was give her everything and anything she asked of him. Hell, he'd give her the world if he could.

"I'm sorry, angel." He said taking the towel she offered.

She looked up at him as if she was studying his features and she nodded, like she was agreeing to something. "I want this to work. Because... I... Now that I have you in my life, I wanna keep you, Diego." Aurora said softly. The vulnerability in those silver eyes that had been burning with power just moments ago, almost brought him to his knees.

Diego put his arms around her and pulled her into his embrace. God she was so small and fragile. Yet underneath that fragile shell was a woman with strength that would put even Xander to shame. She burned with a fire brighter than any woman he had ever met, in his heart. He would let nothing hurt her, least of all himself. He felt his mate melt into his arms and her emotions settle into soft contentment.

It was then that he understood how hard it was for her to open up to him. She had let him dominate her during sex, which was a step into the right direction. But this was something more. He could sense that the wolf pack meant a lot to her, it was like the way he felt about his Pride.

"If you really want to go then... I guess I could tolerate the nasty wet dog smell." He said and immediately felt her happiness at his acceptance. It rushed through him like a wave of pleasure that had him grinning from ear to ear.

Aurora smiled up at him, revealing dazzling white teeth. "You're gonna love it!"

Diego doubted that but as long as it made her happy...

They had dressed quickly and he had sent Camden and Xander back to the Pride house with the U-haul. He didn't think she was ready to move in with him and he felt it best not to pressure her. Besides they had time to work these things out at a slow pace. He didn't want to ruin anything by going too fast.

Aurora hummed along to Nickelback's "This is how you remind me" as they drove to the O'Callaghan barbecue. They had taken her car. A black Jeep Wrangler with customized seats to fit her wings. The dark feathered limbs weren't visible neither were her tattoos. Her glamour was on. However it did nothing to diminish her beauty. It seemed to him that beauty pulsed from his mate.

"You're staring." She said not taking her eyes off the road but smiling nonetheless.

"Can't I stare at my beautiful mate?"

"Why of course you can." Her tone held a touch of mischief.

Hmmm ... it seemed his mate wanted to play.

Diego rested his hand on her thigh and slowly pushed up the hem of the skirt he had made her wear.

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A sound in between a contented sigh and a moan escaped Aurora. She hadn't worn a dress in almost a decade. She didn't like them because they weren't made for her type of fun. But as Diego softly caressed her thigh back and forth she reconsidered her views on dresses. His touch was tenderness and sexual hunger mixed in one gorgeous tiger shifter. His hands were calloused but she delighted in the contrast between her soft skin and his rough hands. It made her feel soft and ladylike, not that she had ever been interested in having those two qualities but then again, everything felt different with Diego. Hell at this point she believed he could do anything and it would still feel good.

His hand traveled up her thigh and to her naked pussy. She wasn't wearing any underwear because her mate had decided he didn't want any hindrance when he wanted access to her cunt.

"Diego..." she whispered. Her voice trembled as she struggled to focus on the road. Good thing the O'Callaghan Pack house was way out of the city. There weren't many cars around the rural area.

"Yes, mate?" he said, blinking those amber eyes innocently as if he didn't have his hand up her skirt. The perv.

"I'm driving." She gritted out between clenched teeth.

"And I'm enjoying my mate's cunt." He said casually as his finger stroked her throbbing clit softly. It was but a graze but she jerked in her seat, momentarily losing control of the wheel.

Diego barked out a laugh that turned into a very feline smile when she glared at him. "How far to the Wolves' house?"

"Thirty minutes or so." She answered hesitantly, not knowing what he was up to but sure it was no good.

"I'll make you a deal." He announced, his fingers tracing patterns on her mound.

Aurora stayed quiet. She was so horny that she doubted she could talk and drive all at the same time.

Diego was having none of that. He gave her dripping pussy a sharp spank that resonated in the car. The pinpricks of pain and pleasure almost made her cum right then and there but she bit her lips and pushed back the wave of pleasure currently assaulting every nerve ending in her body. She didn't want to cum without his permission. She was even starting to think that she wasn't able to cum without his permission.

"What's the deal, Sir?" she asked, slipping into the submissive role that was becoming second nature to her.

"You'll like it, angel. If you can drive for the next five minutes without cumming while I play with your cunt, we'll pull over and I'll eat your sweet pussy and make you cum until you can't cum anymore."

Okay that sounded really good. She had discovered last night as he sucked and licked every inch of her body that his tongue had a raspy feel to it. Like a cat. It drove her insane. She could only imagine how good it would feel to have that against her clit but then... "And if I do cum while you play with my pussy?"

He grinned; clearly this was the part he had been waiting for. "We'll still pull over and you'll still get to cum but I'll be whipping your clit with my belt, not eating you out."

Aurora blinked. Her heart hammered against her ribcage as she imagined both scenarios. Her cunt juice dripped out between her pussy lips and soaked the leather seats.

"Hmmm... my slut's getting horny. So I take it you accept the challenge?"

She nodded slowly. How hard could it be? Only five minutes, right? She could control herself... and then Diego commenced his assault on her poor cunt.

His finger dived back into her and her back arched, her foot pressing on the gas. She managed to regain control of herself as well as the car. He let her settle and circled her already throbbing clit with his talented. Aurora groaned, the wave of pleasure that was brought on by his fingers coupled with his pleasure that she felt through their bond driving her wild. By some miracle she managed to still stay in control of her body that wanted nothing more to lose itself in the pleasure her mate was offering. However, she couldn't help panting he shoved two fingers into her sopping hole. She groaned, not giving a flying fuck if it made her sound like a greedy slut. Diego worked his fingers into her methodically, making sure every one of her sweet spot. He caressed her vaginal walls slowly yet her nerve endings were ablaze with awareness.

Aurora ground her pussy against his fingers; she moaned and groaned helplessly, determined not to cum before the five minutes. Her knuckles were bone white as she gripped onto the wheel, holding on for dear life. All the while, her pussy juices flowed out making squelching sounds as his wicked fingers pumped in and out of her and her pussy clenched and unclenched seeking for more.

A low animal-like growl tore through the car. Aurora turned towards her mate. Diego's eyes had gone completely tiger. The amber irises were glowing with sexual hunger and his pupils were slitted. His eyes watched her with the attention a predator gave its prey before sinking its teeth into it. His fangs were out, adding to the feral expression. She moaned as she saw his mate in such an aroused state. It added to the hailstorm that was rising with each passing second. "How long?" she managed to choke out as she fought her body that so desperately wanted to give in and cum.

"Three minutes." He growled, his voice taking that animal quality. "God you're scent is driving me insane!"

Aurora nodded frantically. He was the one that was driving her insane!

She wrenched her gaze from Diego and tried --unsuccessfully- to fix her attention on the road. That was when he let out another growl and pressed his thumb against her swollen clit. He rubbed the bundle of nerves simultaneously with her g-spot.

She cried out. She couldn't help it. The last comprehensible thought she had was to wrench the wheel to the side and to slam on the brakes, before her body gave in to the pleasure it had been denied. Her body jerked as a series of spasms wrecked through her. Her cunt clenched, gripping his fingers inside her as she came, her body assaulted by wave after wave of pleasure. She thought she heard glass breaking but she didn't care. Aurora was lost in a glorious orgasm that took her out of this world and into paradise.

She didn't know how much time had passed by the time she came down from her climax. She blinked a couple of times to clear the tweedy birds that were flying around her head. Her head lolled to the side and she looked at her mate. His lips stretched in a very male smile. She felt his smugness through their bond as her body jerked from the aftershocks of her orgasm.

"You held on for four minutes." He said his smile stretching even wider revealing sharp fangs. Unlike her fangs, which were basically elongated sharp canines, all of his teeth were long and sharp like a tiger's. "I get to spank your clit."

"But I just came, Sir. My clit is sensitive." She said with a pout. Aurora felt like she needed to put up some semblance of refusal even if the very thought of having her clit spanked had her juices dripping.

"Then you'll get a thorough clit spanking, won't you angel?" he winked. He raised his hand tucked a stray lock of hair behind her ear. Aurora found the gesture sweet. The tenderness of the act was so at odds with the wild orgasm he just gave her and that somehow made it even more... caring. When she looked into his eyes, it wasn't just sexual hunger she saw, it was also --dare she even think it?- love. Maybe it was too soon to tell but a part of her was sure. She was scared to listen to that part of her. She had seen countless couples destroyed by "love", she didn't want to be one of those people whose hearts broke because of unrequited love.

Aurora pushed all of those thoughts to the back of her mind, she wanted to focus on the here and now. Her fears and insecurities could wait for a later time to be dealt with. For now, all she wanted to do was enjoy her beautiful mate.

She smiled. "I'm starting to think you're a sadist."

Diego raised an eyebrow at her. "And you're a masochist so we're a perfect match."

She blushed! Actually freakin' blushed! She couldn't remember the last time a guy had made her blush. He leaned and kissed her cheek.

"You're beautiful." He whispered.

She smiled and trailed a finger down his jaw. She leaned in to kiss and noticed for the first time since her orgasm that her right wing had broken out her backseat window. So that was what had been broken, she thought and turned around slowly maneuvering her wing out of the broken window. It was easier said than done because her wings were invisible because of her glamour. She grunted as one of her feathers caught on a shard of glass and was pulled out. It felt the same as having a hair strand pulled out. The moment the feather left her wing, it became visible.

Diego chuckled, a low rumble that echoed in the part of her soul she shared with him. However she ignored it and glared at him.

"Aren't you going to help me?" she demanded.

He raised an eyebrow at her. "Because you're in a frustrating experience, I'll let that one slide. If it happens again I'll gag that dirty mouth of yours so your screams won't be heard when I whip your ass red." 

She narrowed her eyes and thought of reminding him that she healed too fast to have her ass whipped red but she thought better of it and instead said "Please, Sir, would you help me get my wing out?"

He smiled. "That's better, angel."

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Getting Aurora's wing out took more time than it should have because a) he couldn't see her wing, only feel them and b) his cock was so hard that he couldn't think straight, he had to blink a few times to get rid of the images he kept having about fucking her. On all fours, her round ass offered up to him. Aurora bent over, holding her ankles, her pussy peaking at him from between her thighs... It was a miracle that he had managed to get her wing out at all.

"I can take care of that for you." she said with a sultry smile, eyeing the bulge in his jeans.

And that was exactly what he wanted her to do. Right after he made good on his promise to spank her clit.

Diego looked around him; they were in the middle of nowhere so he was sure no one would see them...

"Get in the back and open your legs wide. Now!" he growled when he saw hesitation cross her features.

She immediately jumped into the backseat and he followed. He looked down at his mate. Her legs wide open, her cunt was already wet, the scent of her arousal making his yowl with sexual hunger. Her breasts were rising up and down as she breathed heavily. Looks like his angel wanted a clit spanking after all. Well he wasn't about to make her wait any longer.

He undid his belt buckle and made a loop with it, leaving about six inches out of the loop.

"Open your pussy lips for me." He ordered and she complied with shaking hands.

Diego moaned and started spanking her swollen clit, hard. He didn't want her healing and missing out on her spanking. He landed spank after spank on her clit and she cried out with each one. At first she cried out with pain but the cries soon turned to moans and she was humping the air.

He kept on spanking her and she took it all and begging her. He entered a place where only he and his mate existed. A state of mind where he would use his mate again and again and she took all he had to give and she repaid in kind.

In moments, he felt his Aurora cumming. She trashed and jerked, screaming out his name. His eyes never left her body and thank god because the moment he stopped spanking her clit, her cunt spasmed and she squirted. A stream of her cunt juice shot out of her. In the next moment he had his face buried in her pussy, the scent of her pussy driving him wild. He devoured her cunt as she gyrated her hips against him. Fuck but she tasted amazing! Sweet ... so fucking sweet. He had to wrench himself from her cunt as he felt her getting close to orgasm.

She let out a growl that sounded more animal than human and shot up. Her silver hair was a mess, her eyes glowing with barely restrained power and her fangs were fully extended. 

Their eyes met and he let his tiger come to the surface. Power seemed to seep out from every part of her, her skin even glowed with. And in that moment he realized what a powerful being she was. Way more powerful than him, than anyone he'd ever met. Her power was a silver light that flowed into him via their mating bond and encased all his being. Yet, something amazing happened. She lowered her eyes and bared her neck to him in submission. Both man and tiger were elated with the realization that she was giving herself to him. Diego was not going to do any less for her.

In perfect synchronization their bodies met in a clash that had the car rocking. His hands went around his mate's body and held her against him. Their lips devoured one another's. Fangs ripped through flesh, leaving trails of blood with healed wounds. She sucked and licked at all of it, groaning. His claws dug into the tender flesh on her ass, marking her as his. Aurora arched against him, her head thrown back and lips parted in a silent moan. He trailed kisses down her jaw, nipped and sucked her neck.

"I need you." he groaned as -- not only his cock- but every part of him yearned for his mate. 

She nodded understanding both meanings and turned around. She managed to get on all fours in the limited space they had, her ass, which now had crescent shaped wounds that were healing but would leave scars, rubbed against his cock. Marks left by mates on each other always left scars, no matter how fast the person healed. It was a symbol of who the person belonged to. And Aurora belonged to him. He wanted the whole world to know that she was his and would mark her every chance he got. In turn he would wear the marks she gave him with pride. But right now... right now, he needed to fuck her.

Diego took his cock out and plunged into her without ceremony. They both made animalistic sounds as he pumped his cock in and out of her. He couldn't hold out long so much she drove him crazy with ecstasy. He leaned against her back, feeling her wings against his shoulder. His claws once again dug into her hips. Her dress had a low back that allowed her wings freedom; he put it to good use as he sank into the sweet spot where her wings grew out her back. The moment her sweet blood filled his mouth she cried out as her pussy milked his cock. He couldn't hold out any longer, he shot load after load into her, his hips jerking uncontrollably. 

"That's it... that's it... right there.... Yes Diego... oh yes. Fuck I love you." she crooned.

The moment they both realized what she had just said, they both froze...

To be continued... 



Playing For Keeps Ch. 05



For what seemed like an eternity but was probably just a few seconds in reality, everything froze and Aurora was acutely aware of everything around her; Diego softening inside her, the wind rustling outside, the birds chirping annoyingly... But as suddenly as it had come, everything went into fast forward mode and suddenly a wave of shock crashed into her. It was not her own. She felt Diego's shock as sharply as if it were her own.

In answer to his shock, her thoughts went into turmoil. Was he shocked because it was too fast? Because he didn't feel the same way? Because it was just about the sex for him? Had she misread the signs? She was too afraid to look for an answer to anyone of those question so, as if it were a protective instinct, a wall slammed down, cutting off her connection with Diego. It wasn't gone, just blocked.

Aurora heard him gasp and felt him recoil as if he had been punched. When she finally gathered up the strength to turn around and look at him, all she saw was confusion and hurt in those flaming amber eyes.

She didn't try to make sense of it. She kicked open the back door to her Jeep Wrangler and let her wings take air...

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Aurora grunted and rubbed at her temples trying to ease the pounding migraine that had taken up permanent residence in her skull. 

"You could just go to him." Aisling suggested for the umpteenth time making Aurora want to bash her head with something.

The demigoddess had flown for the rest of the day, wondering around aimlessly, her thoughts bouncing in her skull. Until she had decided she needed some comfort food and headed for the O'Callaghan Pack house hoping there would be some leftovers from the Barbecue. 

She had noticed that Diego had "knocked" at the figurative door between them but when she refused to answer he started pounding, hence the infernal migraine. She could feel wisps of his emotions sliding out between the wall that was starting to crack. Hurt, panic and worry. She groaned.

"I told him I loved him and he was shocked, Ash, not ecstatic or happy or even smug for that matter! He was shocked! You get shocked when something you hadn't expected to happen happens and that isn't a good thing!" Aurora ranted.

"Aurora, that's what happens when you tell someone you love them, dearie. It takes a few seconds for it to register and you ran without even giving him that chance." Stephanie O'Callaghan's voice was a low staccato that resonated with power. The woman was five foot four with graying raven hair that added to her understated grace. Though Aurora was way older than her she always found it wise to heed the Alpha She-wolf's council. Her daughter Aisling was a good listener yet not very good with advice but Aurora loved her nonetheless.

Back to the here and now, all three women sat around the kitchen table as the men yelled profanities at the football game that was on in the living room flat screen. 

Aurora slumped in her chair and buried her face in her hands.

"What if that's not it? What if he doesn't feel the same way?" Aurora whispered more to herself than to the two females. It was her biggest fear. She had never been rejected because she had never allowed herself to be put in that position but now that she had things were way complicated. It pissed her off to no end that this male had her falling head over heels for him and she could do nothing to stop him.

"My dear girl, I never thought you were a coward. Plus he's only a cat if the bastard dared to hurt you; you know we'd gut him." Stephanie said this with a warm smile. Aurora imagined this was the expression Hannibal Lecktar had as he talked about his victims but she was grateful to have the wolves behind her. It made her feel safe and cherished.

Aurora nodded. "How am I gonna find him?"

"Your mating bond. Duh." Aisling said.

She nodded again and just as she was about to get up a roar echoed around them. No wolf could have made that sound, wolves howl they don't growl. But she knew exactly from who that roar had come from. 

"Guess like he found you instead." She heard Aisling say as her feet carried her out through the spacious living room and out front to the porch.

A sound in between a gasp and a choke escaped her lips at the sight of Diego. If that really was Diego.

"You best be getting outta here, lad. You're clearly outnumbered and me boys are achin' to sink their fangs in a tiger. Ya hear?" Mr. O'Callaghan was saying but she didn't pay the man any mind. Her eyes were glued onto her mate.

His amber eyes had gone completely feral. His fangs were fully extended and dug into his lower lip, making a trail of blood flood from the corners of his lips. His face was set in a grimace that had her glimpsing his cat. His clothes were ripped in some place and barely hanging on to his body. He was trembling so hard she thought he was going to fall from the force of the tremors.

Those wild eyes locked onto her and she knew it was Diego the tiger that was in charge. She took a hesitant step back and he leapt for her.

Faster than her eyes could track, five wolves had leapt to intercept him.

Snarls and growls ripped through the silence of the clearing as fur flew and flashes of fangs and claws came and went. The moment Diego roared, all the other sounds were rendered futile. The wall that was blocking their bond crumbled as she saw the four foot high tiger and she was assaulted by the wrath of his emotions. Wave after wave of potent emotions slammed into her, leaving her breathless.

"Enough!" she yelled, loosening the tight leash she usually had on her powers. Her voice echoed around them.

The wolves slowly leapt away from the tiger but not before they snarled warnings at him. In the next few seconds, the wolves cleared out and only her and her tiger remained in the clearing. 

Aurora walked the few feet that remained between them and knelt infront of her mate. A sound of pure agony ripped out of the beautiful animal tearing into her very soul.

Hot tears pooled in her eyes and fell down her cheeks and she buried her face into the tiger's neck. Saying "sorry, sorry, sorry" as if it were a mantra that would make everything okay. She rocked back and forth using her arms that were locked around the tiger's neck like an anchor holding her to earth. By the time she finally managed to differentiate which feelings were hers and which were his and managed to deal with the miasma of emotions, it was a man's arms that held her to his warm naked body. 

She still wouldn't pull away from his neck. She was too afraid to see the hurt or worse, contempt in his eyes. She had after all deserved it. Even when he tried to pry her away she refused, holding on for dear life. She. Would. Not. Let. Him. Go. 

"Enough of this. You need to trust me." Although the words were hard, his voice was soft.

She yielded and reluctantly loosened her grip and sat back with her ass on her heels and her wings fanning out on the grass.

She only then realized as she looked at the blurry green of the grass that she was still crying.

"Look at me." He said softly. It was hard to paste together the feral man on the brink of losing it and this one who was all softness and compassion.

Aurora slowly raised her eyes to his, her heart beating hard against her ribcage. She wanted to tell him how sorry she was, she wanted to beg her forgiveness but as she looked into her mate's eyes it seemed as if there was nothing to say. She felt his love for her, felt how strong it was. It shined with a golden pulsing light between their souls. She reveled in it. She wanted to sing, she wanted to rub herself all over him.

"You will never leave me again." though the words were that of an order, they came out as a plea.

"Never." She promised and plastered her mouth to his with a hungry moan. Their kiss was a heated one that burned all the to her cunt and judging from his rock hard that poked at her pelvis, it burned all the way to his cock too.

"Get on all fours." He growled and bit her earlobe making her gasp.

"But the wolves-"

"They will not come out or look. Now do as I say." She heard the underlying threat in his voice and decided not to test him. She complied, submitting to her mate because she knew he needed this. Needed reassurance that everything was alright between them. Fuck if she didn't need it as well.

Aurora was already wet for him so when he plunged his rock hard cock into her cunt, she was already prepared. But it didn't stop her from crying out at the sensation of being so full. His dick pistoned in and out of her, hitting her g-spot every time. Her breath huffed out of her every time his body slammed into hers.

She gasped as his claws dug into her hips but welcomed the pain of his marking. She felt her mate's body leaning into hers, his muscled chest rubbing against her wings making them flutter excitedly. 

Her cunt clenched around Diego's dick like a vise, desperate to hold him inside her and never let go. Her climax rose within her making her pant like a wanton slut. Which at that instant she was. Aurora was so caught up in a world that was made up of only her and Diego and the swirling waves of ecstasy that encased them.

"Cum for me, angel." He ordered his voice more animal than man.

She came and he joined a split second later he joined her, shooting spurts after spurts of hot cum inside her womb. Aurora moaned, groaned, and begged for more. More of him because goddess, help her but she couldn't have enough of him. If she could crawl up underneath his skin and live there she would, creepy as that sounded...

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It had taken considerable effort to think logically and not rip everyone's throat out. After he'd fucked his mate he'd calmed down some but then the wolves had come out and he had lost it all over again. It was more the fact that they had all run to her, worried as if he would actually hurt Aurora that had pissed him off more than anything. 

Of course before there could be any throat ripping going on, Aurora had snapped her fingers and him and the four wolves that attacked him were floating in the air.

"I will not stand for this bullshit. You will not act like brainless morons on my account. Is that clear?" she had demanded and both he and the wolves had been forced to submit.

Back to the present they were in a borrowed truck from the wolves. One look from Aurora had kept him from saying anything about borrowing from dogs. 

She stared out the window as he drove. She was quiet, pensive but he felt her calmness so he didn't worry much. No like when she had flown away and slammed that godforsaken wall between them. God, he'd never been so scared. Scared of losing her. It didn't matter if they had only known each other for a few days, they belonged together. She completed him and when she ran away because she had thought he was rejecting her, it tore him to pieces. Fuck... what if he hadn't found her? What if she had rejected him? His cat would have taken over and Diego the man would no longer exist for she was the only thing that held him down to reality, keeping both man and cat in check.

Diego felt her hand grasp his. He turned to look at her and found her silver eyes glowing in the dark with their own ethereal light. Warmth and loved filled them as she looked at and the turmoil that had been rising in him calmed and dissipated. 

"I'm sorry." She said. Such simple words, yet they were suffused with sincerity, it touched him.

He squeezed her hand to reassure her. "I know, angel. I know."

"Why do you call me angel?" she asked suddenly. "Is it 'cuz of the wings?" she gestured to her wings that were cramped against the seat.

He chuckled. "No. I call you angel because that's what you are to me. You're my angel, you're my guardian angel."

Aurora smiled at him. "Angels aren't the nicest bunch. Always going on about smiting people."

He frowned. "You know angels? They're real?"

"Yeah. You get to meet all types when you live at my mom's court."

"Why did you leave?"

She took so long in answering that he thought she wouldn't answer when she said "I ran away actually. I didn't have the guts to tell my parents I was leaving so when I finally grew strong enough to teleport between realms, I did it and I came here."

"Why? Was your family that bad?" he asked yearning to know more about his mate's past. 

"No, it's nothing like that. I love them and they love me. They're eccentric and borderline alcoholics but they're not the reason I ran away. It was because I didn't want to take responsibility for anything but myself. It seems childish, I know, but when you're daughter to the first vampire and a goddess, there are certain things that are expected of you. And I didn't want to spend my life in a designated post, like the rest of my family. I wanted to make my own choices and I have never regretted that."

Diego nodded. "I suppose sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do."

"Yeah but that's not to say that you might lose the things you left behind." Her voice held a sad not he didn't like.

"What did you lose?" he made himself ask.

She breathed in hard and turned to him before answering. "I lost my best friend. Chiron and I grew up together, we were the best of friends and when I p and left without telling him... We talk and all but he has never truly forgiven me."

"I'm sorry." He felt her pain at the loss and wished he could offer her anything but apologetic words.

Aurora smiled at him. "It's not your fault. I made up with the rest of my family a while back so everything turned out good. Now, I would know of your family."

"My father died when I was a cub so I never really knew him. My mother was Pride Alpha and raised all five of us until I became strong enough to be Alpha."

"Five of you?"

"Me and my four sisters. Eva, Ruth, Jennifer and Nadia."

Her eyebrows shot up. "And they're all women. Oh joy. They'll eat me alive, won't they?"

Diego laughed as his mate's uneasiness seeped through their bond. He had to admit his baby sisters were quite scary at times but they'd love Aurora. They couldn't not love her. She was amazing.

"They'll love you. Don't you have any siblings?"

"Three brothers. Well half brothers. Thanatos, Death. Hypnos, Sleep. And Charon, Ferryman of the Underworld."

He opened his mouth to say something, anything but no words would come out. What did you say to that? 

By the time they had gotten to the city it was past midnight.

"Where we going?" his mate asked.

"My apartment."

"Why? My flat is just around the corner-"

"Because I'm going to punish you and the implements I need are in my apartment."

Diego studied her. She gulped and before her emotions swirled out of control she managed to calm herself. Aurora slowly nodded and raised her silver eyes to meet his.

She looked so vulnerable in that moment he almost reconsidered punishing her. Almost. But then he realized that they both needed this. They had agreed to a Dom/sub relationship when it came to sex and leaving him like she had was not a transgression he would let slip without severe punishment. He was glad to see that she so easily submitted to him, like she had in that clearing. What made it even more precious was the fact that she was way more powerful than him, yet she yielded to him.

Diego pulled up in front of the loft that he'd purchased a few years ago but rarely stayed in. Pride business kept him busy enough that he scarcely had time for himself. Nevertheless he had bought this place as a hideout and a haven for his BDSM fetishes. He had never actually brought a woman here because, in all honesty there had never been a woman who he had been able to trust to that degree.

He got out of the truck and went to help Aurora climb out of the truck. She smiled at him nervously as she took the hand he offered. She didn't bother putting up the glamour seeing as how there was no one on the streets at this time. He preferred her like this. Ho loved seeing the tattoos and the wings that added to her uniqueness.

Diego opened the loft and led her inside. He gave her arm a soft tug to stop her from going in further. She turned to him questioningly.

"Once we go upstairs, your punishment will begin and I won't stop until it's done no matter how much you beg. Is that clear, angel?" 

She bit her lips and when her eyes met there was complete trust etched in their silvery depths. "Yes, Sir."

Diego took her upstairs. She gave a small gasp as she saw his "implements". The whole place looked like something out of BDSM fantasy. And it was. It was his fantasy and he couldn't imagine anybody besides his mate to share it with. He pulled her back when she would explore.

"Whenever we're here you will not cover your body from me."

"Yes, Sir." She whispered and slid out of the dress.

This time he let her walk about the place. She traced the wood lines on the St. Andrews Cross that sat in the middle of the spacious place. She then went to look at the assortment of canes and whips that hung from hooks on the wall. 

"Are you going to use these on me?"

"There is no point in whipping you. You heal too fast for the effects to really take place. I'd use them when we play but not for punishment." He had walked closer as he talked so he was now at her back, his cock poking at her ass. "For punishment, I'll use something with a lasting effect, angel."

"Like what, Sir?"

"Come with me."

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When Diego showed her what he meant to punish her wit, Aurora could only stare wide eyed. Anticipation and fear warred within her as she looked at the two fucking machines that were hooked up to what looked like an examination table. She had never needed to see a gynecologist and had never planned to but she had seen porn flicks that used them as an accessory and she had to admit she found it highly arousing. The two fucking machines, one right below the stirrups with a slim yet long dildo pointing upwards. The other machine had a dildo, a little smaller than her arm in size, pointed sideways. It wasn't rocket science to figure out what it was for but she had a hard time imagining this as a punishment.

Her cunt was already dripping as she imagined being fucked by those machines, her nipples grew painfully erect and she couldn't stop her fingers from trailing up and tweaking them.

Diego slapped at her hand and she immediately down to her sides.

"I don't recall giving you permission to touch yourself."

"You haven't, Sir." She said meekly, lowering her eyes in submission.

"Get on that table." He ordered and she complied immediately not wanting to anger her mate.

Aurora hopped on to the examination table and lay back, squirming for a few moments to get her wings positioned comfortably. Her mate lifted her legs and put them on the stirrups, opening her wide. The cool air sweeping against her dripping, throbbing cunt made her shiver with need.

"I'm going to restrain you but you could break out of the bonds if you chose." He said as he secured leather bonds around her thighs, her lower abdomen, her breast and her hands above her head. She tested the bonds and found them to be string but if she could burn them off if she chose. But even if she couldn't she trusted her mate. He wouldn't hurt her.

Diego came to stand in between her widely spread legs. He looked down at her body, his amber eyes blazing in hunger. She relished in this sincerest form of flattery. His fingers played over her body, she wanted to squirm but her bonds prevented her from doing so. 

She whimpered when his fingers played with her throbbing pussy.

"I'm going to fuck your ass, angel. If you cum while I do so, I'll make you wear a chastity belt for the next few days. After I fuck your ass, whether you cum or not, I'll let the fucking machines have your holes for an hour." 




Playing For Keeps Ch. 05



She blinked but thought better than to argue. It didn't seem like such a harsh punishment. Besides she had never been fucked in the ass and doubted she could cum from it.

Diego came back with a bottle of lube in his hands. He smeared her ass with the cold gooey stuff between her spread ass cheeks. Wherever his fingers touched her, the spot tingled and made little groan build up in her chest. When his finger pushed against her sphincter, she jerked in her bonds.

"Relax, angel. Open up to me." He crooned and she let herself get lost in the warm voice of her mate.

Once again he pushed a finger to her anus but this time it slipped in slowly, inch by inch. Her ass swallowed his finger. She moaned. Her breath had turned shallow and beads of sweat were trailing down her temple and soaking her hair. Her cunt was clenching on empty air, looking for something to fuck it. Her ass was on fire as her mate added a second finger and pumped, slowly at first, but picked up speed as he went along. Aurora felt like a bitch in heat as she panted while being fingered in the ass.

It went on for a while until she felt the stirrings of an orgasm close by and he pulled out immediately. She snarled at him and he growled back. Amber eyes flashed at her, fangs extended. She whimpered and bared her neck in submission to her mate, who was more cat than man at that moment. His eyes still locked on her, Diego positioned his dick and slammed into her ass in one stroke. Aurora cried out as a flash of white hot pain tore through her body. In the next moment it was replaced with intense pleasure as her body healed from being stretched open so violently by her mate's huge cock. He waited a second to let her get accustomed to his girth and then started ramming himself into her already abused ass.

Soon they were both panting and groaning. The sound of skin smacking against skin echoing around them. Her fangs slid out of her gums and all she could think about was sinking them in her mate's neck to mark him so that the world would know he belonged to her. Just as his marks showed she belonged to him.

As if he could sense what she craved, he leaned down, pressing himself further into her ass, bringing her dangerously close to the orgasm she was trying to avoid. A chastity belt was not something she wanted to experience. It was probably a bad idea to taste his blood but the vampire in her was snarling in her head. It had been a while since she fed and there was no one better than Diego she wanted to feed from. 

The moment he was close enough, she sank her fangs into him... and oh fuck! Oh fuck! Oh fuck! Fuck! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! The second his blood hit her tongue, she went wild. The sweet taste of it was unlike any she had ever tasted. His blood was a mixture of male power and sweet spices that drove her and threw off the edge. Her screams were muffled in his neck as she sucked at his blood. She growled at him when he ripped away from her. She ripped the bonds and locked her arms around his neck. 

"Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine!" she snarled in rhythm with his cock in her ass. She reveled in the violent way her mate fucked her. She was no fragile maid, she liked it hard. Her vampire craved the pain. 

Aurora howled as his claws dug into her sides, simultaneously with his fangs sinking into her left breast. Diego shot his load inside of her ass with a roar that shook the room. She screamed underneath him as another orgasm took her. She was flying, flashes of gold and silver blinding her.

She had no idea how long it lasted, all she knew was that when she came down from her orgasm induced high, her body gave out and she gave in to the exhaustion.

So much for not cumming from getting fucked in the ass.

The last thing she heard before giving into the darkness was her mate's voice. "Sleep, angel. I hope you enjoyed that because you're not going to be allowed to cum for a long time, not even when you're going to be fucked by the fucking machines."

To be continued...



Playing For Keeps Ch. 06



For Quentin...

Diego collapsed in the overstuffed chair that sat not far from the examination table where Aurora lay unconscious.

She was beauty and sex personified. Especially with her legs sprawled open wide by the stirrups. He had a nice view of her shaved cunt that was swollen and wet. The scent of her pussy juice was driving him wild but he needed to put a lid on his libido. At least for a little while. The next hour was going to be about teaching his mate a lesson.

Diego took a deep breath to calm his nerves and insatiable -at least where Aurora was concerned- cock. 

He got up and started fixing the bonds Aurora had ripped off. A smile played over his lips as he remembered how his mate had marked him. The small wound where she'd sunk her fangs into him throbbed at the same pace with his cock and more importantly, his heart.

The object of his love stirred as he finished with the last of the bonds on her thighs. Her lids fluttered open to show silver eyes that glowed. A lazy smile stretched across her lips, showing fangs that had yet to retract. Diego leaned down and caressed his lips to hers. He moaned at how good she tasted. 

"Am I still being punished?" She asked looking up at him. He swept a stray hair away from her face. "Yes, angel, you're still being punished." She gave a heavy sigh but he didn't miss the heat in those silver eyes. For a moment, all he wanted to do was just plunge his cock into her and revel in the warmth and sweetness that was his mate. He bit his lips in an effort to get some control over his raging hard-on. Fuck, the woman was turning him into a nympho. 

Diego kissed her mound, which earned him a delicious yelp from Aurora. He set up the machine so that each dildo was positioned at the enterance of her holes. Her cunt was already dripping by the time Diego sat back on the chair to enjoy the show. 

His tiger bristled at seeing something that was not a part of him about to enter her. However the man in him fully understood the game he was playing with their mate and was unbelivably aroused by it.

"Are you ready,angel?" He asked. "Bring it on!" Though her words were full of bravado, he didn't miss the subtle quiver in her voice.

With a grin, Diego turned the fucking machines on. Aurora let out a loud moan that was one of many to come. He fisted his cock and stroked up and down as he enjoyed the show. His mate was flailing against her bonds, her eyes shut tight and her skin glowed with a thin sheen of sweat. Her breathing was ragged and what few words she managed to sputter out were incomprehensible.

Aurora felt like her body was set on fire. She was losing her fucking mind! She rather he beat her than this. Actually she prefered anything to the clawing ache that had taken up permanent residance in her cunt and was slowly and painfully clawing at the rest of her body. 

After a long time that seemed to stretch into eternity, the godforsaken machines had stopped pummeling her holes that clenched and unclenched around the dildos.

Aurora had to bite her lips as her body trembled uncontrollably. She whimpered, wanting to get into a fetal position or any position that would ease the aching need inside her. 

Aurora had never been deprived of orgasm or had been made to beg. Had it been anyone else besides Diego tormenting her like this, she would have ripped into them with her bare hands. But it *was* Diego and as odd as it was for her to come to grips with it, she understood why her mate was punishing her. That being said, it didn't mean that she didn't want to lash out at him. Her body was just too worn out for a confrontation.

"Sshhh, angel. Don't cry. It's okay, baby." She had been so lost in her thoughts that she hadn't noticed him untying her bonds and caressing her sweat soaked hair out of her eyes. Now that she was looking up into his amber eyes that held deep concern, she broke down. She didn't know what caused her tears to flow hot down her cheeks. All she knew, as she wrapped her arms around his neck and stuck her face in the crook of his neck, was that she needed him. Not just sexually but on every level imaginable. 

Diego's heart beat hard against his ribcage as held his mate in his arms. What had he done? Dread filled him. Her sobs cut him to the soul.

"I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry..." he chanted like a mantra that would make everything alright and make her stop crying. 

Aurora sniffed and looked up at him. He hated seeing her beautiful ethereal eyes rimmed with tears that fell down her flushed cheeks. 

"Why are you apologizing, Sir?" She blinked. He opened his mouth to respond then snapped it closed. He looked at her incredulously. How could he not apologize after hearing those heart wrenching sobs? Diego had known she was slightly unhinged but now she was just creeping him out. "You were crying..." he didn't know how to finish that sentence, confused as he was.

She shrugged her tiny shoulders making her primairies caress his neck. "Been a while since I cried. I'm not sad or anything. It was kinda liberating in an odd sort of way..."she said pensively.

Diego frowned. "I didn't hurt you?" He asked reluctantly, searching her expression for any sign that she was in pain. There were none.

"Hardly... but you know... I would really like to cum now." She said and wiped the tears from her face. She blinked innocently and her lower lip was pulled out in an adorable pout. If it weren't for the mischievous gleam in her eyes, he would've obliged her. Instead he tapped his index on the tip of her nose. "No, you're not going to cum." She sighed as if she had been forced to accept a dreadful fate. "Are you going to make me wear a chastity belt?" She whispered, peeking up at him from underneath her lashes.

"Not now, for now we need to get some shut eye." He said and stood up with her in his arms. As much as the woman ate, she weighed nothing. 

He walked into the bedroom and laid hair on the soft white duvet of the kingsized bed. Aurora had already fallen asleep.

Diego couldn't help but notice how fragile she looked. Her cheeks were soft just like every other part of her. Her hair was a tangled mess at the crown of her head but he couldn't help but be fascinated by her. With her tattoos that covered every surface of her exotic olive toned skin and dark wings sprawled carelessly underneath her, she looked goddamned perfect! With a smile playing on his lips he joined her. He moved her wing so that he wouldn't crush it under his weight. The moment his skin made contact with hers, she turned and sprawled on his chest. Her thigh snugged in between his legs her arm and wing covered his chest. He put his arms around her and with a contented sigh, he too fell asleep.

Aurora groaned as she opened her eyes and was assaulted by the bright rays of the morning sun. She threw her hands over her eyes in a desperate attempt to block the wretched light and hopefully salvage some of her eyesight.

She wasn't a morning person, in fact she hated mornings with a passion but as she heard Diego's soft snores, she reconsidered.

Aurora supported her weight on her elbow and admired her mate. The rays of the sun that had all but fried her retinas didn't bother him as he slept peacefully. His tawny skin glowed. His chiseled chest rose up and down. His arms were sprawled in a careless manner. His shaggy hair was sleep-tousled. Tracing every line of his body she looked down to see that he had a mouthwatering boner. She sighed, content.

In truth, it wasn't his physical beauty that had Aurora enamored with Diego. Sure that stuff played it's part but it was the words he said and not just his voice, it wasn't his face but the expressions on them, it wasn't his fingers but the love behind the action when he touched her. His beauty was something that shone from inside. Her feelings for him terrified her to no end but he was worth it. 

Deciding to indulge herself, Aurora slid down under the sheets, loving the hot feel of his skin rubbing against hers. Just as she was about to take his cock into her mouth, her stomach grumbled so loudly it could probably be heard all the way in Olympus! Her embarrasment escalated from there as Diego suddenly burst out laughing.

Aurora knocked the sheets off of her head and glared at him even as blood suffused her cheeks and they turned beat red. "You were awake?" She asked incredulously.

The idiot had the nerve to keep laughing. He kept wheezing out words in between his laugh. When it was clear that he wasn't going stop anytime soon Aurora jumped out of the bed and stomped to the door. How dare he laugh at her? Testosterone was a fucking plague upon this earth! Now she was never going to live that down! Oh the humiliation! How could he- Her breath was knocked out of her lungs and left her in a surprised whoosh.

Diego had thrown her over his shoulder like she was nothing but a sack of potatos! A fucking stack of potatos! 

Shocked and more than a little pissed, Aurora started flailing like a fish out of water. She cursed and hissed at him.

"Calm down!" He growled going all dominant but she was having none of that. He'd laughed at her! "Put me down!" She growled back. "Was that an order?" He asked menacingly.

Before she could answer he started smacking her ass hard and in quick succesion not even breaking his stride going down the stairs.

Aurora yelped every time his hand connected with her cheeks. By the time they reached the kitchen, her pussy was wet and she was grinding shamelessly on his shoulder. She stopped with considerable effort. She would not give in so easily goddamnit! 

Diego set her down gently on the kitchen island, careful despite the fact that she kept on hitting his ass. Hmmm and what a nice behind it was. All toned and tight. She wouldn't have minded taking a bite outta that.

Damn it! Focus! She chastised herself. But how could she focus when her mate's amber eyes devoured her with a heated gaze that all but melted her? No fucking way, that's how!

He spread her legs so that she cradled his body against her own. He leaned down and licked her bottom lip. Of their own volition, her hands tangled in his hair and pulled his lips to hers. Fuckin'a but the man had talented lips and he tasted soooo goooood! By the time he pulled away from her, Aurora was dazed. From. A. Kiss.

Still, to keep some semblance of pride, she scowled at him despite the fact that she was all mushy inside.

"You are so adorable when you're mad!" He said and kissed her nose.

"Hey! she protested, watch yourself, okay? I could zap your furry ass into oblivion!" And that was no exagerration.

"Yes but you won't."

"And why is that?"

"'Cuz you loooove me." His tone was light and joking but his eyes held a vulnerability that all but undid her.

Aurora cupped his face in her hands and let her gaze bore into his. "I do. I love you." She hoped he could hear the sincerity in her voice.

"I love you too, angel." Diego said with a blinding smile. "I'll make you a deal." He announced.

Aurora sighed, knowing how his deals went but she couldn't help the little rush she felt at what he would be proposing now. "What's the deal?"

"Uh uh uh, angel. You either remember your manners or you're going back to the fucking machines." He threatned.

She gave a small, recalling those wretched things. "What's the deal, Sir?"

Diego smiled like the proverbial Cheshire cat. All feline and male smugness. "Option number one: we go on as planned and I make you wear a chastity belt. Option number two: you spread your legs, hold them if you have to but you don't get out of position. You'll just let me play with that sweet cunt of yours. Which one will it be, angel?"

That wasn't even a choice. She'd choose the fires of hell rather than be chaste for however long. Especially when she had a gorgeous hunk'a male like Diego all to herself. "Option 2, please!" She said with a shit-eating grin.

Pleased with his mate's choice, Diego smiled. He almost felt... giddy, at what he had planned. With a nip at Aurora's lip, he straightened and started positionning Aurora's legs. His mouth watered for a taste of her exposed pussy but he kept himself in check.

"Hold the edges." He ordered and she obeyed. Her silver eyes sparkled with trust and love... for him. It humbled him. 

As he rummaged in his kitchen cabinet, he couldn't help but be amazed at what fate had given him. Three weeks ago, he'd had no idea that he would be mated and that his mate would be sprawled on his kitchen island, waiting from him to have his way with her at this moment. 

Finding what he'd been looking for, Diego snatched the slim bottle of hot sauce. "Close your eyes, angel." He said before turning around.

Aurora hadn't moved a single inch but he noticed that her breathing had picked up making her breasts move up and down faster. Her heartbeat had picked up as well, thrumming at the same pace as his. Her dark wings fell past the edges of the island and fluttered slightly. The scent of her arousal was faint but it echoed the one he felt through their bond.

He pulled up a stool and parked himself on it, ignoring his hardening cock. Diego set the hotsauce down and hooked his arms around her thighs. He leaned and blew on her swollen pussy lips making her shiver. He then went on to lick her. At first, she only whimpered and moaned but as he increased his effort she started bucking and her hips gyrated as if they had a mind of their own. 

Diego reached up and slapped her breast. "If you're not going to be a good girl, I'll get the belt, angel." He warned trying to sound serious despite the fact that he delighted in seeing her reactions to his kisses, sucks, nips and lips.

"I'm sorry, Sir." She whispered and bit her lips and frowned in concentration but her eyes still closed. She was just adorable!

Diego reached for the hotsauce, opened the cap and put a drop on her swollen clit.

For a few seconds she remained quiet but then came the whimpers as the hotsauce started to burn.

"Sir... it burns." She cried after a minute.

Diego smiled as her body trembled in an effort to stay still. His cat purred in delight at the fact that she was enduring this for him. Because he had asked it of her. Because she had trusted him so much that she submitted to him. Because she loved *him*. 

He watched as a fine sheen of sweat covered her body and made her glow under the morning sun, his cock getting painfully hard. 

"Please, Sir... pleasepleasepleaseplease! It burns so badly!" She cried but despite her pleas her pussy was wet and glistening with her juices.

Diego decided she'd had enough and went to the fridge. He took out a few ice cubes and put them in a bowl.

Aurora's body felt like it was on fire. Fuck... what had he poured on her poor clit? Lava? She struggled to remain immobile but that was easier said than done. Especially when her body was throbbing with equal amounts of pain and pleasure. 

She moaned as she felt his raspy tongue lick the burn away. The man was playing her like a marionette and... she loved it! As his talented tongue finished its sweep, thd burning came back but a lot less intense than before. She didn't even have a chance to contemplate how that felt before something so cold that could only be ice was pressed against her clit. 

The contrast between the heat and the cold was too much and she came with a shrieck. Her nerve ending were fried as Diego kept rubbing her clit with the ice. Pinpricks of pleasure burst all over her body. Before she had a chance to come down from her orgasm, the ice cube was pushed into her cunt, making her buck and scream. She didn't what to feel as two opposite sensations clashed in her body.

Aurora was almost too lost in the hailstorm of intense pleasure and pain to notice that Diego, using her pussy juice, was slowly pushing into her ass. Once she realized what he was doing, she pushed down, taking rock hard cock hard into her ass at once.

"Open your eyes, angel. I want you to look at me when I fuck you." He said softly. She obliged.

Everything stilled for a few moments as she met his beautiful eyes and saw forever in them. Her heart soared as she saw in his eyes the same love she felt for him reflected in his heated gaze.

He slowly lifted her ankles and then started to pound into her. Aurora was lost in the wildness and animosity of the act. She panted, moaned and shriecked. This is what she needed. She could never have enough of Diego. She would crawled up inside him and live there if she could.

"Cum for me, angel! Cum for me!" He snarled, rubbbing her already-sensitive clit furiously. And like the good little slut that she was, she came for her mate, calling out his name.

Diego's fangs slid out as he heard her screaming his name when she orgasmed. Her tight ass gripping his cock. He loved that she called his name because he was the only man she would have. She was his, no one elses, just his. Mine! His cat growled as he thrust hard and filled her ass with his cum. He bit into her ankle, marking her once more as his.

When they'd both calmed down, Diego was leaning down as her legs and arms cradled him against her. Her fingers softly running through his hair. 

He lifted himself on his arms and looked down at her. Aurora smiled lazily. "I'm sorry I came without permission the first time, Sir." She apologized.

Diego growled and then smiled as she bared her neck in submission to him. He leaned down and kissed her fluttering pulse. "I think I'll let it slide this time, angel. Besides, we don't have time for a punishment. I'm going to introduce you to the Pride."

Aurora stiffened underneath him and he knew that they were about to have an argument...

To be continued...