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Heat Ch. 01

By: ElvenAngel



I sat in my apartment dressed to the nines with no place to go. I had just called my date and cancelled. I put the phone on its stand and curled my legs up underneath me on the chair feeling sorry for myself. I knew from experience that Ethan would check his messages before he left to pick me up. I had just committed dating suicide. I had just cancelled on meeting his parents for the first time!

Sighing deeply, I curled myself into a tighter ball. I had done the stupid thing of falling in love with my boyfriend when all he felt for me was casual affection. Ethan wasn't the type for lasting commitment. Before me had worked his way through a succession of beautiful eligible blondes. Sometimes I thought maybe he was scraping the barrel with me – I was neither blonde nor beautiful. I certainly wasn't stunning and sculpted like his last girlfriend. The best I could be described as was cute, and I certainly wasn't rich! 

We had fun together though. We had been diving with sharks, which was how we had met. Since then we had been on adventure weekends, gone climbing and taken long walks together. I comforted myself with the knowledge that none of his supermodel girlfriends would have gone on those dates much less enjoyed themselves. He didn't know it but I was the same as him, I was a Were! I accepted differences that had made other girlfriends whine – like no dates on the full moon. I had learnt to hide my differences at an early age. I had learnt those lessons so well I could pass for human even among my own kind!

I smiled cynically cancelling this date would probably be the end of things between us. Men like Ethan, in our society, didn't take no for an answer very well and they certainly didn't like being denied. I know Ethan had ended relationships with girls who had done less to annoy him. Tonight was going to have been a big night, I had bought a new dress and new underwear, well new knickers anyway I thought with a slight smile. I had taken ages to get ready before realising there was no way I could go to Ethan tonight. 

I sighed again and stood. A glass of wine and a good movie may take distract me from what I wanted to be doing tonight! On my way to find a bottle of wine I caught sight of myself in the mirror. I shook my head – I looked good tonight, I decided, in the essential little black dress. The skirt was short enough that I had to be careful how I sat in public but it was loose swinging about the tops of my thighs as I walked. The best thing about the dress was the back or lack of it! The dress dropped to the small of my back, leaving my back bare almost to my ass, save for a few criss-crossing straps

With a wry smile I turned away from the mirror. I had been looking forward to tonight all week but it was not to be. It was the wrong time of year for me. Sometimes I hated what I was. Most women just had to worry about the time of month. I had to worry about the time of year too! Once a year I went into Heat. Sleeping with a male now would bind us together tying him to me for life! I couldn't do that to Ethan. I loved him enough not to want him to hate me, and hate me he would if I bound him to me.

There was a loud bang on the door and I jumped then froze. Glancing over at the door I checked it was locked and the safety latch was on. 

"Alyssa, I know you're in there! I can smell you," I clenched my hands, wanting to let him in, but I couldn't for both our sakes! "Alyssa!" Ethan's tone was warning.

"Go away Ethan," I called back. "I don't want to see you!"

"The hell you don't," he exclaimed angrily. "Let me in now!" I could hear the anger and frustration in his tone. I hadn't counted on this. I hadn't thought he would come over and when I cancelled the date. I just assumed he would be angry but he would take someone else on our date. I sighed wearily

"Go away Ethan, Just go away," I said tiredly.

"Damn it Alyssa, if you don't open this door I'm coming through it!" I could hear the growl in his voice and I knew his temper was close to the surface!

"Ethan, just stop being dramatic. Just go away – it's over!" I yelled back, determined to be strong. My keen ears heard him mutter 'the hell it is' but I turned away from the door hoping he would go away if I ignored him. 

There was a horrendous crash behind me and I turned with a girly squeal that I was ashamed to realise had come from my mouth. Ethan strode thought the wreckage of my door. Tall and broad shouldered he filled the doorway making me step back apprehensively. My mind panicked I couldn't think with him this close to me while my Heat was in full swing. My body wanted him. Warmth pooled in my lower body and my breasts tightened in anticipation, begging for his touch. 

Shit! I had to get out of here. I turned to run to escape out of the kitchen windows, but as soon as I had taken those first running steps I knew I had made a vast mistake. I was not thinking straight; I had forgotten what wolves did to prey that ran!

With a bellow Ethan leapt towards me chasing me. I sprinted across the open living room. Just as I reached the kitchen door Ethan's weight slammed into me, throwing me into the door. The door handle hit my belly and my head cracked against the wood I knew I would have a huge bruise tomorrow but right now I was more concerned about the danger at my back. 

My body was already submitting to him. Melting in preparation of his possession of me. He growled in my ear and nuzzled my neck 

"Mmmm" he rumbled, "You smell good enough to eat!" He nipped at the skin of my neck with his sharp teeth. It stung but the small pain only fuelled my desire 

"Please Ethan, just go, don't do this to me! Please…" I begged shamelessly. I was panting with desire, each ragged breath broke into my speech but I had to try! I was hoping to get through to the man beneath the beast my hormones had triggered. 

"That's it, My Sweet, beg me," He growled in my ear. He pressed his body harder against mine emphasising the bulge of his hard cock by grinding it against my ass. His tongue flicked out and licked my ear erotically and I groaned. I bit my lip trying to control myself; to focus my brain somewhere other than the feel of his throbbing shaft nestled between my arse cheeks. I tasted blood and I knew my fangs had lengthened in response to his arousal.

"Damn it Ethan!" I rallied the last of my sanity; desperately trying to stay focused as the scent and feel of him overwhelmed my overtaxed senses. "We can't do this," I implored him.

Griping my chin with one hand he turned my face and took my mouth. Our scents mixed. Hormones mingled in our joined mouths and he tasted my blood. With a moan of surrender I lost the battle between sanity and the demands of my body. The taste of him filled me and Heat took over. I kissed him back, my tongue stroking along his as I pressed my ass back against him rubbing myself over his cock. 

Releasing my lips he spun me around and slammed me back against the door. I gasped but he gave me no mercy. Lifting his hand we both watched as his nails lengthened into claws. He grinned at me his eyes glowing with the beast that was lurking close to the surface. With one swipe my dress was ruined and hanging from my shoulders. I had worn no bra so the only thing protecting me was a tiny translucent black string thong. 

He smiled, baring fangs. Stepping back he looked at me, but I made no move. He slid one clawed finger under the side of my thong. He stroked along my hip teasing me for a moment and then he jerked his hand up snapping the flimsy material. He repeated the processon the other side, teasing me making me anticipate what he was going to do. The scrap of black material fluttered to the floor. I watched his face carefully as he licked his lips. 

Thanks to the mirror over the lintel I could see what he saw when he looked at me. Black crushed silk framed my sun-bronzed body, fluttering and caressing the sides of my breasts. My chest heaved with each breath, my nipples drawn tight and stained a dark dusky rose by desire. Before I had realised I was in Heat I had prepared myself for my date, shaving my pussy till just a tiny strip of dark auburn hair remained. My eyes met my own in the mirror and I was shocked by what I saw. My eyes were slumberous and dark with passion; my lips were swollen and parted. My hair that I had so carefully twisted up was already tumbling down caressing my shoulders and haloing my face. I looked wanton and ready to be fucked

With a quick wrench Ethan pulled his trousers open as he stepped toward me again pressing back against the door with one hand. He freed his straining cock with the other. He caught my ass with both hands his claws digging in, as he slid me aggressively up the door, the sharppoints of his nails drawing blood. My legs parted automatically for him and he filled me with one violent lunge. I screamed out my satisfaction. His thrust was brutal but my cunt was slick with my own juices and primed to accept him. He met no resistance as he entered me sheathing himself to the hilt. 

My hips had trust forward to meet his and were slammed back into the door. Our mating was fast and furious controlled by an animalistic urgency to join. His hips pummelled me into the door and I enjoyed every moment, wrapping my lips around his waist. Each thrust sent me spiralling higher towards ecstasy as my body gleefully accepted his invasion. 

His thrusts became shorter and more urgent. He grunted his pleasure with each surge. After what seemed like impossible pleasure his teeth closed on my shoulder sinking into the join between neck and shoulder and he pulled my hips firmly against his. I felt his cock jerk inside me, his hands clenched and he bit down on my neck drawing blood. The sharp pain of his marking was what my body had been waiting for; I tumbled over the edge into oblivion. My cunt clutching his powerful cock milking it of seed as my body trembled against the door.

He slumped over me his weight pinning me against the door. I sagged against him boneless. His cock was still firm inside me. He lifted his head slowly. Disengaging his teeth from my shoulders I winced but his tongue flicked out and licked the mark soothing it and gathering the drops of blood that spilled from it, taking them into his mouth and tasting the cocktail of my blood marked by his saliva. Saliva released during the Heat would ensure the mark would scar marking me forever as his. His hands flexed on my ass and I flinched my body finally feeling the pain his claws had retracted but the crescent of scratches were tender. 

There was a sound behind him but neither of us paid it any notice until hands dragged Ethan away from me 

"Police Freeze!" the command broke through into our desire fuelled brains.

….

Heat Ch. 02



"Police… Freeze…" The command entered my brain as Ethan was dragged away from me. I struggled to understand what was happening, my body still humming from Ethan's possession. I staggered and fell, bereft of Ethan's support, my legs unable to hold me. A stranger caught my arms and I whimpered snatching myself away from him. My body did not want any touch but my mates.

"Ma'am are you alright?" the police officer asked. I hugged myself cringing away from him still not understanding who these people were and what they were doing. Slowly sanity returned. I nodded at him but my eyes were dazed and my body was bruised and bleeding "It's okay!" he said soothingly " We wont let him hurt you again" He reached out to pat my shoulder and I flinched away from him. 

"What?" I asked in confusion glancing around my apartment. 

"A neighbour called to say she had seen someone breaking into your apartment. I'm sorry we didn't get here sooner." The officer standing in front of me explained 

"Alyssa!" Ethan's voice was full of restrained violence. I looked over at him to see two uniformed police officers leading him through my ruined door in cuffs. His shoulders were tense and I could see him fighting his instincts to fight the officers.

"No!" I cried lunging to my feet. I staggered and almost fell but the police officer caught me steadying me, despite my attempts to lunge away from his touch.

" It's Ok ma'am, I'm not going to hurt you, I just need to ask you some questions!" the police officer began in a gentle voice. I pulled myself out of his arms hugging my own arms to try and get rid of the sensation of his hands on my skin

"Where are you taking him?" I demanded, my mind beginning to function again as Ethan was led away. I could see him struggling with his nature to resist the officers and return to me. 

"It's okay!" the police office repeated trying to soothe my agitation "We won't let him hurt you again, you don't have to be scared."

"No you don't understand!" I implored. "It's not what it looks like!" my mind was working furiously trying to come up with a plausible excuse. I went to the door to stall the policemen who were taking Ethan away. I pulled the ruins of my dress around me trying to hide my nudity. One of the policemen thoughtfully fetched my silk robe from my bedroom and I slipped it on gratefully over the torn dress. 

"Ma'am, I'm sorry, but this man broke into your apartment and hurt you we have to take him down to the station for booking!" 

" No, It wasn't like that." I said mentally crossing my fingers. Preparing to lie to the police officers. The policeman just looked and me his eyebrows raised in disbelief. "He's my boyfriend!" The officer didn't look impressed "I wasn't ready for our date when he knocked and when I ran to answer the door I tripped and fell. I think I must have cried out and knocked myself silly." I raised my hand to the bump on my head. " The next thing I knew Ethan had broken the door down, and one thing kinda led to another." I looked down at my hands

" Please Ma'am," the officer said in disbelief " Your neighbour heard you begging him to stop!" I searched for an explanation

"I didn't want him to rip my dress!" I explained as convincingly as I could "I only bought it today I hadn't even worn it out yet!" The police officer looked from me to Ethan in disbelief. I went to Ethan and touched his face smiling at him. My body began to hum with desire but I knew I had to convince the police officers of my story. With a sigh the two officers holding Ethan released him and unlocked his cuffs. 

Ethan immediately wrapped his arms around me nuzzling my hair. I leaned into him allowing myself to enjoy his strength. This more than anything seemed to convince the officers and after a few more questions they left. My body was a seething mass of tension by the time the police finally left from such prolonged proximity to Ethan. My body wanted him again and was preparing itself accordingly I was wet with my own desire. I could smell the mixture of my own heat and Ethan's cum that was slicking the tops of my thighs as I stood in his arms. 

When the police had finally left Ethan turned me in his arms for a kiss but I forced my raging body to back away. There was a chance the bond between us could be still be broken, it would be weak if we didn't do anything more to strengthen it and I had to take that chance for his sake. He looked at me and his eyes were puzzled. He was still acting mostly on instinct. My body was releasing mating pheromones and he was my mate. His body was calling to him to take me, to claim me again. He reached for me and I jumped backwards. 

"Please Ethan!" I murmured quietly. Not wanting to disturb my inquisitive neighbours again, "Just leave, you've done enough" my voice was soft and sad as I thought of his reaction tomorrow.

"Not nearly enough he growled softly back, his eyes growing feraly. He advanced on me and I stepped back determined not to run again. "Wanna play?" he asked with a wicked chuckle? I twisted away as he pounced, barely avoiding him. I turned to face him but I had to dodge again as he leapt for me. He missed but he was on me before I could turn again capturing me firmly. 

"Third time lucky!" he smirked " I win, but what's the prize?

"A pat on the head and a dog biscuit?" I snarled frustrated by the way my body was betraying me again. He laughed out loud throwing his head back and roaring. Instinctively, I bit him at the base of his exposed throat not really connecting my need for retribution with my body's need to mark him as he had marked me. My teeth closed firmly on his neck and I tasted the coppery tang of blood in my mouth. I felt his hips buck against mine and his laughter stopped immediately. Carefully he disengaged me from his neck and looked at me his face was serious and his eyes were intense. 

"I'm not finished with you!" he stated slowly. With what seemed like infinite patience he pulled the belt from me gown and hung it around his neck. He brushed the silk of my robe off my shoulders taking my dress with it, leaving me standing in nothing while he was still fully dressed. He released me to rip open his dress shirt, buttons sprayed across the room. I licked my lips at the sight of his chest, eager to see more. My fangs sank into my lower lip and the bolt of desire the taste of our mixed blood sent to my cunt made me sway.

"Ethan no!" I made one last attempt to save him and myself. I took two steps back as he was fighting with the sleeves of his shirt, and then turned to run. I ran to the bathroom hoping that if I could lock the door it would give me enough time to escape out the window. With some distance between Ethan and myself I was easily his equal, or equal enough to stand a chance of getting away. 

Ethan's hands closed firmly around my upper arm and he spun me around. I put my hand up to push him away and he caught my wrists. With the belt from my robe he tied my wrists firm together wrapping the entirety of the silk around my wrists and forearms making sure there was no way I could get lose!

"None of that," he frowned at me, "I won you fair and square" Picking me up he stalked towards my bedroom. 

"Ethan Please" I begged struggling to form a coherent thought with his arms wrapped around me. He silenced me by reaching around me and pinching my nipple firmly between his fingers. I groaned and my mind took leave of me; overwhelmed by the desire I had been trying to fight. With a casual seeming flick he tossed me onto the bed. I bounced on the mattress and before I had settled he was on top of me, stretching my arms above my head and wedging them under the headboard. Satisfied I was secure for a moment he rose and went to my draws opening them till he found a pair of stockings. Using the stockings he tied my already bound hands in place.

"Now you can't interrupt!" he grinned evilly at me. His hands spread over my breasts and I stopped trying to fight him. My body capitulated and he knew it when my back arched pressing my breasts into his hands. His smile widened and he plucked at my nipples. My body was on fire burning me alive but he seemed to have sated his urgency with the first mad coupling against the door. He tortured me for denying him, taking his time in his examination of my body. His hands stroked everywhere but where I wanted them. Starting at my neck he stroked my body to my ankles driving me crazy with lust. He avoided my needy weeping cunt even though he could smell the depth of my desire for him. 

Teasingly he ran his hands up my legs and along the inside of my thighs. My body was on fire twisting underneath his hands trying to direct the to my aching core. 

"Please" I sobbed brokenly when his hands skimmed over my belly.

"Should I go?" he asked stroking my belly.

"Damn you" I cried. "Don't go!" I was crying with need and the helpless knowledge that he would hate me when he realised I had bound us together forever.

"Thank Gods." His hands griped my thighs, suddenly urgent as he parted them. He rose above me sliding between my thighs. I could feel his hands trembling on my thighs as he looked down at me. With one brutal thrust he filled me. I slid up the bed, my arms bending awkwardly and my head rapping against the headboard. His fingers dug into my thighs dragging me back to him and holding me in place for the next thrust. His hips moved against me rapidly thrusting all the way into me and withdrawing to the tip before lunging forward again. 

He pulled back suddenly and I whimpered and tried to catch his hips with my legs. He loomed over me looking at me for a moment as I lay spread before him his for the taking my hips lifting towards him begging for his possession. His eyes glowed in the darkness and I knew he could see me. He caught my ankles and growled as I instinctively tried to free myself. Shifting his grip to my thighs he flipped me over onto my knees and my arms twisted uncomfortably above my head straining my shoulders but I soon forgot my discomfort as he stroked my ass. He lifted my hips spreading my knees slightly with one of his own. My back was arched by the position of my arms and my head was pressed into the mattress displaying me lewdly for him. I felt his hands cup my cheeks stroking them; his fingers had once again lengthened into claws; his control weakening as his lust grew. 

In one quick motion I felt him move and drive into me his hands curling around my hips and pulling me back onto him. I cried out as that first thrust stroked into me driving me to new heights on lust. He pounded into me, each thrust driving me into the mattress before withdrawing to leave me empty again. 

His hands shifted from my hips to my breasts caging them in his fingers. His chest covered my back and I gasped as his teeth found my neck again and sank deep marking me a second time as he began his final thrusts to completion. Each thrust made me wince the pleasure too great as he drove over my hypersensitive flesh. The pleasure was so great inside me it was painful as he finally collapsed over me. I could feel his cock erupting inside me. 

I felt fur at my back for a second. In the moment of release, driven on by his beast he shifted. His wolven form held for only a second before he collapsed over me flattening me to the bed. The change from man to beast and back at the moment of ecstasy had exhausted him. He slipped out of me but his wait kept me pinned to the mattress

I lay hunched on the bed for a moment till my body registered its discomfort. After a few seconds of bucking and twisting I rolled him off me and twisted myself into my back relaxing the strain on my arms. I made an effort to free my arms entirely but I couldn't get enough leverage. I could fell sleep sucking at me so I gave up; my exhausted body soon followed his into sleep.

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Heat Ch. 03



I awoke slowly to the aches of my body. I was still tied to the bed and my shoulders were making their complaints known. My stomach was tender and bruised and my head throbbed rhythmically where I had hit it on the door. In contrast my thighs ached deliciously reminding me of the night's activities. I was alone on the bed but I could hear the shower running. Suddenly I was pissed as well as sore he could have at least untied me. My arms were going to hurt like a son of a bitch when I finally moved them. I tried flexing the muscles to stimulate the blood flow. The tingling pain of pins and needles persuaded me to stop.

"Damn it, Ethan, get your arse back in here and untie me," I yelled when the shower finally stopped. I forgot my door was broken and the entire corridor could probably hear me and I'm not sure I would have cared at that point! Ethan came into the room with a towel hooked around his hips, his skin was still damp and my mouth went dry as all the moisture in my body pooled between my legs. I wanted him again. I wanted to run my tongue over the muscles in his chest. My eyes followed the sexy looking trail of hair down his chest and under the towel wishing I could follow it with my tongue as well. 

As my eyes ran over him the towel began to bulge threatening to fall it off his hips entirely. I licked my lips and dragged my eyes up to his face. His eyes were carefully blank as he looked over me but I could sense his unease. 'Yup' I thought to myself we definitely bonded last night. My natural shields were blocking most of the emotional linkage. With difficulty I focused my mind and strengthened the barriers I had built around my mind. I couldn't deal with his emotions as well as my own right now. My own emotions were threatening to overwhelm me as it was

"Ethan if you don't untie me right now I'm going to kick your ass," I forced out between gritted teeth. The tingling sensation in my arms was increasing and it hurt!

"That's not going to persuade me to untie you!" He half joked and I growled at him. " Are you going to go for my balls as soon as I untie you?' he asked more seriously.

"Ethan! Please!" I added a whimper that was not entirely forced. I was not above using my femininity at this point, my arms hurt. Ethan immediately moved to my side and undid the stockings that bound me to the bed. My movements over the night had tightened the knots and he had to work at them to get them lose. He leaned over me and the skin of his chest was inches from my mouth. I had to bite my lip to hold myself back from running my tongue over his nipples. I could smell his skin and my soap. I fought the need to sink my teeth into him to mark him again.

Finally he freed me from the bed and made quick work of the cord around my wrists. I immediately brought my arms down, grateful to be able to move. I regretted the move; the muscles in my arms spasmed and pain shot through my shoulders. I groaned as the tingles I had felt earlier turned into firey needles of pain. I bit my lip and tried to breath through the pain as I worked my arms. Ethan was by my side immediately massaging my shoulders and stroking my arms soothing them until my circulation returned to normal.

His hands felt good stroking my body and I groaned. My nipples tightened and I pressed my thighs together trying to hide the smell of my arousal. I hoped the fresh scent was masked by the flavour of sex and sweat that hung in the air. Ethan's hands dropped from me shoulders and I frowned, disappointed that he was no longer touching me. 

"Alyssa," he began, his voice tortured.

"Ethan please," I interrupted. I was reluctant to start the unavoidable conversation "I need some food and a shower." I sniffed at myself, "I definitely need a shower." I saw Ethan scent the air as well

"You smell of me!" I didn't have to look at him to hear the pleased smile in his voice. The possessive note in his voice shocked me for a moment but I passed it off as wishful thinking.

"I need a shower," I said firmly "We can talk over breakfast, ok?" I suggested, "When I feel halfway..." I started to say human and stopped, "Like myself!" I finished lamely. I had to stop pretending I was human. I took his silence as affirmative and stood slowly, testing my legs before I trusted my weight to them, and walked stiffly to the door. I looked back to see him shuck the towel and reach for his pants, my mouth watered and I hurried myself out the door. 

"I hope you didn't use all the hot water!" I called over my shoulder. I turned on to the shower and was pleased to see steam rise from the water. I carefully avoided looking in the mirror until steam had filled the room and clouded my image. I so did not want to know what I looked like this morning. I stepped eagerly under the piping hot water and let it pound out some more of the stiffness in my muscles. I washed the scent of sex from my body and covered it with the scent of my shower gel. I enjoyed the sensation of water streaming over still sensitive skin till the water started to turn cold. I stepped out and slowly towelled myself dry then I liberally coated my skin in a honey scented moisturiser delaying the moment when I had to go out and face Ethan.

When I could not linger any longer I wrapped a large towel around myself and headed for the kitchen. En route I scooped up the gown and shrugged it over my shoulders. Ethan had not been idle while I showered, my tiny kitchen smelled of coffee and bacon. I almost growled as the heavenly smell filled my nose. My stomach did growl and I realised how hungry I was. Ethan handed me a cup of coffee and I murmured my thanks as I raised the mug to my lips. I sipped the hot liquid looking at him over the brim. He hadn't bothered with his shirt or the snap of his pants. My mouth watered from the hot coffee and the thought that one tug could have him spilling into my hand. 

"I wasn't sure how long you'd be but you timed it just right." Ethan puttered around my kitchen keeping busy and not meeting my eyes. We had been dating long enough that he knew his way around my kitchen. I was content to sit and watch as I sipped my coffee. He set the bacon and sausages and some pork chops on the table. 'Mmmm,' I groaned, meat, just what my body was craving. 

Ethan joined me at the breakfast bar. The kitchen was small, and in past breakfasts we had sat closely pressed together but now Ethan held himself away from me. I mourned the loss of closeness. Neither of us wanted to start the inevitable conversation but I knew I had to bite the bullet. The suspense was making the food sit uneasily in my stomach. I swallowed uncomfortably and set down my fork 

"Ethan" I started, he looked at me still chewing. "I'm sorry," I began to apologise. Ethan looked at me incredulously and I forged onwards. "I'm sorry about last night, I know its all my fault. 

"Why are you apologising to me?" he asked. He rubbed his hands over his face and ran them through his hair making it stand on end wildly. "For Luna's sake Alyssa I raped you!" 

"What?" I turned to face him my knees pressing against his thigh. "Ethan you didn't!" I pressed my hands to his thigh kneading his muscular flesh trying to offer comfort. "It wasn't like that"

"Alyssa I was here! I heard you begging me to stop despite what you told the police!" Ethan exclaimed 

"Ethan no!" I shook my head. I hadn't realised that he would think that, I couldn't let him continue to think that he had raped me. "I wasn't unwilling last night," I said softly.

"Alyssa, Your black and blue!"

"Yes and I loved every minute of it!" I exclaimed in frustration. "I wasn't saying no because I didn't want you! I said no because there would be consequences past last night and I didn't want you to hate me for them." I explained in a soft voice. I stopped kneading his knee and wrapped my arms around myself. Ethan looked at me enquiringly his eyes still guilty. I took a deep breath and mentally braced myself. I had to take that look out of his eyes even though I knew it would be replaced by anger.

"I've not been honest with you Ethan. I've spent so much of my life pretending to be normal I couldn't tell you the truth!"

"What are you talking about Alyssa? You are normal! I'd know if you weren't!" he said frowning

I shook my head, "I'm a Were, Ethan! I'm like you!"

"What game are you playing Alyssa?" Ethan asked as he glared at me. "Whatever it is I don't like it!" Ethan shoved his stool back and strode out of the kitchen. With a sigh I stood and looked mournfully at my barely touched plate before following him out of the kitchen, running away wasn't going to change what had happened. He was pacing across the space of the living room shaking his head. I could feel the tension of his anger in the air. I stopped in the doorway and watched him. After a moment I raised my hands to eye level and concentrated on them. It was easy to slip your skin when you were emotional especially your hands, feet teeth and eyes but it was quite difficult to willingly change part of your body.

I felt the familiar stretching popping sensations as the bones of my hands shifted lengthening and realigning themselves. My fingers elongated ending in wicked claws and grew a fine coat of honey brown fur. Ethan turned to stare at me as my beast swirled around the room.

"What the hell?" he exclaimed! " How...?" he stared at my hands.

"I am a Werewolf Ethan," I said with a sigh. "I've just had to hide it all my life!"

"Why didn't you tell me?" he demanded angrily, but I could hear the hurt in his voice too. I shrugged. I debated answering with 'why didn't you tell me?' but I decided it would be childish.

"I thought you'd get tired of me soon," I said quietly. "So there was no point in telling you. I didn't want to join the local pack and have to see you every full moon once you had cast me away!" He just looked at me for a long time; self-consciously I let my hands shift back to human. 

"I don't fucking believe this!" He exclaimed. "I could swear you were human!"

"There's more," I admitted hanging my head. I couldn't bear to see his expression. "Last time was all my fault. I didn't think you'd come over here when I cancelled. I thought you'd just get out your black book and invite someone else. I should have gone away, I'm sorry." 

"What are you talking about?" he asked. His tone told me he was rapidly losing patience with me.

" I was in heat last night." I waited for an explosion of recrimination, when it didn't come I peaked at him from under my eyelashes. He was staring at me in shock. His mouth was moving but no sound was coming out.I stepped towards him and he snapped out of his trance. 

"How could you do this to me?" Anger shivered in the air.

"I tried to avoid it. I didn't want this either!" I was on the defensive and I didn't like it so I fought back. "If you had listened when I told you to go none of this would have happened!"

His hands came down heavily on my shoulders his fingers digging in. I gritted my teeth refusing to let him see my pain even if he could probably feel it through the bond. I stared at him keeping my shields tight. I had no desire to know what he was feeling. 

"I. Don't. Want. To. Be. Mated!" he growled in my face annunciating each word forcefully. 

"Do you think I do?" I shot back furiously glaring at him. Suddenly his lips were on mine, hot and angry as he feasted on my mouth. His teeth nipped at my lips in stinging bolts of pleasure, his tongue thrusting violently into my mouth. I could taste the anger on his breath. I ripped my mouth away from him.

"No!" I protested, "Not like this!" I shoved Ethan away from me, I could feel the moisture seeping from my cunt and it annoyed me. My body wanted him but my mind did not! Ethan took two steps backwards from the shove, and I saw his beast drift behind his eyes. 

"You want me, I can smell it," Ethan tormented. With one large stride his hands captured my head, holding it still for his descending mouth. His lips plundered mine again but this time I felt his fangs nipping at my lips. My hands went automatically to his wrists trying to pull his hands away from my face. I resisted his probing tongue as it sought entry to my mouth. I refused to melt for him when he was pissed. My own temper was igniting with every second of the kiss.

His teeth caught and tugged on my lower lip, the sharp points of his fangs pressing just hard enough to threaten violence and seducing me into the kiss. His probing tongue licked along the seam of my lips tempting me to give in to him. I finally did the only thing I could to escape; I fought like a girl. I raised my knee and brought it up into his groin, not hard but enough to make him step back. I tasted blood in my mouth and growled my own beast rising within me. Damnit! I normally had better control than this. 

I stepped away from Ethan and walked away from him intending to put some distance between us till our tempers cooled. I was unprepared for the weight that hit me and the hands that twisted me so I landed sprawl on the couch. Damnit I kept expecting him to react like a human I mentally cursed myself. I hadn't expected him to react so fast. I was used to him pretending to be human.

Ethan followed me and the couch over balanced spilling us on to the floor by the wall. Before I could recover Ethan's weight was on me pinning me to the floor. My hands were trapped under his knees pressing them painfully against the hard wood.

"That wasn't very nice 'mate'. I can't have you thinking you can deny me!" His voice had dropped to a snarl and I realised his beast was up. His human side was pissed but his beast was demanding he prove his dominance over me. I could hear the two sides warring in his voice.

I fought my own instincts to struggle against him, I didn't want to encourage either side. When he pulled the towel open over my breasts I bucked my hips against him trying to throw him off. I only succeeded in shifting him further up my body so he was straddling my chest, his thighs pressing my breasts together, his knees against my shoulders, his lower legs pinning my arms, squeezing them against my body.

I growled in frustration. I was a strong capable female but I wasn't used to dealing with werewolves. I hadn't realised how much it would matter when he stopped pretending to be human. With one hand he reached back and with a firm tug he wrenched the towel of completely. My hips rolled with the motion but his weight kept me exactly where he wanted me completely in his power 

His other hand framed my cheek and his thumb stroked over my lips. He was distracted as he removed my towel and my sharp teeth closed around his thumb. I bit down hard enough that he would feel my warning. His full attention immediately returned to me. I could see his beast looking at me through amber eyes. Uh oh I thought, bad move! Ethan's eyes were normally a deep honey brown. My instinctive need to fight him had tipped his inner battle in favour of his beast. 

His response was to pinch my nipple making me gasp and release his thumb. He captured the other one with the hand I had just freed hand moistening the tip with his wet thumb. He pulled on the tight buds of my nipples till they were achy with sensation.

He pulled open his pants and his cocked surged out till it rested in the valley between my breasts. His thighs pressed the mounds of my tits together creating a cushion for his cock. I licked my lips as it filled my view. He laughed stroking one hand over his shaft so that his fingers brushed over my breasts. 

"Bad girls don't get treats 'mate'" His voice was a low growl as his fingers teased my breasts. His cock jerked against me. "They get punished!" he added with a wicked grin. His fingers tugged on my nipples till the sensation bordered on pain. He kept up his sweet torture till I was gasping with desire and rocking my hips against him. 

In one quick move he flipped me over and had me pinned before the thought of escaping penetrated my befuddled brain. It was humiliating and arousing how easily he controlled me. I had always prided myself on my strength and my ability to take care of myself but Ethan out manoeuvred me at every turn. He was behind me his legs bracketing mine pinning them together. Somehow he had managed to gather both my wrists into the small of my back pressing them there with one hand and keeping my shoulders pressed against the cool floor. The heat emanating from my body was a sharp contrast to the coolness of the hard floor as my nipples rubbed against it. 

His hand stroked lightly over my ass and I quivered, he sniffed audibly and growled as the scent of my desire built. One finger traced the curve of my arse and parted the honey-slicked folds of my pussy it dipped briefly then retreated. I heard sucking noises and turned my head to watch him suck the juices off his finger. His eyes had closed as he tasted me, but they opened as he withdrew his finger. His eyes met mine and some human emotion crossed them. Using my hair as a lever he turned my head away. I nearly sobbed. The wolf may have won control of his body in its desire to prove it's dominance, and to punish me for denying him but the human part of Ethan's brain had no desire to be fucking 'me'.

I struggled against him determined to win free and escape man and beast. My struggles were futile, he was stronger than me and in this position he held all the power! Without warning his free hand landed sharply on my arse and I yelped. It didn't hurt but the blow surprised me. My flesh tingled and warmed from the blow and I knew there would be a red imprint of Ethan's hand on the curve of my ass. His hand slapped against my skin again similarly marking the other cheek. I tensed waiting for the next blow. When it didn't fall as I expected I relaxed marginally. 

"Your ass looks so good marked by my hand" he said huskily. One finger stroked over the marks to emphasise his statement. He was staring at my ass. I wiggled uncomfortably, Ethan groaned at the movement and I froze. His hand fell again and again without warning or rhythm. Sometimes he would pause and stare at my reddening ass or smooth his hands over the heated sensitive flesh. My ass tingled where his hands fell, the nerve endings shocked into sensitivity so that my entire body quivered under every touch. Each random blow had me more aroused till I could feel the strength of my desire coating not just my cunt but the tops of my thighs as well. I bit my lips against the begging words that swirled about my head and rested on the tip of my tongue.

He shifted one muscular thigh pushing it between mine separating my legs pushing my hips higher, tilting them back till my cunt was pressed against his leg and I was riding his thigh. His hand struck my arse again driving my cunt to stroke along his leg arousing me more. My desire slicked his leg allowing me to slide deliciously over the hard muscle of his thigh. His blows fell time and time against till the words in my mouth slipped past my guard. 

"Please Ethan," I begged. "I can't take any more! I need more." Another blow fell and I sobbed with need, "Please..." part of me was horrified at the words coming from my mouth but the rest of me was too aroused, to driven by instinct to care. I needed my mate. I needed him to confirm his possesion and I needed to take him into me to confirm my possesion of him. 

"You beg so sweetly" Ethan crowed. His beast rumbling in satisfaction as I submitted to him. He moved his thigh and I settled back down against the floor for a second before both his knees slipped between them spreading me open to the. His free hand positioned my hips the other still holding my hands in the small of my back. My ass was hot and sensitive and I didn't doubt it was stained crimson. I gasped as his hair roughened thighs rubbed against me sending new sensations rushing along my nerves.




Heat Ch. 03



His cock was hard and I could feel it throbbing as it tunnelled between the folds of my cunt and nudged against my clit. He drew back and I whimpered, I could feel his stare almost as a physical caress as his eyes stroked over me. His eyes slid over my scalded arse and my swollen eager pussy. I could imagine him behind me his cock glistening poised millimetres from my skin. He surged forward again and I eagerly lifted my hips to greet him begging with my body, showing him exactly where I wanted him.

Thankfully for me sanity he granted my plea and his cock filled me parting the swollen needy tissues of my cunt in one demanding thrust. He paused then pulled out before my body could adjust to him dragging a cry from my lips as he dragged every inch of his cock out of me till only the very tip rested at the entrance to my cunt. 

Using his grip on my hands he pulled me back to meet his next violent thrust as he began fucking me in earnest. Each thrust powered into me and I screamed out my pleasure. My body was too primed and I was flung without warning over the precipice into orgasm. Ethan continued to thrust into my spasming sheath driving me higher and higher. I cried out his name in my mind but the sound was a breathless moan of pleasure when the sound reached my lips. I could feel my self shattering, my control slipping as his cock continued to plunge in and out of me. The shields guarding the bond shattered and sensation spilled into me as the bridge between us snapped into place.

I screamed again as I felt Ethan's release triggered by our shared pleasure and I was catapulted from one orgasm to the next unable to separate the point where he finished and I began. For one stunning moment the boundry's between us shimmered and we were one.

Awareness filtered into me slowly. I felt sated and lethargic but I could also feel anger confusion and frustration swirling around in my head. It wasn't mine. Ethan's human side regained control of his body as his cock softened inside me and his human side was pissed and confused. He pulled out of me and I had to bite my lip as his cock dragged over the swollen sensitive tissues of my cunt. A fission of sensation shivered through me and I felt it echo down the bond Ethan's hands clenched on my wrists and I whimpered in pain. Immediately my hands were releases and my arms dropped. I rested on my elbows for a moment too drained to move till I felt Ethan move away from me. Cooler air hit my buttocks and I forced myself to move. I rolled onto my back and then to my knees. Needing to protect myself I grabbed my discarded towel and wrapped it around my much-abused body.

Ethan paced across my living room. his hands running through his hair. I carefully made no further movement but just watched him from where I knelt. Without looking at me a gain he fastened his trousers and stalked out of the apartment without bothering with shoes or shirt. I was left kneeling on the floor to repair the damage to my home, heart and composure. 



Heat Ch. 04



I didn't move for along moment as I reeled from Ethan's abrupt departure and the anger I could still feel rolling through the bond. I knew before he arrived last night that he would hate me for mating him, but the reality hurt. I could feel his frustration and anger and some sense of confusion. I sat on the floor feeling sorry for myself, and as I wallowed in my misery I felt his anger and confusion grow. 

With a mental shake I pulled myself of the floor and righted the heavy sofa with a frustrated shove. Being a Were was good for something I thought bitterly. It had cost me the man I loved but I could move furniture with ease. I stalked across the room and Ethan's seed seeped from my cunt like tears. I slowly and painfully blocked out Ethan's emotions. It was getting more and more difficult to block the mate bond but I'd take any reprieve I could get.

A ball of anger began to fester in my gut, anger at myself for being so pathetic for submitting so easily. I was angry with Ethan too, for how he had treated me and for how he had reacted to the thought of mating me. Damn, it hurt that the thought of being mated to me was so repellent to him. I sighed and breathed in the scent of Ethan that clung to my skin, with a growl I stalked into the bathroom. I jumped into the shower and scrubbed all outward signs of Ethan's possession from my skin in near scalding water. Hurt and anger coiled inside me rousing my beast. It pressed against my skin from the inside urging me to slip my skin and obey my instincts. I fought to control my emotions and my beast.

My father hated my Were side. He was a mortal who married a Were and they had two baby girls. One Were and one human baby left for him to raise when my mother had obeyed the call of the wild and run off. I had learnt early in my life to control and mask my Were side to avoid my father's wrath. I had better control than this I told myself. With difficulty I mastered my emotions and the beast within me quieted, but I knew it would need to run free soon. 

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Finally, I thought when I locked my front door. I had to pay the repairman an arm and a leg to get him to come out immediately, but I needed to get out of my apartment and work of some of my mad before I went to find Ethan. We needed a solution and running in opposite directions wasn't going to fix our problem, or maybe it would I thought wonderingly. Time and distance would weaken the bond, maybe enough that it could be broken with out killing us both. I doubted it, but if Ethan hated me, anything was worth a try.

I parked my car in a lay-by by the side of the local woods, and walked into the trees. My shoes made almost no noise as I walked through the dappled shade. I felt better almost immediately, sounds of nature surrounded me and I took a deep breath. I walked deeper and deeper into the woods till nature surrounded me and removed the smell of the city.

I walked till I found the lake on the far side. It was surrounded on all sides by trees so it was mostly undisturbed by humans. Stripping out of my trousers and top I waded into the water. I needed to work off my mad and my hurt and swimming would do that for me. When the water was around the top of my thighs I dove into it and began to swim. I cut through the water with powerful strokes of my arms and kicking hard. I drove myself through the water, the physical exertion kept my mind empty and the cold water-cooled my temper.

When I got over my mad the need to drive myself died and I began to think. I had never heard of anyone breaking a mate bond but the sensation of the bond was weaker further away from Ethan. Maybe if I went far enough away the bond would weaken enough to be broken! I loved Ethan but I wouldn't force him to be with me because of some stupid hormonal match. I slapped the water in frustration and nearly dunked myself. I wanted to take down my shields and spend the rest of my life with him, but feeling his resentment through the bond everyday would slowly kill me. 

When the cold of the water began to seep into my bones I swam back to the shore and walked of the water. I was unconcerned about my nudity and the sun was warm on my skin. I would dry off quickly. I walked away from my clothes to lay on a large smooth rock. I had plenty more thinking to do.

"Now there's a pretty sight." The sound of Ethan's voice froze me. 

My first though was 'great, now I'm imagining him too.' I turned slowly on my rock and faced him. He was standing on the beach watching me, looking relaxed in sweats and a running vest. I had succeeded in blocking the bond from my mind enough that I hadn't even noticed his approach! I Stared at him unable to think of a coherent thought. I watched his eyes roam freely over my body. I heard his breath catch and saw him lick his lips as he appreciated my body. I had no problems with nudity and I liked my body, but watching his eyes slide over my body pissed me off. After the grief he had given me the fact that he still thought my body belonged to him made me want to do damage.

"What do you want?" I demanded, sliding off the rock to stand on the beach. He took a step towards me and I stood my ground and looked at him, with one eyebrow raised. 

"I wanted to talk, Alyssa" Ethan said quietly.

"So talk!" I challenged tauntingly, standing my ground and glaring at him. He didn't move any closer but I could feel his confusion about my mood.

"I've been thinking," he began, I just raised my eyebrows. "Just because neither of us wanted this doesn't mean we can't live with it! I mean I like you, we get on, your beautiful." He paused and took a deep breath. "We can make this work." His compliment softened me slightly but I refused to back down. He 'liked' me and I loved him. The difference between the two would kill something inside me little by little. 

"What about me? I demanded, "What if I don't want to live with it?" I asked belligerently carefully hiding my true feelings. 

"Lyssa..." Ethan began but I cut him off. My body was softening towards him wanting him.

"No Ethan, You don't get it!" I almost shouted, "I'm as much trapped as you are by this but I'm not willing to make do."

"What are you going to do?" He demanded, "You're stuck with me." His voice was angry. "You can't break the bond anymore than I can so we have to make this work. There aren't any other options for us!" He took two steps towards me and I tensed. "I'm not going to hurt you." He said softly holding his hands out at waist level.

"You don't take no very well," I replied with a half laugh. "I've no desire to loose in a battle of wills with you again."

"Don't say 'no' then!" Ethan answered glibly making me growl in frustration.

"I can't afford you," I said sadly. My shoulders slumped and I looked away from him but I stood my ground. "I know I messed up, but I think it can be fixed." I didn't pause to give him time to speak but rushed on with my plan. "Maybe if I go far enough away for long enough it will weaken the bond so that it can be broken without killing us."

"You want to leave me?" Ethan asked incredulously. There was a dangerous rumble at the edge of his voice. 

"I have no choice, staying will kill me." I heard his growl and started running even before I heard looked up to see his eyes flash gold. I ran as fast as I could over the loose stones on the beach heading for the dubious protection of the trees. I couldn't risk him catching me and strengthening the bond even more. I called my beast as I ran letting it out from the tight constraints I normally kept it under. I needed its instincts to have a chance of escaping Ethan. I didn't waste time looking to see if he followed me, I knew he was. I could hear him behind me.

I reached the trees just as my beast broke free entirely and the change was on me. I had a brief moment to curse before my vocal cords changed. Pain assaulted me and my legs gave out under me as my hips changed and the joints in my limbs rearranged themselves. Fur surged through my skin and spread to cover my body. My face elongated forming a snout and my eyes glinted gold in the dappled light. My back arched and I came up onto my hands and feet as they changed into paws, and my legs shrunk so I could run on all fours. As the change completed itself I glanced around the forest with new eyes, my sight now in black, white and greys tinged by my sense of smell, so that scents flavoured what I saw. I got my feet under me to take off when a large weight hit me knocking me off balance. I spun to face the threat and froze when I came face to face with a large russet wolf. His scent told me it was Ethan though I had never seen his wolf before. The sight of him as alpha wolf made me want to show throat and submit to him. I forced my wolven mind away from those instincts with difficulty and faced him. 

He growled low in his throat, warning me. He was alpha and I must submit. I growled back. I refused to be weak! I wouldn't give up without a fight. *Your mine Alyssa,* he spoke into my mind. *Don't even think of leaving me* Releasing my beast had lowered my shields allowing him to speak into my mind. I lunged at him snapping at his throat with sharp fangs. I had moved before I even thought about it and it took him by surprise. He back pedalled to avoid my snapping jaws, I knew I would not win in a fight between the two of us, so I took off running into the trees. I had to reach my car and get out of here or I give myself to him again, and I would never be able to leave. 

I weaved between the trees letting my beast's instincts control my body. Ethan had recovered quickly and was following me. I sped up knowing I had to try and put some distance between us if I was going to escape and reach my car. I sensed the edge of the trees and the road beyond and cried out in success. I risked a glance backwards and was thrown off balance as Ethan slammed into my side. 

I snapped at him as he knocked me over but he wasn't perturbed. His own teeth aimed for my throat. He obviously intended to force my submission. I threw myself away from him awkwardly determined not to lose again. I couldn't win a fair fight but I was determined not to be weak and give into him again. Ethan was on me before I had chance to recover my balance and I had to scramble to avoid him. He pressed his advantage trying to take my throat and prove his dominance. I dodged again and managed to turn and face him in time for his next attack. I countered with a leap of my own, attacking him, refusing to be on the defensive. I went for the throat and missed, I spun to face him and saw my chance, and instead of attacking I sought escape and leapt for the edge of the trees seeking the safety of humanity. 

Ethan's weight threw me into a tree, knocking the wind out of me, and dazing me for long enough for him to sink his fangs into the back of my neck effectively holding me in place. My pride demanded I struggle against him testing his dominance. His teeth dug deeper into the back of my neck piercing skin. I froze, understanding the warning, my mind was running a thousand miles a minute, furiously seeking a way out that wouldn't involve me loosing most of the back of my neck. Ethan's body mounted mine and I panicked, I wanted too much from him to settle for sex. 

*No,* I cried out into his mind.

*You keep saying that to me,* he replied slowly. I could feel the struggle he was having to hold back. 

*You could listen!* I retorted trying to lighten the mood.

*I would if you truly wanted me to but you want me here and now. You want me to mount you and let the beast fuck you!* His words and mental images they created tantalized my human side. My beast just wanted to submit to its mate. 

*Please Ethan!* I begged again desperate now.

*Why?* he asked and I could feel his confusion. His human brain was trying to understand but it was fighting against his beast who wanted to take me, as was right.

*Because I love you!* I cried out. *Settling for just this will kill me as surely as silver.* the last was a mere whisper in his brain, painful to both of us, as I gave in, my body slumping beneath his. 

His hips thrust against me and I didn't know who was in control man or beast. I whimpered as I felt his cock thrust against me. He thrust again and his cock pierced me, sheathing him inside me until his hips thrust against mine and rocked me on my paws.  

*Mine!* man and beast cried into my mind. I didn't deny his possessive claim as my body accepted him and my hips pushed back against him. The sensation of him filling me in our wolven bodies was unbelievably hot and erotic. It felt right! He was my mate and he was claiming what was his, but something within my human heart bled a little. My wolf revelled in the sensations of my mate above me taking me with fury and passion joining us almost brutally again and again. His hips pounded into me his teeth anchoring me still fixed in the back of my neck holding me in place for his possession. My mind was filled with the sensations of my mate above me his cock tunnelling into me, stroking over desire slicked flesh, there was no more room for thought, the sensations filling me were too sharp everything much more intense in my wolven form, every sense was sharper, more acute. I could hear his breath as it hissed out of his nose and mouth warming the back of my neck, I could smell his desire and the scent of him surrounded me, mixing with the scent of the earth beneath us and the trees surrounding us. I could feel his heart beat pounding in time with mine, the thrusts of his hips driving into me as his pelt rubbed against mine, russet on auburn.

I didn't know if wolves can orgasm, but by the escalating tension in my body werewolves could. I tightened around Ethan's invading cock my whole body clenching around him. I could feel his cock swelling within me, a knot forming at the base preparing to lock him within me. The knot nudged at the entrance to my cunt and slipped inside pressing against me deliciously. The friction it created inside me as he powered into me made me growl with bliss. I could feel Ethan's pleasure through the bond and it spurred me on knowing that he was with me, that his lust was as all consuming as my own. 

I used my powerful leg muscles to push back against him accepting him into my body even as I dropped the last weakened shields in my mind accepting the bond. I couldn't fight it any more, my emotions were too strong, and my wolven instincts demanded it. Human logic paled beside the instinctive need to mate completely. Sensation resonated between us as the pleasure grew until finally it broke over us and our howls echoed through the woods. 

We stayed locked together to sated to try and move as our bodies gradually subsided. Ethan released the back of my neck and I whimpered as his fangs pulled from my skin but I made no move away from him. His tongue stroked over the back of my neck affectionately grooming me and caressing the marks he had made, soothing the small pain. I shivered at the tender gesture. Slowly as his flesh subsided and mine relaxed around him Ethan dismounted from me and I growled at the back of my throat as a fission of remnant sensation shot through me. 

I didn't move until I felt Ethan's nose nuzzle against the side of my muzzle. I flinched away from him unsure of what he wanted and I saw something flash across his eyes but I couldn't define it

*'Lyssa,* his voice in my mind was soft and gentle, as if he was afraid to spook me, afraid that I might bolt again. *We need to talk!* I sighed – a strange sound from a wolf – and nodded unwilling to trust my mental voice. Slowly he stepped away from me and his body began to shimmer as he forced the change. I watched for a moment as his fur began to ripple and retreat and a low growling slipped from between gritted teeth. Muscles shifted under skin and bones grew and shrunk and joints popped and reformed. Forcing my eyes away from him I gathered myself, he was right we needed to talk. I glanced over at him. he was knelt with his back arched and his hands fisted in the dirt as he shuddered through the final stages of the change. Looking away I gathered my own beast and began forcing it back down, inside my skin. It resisted unwilling to be controlled, ruthlessly I forced it down. I knew the effort would cost me; I had denied my beast for too long. The change took over my body and a howl escaped my control, the pain of my body reshaping itself exploded inside me as my body broke itself and reformed. 

I came back to myself kneeling on the ground on my hands and knees naked and quivering. I jumped when Ethan touched my shoulder, but I let him help me to my feet. My legs trembled and he held me steady until I found my feet. With his hand on my arm he lead me away from the edge of the woods into the depth of the shadows. I followed docilely unwilling to start thinking just yet. We stopped at a tree, seemingly undistinguished from the rest, save for the ragged pile of Ethan's clothes strewn around its roots, and he urged me to sit. I sank gratefully to the ground, changing back and forth quickly after such a long abstinence had taxed my energy. 

Ethan sat next to me, I didn't know whether to be relieved or disappointed that he released my arm and was careful not to touch me. I watched the patterns of sunlight as the leaves fluttered in a slight breeze careful not to look at Ethan. I listened to the sounds of nature around us and wondered what Ethan was thinking but unwilling to ask and start the inevitable talk. I could feel satisfaction in his mind but I couldn't fell why.

"You love me?" He asked suddenly, making me jump. I bit my lip unsure of the answer he wanted. "Alyssa!" He demanded impatiently. 

"Damn it!" I exclaimed, "I didn't want this," I bit my lip again still not looking at him.

"Didn't want what?" Ethan returned catching my chin and drawing my face around so he could look into my eyes. " Is loving me so bad?" He asked defensively, his pride stinging.

"You don't love me," I replied softly. "Loving you can only end up hurting me, I didn't want to trap you like this," I sighed. " I'm not like pack women!" I added sadly.

"I know your not!" Ethan replied, " but you can't blame me for being shocked, I didn't even sense you were a Were, and you were telling me we were mated, while I was still reeling from the shock of the memory of forcing you and the knowledge that I'd never been more sated in my life." 

"I'm sorry," I said, glancing away unable to meet his eyes. "I tried to stop it," I choked, "I knew you would hate me for it." I was on the verge of crying. I never cried but with everything that had happened my reserves were low and I just couldn't be strong.

"Shhhh," Ethan soothed stroking my shoulder. "I don't blame you." I was so startled I looked directly at him. Leaning forward he brushed his lips gently over mine. "Once I got over my mad, I realised you had done everything but emigrate to avoid me. I'm the one to blame, I should have respected it when you said you couldn't go out." He looked uncomfortable. 

"I should have done more!" I said guiltily. Ethan's lips took mine gently silencing my self-condemnation. "No blame," he whispered against my mouth. "You couldn't have done any more. For Luna's sake every time I touched you, you begged me not to." Seeing the unease on his face I pressed my lips back against his and gave his words back to him. 

"No blame" I said into his mouth. "I wanted you Ethan, I just didn't want to strengthen the bond between is. I knew my only chance of freeing you was to break the bond while it was still weak!" Ethan's expression hardened and his hands clenched on my shoulder.

"I forbid you to even think about trying that!" he ordered arrogantly.

"Forbid?" I asked incredulously, My temper sparking at his tone.




Heat Ch. 04



"You are mine," He stated, all bristling alpha male and affronted pride, his tone final.

"I belong to myself." I snapped sharply My growing temper demanding I assert myself. I could feel his disbelief and frustration. 

"Not any more! You are mine. My mate. Mine." He bit off the words, each possessive statement accompanied by a painful squeeze of my shoulders. I leapt to my feet prepared to argue his claim. He growled, "Fuck this!" He spat out and grabbed my ankles yanking my feet out from under me even as his hands moved to catch me and lower me to the ground. 

"I'm going to fuck you till you can't walk, till you can't think about leaving." Desire made his voice husky and coloured his thoughts, seducing me, infecting me with the same lust. His hands shifted on my body spanning my hips his thumbs stroking gently over the skin of my belly just above the strip of dark auburn curls that protected my mound. I lay where I had fallen staring at him with wide, shocked eyes unsure of his mood. The feelings resonating across our bond were too confused for me to identify.

He knelt by my side looking at me, his eyes tender but determined. When he realised I wasn't struggling against him, he smiled, and one hand released my hips and framed my face his index finger tracing the outline of my lips.

"You know," he said conversationally, "It occurs to me in all the times I fucked you this weekend I've not really taken the time to explore." His voice was silky as he caressed my face. My eyes widened. "Now are you going to be a good girl or am I going to have to restrain you?" He asked, his tone still conversational but there was a wicked glint in his eye. The sensations flowing down the bond from him were enough to make me shift my hips restlessly. He reached for his clothes and I gasped.

"No," I protested weakly, "I'll be good." Ethan turned to look at me a wicked smile hiking up the corner of his lips. Deliberately he straddled my hips letting his errection rest on my belly as he leaned forward, his hands framing my face gently. With one finger he traced my eyebrows stroking down my nose and over my cheeks learning the contours of my face with his fingertip. His finger traced along my jawbone before smoothing over my mouth. 

Tentatively I liked my I licked my suddenly dry lips, teasing his finger with the tip of my tongue. I stroked the pad of his finger before curling my tongue around the digit and parting my lips. He took up on my invitation and slipped his finger between my lips. I took advantage of it, seducing his finger with my tongue and sucking it deeply into the warm wet cavern of my mouth tasting his skin.

He groaned and my eyes met his as I sucked his finger deeper into my mouth and lashed it with my tongue. His cock swelled and twitched on my stomach and I smiled around his finger. His thumb traced the corner of my mouth as he smiled back. I could see the arousal in his eyes and feel it in his mind and it made me hotter. The scent of my desire began to permeate through the clearing. I raked his finger with my teeth and pressed my hips up against him. He hissed and I saw fire flash in his eyes. Slowly despite my attempts to hold it he withdrew his finger and trailed it down my chest and over my breasts leaving a trail of moisture in its wake. He anointed my nipples making them tighten even further and suddenly I needed his mouth on my breasts. 

"Ethan," I began, willing to beg for what I needed. His finger pressed against my lips silencing my plea.

"Shhhh," he soothed tenderly. "All things in good time." He added stroking my cheek. I opened my mouth to protest and he leaned down and took it swallowing my any protests I might have made. His lips pressed against mine, his tongue stroking along my lips dipping in for a taste and retreating, teasing me. Slowly he increased the intensity of the kiss, his lips controlling mine as his tongue began to plunder my mouth, duelling with mine, as he explored the taste of me. I held nothing back as I returned the kiss and I felt the pleasure hum across his mind.

His hands stroked over my shoulders and down over my chest till he could cup my breasts cradling them in his palms, his fingers moulding their weight. Needing more of his mouth I lifted my hands and buried them in his thick hair cradling is head. Almost immediately his lips broke away from mine and he tore his head from my hands. I protested, lifting my head and trying to recapture his lips. He chuckled as he sat up, leaning back and looking down at me. I licked my lips and groaned at the taste of him. 

"I thought you agreed to be good!" He said softly. My eyes widened.

"Don't you want me to touch you?" I asked softly, confused.

"No!" He said harshly and hurt filled me. Ethan cursed as he felt my pain. "I want to play with you honey," he said softly his eyes tender. " I want to explore and relearn every inch of you. I can't do that with you touching me!"

"But..." I began, the need to touch him was a painful ache inside me.

"No." He said firmly. " now am I going to have to restrain you while I play or will you be good?" He looked at me capturing my eyes his hands still lightly caressing my breasts. Slowly I raised my hands and crossed my wrists above my head pressing them into the earth and trying to relax as I lay back.

"Just so long as you know turnabout is fair play!" I returned, and he grinned at me. His hands brushed over the outside curve of my raised arms stroking up to my wrists then back down again over the inner curve and over my collarbone making me shiver with sensation. My eyes fluttered close as he stroked over my breasts only snap open when he pinched my nipples.

"Keep them open," he growled and I swallowed sensing the violent desire he was holding in check, I nodded and his fingers released my nipples, his eyes fixed on mine. Without releasing my eyes he lowered his head and his lips brushed briefly over mine before nibbling along my jaw. His teeth caught my earlobe and I shivered, his tongue stroked the sensitive skin behind my ear ad I twisted my head to give him better access.

"Mine!" he growled in my ear before his teeth fastened onto the join between my neck and shoulder marking me. I groaned, his mark branded me with heat and desire curled tightly inside me. I could fell my desire slick on the tops of my thighs. His fingers continued to toy with my nipples, and his teeth released my neck. Immediately his tongue soothed over the marks suckling on the skin marking it in a much more human way. The knowledge that he needed, wanted to mark me made me burn hotter. 

Reluctantly he raised his head and caught my eyes. What he saw must have reassured him because he lowered his head again but this time his target was a little lower. Teasingly his tongue stroked lightly over one nipple then the other. It wasn't enough, I needed more. Deliberately I pushed my desire for more across the bond. I felt his cock jerk against me then he laughed against the valley between my breasts but he merely continued to tease me with little flicks of his tongue.

"Ethan, Please!" I begged. He chuckled his breast fluttering against my skin making me arch my back and press up against him begging with my body as well as my mind. I had to fight my instincts to grab his head and hold it against me. My hands clenched into white knuckled fists with the strain of not participating.

"Tell me what you want!" he demanded his mouth millimetres from my skin.

"Please..." I was panting from between parted lips. I felt him smile against my skin but he made no further movements, waiting for me. I cursed softly between breaths. "Take me in your mouth." I begged. I felt him kiss the valley between my breasts before turning his head and engulfing the tip of his breath. I cried out and arched my back, pressing my breast further into his mouth, He suckled at my nipple and I gasped out his name as sensation shot through me. His teeth tugged at my nipple and I groaned. His tongue caressed me and he worshiped my breath till I could no longer even cry out his name, he released my breast and I sucked in a shuddering my breath. He let me gather myself for a moment, but he merely captured my other nipple and proceeded to drive me wild all over again.

His hips shifted against my mine as he moved down my body without lifting his lips from my skin. As he paused momentarily to kiss between my breasts his cock nudged against my moist folds and I bucked my hips mindlessly trying to capture him within me, but he continued down my body will he was laying with his hips between my knees. One hand teased one taught nipple while his lips tortured the other deliciously. His free hand crept down my belly and toyed with the curls above my weeping core. Immediately I parted my legs further bending me knees slightly begging with my body. His teeth nipped at my nipple and the sensual pain made me cry out tugging at the peak of my breast he teased it with his tongue and his fingers slipped over the heated flesh between my legs opening me testing my desire. He groaned at my wetness. I braced my feet and lifted my hips pressing against his hand, offering myself to him. 

Two fingers thrust into me even as his thumb found the exposed nub of my clit and stroked it. My hips bucked involuntarily and he laughed against my skin. He refused to allow me to dislodge his hand as it followed my thrashing hips torturing me within pleasure. His fingers drove into me stroking the walls of my cunt as his thumb milked my clit of sensation circling around it and stroking over it.

Ethan played my body masterfully, knowing exactly how to draw the pleasure from my body. I could feel his desire growing, as my desire fed on his and his on mine. Without warning my body tumbled over the edge of a cliff into a tumultuous orgasm that swept through my body. I cried out as my body spasmed, my hips driving furiously onto Ethan's invading fingers, clutching at them trying to draw them deeper, even as I fucked myself onto them harder and faster. The pleasure was so intense it overwhelmed me robbing me of consciousness.

When I came back came back to myself Ethan was kneeling back between my ankles and looking smug. I reached for him but he leaned back.

"Oh no," he said with a smile, "I've not finished with you yet." My eyes widened with shock and involuntarily my eyes were drawn downwards to his cock, which was engorged and weeping precum from its tip. "I'm not going to last long once I get inside you, and I'm enjoying playing!" he said evilly.

"I'm not a toy." I complained without any heat half-heartedly sitting up. 

"No," he agreed, "Not a toy. Mine!" the last was said with such passion and pleasure that I melted back to the forest floor without a protest, submitting my body to him. He growled at my submission, his eyes almost glowing with heat. Deliberately I replaced my arms above my head and spread my legs lifting them so my heels were pressed against my ass and my body was completely open to him. His eyes caressed me and he licked his lips.

Slowly, teasingly he came to his hands and knees and crawled forward predatorily crossing the few feet between us without breaking eye contact. He stopped when he reached my bent knees and knelt again. His hands came to my knees and stroked down my legs to my ankles gently pressing outwards entreating my to widen my legs further. I shifted without hesitation in response to his silent request and his eyes broke away from mine as he looked down, his gaze focusing hotly on my glistening skin. 

I couldn't tear my gaze away from him as Ethan slowly lowered himself between my legs and slid his hands under my hips lifting me to his mouth. His breath whispered over my sensitive flesh. His eyes lifted travelling up the length of my body till they met mine, then dropped again. His tongue flicked out and dipped into the entrance of my heat then swiped up to cover my clit. My whole body jumped at the bolt of sensation. Ethan's hands tightened holding me in place as is tongue reversed its journey.

"Mmmm." He groaned and I could feel his pleasure in my taste. Slowly he tormented me with his tongue. My skin was almost too sensitive and the pleasure almost painful in its intensity. Ethan gave me no mercy though as he drove me higher and higher then backed off before the tension in me could explode into orgasm. He stroked sensitive seam at the top of my legs letting my body calm a little before he returned to his feast. I don't know how long a lay beneath his mouth, panting, driven crazy with pleasure, begging to come with my body and crying out Ethan's name in little gasping cries as he played with me.

"Please fuck me!" I cried out, my shout echoing into the canopy. Ethan lifted hid head, his face glistening his body trembling.

"I thought you'd never ask." He joked in an intense voice.

"Damn you!" I cursed even as he crawled up my body, his eyebrows rose but he didn't stop. He knelt above me his cock pointing towards my cunt. I gazed at it and lifted my hips. He lowered his hips slowly, his arms trembling as he sought control to tease me,. He rubbed his cock over the folds of my cunt, coating himself with my honey, and slowly entered me filling me an inch at a time then retreating, never giving me the pressure of friction I needed.

"Damn you Ethan, fuck me." I wept out. He withdrew to the entrance of my cunt.

"Tell me you love me." He demanded. My eyes widened, his eyes were intense and his body trembled with the strain of controlling his need. Almost without my control the words slipped out, I couldn't deny him.

"I love you, Ethan." With a triumphant shout he slammed his hips against mine melding our bodies. Immediately I began to cum, spasming around his cock. He continued to thrust violently into me prolonging my orgasm, but he could not hold back his own release. He through back his head and roared out his release, his weight settling heavily on me as his hips thrust through his release before gradually stopping, our bodies and minds connected.

Ethan was heavy, pressing me into the earth and as the overwhelming pleasure faded, I became more aware of assorted stones and debris digging uncomfortably into my back. Ethan levered himself of me and kissed my nose tenderly. I frowned at him confused but he just rolled to one side and tucked me against him.

"Shhhh," he breathed against my neck. "Let's just enjoy this, we have time enough to sort everything else out." He kissed my neck and I subsided content, and willing to accept the feeling of being held tightly against him and feeling his satisfaction. He was right there was time enough...

To be continued...